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Zach Glaser

@ziglaser.bsky.social

Climate PhD student at Caltech. Listless young adult and blogger. ziglaser.substack.com

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.

Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5d ago

Again, as with monetizing the presidency in plain sight, this stuff is the most elemental Are We A Federal Union Or Not? thing that should immediately end a presidency. Reverse nullification. A constitutional order that cannot punish this is not worth saving. We need massive institutional reforms.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 3w ago

Eighty years of American science is bleeding out from bullet wounds on the sidewalk and these mfs are sitting inside talking about whether we should force 18 year olds rake leaves in national parks

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Klein asks Allen what liberals should prioritize if they win the trifecta in 2028. Allen suggests the following: 1) Putting an end to Citizens United; 2) Creation of national service; 3) Ending gerrymandering

If you know you know@privatechand.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new rule is going into effect that will make it effectively impossible for any international student to get a PhD in almost any subject in the US. Not only is the xenophobia appalling, this is right up there with the stupidest things the dying empire has done to itself.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last mo.

It is weird that there is still a substantial set of people who believe "AI is mostly hype" at this stage: Five Eyes is warning about AI, exponential revenue & token use at the AI labs, unit distance/Erdos proofs, and so on... There are many real issues with AI, not being real is not one of them.

Zach Glaser@ziglaser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fun experience to click into a climate article to find it featuring the research group of which you're a member (CliMA) front and center! Informative and nuanced science journalism that does justice to the relative strengths of machine learning versus numerical approaches to weather and climate

Scott K. Johnson@sjon.earth · 2mo ago

ICYMI If you're wondering what to make of new "AI models" for weather forecast or climate science, I've got you covered. I talked to a number of researchers and found that the story is pretty different between the two fields, but in both cases it's more complex than it looks on the surface.

Zach Glaser@ziglaser.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The myth of Israel as a beacon of democracy has been extinguished for my generation I could not freely express my religious or political values in Israel. Disenfranchising 5 million Palestinians, it is no democracy. It is repressive and revisionist--I would no more want to live there than in Russia

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Among the many reasons why I do not consider emigration to Israel to be a possibility if things get too bad in the US, it is very apparent to me that I would have much less freedom to practice my Judaism there than I do here. www.jta.org/2026/04/24/i...

Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A lot of people really haven't noticed that "nobody else gets to do ethnic cleansing except our people, who have suffered a lot historically and would thus never do ethnic cleansing unfairly" is what every single ethnic group that does ethnic cleansing tells itself and the world

Shana@shayz0rz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is 100% the "ethnic cleansing and collective guilt are both bad, except it can happen to Jews as a treat" shit I've been talking about for a while now.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hannah Arendt did not get everything right - her writings on segregation in the US are embarrassing, and she could be chauvinistic toward German Jews - but she got almost all of the future direction of political Zionism correct from the perspective of 1948.

Arendt: "There is very little doubt about the final outcome of an all-out war between Arabs and Jews. One can win many battles without winning a war. And up to now, no real battle has yet taken place in Palestine. And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors. Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."
Zach Glaser@ziglaser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reporting in the Star Tribune this very week contradicts this guy. Current immigration detention is not bound by the law, and does not meet the basic obligations to provide food, shelter, and medical care. You cannot avoid holocaust analogies forever, else what was the point of learning from it?

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 6mo ago

Policing Holocaust analogies is more than occasionally justified, but I’d suggest Kip is just leaning into his priors & should stfu if he’s bleating from Kentucky. People, including citizens, ARE hiding in their homes, authorities ARE acting illegally. If not Anne Frank, read some Niemöller, Kip.

Hold the Holocaust analogies, please As a Jewish American, I feel compelled to speak out against recent public comparisons by Gov. Tim Walz and other Democratic politicians between the experiences of individuals in modern immigration detention and what Anne Frank - and millions of Jews - endured during the Holocaust. These statements are not simply misguided; they are profoundly offensive and historically indefensible. The Holocaust was a systematic, state-driven attempt to annihilate an entire people. Jews were stripped of every right, hunted, deported, enslaved, starved and murdered solely because of their identity. Six million Jews were killed - not as a byproduct of policy but as the explicit goal of the Nazi regime. To equate this genocide with the enforcement of immigration laws is to erase the reality of what happened. Immigration detention, whatever its flaws, is governed by legal processes, oversight and the basic obligation to provide food, shelter and medical care. People in these facilities maintain legal rights and the ability to seek counsel, hearings and appeals. These facts are not remotely comparable to the machinery of extermination built by the Nazis. When public figures invoke the Holocaust to score rhetorical points, they trivialize the suffering of its victims and diminish one of the darkest chapters in human history. There are many ways to debate modern policies, but Holocaust analogies should not be one of them. This history is too grave, too real and too deeply etched into the memory of my community to be used as a metaphor. Kip Knelman, Paris, Ky. (formerly of Minneapolis
Minnesota House DFL@mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rep. Mohamud Noor: ICE has stopped me in my own neighborhood. They've detained US citizens in front of me while I was begging them to let them go. My kids' schools went into lockdown because ICE was outside. "Nothing is normal anymore."