I only (re-)tweet about politics and science. A bleeding-heart socialist with a resurgent chip on my shoulder. Prof @NorthwesternU. Opinions are my own.
Evanston, IL
Joined February 2008
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🤐 “Help us catch criminals.”
“Okay. There’s one in your department.”
“No, not like that!”
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If done by a human, this would be a federal crime.
Wait. It was done by a human. His picture is right there in the article.
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
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Nós voltaremos. Voltaremos para continuar nossa jornada rumo a um Brasil em que o povo é soberano. #LutarSempre
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HAHAHAHA. Netanyahu recorded a campaign video for Flávio Bolsonaro. Trump pressured Brazil with tariffs.
And Matthew is concerned that ordinary people in other countries have strong opinions about who wins.
Perhaps someone should inform the international political establishment about the dangers of getting emotionally invested.
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This is so intelligent, I want to cry: The 140 seats won by the student opposition against Serbia's nationalist government party will be taken up not by students, but by academics, professors & public figures from pre-chosen pool of 250 experts, selected by student plenums.
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Please support Habiba and family however you can. Thank you
💔 Our children are crying from fear and bombing. We live in a tent, terrified and helpless. Please, don’t ignore our cries. Help us protect our children. 🙏🇵🇸
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I haven’t received any donations for a week.
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#Gaza #SaveGazaChildren
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Ces tao ligados que não só a gente venceu a Meta como ainda abrimos a porta para a investigação no mundo inteiro contra a maior rede do planeta?
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All rich Russians are “oligarchs.” Rich Americans are “billionaires.”
Don Jr. couldn't get his "billionaire" father to pay for the wedding, so a Russian oligarch picked up the tab.
Turns out dad was on the phone with the Kremlin too. Like father, like son.
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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Today, NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair has announced that he will honor 8-year-old Fatima Al-Bayook, who lost her entire family in an Israeli airstrike in 2023 and survived two days beneath the rubble, only to be shot and murdered by Israeli forces in Gaza two days ago.
He will be wearing her name on his eye black during the Texans game against the Giants.
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Useful reminder to those complaining about refugees in Europe: if you want less refugees, your main enemy is the US Military Industrial Complex.
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This is going to really help in all those search and rescue operations that fail because the lost person ran terrified into the forest to get away from their rescuers
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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Two major election results are putting Israel's international alliances under the spotlight.
In Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party has conceded defeat after nearly 14 years in power, as the student-led movement secured a historic parliamentary victory. Vučić’s government faced scrutiny over Serbian arms exports to Israel during the genocide in Gaza.
In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won reelection, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, whose candidacy was publicly backed by Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
Lula has repeatedly condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza and defended Palestinian rights and self-determination.
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It’s amazing that other less-wealthy countries are able to provide government-guaranteed healthcare and their populations live longer, and yet we’re expected to believe our more-wealthy country can’t afford the same thing.
We live in the most gaslit society in human history.
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Viva la democracia, ganó el pueblo de Brasil. ¡Felicidades presidente Lula!
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The level of desperation and distress felt in this era underscores the need for self-awareness, organizing, and political ed. Cuz knowing who to be mad at is part of the work.
As Fred Hampton said, “We have to educate the people as to who their enemy really is and it ain’t us.”
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: AIPAC is funneling cash into elections through a secret network of groups that are branded to popular liberal causes - and that have nothing to do with Israel.
For the first time, @LeverNews exposes the entire secret scheme 👇
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Lula’s remarkable comeback is a powerful expression of popular empowerment —both in the streets and at the ballot box— in defense of sovereignty and democracy. His victory also means Brazil will not join Trump’s “Shield of the Americas”. The high-water mark of this U.S.-backed far-right tide in Latin America may already be behind us.
My latest for Al Jazeera:
aje.news/u28t6e
