David Karger

Pleased to announce that my silly TikToks about AI are now officially *major award winning* silly TikToks about AI. :) Thanks to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for this award but also for helping legitimize/incentivize science communication! www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...

I completely agree with this post, from the other side. If people could stop sidetracking it by invoking the trigger-word "genocide", then there could be a productive discussion about whether or not Israel's actions were justified.

Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump

Brian Morales, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding in a vehicle that was stopped by police in April. After the police called ICE, Brian explained to immigration officials that he is a U.S. citizen, born in Colorado, and even offered to show his birth certificate. (1/3)

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

NASHVILLE is suing the Trump regime for withholding first responder grants unless the city changes how local elections are administered. More unconstitutional anti-democracy overreach, even at the expense of first responders. www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...

Fuck AIPAC but they’re not the only bad guy. When I post about a Democrat sucking, and y’all go right to AIPAC, it’s really testing the antisemitism fence and I’m tired of having to parse that shit. Centrist Dems suck for more than one reason, and if you go right to Jews, you’re not helping.

To be taught to children in US base schools

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

I find it insane that a country would choose to deport someone married to an American citizen. Sure, look for fraudulent marriages, but if the marriage is real, how could the damage you're doing to that American citizen possibly be worth whatever hypothetical benefit you get from deportation?

ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

The policy threatened visa revocation & even deportation of people who study online harms so @thecoalition.bsky.social sued to challenge it. This isn't the end of our case, but it's a major step. Many thanks to @knightcolumbia.org @protectdemocracy.org & those who filed amicus briefs <3

A long thread by Trung Le Nguyen, a millennial "live tweeting" as they read Pride and Prejudice for the first time, is delightful, but they've disabled quote posts so you will have to look it up for yourself.

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

While this is a big win, @noupside.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social's win comes at a cost. 'lawsuit was a massive attack on the free speech (&) it succeeded... The chilling effect worked.' - @masnick.com. But still, we all need to continue to FIGHT BACK. www.techdirt.com/2026/07/06/c...

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

I agree spoils system type firing is a terrible idea in general, if (big if) a democratic president is elected they need to immediately fire all Republicans in government because that's the only way they will get a consensus around amending the Constitution to unwind the unitary executive theory.

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

"in-hospital mortality increases for Black, but not White, patients as hospitals reach capacity... We identify rationing by wait times as a mechanism, documenting that sicker Black patients wait longer for care than healthier White patients"

Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.

Breaking | The Trump Administration is negotiating a deal to repaint Reflecting Pool to prior color, allow algae to stay.

This is textbook violation of fiduciary duty on behalf of the Board — it's deliberately sabotaging your own institution to make a political point. Every Board member who voted for this is breaking their oath.

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

This is right, although I do think it’s worth underscoring that “I just want someone who will challenge the establishment and the status quo” is indeed the same logic that got us Trump, which is a good reason to view it and those who peddle it skeptically.

My first thought was that they were trying to ban games where you kill people

Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in California I've written quite a bit about the Stop Killing Games movement, in no small part because I think it's way more important than most people think. Preserving cultural output is both important and, frankly, a…

The Talarico ads are pre-made The Republican Party has deleted their ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime: "Homicides highest in nearly 30 years under Ken Paxton." Paxton is now the GOP's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

This is evil collective punishment.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Trump (or Trump Jr) seemingly mistakenly invested $1M-5M in Kura Sushi (sushi restaurant chain) instead of Fujikura that is related to AI industry. Previously, all their investments were related to AI. This is now one of the trending stories in Japanese media.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

This is textbook corruption. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Brief conversations with sycophantic chatbots increased extremism and certainty-- for at least a week. Sycophantic AI also inflated people’s perceptions that they were better than average on desirable traits. People even bet $$$ that they scored better than average on tasks measuring these traits.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.