Maître de conférence @ Greyc Lab, University of Caen, NBA and NFL enthusiast (and sometimes data analyst), Luddite Reality has a left-wing bias https://www.scientific-data-mining.org https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mku6vinelk26First Luigi Mangione, now this - it's becoming harder and harder for me to not think that shooting (at) rich people does lead to good outcomes. https://people.com/hilton-donates-unserved-whcd-lobsters-steaks-to-local-shelters-1195983602 May 2026 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mku6vinelk26https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mku65krlks26Even if in the end it didn't work, one cannot but applaud this kind of direct action. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/massachusetts-beekeeper-jailed-eviction02 May 2026 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mku65krlks26https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mkrplqu3ak2uA very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually". [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrplqu3ak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mkf4v2ztas2uby @himself.bsky.social "Europe and China entered the 2010s chasing the same horizon, an economy rewired around electricity, but by the mid-2020s the landscape already looks uneven, tilted by scale and speed: in China, electricity now makes up roughly 30–32% of final energy use and is rising fast, [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkf4v2ztas2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mjjlcf6f5c2yI find this absolutely fascinating: an ex-Fidesz man wins a two-thirds parliamentary majority (meaning, he can pass whatever, including constitutional changes) and 2/3 of the European political scene proclaims that Democracy Has Been Saved! Would love to fast-forward two years...15 Apr 2026 09:26 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjlcf6f5c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3minvfooakc23So Auriemma is a sore loser...who would have thought?! 🤔04 Apr 2026 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minvfooakc23https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3minveodl6c23Tommy Lloyd: "Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive, where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward." https://media.tenor.com/sjlLRR-lZtwAAAAC/the-princess-bride-inigo-montoya.gif?hh=200&ww=30004 Apr 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minveodl6c23https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mhb5qhrhdc22Auf englisch nennt man das "bait and switch": "Antisemitismus" - also die pauschale Feindseligkeit gegenüber Juden - schreiben, wenn man "Antizionismus" - also die Ablehnung des israelischen kolonialen Projekts - meint. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Mar 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb5qhrhdc22https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mh2g7tbaes2d10/10, no notes! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Mar 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh2g7tbaes2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mg32d4lt2s23Dass die Linke bei meinen Wahl-o-mat-ergebnissen immer an erster Stelle ist - normal. Dass Die Partei inzwischen ziemlich verlässlich Nr. 2 ist, sagt viel über die anderen aus. Das Volt !!! für BW vor den Grünen liegt, sollte alles bzgl. dieser "grünen" Landespartei sagen.02 Mar 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg32d4lt2s23https://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mfyhixwvak2bSo the German chancellor (incidentally not on Bluesky but still on X) engages in geopolitical victim blaming, condemning the Iranian military for shooting back. Not the first time, I haven't voted for the ghoul, and I don't even live in Germany anymore but still fucking depressing!01 Mar 2026 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfyhixwvak2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mfyc4diqwc2i"Die Befragung von mehr als 2.000 repräsentativ ausgewählten Ber­li­ne­r:in­nen hat gezeigt: Nur 46 Prozent können als solide De­mo­kra­t:in­nen bezeichnet werden. Sie lehnen Vorstellungen von einer Einparteienherrschaft, einer Diktatur oder einem Führer strikt ab." [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Mar 2026 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfyc4diqwc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mfya7fe7mc2u"I'm not trying to predict where we are on a trajectory of historical collapse. I'm pointing out that launching an unprovoked war to overthrow a longstanding enemy under cover of negotiation to resolve a pretextual crisis is the sort of aggression typical of empires in, at a minimum, steep decline. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Mar 2026 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfya7fe7mc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mfpo7xto5k2m"The UK and US are not “being invaded by the third world” despite what their respective fascists say. They are on track to become the very cliched image of the “third world” that they once looked down on – places with little global soft power and impoverished masses [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Feb 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpo7xto5k2m