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/3mwv7dyw7ts2dhttps://newsletter.justwomenssports.com/p/dallas-s-arike-ogunbowale-drops-45-to-force-wnba-playoff-decider Women athletes writing about women athletes: "Soccer great Alex Morgan penned Girma’s tribute, calling her “the hardest defender I’ve ever had to play against” and noting her then-record $1 million transfer to Chelsea last year. https://newsletter.justwomenssports.com/p/dallas-s-arike-ogunbowale-drops-45-to-force-wnba-playoff-decider?utm_source=newsletter.justwomenssports.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dallas-s-arike-ogunbowale-drops-45-to-force-wnba-playoff-decider&_bhlid=1c3d669d46011d4248e4fe77824f982e7ac9968902 Oct 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv7dyw7ts2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mwfqcq4apk2pDer dtsch. Staat verteidigt sich schon arg vehement nach links! https://taz.de/Kunstfreiheit-in-Thueringen/!6214958/26 Sep 2026 07:13 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfqcq4apk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mw6ejcrwks2tThe entire "Superintelligence will destroy all of humanity" is a smoke-screen to distract from the ways "AI" already gets or risks getting lots of people killed: https://spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/nuclear-war-could-be-just-another23 Sep 2026 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6ejcrwks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mw4rxlfumk2ihttps://www.hors-serie.net/antisemitisme-de-gauche-sur-une-grande-fake-news-de-notre-temps22 Sep 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4rxlfumk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mvpu5ygtwc2gMy favorite Ringer writer is at it again! "[E]xecutives fucking love this narrative. They’ve been peddling it for years, long before Coxon resigned from Anthropic and kicked off the latest media meltdown. These guys have demonstrated conclusively that nothing they say should be taken at face value. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpu5ygtwc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mthjyiv34c2j"The owners aren’t after Ballmer because he violated the spirt of competition. They’re mad he fucked with the money. Specifically, their money by taking luxury taxes off the table and using resources outside of what they were allowed to use [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthjyiv34c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3msvadjxskc2rSeerat Sohi is not pulling any punches. "Even though Republican legislators have invoked Title IX to enact transgender bans, they are also trying to scale back its influence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2026 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvadjxskc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mq4ldxsty22uhttps://www.forever-wars.com/first-in-gaza-now-in-lebanon-this-is-the-destruction-she-saw/ "In southern Lebanon, I'm assuming [Israel] want[s] to, at least on some level, preserve the environment because it's very rich in soil[.] [...] But the one thing they have kept the same as Gaza is the targeting of medics and journalists in southern Lebanon." https://www.forever-wars.com/first-in-gaza-now-in-lebanon-this-is-the-destruction-she-saw/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter08 Jul 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4ldxsty22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3mp7ciyeu3c2k"Au terme de trois ans et demi de thèse, trois CSI contresignés par tout le monde et deux rapports de thèse autorisant la soutenance, l’Université Grenoble Alpes a interdit la soutenance[.]" https://rioultf.substack.com/p/candidats-et-lampadaires-autoproclames26 Jun 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7ciyeu3c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3moztc5t7fk2cNo matter how many powerful, right-wing bastards die (finally), it never gets old. That this one was an Ayn-Rand-disciple only makes things sweeter. But man, did he cause suffering to people!24 Jun 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3moztc5t7fk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3molczygyhc2uhttps://www.miningmx.com/top-story/65664-g7-resolve-to-fight-china-metals-dominance/ And this shit's nuts as well: the Chinese government realized early on that transitioning away from fossil fuels would require certain materials, and started locking up supplies. European leaders preferred building LNG terminals (looking at you, German "Greens").18 Jun 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3molczygyhc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/azimmermdm.bsky.social/post/3molcwalcbc2uwww.europesays.com/europe/73123/ This shit's stunning: there are European countries that still haven't recovered from the last round of too-big-too-fail banks (looking at you, Greece) and the COMPETITION commissar comes out in favor of creating huge banks that will be even harder to regulate! https://www.europesays.com/europe/73123/18 Jun 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:h4tdnpsi6nnxejsi2ttfmsuz/app.bsky.feed.post/3molcwalcbc2uhttps://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/3minveodl6c23