Rahul Dave

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I apologize for initially being somewhat skeptical of Phillip Morris. In all of our interactions, they made it profoundly clear that they are unequivocally opposed to any and all use of tobacco products and that they remain committed to partnering with us to achieve the best possible outcome.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us. And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

Love my gorgeous multicultural city. I can only hope the future is this, everywhere

Portland comes to the rescue! 🛟

A great view over the "Death Hollow" between the towns of Boulder and Escalante. It is along the Boulder Mail Trail, a wonderful path. Utah - 2023 🥾 #hiking #nature #landscapes #desert

This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

This is a very cool advanced #jj-vcs workflow: flames-of-code.netlify.app/blog/my-jj-w...

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson". theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25

So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life. It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions. The right thing, AND cheaper.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

@shriram.bsky.social

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Some thoughts on the weekends on “what is a foreigner anyways?” — I'm arguing that there are significant differences in how for instance Austria and the US think about what foreigners are and why that might be. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/14/wh...

One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it Why? When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted Public health must communicate our successes We must be visible

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

Pardon my economist technical parlance, but what the fuck does “issuing its statistics on the blockchain” even mean? This data is already publicly available, thanks to this super fancy piece of technology called “an API” These people are complete idiots

A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.

Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods, bsky.app

Frolicking beneath the Dolomites, northeastern Italy 😊

In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.

inching closer and closer to my “they’re segregationists” take

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

I fear the United States is in her final hours.

Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-your-a...

This is absolutely mind blowing! 😳 Look, how he’s handling these cards. It’s like magic! 🪄

I know of only one paper that has analysed threats from both developmental policies in the region and climate change. I'd like to see more www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meanwhile, the heaviest crime zone in all of Wash DC has been clearly identified. (@PawlowskiMario)

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

While people are facing off against fascist stormtroopers, remember that it is your moral duty to nitpick and critique every minor aspect of the protestors' conduct clearly and visibly. This will inspire the centralised, singular organisers of the protests to encode strict rules everyone will obey

Government snatch and grab goon squads have been seen operating in Somerville today. Stay alert, everybody.