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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3h

I look at that graph and think about a new argument in the “should LB and FM have been dropped”.
If OLYMPIC goes ahead instead, how many A-bombs does the US drop on Japan in November 45?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 11h

I mean it comes out of simulations to improve some analysis metric so maybe. I’m sure SPO will need dedicated scan strategies to maximize the BICEP SPT synergies :)

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 15h

You know, despite *gestures at everything* I am still quite happy this week, because some work I did for a telescope’s scan pattern 🔭 is going to be tried in the field.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that’s one spicy data point for the US natural experiment in “what if we destroyed our comparative advantages?”

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

You unfortunately have to still be alive to get the prize :/

Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about who will win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow and my outside the norm guess is some connection to USAID. The agency has saved millions over the years until Trump illegally pulled its funding. Sadly if they did win they haven't the humility to realize it would be an insult to Trump.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

“have you tried” NO “what about” NO “don’t you find it” NO NO NO, medieval people had it right, you don’t fuck with this shit yourself, you buy it from someone who cares

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you need a single bullet hole in a ship to convince the public there is a menace to be stopped?

Black and white photo of naval officer kneeling next to cylindrical podium with a single bullet hole in it. He is trying to look tough or concerned.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah not disputing that drones have a good synergy, just emphasising that air and artillery have been associated ever since airpower has been a thing!

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 1792. Air power is used for spotting the enemy.
It’s 1914. Air power is used for spotting the enemy.
It’s 1942. Air power is used for spotting the enemy.
It’s 2025. Air power is used for spotting the enemy.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but they're all cross-tabs.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

General Ripper in Dr Strangelove, ranting about his impotence

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

Only if you can listen to uranium fever on repeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9h...

Elton Britt - Uranium Fever

YouTube video by Knights Oldies

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

The more we automate farming the more people can make art but yeah, someone needs to wash the patients in the assisting living facility on the commune. And specialization brings productivity gains so it will often be the same someone scrubbing 85 year olds.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

Look, we’re both very sorry about the widening gyre.

The US president on the phone in Dr Strangelove.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

I guess Berkeley needs to set aside another parking spot this year… 🧪

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when Buzzfeed let the neoliberals run a "What Will Your Job Be Once The Revolution Happens?” quiz where no matter what your answers were you got “Forced agricultural labor".

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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 3d

🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. His research on quantum tunneling in electric circuits paved the way for today’s quantum computers and sensors. 🧠 This brings LBNL’s Nobel count to 17!

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@uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clarke Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize committee honored former Berkeley Lab scientist John Clarke for research in quantum tunneling in electric circuits.

newscenter.lbl.gov

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

I think organizing a pro-Intifada stand in front of the main University building (complete with paper mache frond) on October 7th is not the best look. It might give the impression you don’t care about war crimes if they happen to Jews.

Rockwell’s “Freedom of speech” a painting of a man standing up at the town meeting to say something.

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4d

Deleted a previous post because Devoret did go back to France and made research director at the CNRS before moving to Yale again.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Be sure to check out our oral histories with:

John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661

Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4d

I tried my best :/

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 5d

I wish “Bari Weiss" was just a funny SNL skit about a Klezmer Barry White cover band, but alas…

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4d

Ken, is it good to tell the National Guardsmen your senile boss is sending cross-country that they won’t get paid for it?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4d

Do you feel it is just python or programming in general that they dislike?

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