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Physicist and Laser/Optical Engineer
Center left mishmash: anti-authoritarian, civil libertarian, abundance progressive, occasional institutionalist.
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Reading (f/sf) rock climbing, hiking, but mostly just busy raising kids
Center left mishmash: anti-authoritarian, civil libertarian, abundance progressive, occasional institutionalist.
LDS Dems Volunteer. ldsdems.org
Reading (f/sf) rock climbing, hiking, but mostly just busy raising kids
Got reviews back for my first journal article in several years, and Reviewer 3 is sure living up to the reputation.
Tons of cursive handwritten notes on a scanned copy of the paper that range from typographical to major edits… I think it will be better post revision, but I didn’t miss this tedium
Tons of cursive handwritten notes on a scanned copy of the paper that range from typographical to major edits… I think it will be better post revision, but I didn’t miss this tedium
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Got reviews back for my first journal article in several years, and Reviewer 3 is sure living up to the reputation.
Tons of cursive handwritten notes on a scanned copy of the paper that range from typographical to major edits… I think it will be better post revision, but I didn’t miss this tedium
Tons of cursive handwritten notes on a scanned copy of the paper that range from typographical to major edits… I think it will be better post revision, but I didn’t miss this tedium
For a bit, 3 yo took to coming out every morning or every day after school and exclaiming “is the Christmas tree still there!”
He seems to be assured of its permanence now
He seems to be assured of its permanence now
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
For a bit, 3 yo took to coming out every morning or every day after school and exclaiming “is the Christmas tree still there!”
He seems to be assured of its permanence now
He seems to be assured of its permanence now
Occasionally I log into Venmo for a group gift or something and simply don’t understand the list of people who leave their transactions public. What a weird window into people you met in one class ten years ago
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Occasionally I log into Venmo for a group gift or something and simply don’t understand the list of people who leave their transactions public. What a weird window into people you met in one class ten years ago
Chat, is this a good idea?…
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Chat, is this a good idea?…
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Yes, the northern lights are pretty amazing. Can now confidently say this app has done at least one very good thing for me by timely alerting me to such a cool event; otherwise I would have totally missed it through work and bedtime.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yes, the northern lights are pretty amazing. Can now confidently say this app has done at least one very good thing for me by timely alerting me to such a cool event; otherwise I would have totally missed it through work and bedtime.
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Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
There is nothing I dread about fall and winter as much as the great family tradition of stomach bug round robin
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
There is nothing I dread about fall and winter as much as the great family tradition of stomach bug round robin
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Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.
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The US has a massive advantage at non-yield producing testing methods in technology and expertise, so of course this would be another unforced giveaway to Moscow and Beijing.
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The US has a massive advantage at non-yield producing testing methods in technology and expertise, so of course this would be another unforced giveaway to Moscow and Beijing.
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If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.
It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.
It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
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Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
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You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after.
What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.
What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.
U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia
U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia
On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret over the recent ICE raid that detained 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. Landau met with Kor...
www.democracynow.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after.
What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.
What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.
Why in the world would I ever want copilot in notepad. 🤦
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Why in the world would I ever want copilot in notepad. 🤦
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The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain
LinkedIn is good for its narrow purpose of connecting with professionals and finding people that though your network you can talk to about work in a new job or industry, but as a social media site…many of the posts and posters are just insane
all this time litigating blueskyism meanwhile linkedinism is rapidly accelerating into infinite power mode
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
LinkedIn is good for its narrow purpose of connecting with professionals and finding people that though your network you can talk to about work in a new job or industry, but as a social media site…many of the posts and posters are just insane
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There's being like George III as in all the Declaration of Independence grievances about tyranny, and then there's being like George III as in yelling at a tree because you think it's the King of Prussia. He's as much the latter as the former.
August 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There's being like George III as in all the Declaration of Independence grievances about tyranny, and then there's being like George III as in yelling at a tree because you think it's the King of Prussia. He's as much the latter as the former.
Now while it’d be great to have parties actually stand up and perform this function to coalesce on a decent or acceptable candidate (and tbf the Dems have done it several times!), primary elections seem like the ideal place for ranked choice to structurally provide this, especially for president
And while the ultimate responsibility lies with voters, since most voters are (somewhat sensibly!) unplugged from the nitty gritty day to day of politics, that will require political parties to reassert their role as gatekeepers who punish their own bad actors who engage in bad behavior
August 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Now while it’d be great to have parties actually stand up and perform this function to coalesce on a decent or acceptable candidate (and tbf the Dems have done it several times!), primary elections seem like the ideal place for ranked choice to structurally provide this, especially for president
Making kakistocracy great again and again 🙁
EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.
Donald Trump named EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Making kakistocracy great again and again 🙁
I’m nowhere near the first to say this but the Trump era highlights how bald faced lying needs to be socially punished. While corruption, illegality, violence, cruelty all merit their own pushback, lying is uniquely corrosive to the way we relate to each other in society
August 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’m nowhere near the first to say this but the Trump era highlights how bald faced lying needs to be socially punished. While corruption, illegality, violence, cruelty all merit their own pushback, lying is uniquely corrosive to the way we relate to each other in society
First time actually using any microblogging site instead of just reading posts online; I’m sure I’ll mess it up by being too earnest
July 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
First time actually using any microblogging site instead of just reading posts online; I’m sure I’ll mess it up by being too earnest