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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah but they're all cross-tabs.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 6h

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

General Ripper in Dr Strangelove, ranting about his impotence

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 6h

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

www.youtube.com

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 1d

🏅 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!

@nobelprize.bsky.social
@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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

I tried my best :/

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

That’s Joanne Cohn erasure.

Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 1d

Going out on a limb with my Physics Nobel prediction/wishlist:

to Paul Ginsparg (ArXiV), Gunther Eichhorn (Astrophysics Data System) and Louise Addis (SPIRES) for revolutionizing the dissemination of physics research literature online

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

Twisted bilayer graphene would be my shot in the dark.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a Yoo-phemism if I ever saw one.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2d

Arracourt and Dompaire show that experience and coordination are the main factor in tank performance, not the armor/speed/firepower trio.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2d

“Gunther, I’m going to deploy two portable harbors and a cross-sea oil pipeline that I invented just for this operation. Good luck opposing it with the V2”

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

The lack of a translation barrier between the UK and the US means the brain worms flow unimpeded across the pond. "Le wokisme" still sounds silly to a wide swath of the population in French.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

fascinated by how the structure of conspiratorial mania is the same across contexts

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

Just the US correspondent of GB News

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

I, personally, having lived in Sweden, was uncomfortable with seeing an autistic preteen’s climate anxiety be nurtured by her upper-class parents into a media spectacle. Now that she’s older I have to accept she knows what she’s doing and probably did all along.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

History has ended of course

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3d

I was just telling a friend about Steinhardt’s Kamchatka expedition to find samples of quasicrystals in a meteorite!

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll finish a run of Hollow Knight before starting Silksong
I’ll 100% Hollow Knight before starting Silksong
I’ll finish the White Palace before starting Silksong <-I am here
I’ll do pantheons before starting Silksong
I’ll complete a Steel soul run before…
etc, etc…