@charmstrange9.bsky.social
Haifa, Israel. I love mental algebra
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One of the most important books I've read this year, from
@adambecker.bsky.social.
It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!"
But it's critical to realize that they are.
@adambecker.bsky.social.
It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!"
But it's critical to realize that they are.
12. @adambecker.bsky.social is a science journalist and author of MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, a book that chronicles the stew of nonsense that informs and motivates many of tech’s leaders.
Adam Becker Takes Aim at Silicon Valley Nonsense | TechPolicy.Press
In a new book, the science journalist Adam Becker skewers the more outlandish ideas and motivations in the tech industry.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of the most important books I've read this year, from
@adambecker.bsky.social.
It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!"
But it's critical to realize that they are.
@adambecker.bsky.social.
It's a devastating read at times—you'll find yourself shouting at the book "how can they be that goddamn crazy???!!!"
But it's critical to realize that they are.
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Probably still time for last-minute Xmas shopping.
Also looming large in my reading this year: @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s Something Deeply Hidden. I feel absolutely transformed by what I learned in this book. Who needs self-help when you have the Many Worlds theory?
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Probably still time for last-minute Xmas shopping.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything | December 2025. A few personal-advice questions (which I'm not great at), and several people who want to imagine they could be Laplace's Demon. My advice is that you are not Laplace's Demon. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | December 2025. A few personal-advice questions (which I'm not great at), and several people who want to imagine they could be Laplace's Demon. My advice is that you are not Laplace's Demon. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper.
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper.
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Seems to be a losing battle to make people understand that Wheeler's "It from Bit" does not mean "reality is made of information" (it was about defending an epistemic view of quantum mechanics, where the wave function isn't real, only measurement outcomes are), and likewise...
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Seems to be a losing battle to make people understand that Wheeler's "It from Bit" does not mean "reality is made of information" (it was about defending an epistemic view of quantum mechanics, where the wave function isn't real, only measurement outcomes are), and likewise...
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The idea of QFT was already around, of course, but Dirac and others had thought of the electron field ψ as a "relativistic wave function," not as a field to be quantized. It was Pauli & Weisskopf who set things straight once and for all.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Über die Quantisierung der skalaren relativistischen Wellengleichung
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die konsequente Anwendung des Heisenberg-Pauli’schen Formalismus der Quantisierung der Wellenfelder auf die skalare relativistische Wellengleiehung für Mater...
link.springer.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The idea of QFT was already around, of course, but Dirac and others had thought of the electron field ψ as a "relativistic wave function," not as a field to be quantized. It was Pauli & Weisskopf who set things straight once and for all.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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1988 interview with physicist Victor Weisskopf. We overlapped at MIT when he was emeritus and I was a postdoc, but I never really chatted with him (because I'm an idiot). In 1934 he and Wolfgang Pauli wrote the first paper insisting that everything is quantum fields!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZY...
Conversations with History: Victor F. Weisskopf
YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
1988 interview with physicist Victor Weisskopf. We overlapped at MIT when he was emeritus and I was a postdoc, but I never really chatted with him (because I'm an idiot). In 1934 he and Wolfgang Pauli wrote the first paper insisting that everything is quantum fields!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZY...
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," my lecture series for the Great Courses (24 half-hour lectures), is still available on Prime video for a few days! Tell your family that watching football on Thanksgiving is hopelessly uncool.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
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Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
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RFK Jr unilaterally turned CDC into an anti-vaccine propaganda site.
Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years?
This is his business model.
Watch:
youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...
Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years?
This is his business model.
Watch:
youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...
Remember when RFK Jr profited off the lie that vaccines cause autism? | excerpts from @WIRED
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
RFK Jr unilaterally turned CDC into an anti-vaccine propaganda site.
Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years?
This is his business model.
Watch:
youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...
Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years?
This is his business model.
Watch:
youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...
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A picture of the moon I took on a lovely clear night a couple of weeks ago!
#photography #astronomy #moon #astrophotography #photooftheday
#photography #astronomy #moon #astrophotography #photooftheday
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A picture of the moon I took on a lovely clear night a couple of weeks ago!
#photography #astronomy #moon #astrophotography #photooftheday
#photography #astronomy #moon #astrophotography #photooftheday
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything | November 2025. We dive into wealth inequality, superintelligent AI risks, how to judge nonsense, quantum entanglement, and more. Patreon supporters get a picture of Caliban and a skeleton. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | November 2025. We dive into wealth inequality, superintelligent AI risks, how to judge nonsense, quantum entanglement, and more. Patreon supporters get a picture of Caliban and a skeleton. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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Next up in the talks from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium: Nima Arkani-Hamed offers Two Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate. (He previously was giving three cheers, but he's changed his mind just a bit.) Comments from me, of all people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Next up in the talks from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium: Nima Arkani-Hamed offers Two Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate. (He previously was giving three cheers, but he's changed his mind just a bit.) Comments from me, of all people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
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About to talk with a lovely group of philosophers and physicists at @perimeterinstitute.ca about the century-long debate over the foundations of #quantum physics! Watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/eIXSmhg...
100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future
YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
About to talk with a lovely group of philosophers and physicists at @perimeterinstitute.ca about the century-long debate over the foundations of #quantum physics! Watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/eIXSmhg...
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Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
www.leeds.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
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Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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Tylenol does not cause autism. Vaccines do not cause autism. Any asshole telling you otherwise is a harmful hack that will absolutely get people killed.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Tylenol does not cause autism. Vaccines do not cause autism. Any asshole telling you otherwise is a harmful hack that will absolutely get people killed.
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An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
Roger Penrose & Friends Appeal for Unique Archive
To digitise and restore the worlds largest collection of audio and visual recordings within the scientific community, spanning over 50 years
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.
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Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
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Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine
A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push li...
www.quantamagazine.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...
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Being against vaccines when diseases are rampant (measles, Covid) is like adding chlorine to the gene pool. Darwin is watching.
August 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Being against vaccines when diseases are rampant (measles, Covid) is like adding chlorine to the gene pool. Darwin is watching.
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In which a well-timed talk by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social gets me to write about quantum foundations research and its importance to physics overall: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
On Quantum Foundations
Today in "Evergreen Post Topics"
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In which a well-timed talk by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social gets me to write about quantum foundations research and its importance to physics overall: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
