Craig
@craigmcrae.com
Dream With Eyes Wide Open | Doctoral Student in Physics @ U of Man | Scientist, Writer, Programmer 🌈
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Anarchism has some problems as a theoretical framework, but its basic formula of:
- no masters above
- no servants below
- chuck a bomb at the czar every once in a while
Almost never fails to be correct.
- no masters above
- no servants below
- chuck a bomb at the czar every once in a while
Almost never fails to be correct.
December 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Anarchism has some problems as a theoretical framework, but its basic formula of:
- no masters above
- no servants below
- chuck a bomb at the czar every once in a while
Almost never fails to be correct.
- no masters above
- no servants below
- chuck a bomb at the czar every once in a while
Almost never fails to be correct.
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Look, the keyboard people need to just accept that I never want to turn off numlock. I don't even know what the buttons do when it is off. No one does.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Look, the keyboard people need to just accept that I never want to turn off numlock. I don't even know what the buttons do when it is off. No one does.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
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"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
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#apod 2025-11-27
Portrait of NGC 1055
Image Credit: John Hayes
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251127.html
Portrait of NGC 1055
Image Credit: John Hayes
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251127.html
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#apod 2025-11-27
Portrait of NGC 1055
Image Credit: John Hayes
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251127.html
Portrait of NGC 1055
Image Credit: John Hayes
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251127.html
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
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Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
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seafood is deeply loser-coded. oh you’re eating fish? what happened, you run out of real food?
May 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
seafood is deeply loser-coded. oh you’re eating fish? what happened, you run out of real food?
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With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure.
- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure.
- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
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techbros think their ability to solve finicky technical puzzles means they should be kings of all creation and that disgusts me as a guy who solves finicky technical puzzles
March 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
techbros think their ability to solve finicky technical puzzles means they should be kings of all creation and that disgusts me as a guy who solves finicky technical puzzles
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I imagined how goofy the shoulders would end up looking, giggled, then immediately drew it because I needed to see it made real
February 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I imagined how goofy the shoulders would end up looking, giggled, then immediately drew it because I needed to see it made real
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"There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us."
Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭
Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us."
Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭
Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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the only difference between an "airball" and a "swish" is that silly hoop
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
the only difference between an "airball" and a "swish" is that silly hoop
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As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss
January 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss
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Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
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What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?
Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
December 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?