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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 12h

"Apparently that's a trigger for me" is a regularly part of my lexicon

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 13h

The Conversation asked me to write about the recent Nobel Prize: theconversation.com/nobel-prize-...

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology

The discovery that superconducting circuits can behave like quantum particles was a revolutionary development in the field of quantum technologies.

theconversation.com

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

401k distributions are already taxed as ordinary income so that part is moot

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'm convinced the resolution is that the framing and intent of policy change its impact in important ways

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

You can't tell me what to do!

I think maybe it's that the framing is part of the consequence, like how it makes people feel is important

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! Lots of low hanging fruit to fix before we get to any tough moral questions lll

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah maybe I'm just overthinking people's understandable reactions to the idea of a childless tax penalty. It's really a political issue.

I do think people underestimate the cost. A CTC big enough to meaningfully change the calculus for most parents would be hundreds of billions a year.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

I agree! But a child tax credit or a childless tax surcharge are the same policy functionally not not morally, and it feels weird.

I did like the idea I saw to make all overtime paid. That would limit the career penalty of being a parent

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Like, if you subsidize something you effectively penalize not-that-thing and vice versa. And I think society needs kids, raising kids is so costly to the parents that many won't do it, so we need subsidies. But penalizing women for not having children is wrong! And I can't reconcile that.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Something I'm struggling with: "we should give money to parents to help offset the costs of raising children, which society needs" and "we should tax childless women more than mothers" are functionally the same policy, but the former sounds fine and the latter is abhorrent.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

But the D should get credit for keying on Goff's weaknesses in pre-snap adjustment and post-snap reads. He missed that TD badly, but he got incredibly lucky not to have 2 INTS (one was dropped, the other would have been a pick-6 but it was tipped at the line).

Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

Dont'a Hightower was a demigod that game, just had free reign to completely destroy everything the Rams were doing

Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

King shit

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna guess Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture?

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW I knew him in high school and his general approach to politics was pretty similar to how he's presenting now. It's not like I can vouch for him currently on every issue but I'm pretty sure he's not a secret conservative.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2d

Sambal olek is a cheat code

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2d

Berkeley Physics notching another W today (and their laureate is MUCH nicer than Stanford's)

Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

my favorite Cal vs Stanford dunk is Cal pointing out that the periodic table contains Berkelium and Californium but no Stanfordium

(also Seaborgium, which is named after a Cal Nobel prize winner and is an anagram of Go Bears)

Graphic with Berkelium and Californium but still no “Stanfurdium”

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2d

Hey historians quick question, what usually happens when the populace of the capitol is suddenly impoverished by the regime?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2d

28.5% of people who have given me an oral exam have won a Nobel prize in physics, compared to about .00002% of the population. If you feel your work is undervalued, I encourage you to come ask me physics questions until I almost have a panic attack.

(Congrats John!)

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 3d

Resting running from pogroms face over here

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

looking on stack overflow for ways to work around something that is actually rooted in fundamental limits of physics.

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 3d

The flip side of this is also fun. "You don't need a custom transformer model running on a massive cluster, we worked out the solution to this in junior year stat mech. The equation takes up 512 bytes and can run on my laptop in milliseconds."

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

It’s funny to do computer things without coming from a computer background because occasionally I’ll be like “hey has anyone ever noticed this weird issue?!” and be told “yes, there is a massive $10 billion industry devoted exclusively to trying to solve that problem”

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 3d

The first rule of Cassandras Club is you tell everyone about Cassandras Club and they don't believe you.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know how I know this but the 60 minutes watch is ticking in 2/4 time and interpreting it as triplets is deranged

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