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Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

A bivariate bicycle path arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

New-ish paper: Optimal and efficient two-qubit gate synthesis for heterogeneous instruction sets. arxiv.org/abs/2505.00543 (Sorry, forgot to hype this earlier) The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 30 days ago • 125 comments

I still like my suggested solution for user verification better github.com/bluesky-soci... more granular and scalable. Feels more in the spirit of everything else atproto

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

submitted 49 days ago • 175 comments

I don't understand why the judges in all the cases against DOGE's actions at various agencies don't put Musk and Kliger and everyone else under oath, demand they produce an org chart, employment agreements, etc etc. It's completely opaque and the judiciary is sleepwalking around the critical Qs.

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

pretty much everything that has come out about Elon Musk makes Walter Isaacson look like a really shitty biographer.

submitted 54 days ago • 49 comments

Excited to share our first major result from our IARPA Entangled Logical Qubits team! arxiv.org/abs/2504.07258 @benbrown.bsky.social @universal-soup.bsky.social @evanhockings.bsky.social @georgianixon.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I am again calling for the next generation of leadership to be steely-eyed puritans who hate corruption in every form.

submitted 59 days ago • 32 comments

To me, this is the easiest layup for DC Democrats. Go to the IRS, chain yourselves there and raise the alarm about this so that USians understand what they are doing.

submitted 64 days ago • 21 comments

One thing the Democrats can do (and don't seem to be doing) is coordinate on/publish a 'here is what we we will do to reverse Trump' set of proposed measures. Republicans made it clear that they would overturn JCPOA, damaging its credibility from outset. Dems should do same for the shitty stuff.

submitted 64 days ago • 29 comments

Labour's betrayal of trans people - fueled by a wider reactionary movement taking a grip on older people in the UK even on the left - is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics from a party that *should* be better.

submitted 64 days ago • 14 comments

hello, world! The Rust Foundation is excited to join you on this new (to us!) platform. We plan to exclusively share social media content here, Mastodon, & LinkedIn for the foreseeable future. You can also follow @rustconf.com — they'll have lots of important news to share about #rustconf soon 🦀

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

if you have ever worked in or adjacent to payments every news story about doge in treasury is basically the preamble to the Demon Core accident of finance

submitted 76 days ago • 10 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 76 days ago • 329 comments