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Mathematical Physicist with a knack at fringe ideas Politically interested entrepreneurial spirit Opinions are my own #Notacleverperson
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HISTORY OF PHYSICS When Paul Dirac was awarded the Nobel in 1933, he wanted to refuse it, as he hated advertising. However, Rutherford managed to persuade him to accept the award – he simply explained that a refusal would be an even bigger advertisement. He then agreed to go to Stockholm. 😂

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Die billionenfach falsche Klima-Lüge der Woche von Andreas Glarner verdient es, hier richtiggestellt zu werden, damit sie nicht weitere Kreise zieht. Bitte teilt diesen Thread. (1/5)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I spent time in the COVID MICU photographing peeps working under unbearable circumstances trying to keep COVID patients alive. I thought telling their story was going to be important to remind us of what happened. Maybe I should have just photographed bodies. bryanwjones.com/2021/02/covi...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Nur die dümmsten Schafe entwaffnen sich selber und glauben dem Wolf, dass er dann Vegetarier wird!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Brutalo-Diktator Putin lässt Proteste gewaltsam niederschla… halt nein! Entwarnung! Ist nur unser guter Freund, die USA www.der-postillon.com/2025/06/prot...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

The Kremlin's budget disaster thread. In May 25, budget revenues fell -6% Y/Y for the first time in 1.5 years. This is the most important indicator of the economic crisis. Against the backdrop of 10% inflation, the drop in revenues in real terms is 16%. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

submitted 338 days ago • 35 comments

This is 100% the fault of ICE and the Trump admin, which has deliberately incentivized this behavior with their tactics. Their goal is to encourage white nationalist groups to dress up as ICE to attack minorities, and the increase in lookalike crimes is to them an acceptable byproduct.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

A few years ago I re-read a right-leaning book about "the university" and how it had gone wrong. The authors cited four courses at Stanford that were supposedly representative of a new spirit of left-wing groupthink (what would later be termed "wokeness"). (1/5)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Ohne die Details zu kennen: wenn ich mit die Deutsche Politik um Masken-Span, Maut-Scheuer und Gesetzbrecher-Dobrint so anschaue, so it es doch ein gutes Zeichen für die Schweiz, dass Misstände in der öffentlichen Verwaltung personelle Konsequenzen haben.

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Having gotten a bit of unvoluntary association with Eric Weinstein, I had a look at some videos on youtube and it reminded me of Michael Strevens "iron rule": www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... To win a scientific argument YOU have to provide the evidence for it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

When I bought this shirt I surely didn't expect it to still be relevant almost 10 years later. 😅

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of stuff that might be an inflection point in hindsight.

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Für DLF Hintergrund durfte ich darlegen, dass #Faschismus-Enabler #Thiel mit seinem Konzern #Palantir ein #Demokratie-#Gefährder ist: System von Palantir: Datenschützer warnen vor US-Polizeisoftware in Deutschland "Mit automatisierter..." www.deutschlandfunk.de/polizeisoftw...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

With the explosion of AI based tools for image generation and manipulation, it’s probably a good time to revisit the history of disinformation through image manipulation. Though photographic manipulation is as old as photography, disinformation has its roots in politics, believe it or not.

submitted 560 days ago • 4 comments

Great advice. Calculus is one of humanity’s crowning achievements and understanding it even at a basic level opens up a new world of insights. For physics, you could do a lot worse than this, which is free:

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

thehappyproton.ch/wp-content/u... While massively increased in scale this problem isn't entirely new. Together with a friend I wrote this proposal for Germany something like 6 years ago.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I disagree. The worse things go for Russia in Ukraine, the more risks they will take to turn things around. A limited attack on NATO could be a coercive move to force the Europeans to stop sending aid to Ukraine. (Not saying it would work, but that doesn't mean they won't try.)

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

"Ein Waffenstillstand in einem vom Aggressor besetzten Land ist kein Frieden. So gut, wie die Losung 'Frieden schaffen ohne Waffen' im Kalten Krieg war, so wenig hilft sie uns heute angesichts des militärischen Angriffs auf die #Ukraine." sagt Ulrike Poppe. www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Statistically speaking it is very unlikely that there are the best people of both countries in the room talking.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Forschungsministerin macht lächerlichen Vorschlag und schenkt uns einen Hashtag" geht in die nächste Runde: #rundumsorglos #IchBinHanna @amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

To break all doom and gloom I think we have to focus on all the small things that are getting better. Tuesday I went back to my old institute for the 30th anniversary. I decided to do so according to my old habit and run from Sanssouci to Golm.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment