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Theoretical physics professor at at Uppsala University working on particle and astroparticle physics.
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Jack Reacher shrugs a lot

Så här ser en medlöpare ut.

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

These people are genuinely delusional

I took a course on logic with Krister Segerberg. One of the best courses I've taken.

Almost certainly being paranoid, but astronomers: someone outside the US has ADS backed up, right?

He's right.

Tesla sales are down 41 percent in Germany, *63 percent* in France. LOL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Vad som däremot går att lagstifta om är att ta bort incitamenten för att tjäna pengar på skolverksamhet. Det går också att stärka lärarnas ställning..." www.altinget.se/artikel/till...

Remember when it was really popular to dislike ”postmodernism”? I put it in quotation marks; it was just a dog whistle, not a discussion about what it is and what the thinkers associated with the term have written. If you wanted to signal a political position, you moaned about postmodernism …

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

Så länge Salwan Momika stod i vägen för Natointrädet var det politiska engagemanget i hans ärende på allra högsta nivå. När han förvandlades till en misslyckad asylsökande som inte ens kunde utvisas till Irak av säkerhetsskäl var han inte ens intressant nog att rädda livet på.

Ok, jag som trodde rikedom, makt och klasstillhörighet kom genom "hård ansträngning" och inte genom arv.

Samhället kunde inte skydda Salwan Momika www.etc.se/kommentar/sa...

Modeled and calculated atmospheric neutrino fluxes at ultra high energies for the benefit of neutrino telescopes like IceCube, while DOE paid my salary. scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=s...

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

So you're saying intellectual property should be protected www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

VI MÅSTE VÅGA PRATA OM ATT FASCISMEN ÄR TILLBAKA. Fröerna till Auschwitz hade såtts, vattnats och götts i decennier, skrev jag i Dala-Demokraten på åttioårsdagen av befrielsen av Auschwitz. 🧵 www.dalademokraten.se/2025-01-27/v...

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

Il faut imaginer Schrödinger's cat heureux

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Beyond this bit being passed around, which is worth sharing for the main points, do click through and read the whole thing. It's worth it. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Highly recommend. Books 1 and 2 are incredible. Just finished book 5 and now I'll have to wait.

George RR Martin and the physicist Ian Tregillis published a paper deriving a Lagrangian to model the spread of the wild card virus Goes to show both the power of the variational principle and how creative G.RR.Martin has become in avoiding to write winds of winter pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

www.gp.se/kultur/komme...

"Man river ut, med ursäkten att man bekämpar brott. Och på vägen ryker din kommunala musikskola, ditt folkets hus, dina möjligheter att driva studiecirklar, dina replokaler, dina barns möjligheter att drömma större i ett litet land i norra Europa"

Tack studieförbunden för att vi har en person som @johannesklenell.bsky.social som kan kontextualisera sittande regerings kulturpolitik: arbetet.se/2025/01/25/p...

NA / Lars Ströman: Att ursäkta Musks hälsning är att normalisera ondskan www.na.se/2025-01-23/a...

Brunsmeta inte en heilande man! Skriver om Elon Musks svenska fans. Och att de just nu gör sig själva till åtlöje. www.dn.se/ledare/amand...