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Physicist. Tweets are my own.

 San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2018
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HALF-A-BILLION 🤯 Remember: Police liability payouts come out of the General Fund, NOT the police department's operating budget. This is why other city services like street services, animal services, transportation, youth development, & audits got cut. latimes.com/california/story…
Police lawsuits have cost LA nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, LAPD recruits stand for a uniform inspection at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park on Sept. 18, 2026. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

ALT Police lawsuits have cost LA nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, LAPD recruits stand for a uniform inspection at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park on Sept. 18, 2026. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

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derek guy
@dieworkwearMay 10
unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better
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Bull@bullincrisisFeb 14
You can’t add days to your life, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add life to your days
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Hey. Can I borrow one million MrBeast bucks so I can bet on my ability to pay the fourth installment of my Klarna Max membership on my congressional mandate OpenAI compute tax it's a tradable asset streaming live on NetHBOflixCNN Binance Jr. Performative reading.
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It’s amazing people believe a little cloud seeding caused the catastrophic floods in Texas, but think that pumping trillions of tons of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere hasn’t caused climate change.
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Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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John Shedletsky (@Shedletsky) profile pictureJohn Shedletsky
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Replying to @gmchariszhang @aidan_mclau
Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?
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Hey Democrats, are you going to do literally anything besides post while fascists run the government through a shredder? (Taps earpiece.) We're hearing the answer is no. discourseblog.com/p/do-somet…
Do Something For Fuck's Sake

Do Something For Fuck's Sake

Democrats: have you considered something besides just posting through this?

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If you’re Black, standing with oppressed people comes with a few caveats. “How to stand with Palestine” @thegrio thegrio.com/2023/11/07/how-t…
How to stand with Palestine

How to stand with Palestine

Have you ever wondered how you can stand with oppressed people without being pilloried for your personal political beliefs? We got you.

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Randall Munroe
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Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832
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I am quite positive on technology innovation in general and am mostly blown away by the talent in Silicon Valley. But it is possibly the single worst place on the planet to develop ideas about urban land use and transportation, because it is shambolically horrible at both.
James Newman (@hmac_sha1) profile pictureJames Newman@hmac_sha116 Sep 2023
Replying to @mateosfo
See also, Google’s Bayview campus, which is covered in solar panels, captures and recycles water, has thermal piles for temperature control, has acres of native landscape… yet is miles from housing or transit, and has thousands of parking spots.
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have the same BS degree from the exact same school
capitolhunters (@capitolhunters) profile picturecapitolhunters@capitolhunters17 Nov 2022
Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
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The University of Pennsylvania considers Musk to be a graduate of both the economics department and the physics department. "Elon Musk earned a B.A. in physics and a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees were awarded on May 19, 1997." -Penn, 2019 snopes.com/fact-check/mus…
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Lol Musk is upset because NASA just pulled off hitting an asteroid, while all his products ever hit are pedestrians.
SpaceX (@SpaceX) profile pictureSpaceX
@SpaceX26 Sep 2022
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Congratulations on successfully crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid!
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The SpaceX tweet is not meant as an insult; they launched this mission: twitter.com/spacex/status/…
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I recently had to teach spontaneous symmetry breaking. Did you know that there was a connection to nonequilibrium physics? I didn't. A little thread. 1/N
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joking on twitter is not enough i need to fly to ireland to party
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I'm in fight-picking mode today because I suffer the consequences of ppl's bad science. 3 irresponsible talks on quantum biology... youtube.com/watch?v=OGFvBs4T… youtube.com/watch?v=tkECK3Rz… youtube.com/watch?v=VQngptkP… ...and one of mine -- please compare and contrast: youtube.com/watch?v=KbiBKY3o…
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Between 1997-2008, voters in Los Angeles approved a series of bonds dedicating around $20 billion in funding to the construction, expansion, and renovation of hundreds of schools. What was the impact of this massive investment in public goods? Julien Lafortune and I investigated.
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Official link - happy to chat if you might be interested! Below are instructions for candidates to apply: 1) Visit humanresources.umn.edu/jobs 2) Click on the tab in the center of the page that corresponds to their situation 3) Search Job ID 342777
Jeff Gralnick (@bacteriality) profile pictureJeff Gralnick@bacteriality28 Jul 2021
A postdoc position will be available soon in my group for someone with a strong background in electrochemistry and an interest in microbial physiology. Official posting soon, please contact me for details and RT @ISMETsociety @na_ismet @ElectricUfz @KorneelRabaey @ElectroMicrobe
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1/ A metal is a very quantum-mechanical object. Just about all its properties arise from the quantum mechanics of a dense collection of free electrons. So how can we see its quantumness in the electrical resistance? This is a thread about the phenomenon of "weak localization"
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