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I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab This episode is a first for the show - a repeat of a previously posted...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab. Have a listen:

At the risk of starting Discourse: should I attend the main LA rally and add to the crowd or the smaller one in my neighborhood and show broader support?

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Fargo (1996)

If I had laser hair, I sure wouldn’t want it removed. I’d be so psyched.

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

You mentioned fabric and every automation engineer just had a trauma response

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

King shit

I'm gonna guess Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture?

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.

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...

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.

Sambal olek is a cheat code

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

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

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!)

Resting running from pogroms face over here