Selim

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

@lolcanul.bsky.social bienvenida!

Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer

To clear up any confusion, we have issued a new memo: Effective immediately, this department shall defund all departments which do not defund themselves.

Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.

This is a boilerplate meme form: Rapper Drake is seen cringing in the upper image, and agreeably smiling in the lower image. Next to the upper image is the text “The earth is flat!”. Next to the lower image it says “The universe is flat!”

Selim Gomez-Ávila ‪Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo‬ - ‪‪Cited by 92‬‬ - ‪Field theory‬ - ‪Particle physics‬ - ‪Group theory‬ - ‪High spin‬ - ‪Extra dimensions‬

Physicist here!

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I’ve seen some posts recently, about the value of basic research, in light of funding cuts and demands that research have immediate economic justification.

Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Scientist types as #DnD classes:

Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment.

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Anthony Zee's QFT in a Nutshell is a very good introduction, after which you could tackle Weinberg's superb textbook.

The corporate egregore's inability to understand or perform horniness means my posts are safe from ever being understood as machine-generated

I teach physics at a Mexican state university

Encontró la sombra

It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.

Celebrando a Aniv. De la Rev.

In the Country of Last Things, by Paul Auster.