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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
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What’s Eating George Clooney? He’s having a career for the ages. He has two adorable kids, a brilliant and beautiful wife, plenty of money, and still has his hair. There’s just one problem.

I'm not much a fan of celebrity gossip (well, maybe except for Celebrity Baby Teeth [tm] from @latenightseth.bsky.social ) but this was a nice article by Ryan D'Agostino for Esquire. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

sad_clown.jpg #CrazyCavities from Jack Harris at @yaleqi.bsky.social

I think it would have been funnier if it was completely random. We don't get asked enough off-the-cuff questions in our day-to-day!

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in physics for showing that quantum mechanics describes the behavior of objects much larger than atoms.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

My receipts - the number of Nobel Laureates in this picture has now increased from 1 -> 2 :) taken in 2018, when Prof Aspect visited Yale to give the annual Rosenthal lecture.

One more slightly earlier work: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... @apsphysics.bsky.social

Big win for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social , @ucsb.bsky.social, @uofcalifornia.bsky.social , and #Google, for developing the landscape that allowed for such transformative work to take place.

Congrats to John, Michel, and John for their groundbreaking work in quantum circuits (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) , and for the ~40 years of researchers that have advanced the field of #cQED to where it is today! #Nobel #Physics #QuantumComputing #Quantum @yaleqi.bsky.social

a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom ALT: a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom

Physics Nobel announcement tomorrow.

If you know and dislike a famous physicist, this is the day of the year to call them up in the middle of the night, wait 10 seconds, and then do you best Swedish Chef impression...

The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

A surprisingly insightful article on the history of academic tenure, and it's connections to labor economics. From #Emory Law prof Acevedo, published in @time.com time.com/7320703/acad...

I suppose it makes sense that a Wiki page on "but, actually, what is a British university" has 190 references.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-o...

well, MY study of what percentage of human adults love ambiguity more than most people is based on an entirely unbiased sample of people at the linguistics conference, no problems there

This is such a delightful roundup of interesting papers, along with sharp, witty insights! Highly recommend.

We’re scaling quantum computing even faster with Atlantic Quantum. Google Quantum AI was founded in 2012 and our mission today remains the same — build quantum computers that can solve otherwise unsolvable problems. We’re making steady …

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We’re scaling quantum computing even faster with Atlantic Quantum. Google Quantum AI was founded in 2012 and our mission today remains the same — build quantum computers that can solve otherwise unsolvable problems. We’re making steady …

We are SO back. #fluxonium #Google #Quantum blog.google/technology/r...

Why are so few professors troublemakers? [This is a mildly edited version of a post that was initially sent out to paid subscribers only.]

An intriguing article from @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social regarding self-censorship within Academia. Is this extended in other fields where there's a similar level of competition? smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/why-are-so...

To be clear, as a guy who got one of those elusive Cool Jobs in the arts, a world like this seems depressing, both for maker and consumer, but then that's been true of much of content creation in my eyes for at least 10 years. I just think it's about to hit the gas.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unified
#smbc

i appreciate the fact that i am young and have a robust immune system, but geez! can you please chill out?! its just a vaccine - nothing to get all hot and bothered about!

(please get your flu and covid shots ! )

Quantum Sensing Like a Bird A few nights ago I was on a panel on Quantum Sensing for Defense. Preparing for this panel crystallized some ideas for me, which I think I should write down somewhere. So here it is! When we talk abo...

Putting my thoughts together. Why networks beat "hero" sensors and what birds can teach us.
quantum-noise.ghost.io/quantum-sens...

I guess the process to say "hey, this is Good" and then actually be RIGHT more than 20% of the time is, indeed, what separates a Good producer from a mediocre one. I know that in academia, being able to identify the Good Questions is a very valuable skill that is underappreciated and intuitive!

Wonderfully written op-ed from @timbernerslee.bsky.social on the #OpenInternet in the era of #AI, drawing lessons from social media over the last decade. Makes me think of the legal maxim, "justice delayed is justice denied". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I use bit-flip, especially to differentiate from phase-flip errors in quantum computing. Other times, we just call them X errors (because a bit flip is equal to a Pauli Sigma_x) and Z errors.

If you see this, post a bridge

Garden Bridge (1908)

Suzhou Creek, Shanghai, China

R.I.P. George F. Smoot (1945-2025) We will no doubt read many official obituaries in days to come, but all I can say is that he was a character, a very original thinker, a fine scientist, and a very nice man. Along with many others, I will miss him enormously.

R.I.P. George F. Smoot (1945-2025)

We will no doubt read many official obituaries in days to come, but all I can say is that he was a character, a very original thinker, a fine scientist, and a very nice man. Along with many others, I will miss him enormously.

Calvino and the machines Italo Calvino's 'literature machine' is a prescient vision of the perils and promise of artificial intelligence.

A startling glimpse on #writing in the era of #AI, but from almost 60 years ago. Will we be able to engage fully with "mythos", or will we resign ourselves to swimming in a sea of milquetoast, generated content? engelsbergideas.com/notebook/cal...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis: