Ben Wibking
@benwibking.bsky.social
astrophysicist. he/him 🏳️🌈
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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i know jean baudrillard would be feasting on this sora AI crap
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
i know jean baudrillard would be feasting on this sora AI crap
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"You need to watch a lot of YouTube video essays to make sense of anything."
America in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong?
1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"You need to watch a lot of YouTube video essays to make sense of anything."
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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
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![Comic. [planets and astronomical bodies in various shapes with comments pointing to them] Typical Exoplanet System: Giant planet orbiting so close that it’s actually rolling on the star’s surface; Hot Jupiter; Mini Neptune; Planet that could be habitable, if there’s a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire; Cold Jupiter; Potentially habitable void; Hot Mars; Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs; There’s a pulsar here but it’s probably fine; A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm— Wait, no, we just got new measurements, it’s a hellish steam oven; Mini Pluto; Earthlike data artifact; Wet Saturn; Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use; Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted; Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!; Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiarfi2ggmv32pbpagsawnfvq3qpvww6qnptusklp2skmj7dqclewm@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! 🔭🧪
Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌
More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look
Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌
More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look
May 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! 🔭🧪
Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌
More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look
Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌
More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look
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Inhaling rhydonium would fix me
May 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Inhaling rhydonium would fix me
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Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed in Gaza,” an eyewitness tells Mondoweiss.
‘The ground split and swallowed them’: Survivors of European Hospital bombing in Gaza recount deadly Israeli attack
Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed…
mondoweiss.net
May 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed in Gaza,” an eyewitness tells Mondoweiss.
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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
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State Department Warns Americans Traveling Abroad To Avoid Lame Amsterdam Windmill Tour
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May 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
State Department Warns Americans Traveling Abroad To Avoid Lame Amsterdam Windmill Tour
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Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza - Vatican News
Pope Francis requests that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
www.vaticannews.va
May 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Arabic phrase for the day
مزبلة التاريخ
Mazbalat al tareekh
‘The rubbish bin of history’
مزبلة التاريخ
Mazbalat al tareekh
‘The rubbish bin of history’
May 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Arabic phrase for the day
مزبلة التاريخ
Mazbalat al tareekh
‘The rubbish bin of history’
مزبلة التاريخ
Mazbalat al tareekh
‘The rubbish bin of history’
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As many people have noticed – but let me point it for those who are having problems – all recipes on nigella.com come with a toggle to change metric to US measures and ingredients.
PS Tinned tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and spaghetti are not, I believe – even in America – difficult to find
PS Tinned tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and spaghetti are not, I believe – even in America – difficult to find
If you love translating grams into ounces and trying to find Nigella's ingredients in a store, you'll love this recipe. C'mon, Nigella, give us a break!
#RecipeOfTheDay is a gift for the lazy, exhausted or time-pressed cook: that old favourite, Slattern’s Spaghetti! www.nigella.com/recipes/slat...
April 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As many people have noticed – but let me point it for those who are having problems – all recipes on nigella.com come with a toggle to change metric to US measures and ingredients.
PS Tinned tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and spaghetti are not, I believe – even in America – difficult to find
PS Tinned tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and spaghetti are not, I believe – even in America – difficult to find
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#OtD 28 Apr 1945 Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...
April 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#OtD 28 Apr 1945 Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...
so true
Andor is great because it understands what Star Wars is fundamentally about: someone pressing a button and the thing they wanted the button to do not happening
April 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
so true
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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Do you want to work with one of the greatest radio telescopes on the planet? You get to be a part of the legacy and future decision-making for this iconic instrument, a giant in #RadioAstronomy heritage.
New job with Murriyang! 📡
New job with Murriyang! 📡
We’re searching for a scientist to lead Murriyang, our iconic Parkes radio telescope. Applications due 18th May.
Full details here: jobs.csiro.au/job/Parkes%2...
Full details here: jobs.csiro.au/job/Parkes%2...
April 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Do you want to work with one of the greatest radio telescopes on the planet? You get to be a part of the legacy and future decision-making for this iconic instrument, a giant in #RadioAstronomy heritage.
New job with Murriyang! 📡
New job with Murriyang! 📡
on.ft.com/42F9x4Q Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
on.ft.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
on.ft.com/42F9x4Q Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Rashid Khalidi: “Once the quislings who run Columbia University have implemented the diktats of their masters in Washington…teaching and even quoting Fanon will be perilous indeed…. We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet”
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Rashid Khalidi: “Once the quislings who run Columbia University have implemented the diktats of their masters in Washington…teaching and even quoting Fanon will be perilous indeed…. We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet”
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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