hexane
@hexane3.bsky.social
Materials scientist, programming enthusiast, mathematics curious
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold
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is this anything
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
is this anything
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"it's popular to fight him" seems like an exceptionally bad reason to do so
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"it's popular to fight him" seems like an exceptionally bad reason to do so
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Fascinated by what made Bolsonaro think he could disable an ankle monitor by stabbing it with a soldering iron a few dozen times
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Fascinated by what made Bolsonaro think he could disable an ankle monitor by stabbing it with a soldering iron a few dozen times
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
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Fundamentally there's this weird way that people conflate the actual thing you're measuring with the thing you're trying to measure when it comes to exams. The reason that accommodations exist is because time pressure during exams is not reflective of the actual thing you're trying to measure
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fundamentally there's this weird way that people conflate the actual thing you're measuring with the thing you're trying to measure when it comes to exams. The reason that accommodations exist is because time pressure during exams is not reflective of the actual thing you're trying to measure
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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Ross Douthat right now:
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ross Douthat right now:
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
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Via #OPG_Optica: Energy–time ptychography for one-dimensional phase retrieval https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-9-1529 #Ptychography #QuantumOptics
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Via #OPG_Optica: Energy–time ptychography for one-dimensional phase retrieval https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-9-1529 #Ptychography #QuantumOptics
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i'm going to be the first influencer working the gen alpha youtube slop nostalgia angle. remember how great it was when mom gave you ipad and you could watch baby spiderman boom boom sponchbob roller coaster? things will never be as good as 2018 again
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i'm going to be the first influencer working the gen alpha youtube slop nostalgia angle. remember how great it was when mom gave you ipad and you could watch baby spiderman boom boom sponchbob roller coaster? things will never be as good as 2018 again
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Regenerating supersoldier project kinda a bust. The guy can’t die but it turns out being blown up still really hurts and PTSD gets like, crazy bad after a while. Therapy costs ate up budget for whole project. He’s trying to drink himself to death, but, y’know…
September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Regenerating supersoldier project kinda a bust. The guy can’t die but it turns out being blown up still really hurts and PTSD gets like, crazy bad after a while. Therapy costs ate up budget for whole project. He’s trying to drink himself to death, but, y’know…
Imaging choosing between the entirety of NSF and Uber, and choosing Uber
The cumulative budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) over the same 30-year span is about $200 billion
That is about the market cap of AT&T
That is about the market cap of AT&T
September 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Imaging choosing between the entirety of NSF and Uber, and choosing Uber
PULSAR (1990)
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PULSAR (1990)
YouTube video by JetCrow
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September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
PULSAR (1990)
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Here's the end result of Dems not putting up a common front. Voting "yes" to lies doesn't appease Republicans, it only legitimizes them.
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here's the end result of Dems not putting up a common front. Voting "yes" to lies doesn't appease Republicans, it only legitimizes them.
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Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."
September 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."
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as Stephen says you have to think about batteries, the grid etc, it's not quite that simple. but beyond obvious that China is going to be absolutely swimming in dirt cheap electricity within 5-10 years
September 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
as Stephen says you have to think about batteries, the grid etc, it's not quite that simple. but beyond obvious that China is going to be absolutely swimming in dirt cheap electricity within 5-10 years
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NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me
Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Plus, the best Democrat in America right now.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
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these people want so desperately to be cool. they want culture to be about them and they are endlessly, screamingly mad when it isn't.
September 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
these people want so desperately to be cool. they want culture to be about them and they are endlessly, screamingly mad when it isn't.
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Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...
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Right, at the end of the day Miller has erotic fantasies about throwing libs out of helicopters and Vance thinks he's Sulla. The state repression is either all talk, or it isn't, and then posting doesn't matter. Panic is preemptive compliance. These scum have earned your contempt, not your fear.
I’m sure they’ll try stuff against civil-society groups and people if they find an opening, but the VP telling folks to call people’s bosses is sort of a tell that the fed govt. can’t lawfully or semi-lawfully do much here.
Yeah, you can call it fascism
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Right, at the end of the day Miller has erotic fantasies about throwing libs out of helicopters and Vance thinks he's Sulla. The state repression is either all talk, or it isn't, and then posting doesn't matter. Panic is preemptive compliance. These scum have earned your contempt, not your fear.
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I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.
You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?
My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.
You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?
My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.
You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?
My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.
You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?
My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.