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Phil Mansfield
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Astrophysicist who rarely posts about astrophysics. Research Scientist at Stanford University. Suicide hotline operator. 🏳️‍🌈

Personal account, nothing I post are the views of my employers
Ordered!
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Holy shit, this looks amazing
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I also don’t want to hear about Horus Heresy
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The main difference is that most punditry is awful.
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposted by Phil Mansfield
It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case.

Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Planes are a land of contrasts.
September 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
As someone who needs to regularly navigate the actual legal guidelines for having these conversations with people, it’s wild to me that someone would even try thinking about the issue as a first amendment problem rather than a best-practices problem. Just un-fuck the software. It’ll be fine.
August 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Phil Mansfield
It is very likely that if your main focus is comfort and safety, you will quickly drift onto a path that is hand in hand with fascism. That is where we are. Better to make active choices now. It is better to have clear in your mind what your priorities and beliefs are before someone is knocking.
August 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I’ve always found people’s takes on chess engines to be extremely useful in telling whether they’re an AI charlatan.
August 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM