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a.k.a. Matt. Physicist, conformal bootstrapper, and #1 Leonid Kantorovich respecter. Idaho → Colorado → Connecticut → Italy. he/him.

Unionize the radiation lab!
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“No way to prevent this” says only language where this regularly happens
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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alias Sisyphus "virtualenv venv; source venv/bin/activate"
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
however bad you think the Nuzzi book is, it's worse
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November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
There are plenty of situations (e.g. the James Damore thing) where I have wanted someone fired, but would rather their employer not legally be able to do so. This is not one of them.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The point of excluding off-campus conduct from fireable offenses is that if you don't, it's easy for a hostile administration to selectively enforce the rules against ppl they dislike.

For harassing other scholars, there's less potential for selective enforcement, & the cost of not acting is worse.
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul" this is like 11:50pm-gen-ed-term-paper-by-an-engineering-student prose
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Down with the traitor
Up with the
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My neighborhood even has a brick-oven pizza restaurant that is ALSO a craft brewery. I fucking love New Haven.
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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that famous Nina Simone song was, in fact, about Mississippi for a reason and not because she randomly picked a state name out of a hat
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I really wonder how much of this is audience capture/bait vs Sabine genuinely getting her brain melted
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I do. My point is that AL would still be a red state even *without* the mass disenfranchisement of black voters.

Low overall participation is a different matter, but unless you have some evidence to the contrary, I don't see *white* nonvoters in AL would break for Democrats at all.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Alabama is 64% white, and 83% of the state's white vote went for for Trump in 2016. That is an outright majority, even ignoring the fact that many AL Hispanics are also quite conservative.

(numbers from the ACS and doi.org/10.1017/S000...)
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
still think it's crazy that her dad is *that* Leonid Khachiyan
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM