🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Quantum sensitivity breakthrough with Eli Levenson-Falk. Have a listen:

My dil fridge is gaslighting me

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2509.15713 We propose an experimentally-friendly Hamiltonian learning (HL) protocol using the quantum Zeno effect (via virtual-Z gates) to reshape dynamics, enabling local tomography and global reconstruction. Tested with TN simulations and on IBM hardware.

if I had a time machine I would use it to explain this skeet and all relevant context to Benjamin Franklin

I've seen a lot of videos lately of women that are peacefully protesting being violently thrown to the ground by angry men dressed in tactical gear with big guns. It's disgusting and jarring, but can I also point out that the women aren't the ones that look weak or scared.

Do I mean this sincerely? Am I doing a split the baby bit? Who can say

Big shout out to my new garbage man for coming up with the most garbled version of my name I’ve ever seen

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

(Wise King Solomon voice) Only white dudes should RSVP for protests

Facebook actually used to be a good way to keep in touch with friends who moved away...

This was fun: I did a podcast interview on The New Quantum Era with host Sebastian Hassinger to talk about my group's recent work on quantum sensing. Hopefully I did a good job explaining for nonexperts! share.transistor.fm/s/161c6f4a

This is the clip. I still can't believe this is all he said. gizmodo.com/why-jimmy-ki...

It doesn't matter what the tipping point is, only that we move past it. I'm not going to war on Jimmy Kimmel's personal behalf, but if that is what pushes us past the threshold to critical mass, good enough.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

Approximate language of what I just told my student: "There is an evil force in the universe that wants to ruin your experiment, and the only way it can get in is if you have multiple grounds. "

Literally the Harley Quinn origin story

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

She blinded me with science! Specifically, geology! (She threw a rock at my face)

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

Even devoid of context that letter is creepy as hell

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

I get that it's very challenging for people to wrap their brains around this, but it's worth re-iterating: Musk and Trump decided a few months ago to kill millions globally by destroying USAID in a fit of pique, which has almost destroyed the global aid sector, and nothing is replacing that money.

Millions of people will be out in the streets a couple weeks after the funding deadline. We are making clear now that those millions could be cheerleading Dems for fighting the regime in the middle of a shutdown. Or they could be focusing their ire to demand real Dem leadership. NoKings.org

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism." --Catch 22

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

So fun fact if you are looking for a legal authority to tell the public your strike was conducted under a few days after you did the strike then the strike was just illegal bsky.app/profile/chri...

Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

It's important to remember that these people just want all trans people to not exist. Bathrooms, sports, children's treatments, these are just where they think they can get the most traction right now. They'll never be satisfied.

Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago. Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)

*whispers* given how fucked polling is, we have very little idea which candidates, policies, and comms strategies do better electorally, and we should all just get comfortable with saying we like or dislike a candidate/policy/message instead of arguing about electoral impacts

OK so I've got a 2 leg trip. I want to change the first flight. Airline is asking for about 2x the cost of booking a new 2-leg trip, about 20x the cost of booking a new guest flight. WTF is going on? Anyone ever see this before?

Wishing everyone in my mentions a very remember posts are public and can be read by law enforcement

I was 28 when he came down that escalator, and if we're lucky we'll have fixed most of the damage by the time I'm in my early 40s. Just the prime of my life spent having to deal with his bullshit. I know I'm lucky, others have it MUCH worse, but still!

Because we're arguing about things that don't matter, my lukewarm 2016 take is that having another big name mainstream Dem in the primary would have hurt Bernie's vote share more than Clinton's

Have to keep pointing this out, but the unifying throughline in both stances is the idea that the danger to be guarded against is Black people, either in the person of the state looking to promote their wellbeing or as a response to “crime” and disorder in which we’re imagined as marauders.

uhhhh

Still annoyed that they didn't pick up the sequel series.

Turns out a guy I knew in high school is running to beat Susan Collins. If I had to describe him back then it would have been "redneck progressive" (laudatory) and it looks like that hasn't changed much www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

The actual problem with Democratic comms is that college professors, random journalists, and annoying people online are all treated as official campaign mouthpieces

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.

no matter what Harvard eventually does they are doing us all a massive service by chewing clock

Can I say something without everyone getting mad

"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. "