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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah but that’s just colinearity between their language and the eigenslur, it’s easy to test.

Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 2h

Which is bullshit because they don’t have a defined depth and therefore no defined volume. So 1km^3 is at most 400,000 swimming pools but could be less.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3h

How about I say it's 6.2 billion barrels, or how much oil goes through the strait of Ormuz in a normal year, and leave it at that?

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Washington's Dream - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 3h

Oh it's because he had a cameo in the 2002 romcom "Two Weeks Notice" with Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking of all my ex-colleagues in Stockholm who worked on IceCube, it must have been a nice day for them.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4h

It’s big enough to pinpoint the direction of arriving neutrinos, and they have been able to correlate them to several astrophysical sources (blazars and the galactic center for instance). Multi messenger astronomy is a vast open field these days.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4h

*Youth cosmologist voice* You know what else that can measure astrophysical neutrinos?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4h

1) Fincher directing a film about the birth of semiconductors 2) As many people said, the double helix (there is already a play with Nicole Kidman. I think it’s a slam dunk) 3) And yet it moves, a film about proving continental drift and plate tectonics. 4) Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Smallpox

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 4h

No it’s what it says on the tin, 10^9 m^3, or the volume of a cube with a 1km side (the actual shape is more hexagonal)

A diagram of the IceCube array, with an Eiffel Tower for scale. You can see the detectors attached along long cables, 1.5km under the ice

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 15h

The 2010s California housing crisis pushed people there to consider communal living arrangement. QED!

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 16h

I have a suggestion as to where they could respectfully lodge said evidence.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 16h

I refused to shake hands and sit down next to a UKIP candidate in 2015. My ancestors smile upon me (refugees to Palestine in 1933, British by reason of statelessness). Can you say the same, left-Labourite?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 16h

My talents will go unrecognised :/

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 17h

No we already did a round of "eigenslur" back in 2025, it's the vector projection of the n-word orthogonally to blackness apparently (or any slur out of the specific group it targets)

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*This post is brought to you by the new Crusader Kings III DLC By God Alone* CK3: Share a pope with your friends.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh my god they were real (and lived in modern-day Russia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud

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Chud - Wikipedia

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" Lord Farquaad or Sam Altman?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a certain Homeric quality to "Clothed in thunder" and "gloomy darkness rolled around her head" but I don’t know which.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I went for breakfast after 10mi today and yeah you see that crusted sweat on my forehead? It means I am the healthiest customer in your establishment.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Always weird when the AI releases democratic Germany but then Adenauer invades France or something equally demented with three division.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it turns into civil war I don't know what the focus tree is for the non-Nazi side. I nearly only play as the democracies (and China).

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never mind, just saw a guy with poor self grooming and an effective altruism T-shirt this morning.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This week on the blog! more Hearts of Iron IV. Having discussed the game's military simulation in previous weeks, this week we look at how HoI4 understands politics and...it's rough - design streamlining leads to an incomplete and authoritarian political model. acoup.blog/2026/10/02/t...

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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics

This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popula…

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But overall, yeah there is no country, just a reserve of manpower and interchangeable areas in which to build factories. Is it a high-modernist view of society? (in the “Seeing like a State" sense)

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I want to point out that while there is no Wehrmacht coup during fall gelb, you can get one if there is war with the Allies over the Sudetenland and the Czech hold out long enough (I think it’s a 6 month mean time to happen?)

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Get in loser, we’re going surveying.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One singulatarian cultist Is Too Many singulatarian cultist but also I'm not in tech, rich, or US/Oxbridge-educated so I am as invisible to these people as they are to me.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I live in Berkeley, work at UC and have thankfully never run into any of these people as far as I know. I did pass in front of their cult compound once while running.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Isn’t it part of his long campaign to pretend that Teslas computer vision works as well as cars equipped with LIDARs do, even though they only have visual cameras?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you know the old joke about the guy who wants to put a mezuzah on his Lamborghini? I think it’s the same answer

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Idea: automated traffic enforcement cameras at every crossing, where the fines go to fund the ACLU and the public defender’s office.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods" has escaped containement

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah I’m just going to let people do their thing and note it’s very much not my thing.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like hugging your friends? Or is there more to it?

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t ask for a vision. Please exercise leadership, come up with a park plan, and just build the thing if voters don’t hate it. Those community meetings are just an outlet for mostly white, mostly old people to vent their fears of impermanence.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only one I went to in London had very mid pastrami (it was Reubens I think?) I have since been to (non-Kosher) Katz and have embraced the American way of life.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok but imaging Ed trying to eat from the kiddush lunch at a North London schul.

Ed Milliband looking a bit tired and struggling with what looks like a greasy sandwich (it has bacon)

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Liberal catholic talking about Catholics doing Catholic things in Catholicia "What are we, a bunch of CALVINISTS?"

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"How much field experience do your officers have?" "You guys get field experience?"

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh I have no idea how to evaluate competence either, the work is so niche, I'm sure if anyone spends ~one PhD training for it they could do it as well or better.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love how from 1700 to ~1860 the same scene keeps repeating: "These damn English have a larger fleet, more shipbuilding, and better trained sailors, but if we innovate we can have better ship designs and then win with inferior numbers" and then Britain goes CTRL+C, CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V...

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