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Now I need to install the laser diode and pay attention to electrostatic discharge.

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Because he’s part of the curruption, having been funded by Thiel, who wants to destroy the government…

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Vision is also an important consideration. I wear reading glasses, but that’s not always great for mid-range work. Some text is very small, & many aspects of the motion is quite precise. How good our vision is becomes really important when dealing lasers, both from safety and alignment perspectives.

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Once you start focusing in on a single part, there’s actually so many things to consider… all the different screws, what drivers to use, the orientation of the components… I really like these funny spanner wrenches…

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I started with solution (a), but it turned out solution (b) was more effective

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Important skill identified: How to deal with a missing part? a) get angry and feel like it’s my fault and I can’t do this? b) look around lab, paying close attention and try to find it c) contact vendor if it was missing in the first place, or needs to be replaced

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Stymied already at the next step. I can’t find the KCT cage compatible SM1-Threaded mirror mount.

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Ok, time to stop avoiding screws, drivers, and hardware in general. “First, screw the 8-32, 1/2” long (M4 x 12 mm) setscrew into the RS3.5P8E. (And don’t let any of the screws fall into the holes on the optics table.)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trying to put together the optical tweezers. Even after some sorting, finding parts is still difficult.

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New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Optics components storage container racks getting installed.

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but also? i suspect that people who seriously engage with international affairs have experience with extreme propaganda environments, and while no one is immune to those corrosive effects, they have a more hardened sense of right and wrong

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Stop and go traffic from a car accident on I25 S.

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Whitehead had "prehensions". Gendlin had "implying". I think there's a story out of the process philosophy and pragmatism traditions that can give a richer picture on consciousness and how inner and outer worlds relate.

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Panpsychists might ascribe a tiny amount of consciousness to rocks, and panpsychism is a more viable position today. Whitehead thought there was a small amount of consciousness in atoms. I think we need new concepts --a preconciousness out of which conciousness develops, that rocks and atoms have.

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I also think of Henri Bergson's "duration", and his idea that the way mind and matter come together is through memory. So, bringing in a bigger sense of meaning and care for our species as well as our planet and the rest of life on earth may come from having a longer now.

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To me, this is part of how we come to terms with the time we are living in, and start to broaden the window of the present. We take in "the long now". And this must include the future as well. How do we get through the next 100 years of climate change? We need to feel connected to this future.

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How can one draw strength from a sense of continuity over 2500 years, when one ignores what happened less than 100 years ago? I also think the US needs to come to terms with its founding, with the native American genocide and African chattel slavery.

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One might say that Israel exists today and so why do we need to keep going back to the messy founding, involving many Palestinians being displaced. But if we are to be consistent, and honor the long history and memory of the Jewish people, we need to include this also.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

I'm watching some more history videos about the Israel-Palestine conflict including the foundation of Israel in 1947. Benny Morris and Henry Abramson www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2_... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poo...

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Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Mike Collins sounds like a used car salesman next to Jon Ossoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeGE...

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So our MOT should be arriving in a month. I still have a lot to learn about how these things work. open-quantum.org Nice that this company makes the CAD files available so people could build one themself. The vacuum is actually P < 1e-11 T. You need bake out plus the ion pump for that.

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Sundance film festival will be in Boulder in January. Pretty darn expensive. $45-90 per film showing if you buy a 10 film pass. Ugh. festival.sundance.org/tickets/in-p...

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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Has it worked out for all the US citizens imprisoned by ICE? For all the people having to pay more than they can afford? Did it work out for Renee Good and Alex Pretti? Has it worked out for the researchers whose grants have been cancelled? For the dedicated government employees out of work?

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Remember: polls don't vote. We need to turn out in massive numbers to make sure we take our country back from this corrupt GOP agenda. www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/p...

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/midterms-republican-losses-trump

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

of course the thing is though is that their power is not indefinite and self-sustaining. in fact, once Trump is gone one wonders how much being on a network optimized to favor his bannermen and their associates will pay out bsky.app/profile/marw...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s our pleasure! 🫶🏼❤️✊🏼 hang in there. The seas are choppy, but we are in it together.

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Yeah, but it didn’t (I assume). We can always make a mistake, but we can check to make sure you exist and are embodied. Being online sure seems to make us forget basic facts of our human existence.

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We watch each other and ourselves come into subjectivity. We know how humans do it, and it gives rise to consciousness that we experience ourselves. I see no reason to think that running computer programs should produce a similar subjectivity, regardless of what those programs do.

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Thank you for motivation and for all your activism and organizing for science.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/10/2026

When everything feels like a mess, I have a strong impulse to take action. But, without clarity, action can just make things worse. I know sometimes just doing something is the right answer. Today doing nothing feels like the right answer.

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Trump's continued attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social the Somali American community, & our Muslim neighbors are a heinous attempt to distract from his complete & utter failure as president. Every American should be chilled to the bone: these are the actions of a dictatorship not a democracy.

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home
 The search appears to be the type of action that law enforcement officials typically avoided so close to an election in the past.

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