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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is cruel and hostile to TSA officers, which is why I support it.

Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I agree with the bottom line here (“vaping is bad for children and governments should do more to regulate it”) but I don’t buy the implied argument that the vaping is the cause of the mental issues as opposed to the other way around.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tbh, I’m baffled by people who don’t do cursory Wikipedia searches for organizations like this. None of the three societies in the first paragraph have a Wikipedia article.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

After I defended, my advisor’s toast mentioned the sheer amount of literature I’m able to stay atop of. The secret is just RSS feeds. They’re great and I’m trying to involve them more in my news habits too.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m wearing a black turtleneck today and it’s gotten me thinking a lot about Elizabeth Holmes (SFW). I think it’s important to distinguish “this isn’t possible yet” from “this isn’t possible” and I, perhaps naïvely, believe the former.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know that for Python programming everyone loves UV now, but as a scientific programmer I find it sort of annoying how many people hate on miniconda/micromamba. You only think UV is a competitor because you haven’t used all the conda features (i.e. non-Python dependencies)

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To stop the scourge of homecoming vandalism, police will now implement toilet paper buyback programs

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Damn, now I have to compete against this guy for a postdoc position?? Leave me alone, RFK Jr!

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s very funny to me that we’re doing horseshoe theory about “effective altruism”

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think there’s a great amount of regulation-addressable space between “the self-aware computer systems will kill us all” and the current situation with AI, which I view as akin to someone testing bombs in their cul-de-sac or throwing toxic waste in the river.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Other delusions notwithstanding, big second-year grad student energy here: "I had five reactions that worked this week! At this rate I'll have enough for a paper by the end of the month and be able to defend in a year, year and a half tops."

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a former researcher on automated reasoning systems and NLP machine learning algorithms, I am very grateful to the Bsky community for clarifying my various misunderstandings about reasoning and the capabilities of NLP machine learning algorithms.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In other hot takes: I have no opinion about the “true” result of the Michigan-Michigan State game and think this is a great example of the power behind survey-based rankings in sports.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I consider myself a rather strong anti-AI person but some people on here sound absolutely clueless about the capabilities (positive and negative) yet have very confident opinions.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Richard Ebright is hiring a postdoc in case anybody feels like they’re surrounded by too many sane people in their academic work

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow the internet still loves that Harvard Dialect survey from 25+ years ago

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“No graduate students were authorized to speak to journalists, but C&EN saw that chemists were back to work in the building on Aug. 31.” I have to assume that we’d know a lot more about this incident if it happened at a public university.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is all self-sustaining nonsense and it’s exhausting. Hasan has campaigned with Democrats, so when he says something controversial they post tweets saying “we don’t agree with this guy” and then everyone keeps the issue alive by complaining about it

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nature Comms has fixed this now and I fully endorse the idea. The papers are comfortably readable and that’s all I cared about.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Many, many people on the left fall for the illusion that the GOP is filled with legislative geniuses who would be doing something differently if the roles were reversed. That’s not true! They just have Fox News!

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Part of my contrarianism about “data centers” is that the arguments against them sound extremely similar to the ones I keep hearing about solar on farmland from people in my hometown

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

FWIW, the old ACS logo is still slated for use in awards and “ceremonial” roles and I can’t imagine anything more ceremonially important than Prof. Molenium’s lab coat

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

FYI: while Beshear and (bizarrely) Democratic voters keep talking about replacing Mitch McConnell, his absence is already helping Democrats. There’s no rush!

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ve got some controversial thoughts here. I don’t know if it’s any less harmful for a rare book to sit in someone’s storage room for decades than for it to be destroyed for AI training.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

can I say something without people getting mad

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You would imagine that this would increase the media’s negative coverage of Trump, but the most likely scenario is that we get an interview where a journalist earnestly asks “are you concerned about the safety of your pool” and he’ll say “no, I don’t care about you” and his approval will jump 10 pts

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’m becoming more accepting of data centers as the reasons for opposing them become more and more nebulous. “Data centers are bad because they use too much electricity, which is why everyone should switch to running their own servers for AI”

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Mitch McConnell situation is the ultimate litmus test for determining if someone cares about governance or just vibes. McConnell being dead weight in the Senate is basically the best case scenario! Why would Beshear want to call an election to replace him?

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

They should have included the LeVar Burton full frontal and BlueSky would’ve added a zero to these numbers

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have a “friend who is too woke” take about this but it’s not important because the rest of the paper is so overwhelmingly obviously created by AI. Also there are a handful of “red flag” fields that I basically assume to be junk science if the results are not published in a notable journal.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is actually very upsetting to me because how does this animation fit with the declared meaning of the logo? The “overlapping rings” is not part of the logo! The logo is supposed to include 4 “atoms” connected by the arcs.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This Wolf Alice cover of the Roches’ “Hammond Song” is exceptional. open.spotify.com/track/2aR3Hs...

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Wolf Alice · The Clearing (B Sides) · Song · 2026

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

They’re calling this the Most Bluesky Discourse of all time

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s baffling to me that non-Republicans want Mitch McConnell to be replaced. He’s hoarding a seat and not voting, so the best case scenario is that he does this for as long as possible.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Maybe someday ChemDraw will have an AI “Generate” feature which lets you generate a structure that you can spend your PhD trying to synthesize.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Adobe Illustrator has some of the most egregiously annoying AI features in the 2026 edition and I might roll it back to an older version. If you crop an image but extend your crop further than the original, it automatically switches to “Generate” mode. That’s the opposite!

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s gotta be relatively simple to vibe code something like ChemDraw with AI, right? It’s a bunch of lines with a sample library and pre-set constraints.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

BCCE’s in town but there’s no Al D. Hyde and the Keytones? What a waste.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Let me tell you, this match does *not* help soccer’s reputation in the U.S.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oh now they’re using the kids because we can’t talk shit

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is like when you do a group project but your group doesn’t actually get together to meet until the day before the deadline

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This might be the most shameless attempt I’ve ever seen to please as many people as possible

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It smells like every person on this bus has extreme body odor. Yet another item added to my list of reasons to not work on weekends.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There are several variables in play*, but I got a cat (that I’m allergic to) and have been feeding him the Purina allergen-reducing food and after 3 weeks I don’t really notice any extra allergy issues. (I’m taking ~2 Claritin or Allegra per day and it’s possible my body has just accepted its fate)

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I keep getting emails “from” Chris Pappas telling me about John Sununu and I need New Hampshire to keep their Dr Seuss politics to themselves

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Am I missing some reason that X-rays would be uniquely impressive in space? I can’t understand why this is an achievement for anybody other than the x-ray machine maker

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think we should just be irradiating all of our food with gamma rays (I’m not joking)

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think the Daylight Saving Time issue is very silly because it already works very well. Maybe we can go back to the pre-2007 schedule but I can’t be convinced that the twice yearly clock change is that big of a deal.

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is wild but the responses to the person being injured are even more wild

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Brandon Hacha @brandonhacha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s really funny to me that they included the newspaper but tried to make it look casual enough and not like an obvious proof-of-life thing (that’s today’s WaPo)

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