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Dallas Trinkle

@dallastrinkle.bsky.social
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Prof. of Materials Science & Eng. at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I use computers to model material defects & how they affect properties. Cyclist + dad 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really great piece on AI and how we talk and think about it
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting piece
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Believing in thinking machines, and the severe risk therefrom, does not require believing in magic.
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Believing in thinking machines, and the severe risk therefrom, does not require believing in magic. - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Round my neck of the woods, we are usually quite committed to materialist explanations for all of human cognition, up to and including consciousness.  I share the commitment.  This is quite the opposite of believing in magic.  If you believe that cognitive phenomena are fully explicable, in principle, from material causes, then you have to […]
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 03/09/2026
@adambonica.bsky.social spent a year on a major investigation into the predatory fundraising techniques used by many Democratic orgs that wind up harming elderly Americans. But two prominent outlets reneged on plans to publish it. We dive deep into this important report on this week's podcast -->
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How Democratic 'spam PACs' victimize vulnerable seniors
Listen now | Adam Bonica explains the harm to the elderly—and the Democratic Party
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 03/09/2026
If you haven't read it yet, here is Adam's report. It's a very frustrating and even upsetting read, but that's precisely why it's worth your time.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 03/09/2026
Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
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Elon Musk’s Midterms Play: Ken Paxton, Susan Collins, Socialist Scaremongering
Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@acinonnap.bsky.social does crosswordfiend not ban commenters? I’m not sure what the policies are…
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@evanbirnholz.bsky.social just did your 2025 Fireball Cuckoo Crossword puzzle; what a fun one!
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 25/08/2026
I am always deeply fascinated when someone uses their institutional title, such as "Faculty Senior Tutor", on a letter which is (in British English) mildly controversial. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social senior admin probably have some head scratching to do with this... bsky.app/profile/elmc...
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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
last universal common ancestor (LUCA) If bacteria and archaea originated separately what does LUCA mean, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent
Enzymatic metabolism emerged from metal-catalyzed, aqueous reactions of H2, CO2, NH3 and phosphite at a hydrothermal vent.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026
Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Credit where due, this is good.
CBS graphic says no evidence linking vaccines and autism risk
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 10/08/2026
If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of our future innovation capacity, prosperity, and national security crumbling. Shattering our university research system and international student pipeline will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans. From the American Institute of Physics—>
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Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate
The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Got our squonk keychain from @maximumfun.org We regaled the family with the sad tale of the squonk @hodgman.bsky.social
Keychain of a squonk saying “won’t you please give this squonk a home?”
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? Chopsticks from a Chinese place that’s since gone out of business
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This seems bad
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interesting data looking at obesity and mortality rates
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General Counsel @ BYD of Ul Qoma @newstraveler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
inverse.com
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The difference between Andy Rooney and whatever Ross Douthat is going to be doing on '60 Minutes' is that Andy Rooney saw the bodies at Normady and the horror of the concentration camps, because he was a honest to god war correspondent before he became 'Andy Rooney' -- www.salon.com/2011/09/28/i...
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In defense of Andy Rooney - Salon.com
Yes, he's grumpy, often way off-base and very easy to parody. But Andy Rooney's also a terrific American writer
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o... new from Chrystia Freeland. Reminds me why I wanted her to replace Trudeau as PM, but maybe it's even better for her to be free to speak her mind like this.
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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Orwell is cited a lot these days, and yes "we have always been at war with Eastasia" applies here. But the most Orwellian thing about all this is doublethink. You are required to believe the US and Iran have been at war for 47 years AND that the US and Iran have been at war for only a few months.
Hegseth to Van Hollen: "I would take issue with your characterization that we started this war. Iran started this war 47 year ago."

With a highlight on the last sentence.

Original: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mr6pehkfss2cTrump "Truth Social" post, July 21, 2026:
Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD.
Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD.
Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD.
Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD.
Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD.
Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD.

With a highlight on the last line.

Original: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116959705309751797
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@matty.wtf we used to be a proper country theonion.com/study-finds-...
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Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls
ITHACA, NY—Concluding that Americans were being forced to endure huge stretches of the year without any obvious social pretext for serving warm bread, a new study published Monday by researchers at Co...
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
it's a core tenet of zionism that expressions of Palestinian identity compromise Jewish identity. The claim is always that if Palestinians exist, Jews don't. that goes very bad places very quickly. therevealer.org/palestinians...
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Skeptic's Corner: Palestinians and Zionist Identity — The Revealer
While Zionist claims to nationhood are often structured around the delegitimization of Palestinians, pro-Palestinian solidarity has become central to the Jewish identity of many on the left
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My dad recently said, about something else, "You can't expect a pirate to plant," and I seethed with rage that he did not drop this insanely useful metaphor ten years ago.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So there’s a famously pugilistic poster on here (who has me blocked) who said, essentially, that character doesn’t matter when choosing to vote. Only policy. And I think that is just fundamentally backwards and, ultimately, the reason why the online left keeps falling for lying grifters. (Thread)
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/07/2026
“A society that is threatened by children playing is a worthless society. A philosophy that can be threatened by children playing has no value to a free people.” www.liberalcurrents.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Such Thing as Society
Today it is not revolutionary communists but so-called conservatives who wish to trample on human individuality in service of dreams of a remade society.
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Dallas Trinkle @dallastrinkle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is art
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Andrew Burns @mrburnsns.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Kids in the Hall might have accidentally recorded the America 250 message we actually needed to hear back in 1990.
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Kids In The Hall - That's America
YouTube video by FBIVideo1
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Bunnies 🐰
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J.D. Amato @jd-amato.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
RELEASE DAY IS HERE! Spread the word! Buy it at your local book store! Leave reviews online! Couldn’t be prouder of getting to work alongside Sophie, Sara, and everyone who helped bring this book to life! If you do snag a copy, please tag us! It’s very fun to see!
JD Amato standing inside of a bookstore, holding a physical copy of The Endless GameCopies of The Endless Game on a bookstore shelf, surrounded by other young adult graphic novels. Taped underneath The Endless Game is a handwritten sign that reads 'Signed Copies'.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.
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The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/06/2026
I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It begins with a classic Trump-style category error… that the pool's intended architectural purpose—as a "water mirror" that reflects its surroundings and the sky above…runs counter to Donald Trump's personal understanding of what a pool is, which is "thing filled with swimming pool-colored water."
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Federal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
one thing that has been super depressing for me over the last few years is really internalizing how many people are completely stupid hogs who will believe literally anything if an attractive person says it in a front facing video
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15/06/2026
I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO
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The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster
Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.
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The Deceitful Grin of Civility @andrewfleer.com · 16/06/2026
Damn it, Ollie
Cheese, celery, peas, tuna, cream of mushroom, egg noodles, onion, parsley, butter, Gatorade
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Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hello everyone! After much debate regarding the term “celebrity,” I was invited to appear on an episode of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune! Competing for @trevorproject.bsky.social. Watch me June 12 on Disney+ or Hulu!
Scott Aukerman & Vanna White
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