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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd happily have lunch with a green anarchist or a radical feminist or a centrist technocrat or anyone who has a decent view of humanity but different visions, life experiences, or practical politics. Those aren't the views I'm expected to engage with to 'heal partisanship.' It's always the bigots.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We have some very easy cases here that sidestep all the murky "rogue AI!" BS. The military bombed an Iranian school using targets selected by AI. Is the the AI's fault? Obviously not! Everyone involved in selecting that method for targeting committed war crimes.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If these are dangerous tools you get to face the consequences for using them! Oh, it just hacked into the local power grid. Great! Who hacked it? You did. Invent some monstrous system by hooking up your agents to every possible system in the world? Why did you do that, you fucking idiot

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These preliminary discoveries do happen across particle physics, and sometimes they don't pan out. Maybe someone will find a subtle error that evaded the authors. But there are independent experiments that could confirm the result, or eventually rule it out. So now it's just a waiting game!

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The graph that made me gasp a little. See that lonely point off to the right? That's the one! (The one to the left is a boring predicted sort of outlier)

A graph whose two axes are different timings that can distinguish types of events detected during the experiment. Out of a huge mass of points clumped together, there's a single point to the right, far below the clump

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Preliminary but potentially huge result. One (1) potential dark matter particle apparently detected at the world's largest detector. Not in the most popular energy range for theorists but as you'd expect there are alternative theories that work fine! www.science.org/content/arti...

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World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wait, the solution is to let manufacturers replace an annoying beep with an even more annoying ditty? There are two real solutions: allow the consumer to halt all noises, or keep the audio chip on a place where I can use a soldering iron

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I had no idea on most of those! Would you be willing to pick one and give a brief explanation?

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 08/07/2026

This one's all for @staybunn.bsky.social Not going near the Chandrasekhar blend again though. Made my whole face pucker. half the town too.

A picture of a pack of 126% cocoa Lindt Excellents chocolate, the Roche Limit Edition. On the cover is a large piece of Lindt chocolate breaking up under gravity or something. Also with magnetar lines behind it because none of it makes sense it may as well look cool.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The Flyer. 1/4

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Looks like several fires, from Colorado but also Beehive and Sacaton and even ones in AZ. Just lots of fires everywhere. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo...

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HRRR-Smoke Loop

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

FINALLY sat down to read this and it is so moving. Please, if you haven’t yet, take the time.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It sounded familiar but I definitely didn't remember hearing him speak. Looking at the schedule, it's because I noped out hard on that afternoon, probably in part because of Greenspan.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The point is right but "just in CA" refers to all American production and 80% of the entire world's almonds. Alfalfa is the real low value crop that uses near half the ag water.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In the past I never had much idea until the first unprocessed ballot report (which gets you almost the whole way there). Not up yet, usually 2+ days after the election? Some counties do report this data earlier so you get a sense. dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-...

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In California, you can register to vote and immediately vote, right up to election day (today)! Look here to see which nearby voting center offers same-day registration. Everyone else: drop your ballots in an official box so they're counted in time. caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Here's Political Tracker's own comparison to this point in 2022, when over 7 million voted. And strategic voting while waiting on polls may have pushed the vote late (it did for me). I'm not concerned about turnout.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This isn't really a consumer demand problem, so there's not a ton one can do as a shopper to help, BUT, maybe keep this in mind next time you're poking around for a new book. Ask for something queer or from one of the other communities being targeted.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Not to mention state and local income, sales, and property taxes, which are regressive in most states and a significant portion of total tax burden.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency'

Seattle is one of the many places that transgender Texans are resettling after fleeing their home state.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I once optimized a Python boggle solver, and one piece was constructing a sicko structure like this to fit in L2 cache. But that was the exception — mostly it was just algorithms. A factor of 3 here, 10 there, and eventually I could Monte Carlo the billions of boards I needed to improve my game.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Imagine getting this far without someone saying ... something to you. Affect of speech of course leads naturally to a better civil society. Douglas was civil too. Lots of people were civil. And thankfully the war was too.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

1. "Which of these candidates do you prefer?" (I answer, with low confidence if it's early in the election cycle 2. [Disparaging facts about candidate X] 3. Knowing what you do now, which candidate do you prefer? (always: whatever I answered for 1)

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In Soviet Russia, the jock straps you

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Top three names out of ~50 candidates for CA governor: 3. Thunder Parley 2. LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott 1. Barack D. Obama Shaw

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Prop 14 was introduced by Republican Abel Maldonado solely as an attempt to keep his state Senate seat. It passed because voters liked the incoherent "fair elections" sound of it, and now we're stuck with it. Shutting out candidates wasn't even part of the conversation.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Fantastic and to me somewhat counterintuitive, but really illuminating discussion. I love that the retake option let you distinguish between lower stakes & possibly increased preparation.

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Dan Phillips @dphillips00.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Though it's not from a camp per se, this is a "real" wrestling match, Haruka (age 9) vs. Kenny Omega. Amazing.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.

A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.

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