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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did you know: A fault tolerant quantum computer would be able to perfectly simulate a smaller quantum computer!

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Overheard in sf: “I love doughnuts, actually, I’ve realized”. Bold take but someone had to say it!

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just got a text from my mom starting with "I just resent you" and took me until the second half of the sentence to understand she had sent something again

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I understand that humans thinking about math is Luddite behavior and humans making art is Luddite behavior and so on. But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing instead. What's the non-Luddite behavior for those of us who aren't wealthy investors?

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"It is surely surprising to modern relativists that Einstein would forgo the geometric picture that now proves so fertile. [He] was dismissive and even scornful of the now familiar idea that general relativity had “geometrized” gravity." Seems really cool! storage.googleapis.com/jnl-lse-j-pp...

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wait what? (see footnote 1) "Apparently we only know for sure right now that the gauge group is a quotient group of SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) by a subgroup of Z6??" www.math.purdue.edu/~colleend/le...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And this is why when I was asked in 2024 to offer people a checklist for determining the authenticity of an image, I refused, citing that call to awareness as itself dangerous, and destructive of trust. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Our present situation demands a similar process for digital images—known as digital forensics—but the public at large cannot be responsible for this process. At some point, every person needs to accept that they cannot claim impartiality or universal expertise: I cannot tell if a bridge is safe to drive over or determine whether my lettuce contains E. coli. So I value agencies and organizations that employ experts who can. The same goes for the sources of information I consume, including those that provide images illustrating current events, who should be responsible for doing the provenance research outlined here. That’s as far as my own provenance research can go.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure this is intended to be shady, but lol "We most certainly did not say there was a plan — secret or otherwise — to classify the math underlying AI. Nor would it be possible to do so, since the core math of AI, linear algebra, is taught in high schools."

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I also choose my research problems based on viral Twitter rumors, on account of my deep respect for whatever

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Relatedly, while I’m now enjoying this conference, I’ve been depressed by the rosy glasses through which everyone seems to be looking at AI. Way too burnt out to make it a thing though.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder that whatever happens, fluids in the real world are made up of atoms

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Insurmountable cultural difference between people who think physics should be useful and people who think it should be beautiful

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1... "The participants share some distinctive characteristics. They are all busy scheduled, and either have a background in technology or have affinity with technology. Besides this, they are Dutch."

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/09/2026

fucked up that nigel farage is a brexiteer and pro-crypto. makes it hard to criticize him, what with him being eurodivergent and a miner

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello #philsky / #philsci friends, I was wondering if you have suggestions of short very introductory texts on #STS for scientists/engineers! Thank you :)

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Paul C. @clrksn.com · 20/01/2025

Feeling this today.

I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

BY DANEZ SMITH

O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& it’s so sad, you know? You’re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that can’t shine.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

And for a quick hit here’s one from my personal library of obscurely comforting TikToks.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Actually I was just spiraling because of oxygen deprivation, I forgot that I actually am decent at talking to strangers

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The thing I always forget about conferences is that I hate conferences

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telsie 🦬 @telsie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is so sad. The slow motion--and probably irreversible--destruction of the American educational system is a tragedy. I hope someday someone builds a better one from the ashes.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thinking about photons (and other imaginary entities) today

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wait he *actually says* “our age is bronze is collapsing”?? I thought that was a joke people were making about general heavy-handedness.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe humanities courses can start extending the olive branch by also offering courses on money and bitcoin. "Semantics and Pragmatics of Bitcoin Discourse: a Feminist Analysis", "Marxist and Post-Marxist Readings of Cryptocurrency Adoption by Minoritized Communities", that sort of thing.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just heard the expression "back to back to back" used to refer to three consecutive years, which is kind of neat in that it's obvious what it means but also makes no sense.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"It's the ability to know everything, past, present, and future," Burciaga said. "We're all Christians, so we are careful, but somebody could refer to this as God-mode."

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally got around to taking a quick look at this, and now very excited to spend more time reading carefully. I haven't engaged with the technical aspects yet, but the conceptual motivation/philosophical discussion is really compelling. Might end up thinking there are viable alternatives to Everett!

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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Powerful piece. “Here is a thing about being good at thinking. Being good at thinking involves the ability not only to recognize your own stupidity but the ability to be patient with it, to stay the course and thereby navigate yourself out of the nomansland of confusion.“

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

was going to have a take about the "which books count" discourse but I'm actually gonna keep that to myself

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A friend of mine is a graphic designer at the company that redesigned the ACS logo, and apparently chemists are not happy lol

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Another day on bluesky, the website where we fail to distinguish “is” from “ought”

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Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd · 15/08/2026

My hot take and hill I am willing to die on (re: Pangram and other AI detectors): Inappropriate AI use is not a tech problem, it's a people problem. The solution isn't technology. The solution is people and participatory change. www.globalleadersinstitute.org/blog-post/fi...

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Obviously true, but also "emotionally overwrought gossipy lightweight" is perfection

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I believe he is confusing contemporary New York City with San Francisco c. 1986 as depicted in the documentary "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"

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Intrusive Thot @apricity.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

“Woke” is a term Black people use to convey awareness of structural racism and the ways we‘re trained to reify it. Reactionaries turned it into a media boogeyman and when you use it uncritically you reinforce the framing that racism is a rhetorical status game or “gotcha”.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They tell you not to look during the eclipse because they want to keep it secret but I looked yesterday and the moon was pulling this exact face

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How do we come to know the hypercomplex object that is the brain? I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta about the history and philosophy of its simplification, its analogy with computers, & the case for theoretical humility in how we study it. Links: linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very informative answer to my question about how to understand/reconcile the claims made in both directions about alphafold!

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Returning to my roots today (writing inefficient tools for tiny bosonic algebra calculations)

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Again mystified by why people think it's acceptable to send AI note takers to zoom meetings they don't even bother to attend.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Huge breakthrough tonight on my long-term program of finding the least efficient possible way of putting on a duvet cover

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