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Lev S Bishop

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
do you have a moment to talk about the word of our lord and saviour? ↓
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 29/08/2026
In late 2010’s Los Angeles, a cop has mixed feelings toward a gang of terminally ill criminals.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 28/08/2026
@spacecowboy17.bsky.social will For You be affected by “hide my post from algorithmic recommendations” setting bsky.app/profile/bsky...
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: ABD Strangelove
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Amnesty's capitulation is unacceptable, because a human rights NGO is not simply a discount think tank (viz. a double discounted research university). It's part of its job description to specifically leverage its resources to stand its ground against actual and threatened SLAPPs from bad actors!
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 22/07/2026
But they were all of them deceived, for a fifth leche was made.
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APS journals @apsjournals.aps.org · 16/07/2026
A theoretical framework for belief propagation in tensor networks introduces an innovation called a cluster expansion based on statistical mechanics, allowing it to overcome longstanding limitations on accurate approximation. Read more in PRX Quantum: go.aps.org/4gvmeI6
A series of six diagrams that illustrates the contraction of a five-vertex tensor network, represented as the sum of the belief propagation vacuum and the generalized loop excitations. Each tensor network is denoted by a pattern of five connected blue circles (labelled T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5) connected by solid black lines or red lines. The figure portrays the sum of five of the network diagrams on the right, and the complete contraction on the left.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 26/06/2026
Bowerick Wowbagger behavior.
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American Physical Society @apsphysics.aps.org · 02/06/2026
We’re bringing all of our research updates together in one place. Follow @apsjournals.bsky.social for the full portfolio of research and publishing news.
Collage-style graphic featuring abstract physics-inspired visuals in shades of blue, purple, and teal arranged in angled rectangular panels. Designs include glowing particle trails, wave patterns, orbital paths, light streaks, and fractal-like energy forms. The white APS logo appears in the upper-right corner against a dark background.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 07/06/2026
Beware of first-hand ideas! First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy?
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 13/05/2026
Yes. Or even to get orgs to cross-post to bsky etc in addition (which my understanding is something that professional social media tools like hootsuite etc make easy anyway). Eg @apsphysics.bsky.social has an account but doesn't post here.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 22/04/2026
Presented for your consideration
Cat alignment chart. x-axis runs from meta to concrete. y-axis runs from loaf to noodle. Meta loaf: Charmmy Kitty, Abstract loaf: Hello Kitty, Concrete loaf: Maru; Meta neutral: Matilda the algonquin cat, Abstract neutral: Tardar Sauce aka Grumpy Cat, Concrete neutral: Socks Clinton; Meta noodle: Longcat, Abstract noodle: Snowball Simpson, Concrete noodle: Bob the Street Cat
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 22/04/2026
Presented for your consideration
Cat alignment chart. x-axis runs from meta to concrete. y-axis runs from loaf to noodle. Meta loaf: Charmmy Kitty, Abstract loaf: Hello Kitty, Concrete loaf: Maru; Meta neutral: Matilda the algonquin cat, Abstract neutral: Tardar Sauce aka Grumpy Cat, Concrete neutral: Socks Clinton; Meta noodle: Longcat, Abstract noodle: Snowball Simpson, Concrete noodle: Bob the Street Cat
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 03/04/2026
@paper-feed.bsky.social any chance you can treat scirate.com links as papers?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 10/02/2026
I have similar feelings about countries and Straussian noble lies.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 26/01/2026
One item of reverse culture shock for me returning to UK is @beijingpalmer.bsky.social observation on British meals. Today at the work cafe I went with the “lighter” option of lamb tagine wrap & soup, since usual fare is quite hearty typically with either a pound of mash or a full plate of chips.
Foreground: tasty looking lunch on a cafeteria tray: bowl of soup with fried onion topping; Lamb tagine wrap with baby croquette leaves and drowned with a large portion of chips. Middle distance: bridgewater canal, grassy fields and small residential hamlet. Far distance: Fiddlers Ferry power station cooling towers and chimney reaching into the clouds
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/01/2026
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/01/2026
this is one of the problems with scheming viziers running the show, trump says, clearly, that it's about the oil, and to him, it might be; for rubio, it's something different, for hegseth, it's yet again something different. the insanity comes from trying to reconcile three competing thoughts
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 28/12/2025
Aussie version where the options are “yeah, nah, yeah” “nah, yeah, nah” etc
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 24/12/2025
The OOTS bit about evil’s uppance coming “in the end” being a matter of narrative framing. www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0...
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763 Plotting Something - Giant in the Playground Games
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com
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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The point of accumulating political power ought to be to do what’s right. Otherwise you’re just hoarding power for its own sake. Stopping the government from sending innocent people to a foreign prison where they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured was the right thing to do.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 05/12/2025
This is why Costco is so great. You know it’s safe to buy if they are selling it then it’s at a sweet spot of quality and value-for-money that will work for everyone who isn’t already an enthusiast for that category (and you know if that applies to you). No need to overthink.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Keir Starmer 🤝 Chernobyl made possible by socialist incompetence promised power to millions radioactive legacy lingers for generations bad news for Ukraine Keir Starmer, however, was not uncannily predicted by Revelations
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/11/2025
We now go live to Isaac Chotiner as he reaches out to Elon Musk offering an interview to clear up this whole Joyce Carol Oates "doesn't read" thing.
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three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words " come on take the bait "
Alt: Three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words "Come on, take the bait "
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 03/11/2025
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
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60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 31/10/2025
They’re speedrunning me in the quote reposts. Some kid just rta’d 13 frames off the tas then dumped parmesan on his head.
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 20/09/2025
$hopping (1994) Natural born killers (1994) Suspiria (1977) Blade runner (1982)
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 12/09/2025
Now, in the broader context of my adolescent development within the socio-spatial milieu of West Philadelphia—an urban environment where my recreational energies were overwhelmingly invested in basketball, often proximate to my immediate educational facility, and where the quotidian rhythms of play
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the ability of mainline US punditocracy to combine amorality and self-importance is really quite something.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just an idea, but why not leave people alone and keep your busybody curtain-twitching bollocks to your own living room.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15/07/2025
the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/07/2025
Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms. Hope you find it interesting! www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
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Trump’s Trade Threats: Why Isn't This Working? | ExplainTrade
KAMEHAME… huh?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
the U.S. political press is incapable of dealing with this moment with any seriousness.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
if you're a reporter and you've convinced yourself that your job is to make the audience mad at you, you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness maybe 1 percent of the time and a smug twat serving up reheated bilge the other 99 percent.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Lee: Yo! over here! Shiveley: don't Shiveley: don't call the v o i d over here Lee: yo the bro is HOT Lee: hey v o i d you come here often V O I D: [screaming eldritch gibberish] Lee: [blood streaming from eyes & ears] cool cool cool Lee: so what's your pronouns
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I told you we’d be back
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 05/06/2025
Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.
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Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
The sudden withdrawal of big corporate sponsors from Pride events is an opportunity, not a crisis.
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Emily Pritchett @emilypritchett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A bivariate bicycle path arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094
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Tour de gross: A modular quantum computer based on bivariate bicycle codes
We present the bicycle architecture, a modular quantum computing framework based on high-rate, low-overhead quantum LDPC codes identified in prior work. For two specific bivariate bicycle codes with d...
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Lev S Bishop @levbishop.com · 04/06/2025
New-ish paper: Optimal and efficient two-qubit gate synthesis for heterogeneous instruction sets. arxiv.org/abs/2505.00543 (Sorry, forgot to hype this earlier) The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).
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Two-Qubit Gate Synthesis via Linear Programming for Heterogeneous Instruction Sets
We present GULPS (Global Unitary Linear Programming Synthesis), a segmented Cartan trajectory method that compiles arbitrary two-qubit unitaries into native gate sets by decomposing the synthesis prob...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Really, like… the concept of expertise is lib coded at this point. The 2025 American conservative view of knowledge appears to be that there are instinctual polymath common sense All Things Knowers and egghead specialists who pretend to know things but can easily be surpassed by Donald, Elon, etc.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
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