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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

let me join in the chorus of praise for this excellent article. I would take a stronger stance against ai use for more senior researchers as well. they should be exemplars of good working practices. ai for me but not for thee is not sustainable imo

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

we made it gang. @bsky.app do not give in to the demands for an edit button!

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

does worry me that a bunch of senior scientists, in positions of power and with the ability to hire early career researchers, see to have bought the whole 'agentic ai' ruse. here's a worrying episode relayed by an astrophysicist who attended a meeting at the IAS youtu.be/PctlBxRh0p4?...

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We Need To Talk About AI...

YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

They should stop filming podcasts, the whole point is it's supposed to be an audio media, too many are unlistenable now because they have to describe what's going on for the audio listeners.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"inflation would not be visible on small scales, planet-sized for instance." only a cosmologist could say something like this

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

the people designing sauce bottles and the people designing fridges need to get together because i am tired of buying too tall bottles and relegating them to the bottom shelf with the milk and soft drinks

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iconic south London club Corsica Studios is set to close next year. Read: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-co...

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Exclusive: Corsica Studios is closing next year

Plus, Thames Waters’ wasted £500mn, arson attack on an asylum hotel and the return of one of Bermondsey’s best boozers, all in your Monday briefing

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

all i want is work that is intellectually stimulating, low intensity, and socially impactful while also being absurdly well remunerated. oh and i would like the unending praise and adulation of my peers too. is that so much to ask?

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

sad to report that the uk still lags the world in tap technology. why do i have independent hot and cold knobs on my bath and bathroom sink?!?

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television *so far*

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reaping what i sowed (told the waiter at the restaurant yes please make it spicy)

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

the funniest thing biden ever did was reply "the bbc? I'm Irish" when a bbc journalist was trying to ask him a question.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

it's a blessing really. in my corner of nothern spain very few speak any english outside of my institute - that has easily been the biggest motivator for me.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

take a look at this excellent chart by @dylandifford.bsky.social all the red squares represent people who voted for labour at the GE.

Flow of the vote from july 24 to july 25 in the UK for the national parliament.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

i agree with this in principle but having lived in spain for a couple years it shouldn't be understated how hard it is, especially if 1) your work is in english 2) your employer provides no assistance my spanish is around B1 level and that has taken a lot of time and ~1-2k euros in courses.

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Robert Garisto @robertgaristo.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

g-2 of the muon has been measured to 127 parts per billion, a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree. PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo

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Muon Experiment Calls It a Wrap

The final results from the Muon g − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

3 loops around the dog bed before lying down to sleep instead of 2

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

looking for a place to rent and came across this beauty. "Uniquely, the shower is built into the bedroom wall which maximises the space within the apartment allowing more space to relax or entertain." it's gonna have to be a no from me dawg

bedroom with a twin bed and an unusually placed shower. the shower doors are almost immediately to the left of the head of the bed.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

there was an interesting video done by tom nichols recently on the introduction of uber into a small english city, plymouth. worth a watch imo. youtu.be/kxnxhDDfLtc?...

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Ubernomics: Why Everything's a Monopoly Now

YouTube video by Tom Nicholas

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the... ah forget about it we're fucked

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

(spartacus meme) subway takes is fun and i enjoy watching it

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

if i ever see you reply to someone with ' you sir just won the internet today' just now i am judging you harshly

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 30/08/2025

i don't think it's happening yet, but no one in the press corpse having seen trump for two days and him not even playing golf this weekend is... a little exciting

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

and in the process you made a wider statement about political partys vs cults which i responded to with some added context from outside the us, no biggie.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

the political party v a cult line you used irked me tbh. by your logic most of the political partys in the world are cults, which isn't true.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

that is actually how political parties work in the rest of the world. the usa is very strange in not allowing parties to have more control over who gets to run under their banner in elections. this is true for the dems, reps, dsa, the green party, everyone. there's a great article on this.

This isn’t true in most countries. In the UK, for example, the national elected leadership of the Labour Party is perfectly capable of forbidding an individual from running for office as a Labour candidate; that’s what they did to Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Party didn’t have to go to Corbyn’s district and door-knock, or drop a million-dollar independent expenditure on him, to knock him off the Labour line; they simply voted him off, as they had a perfect right to do. In most countries the idea that the elected leadership of a party can decide who runs on that party’s line seems quite natural–what else could it mean to have a political party?

But in the US, parties just aren’t allowed to do that—not the Democratic Party and not the Socialism Party. The Democratic Party can’t stop AOC (or Joe Lieberman, or Kyrsten Sinema, or Ilhan Omar) from running as a Democrat.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

it's true that being a congressman means getting in front of the camera a lot but there's some, torres included, where it seems pathological

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

there'll be at least one future government minister in there so no big deal

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

thing is, if that pro-racism third are single issue voters and vote as a block while the more than half non-racists are split between several parties, the racists will choose a majority of our mps.

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Jorge Ginés 🎃👻🇪🇺 🌍🛰️ @lithospheric.jorgegines.com · 28/08/2025

Resident in the UK? Please help stop a neo-nazi music festival in Great Yarmouth.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Which comes closest to your view? A) i can have my cake and eat it B) foreign kids can claim a slice of OUR cake C) don't know

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

is there a word for someone who is opposed to parliamentary supremacy? because i might be becoming one.

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