i really think something has happened to the global supply of skilled tailors because there's no way you can find a photo of someone pre-1950 looking like this, even in a bar fight

arxiv.org/abs/2301.04280 After a long review process, we finally got our jet interaction paper accepted in MNRAS. We propose a new mechanism of non-thermal emission in the interaction of jets from supermassive binary black holes. Lead by @egutierrezposse .

I love the implication that no younger scientists will ever measure up to the greatness of the current ones. String theory, among other things, has an absolutely massive ego problem.

Stunning image reveals the intricate structure of the chaotic supersonic plasma that floats across our universe. newscientist.com/article/243…

Could we ever see a wormhole in space-time? If they are surrounded by matter like black holes are, they could create roiling fogs of plasma that we could observe newscientist.com/article/243…

What more do I need to say? Magnetized compressible turbulence with a fluctuation dynamo and Reynolds numbers over a million. arxiv.org/abs/2405.16626

With @egutierrezposse and @TheGeoffRyan we wrote a review on theoretical models of binary black hole accretion. It's pretty broad but we focused on simulations, and in particular magneto-hydrodynamical simulations. You can check it out here: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14843 !

Quiero ser claro y directo. El café y la soda, en materia de calidad, son dos desgracias nacionales en la Argentina. Lo peor del mundo en estas categorías. El café, torrado y quemado. La soda, en plástico, caliente y sin gas suficiente. Hay que declarar en emergencia al sector.

Some people are asking if I've had a falling out with @BretWeinstein No I follow Thomas Jefferson's advice: "Let friends be wrong" Of course, said friends don't think they're wrong, but that's another matter (how is truth determined, etc.?) In his convo with Joe Rogan, Bret floated (suggested, hypothesized, "just asking questions") that: 1. HIV may not be the prime cause of AIDS It is & Skeptic showed how the causal link is known: skeptic.com/reading_room/The… 2. mRNA manufacturers willing & knowingly sold dangerous & deadly vaccines to the public for profit & will continue to do so in the future on other mRNA platforms I asked for documentation; Bret says he has none 3. Kary Mullis's death was "mysterious" & possibly linked to Anthony Fauci I asked Kary's widow if she thought his death was in any way mysterious. She said no: 6-way heart bypass Pneumonia QED. These are simply factual errors that can be corrected by fact-checking A final note to Bret & his brother @ericweinstein : I love Joe Rogan and listen to his show regularly & have been on many times myself. And I love you guys too! But if you have serious challenges to mainstream scientific consensus opinions you need to present them in scientific/scholarly journals and/or professional meetings so they can be properly assessed among professionals. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best one we have. Podcasts are not peer review.

These clips of Tucker in Russia are so ridiculously risibly stupid that, given the fact that Tucker's not stupid, he knows perfectly well what he is saying is bullshit, so he has to be gaslighting us to increase his following by getting us all to RT clips. And...it's working!

Por estas cosas soy lalista crítico, lo único que no me gusta es toda su música

Literally 30 years ago, when I was just a kid taking an interest, I predicted this, not because I'm so smart, but because lots of others at the time were predicting something similar and I thought they made sense. Manufacturing is the kind of thing that a big autocratic nation can be good at, you mobilise huge amounts of labour, attract Western capital, and grow very rapidly by making things cheaply at huge volumes. But the biggest part of that cheapness is labour cost, and that never stays low once the economy develops. And so China would need to move to value added manufacturing (which they're doing but not at the required scale) and services. The thing with services and high tech is that they require the free flow of information to grow rapidly. The CCP hates free flowing information, so companies can never be certain of the data they're working with. I didn't believe then that an autocratic nation could run a modern technology and services economy to compete with the West, and I still don't now. THIS is where the old idea came from that the modernisation of China would one day lead to democracy. It's not that it would inevitably happen, it's that one day, China would be forced to choose between continued high growth at the cost of autocratic control, or autocratic control at the cost of high growth. They chose the later, so now here we are.

El #Tango es Nuestra Música Nacional y Popular!!!! @TintaRoja_tango @TangoPorteno 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Ayer fui a La Plata, hermosa ciudad pero no puede ser que manejen como en el Twisted Metal, solo falta que le agreguen misiles y ametralladoras a los autos

YouTuber Harry Brewis didn’t mean to make a four-hour opus about plagiarism amongst video creators. Hbomberguy on James Somerton, AI, and giving credit where credit is due. trib.al/KZ5vFLF

Andre Braugher 1962-2023 bit.ly/46U0dKI

Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973.

Excelente esto de @ertenembaum