Particle Man

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I run a particle accelerator. Sometimes I also do websites. Still watching out for Triangle Man.

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If your idea of activism is hounding people off a marginal platform for the crime of being employed by the New York Times, you have become both hilariously detatched from reality and a serious liability to whatever cause you delude yourself you’re serving.

When stupid takes show up in my bsky feed, I must martial all of my willpower to keep from replying because I know it's just not going to go well.

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IDF rescues four Gaza hostageswww.jpost.com The hostages were rescued by Shin Bet and Yamam fighters from two different locations in an operation in the heart of Nuseirat.

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In Dec. 2023 Tesla CEO Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to divert a shipment of 12,000 of their very much in-demand AI chips which had reserved for the EV maker over to X Corp. and xAI first, leaving Tesla to get a shipment of chips months later. My latest @cnbc www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/e...

Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAIwww.cnbc.com Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwz4...

Cop Rock - He's Guilty [High Quality]www.youtube.com From Episode 1 of Cop Rock

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I am aware, of course, that for many this will be a matter of plain disguised prejudice, but those people aside, are folks really thinking that the only Israeli nation that is allowed to participate in the world is one that excludes anyone who didn't avoid the draft?

Israeli comics creator is "permanently banned" by VanCaf.

Graphic artist Miriam Libicki has been banned by Vancouver Comics Arts Festival due to her past service in the IDFthecjn.ca The Vancouver Comics Arts Festival has permanently banned artist Miriam Libicki from appearing in the event because of, in the words of the festival’s

I spent three months flipping burgers at a third-class, fast food joint when I was 18 years old. What it taught me was how far basic things like showing up on time, doing what you're told and paying attention will get you and just how many people don't have those things in their toolkit.

People that post this shit should absolutely have to work food service. It's one of the few jobs where your past doesn't matter (I got a dishwasher job after my drug arrest, no one else would hire me) and you learn to be part of a team navigating chaos. Also. 'Empathy or whatever'? Ew.

As the great Ralph Kiner once said: "It's Mother's Day, so to all you mothers out there...Happy Birthday!"

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🌼 #HappyMothersDay 🏺🧪

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This. And 1,001 people who will otherwise agree that *anyone* can be racist or do racist things, even good people, will insist that actually it's impossible for anything these folks do or say or want to be antisemitic

Let me tell you something: if you're demanding that Hillel be fully removed from UC Santa Cruz, you're an antisemite. Hillel is a cultural lifeline for Jewish students. If you want it gone - that means you want Jews gone. There's no negotiating on the antisemitic nature of this demand.

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one thing that's really noticeable is that the old Onion directly parodied *the style of newspapers* whereas the recent stuff is written by people who might have read other Onion articles, but don't seem to have ever read the thing the Onion was parodying.

This place was fun for a while, but now it's just getting aggressively stupider every passing day.

www.i24news.tv/en/news/isra...

Exclusive: U.S. pier attacked during construction work off Gaza coast - I24NEWSwww.i24news.tv On Wednesday, terrorists launched mortars at the maritime construction site, damaging several pieces of engineering equipment

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I love everything about this photo of Joey Ramone c. 1985, from the correctly punctuated hand-lettered sign with equalized pricing for the three genders, to the photo of Aretha Franklin on the cover of Long Island Pulse Magazine and Grace Jones in the ad on the back.

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You want to protest Israel’s war on Gaza? Protest outside the embassy, or the consulates, or even AIPAC. Leave Jewish American organizations alone. Bc what this👇says is that all Jews are guilty of Israel’s behavior bc they are Jews. It’s like those idiots who harassed Muslim Americans after 9/11.

👇🎯 So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are

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You might have heard of the Negro Motorist Green Book, the guide for African Americans vacationing in the USA, showing them places where they would be safe. Well, Jews in the USA needed similar information, and shared it in guides like this. We used to know that we shared the same struggle.

Not enough of this in the world.

I begrudgingly must admit that you make excellent points here. However, I have a visceral response to this suppression of information and find it difficult to see as anything but a power flex against one of the few ways to keep tech in check. I'm going to grumpily go away for a while and see if I

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I wrote an obituary for OJ Simpson. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com The 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex and her friend Ron Goldman are inextricable from society’s failure of domestic abuse victims

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Again and again, the city’s watchdog agency files 311 reports itself, watches NYPD disregard the offenses, conducts damning interviews with the officers involved about their corrupt practices, sometimes eliciting admissions of felonies… and then nothing happens. www.nyc.gov/assets/doi/p...

"For instance, the DOI caught multiple police officers falsifying reports to close out valid 311 complaints that they never even responded to. This is a flat out felony — and, more broadly, should be a red flag that other police duties might be getting neglected and other statements falsified."

Op-Ed: Police Placard Corruption Report Was Weak, Disappointing ... and Completely Expected - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org The Department of Investigations clearly had ample evidence of crimes and serious violations, yet its report lets everyone off the hook.

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Why I Resigned From the DC Abortion Fundwww.tabletmag.com The landscape of organizations ostensibly working to advance sexual and reproductive health has become mired in antisemitism

Earthquake just dumped the beam on me. That may be a first for us. #NukeSky

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"Even home showings have become a politically sensitive issue. He recalled showing an elderly woman one property where there were Confederate flags at the gate and swastikas on the fish tank."

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.www.nbcnews.com Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.

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An Israeli woman taken hostage during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack told The New York Times she was sexually assaulted and tortured in Gaza, describing extensive details of her 55 days in captivity.

Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gazawww.nytimes.com Amit Soussana is the first former hostage to publicly say she was sexually abused in captivity. A U.N. report has said it found “clear and convincing information” that some hostages suffered “conflict-related sexual violence.”

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I have a piece in The Atlantic this morning. It's about the frustration of learning that a court has cited your work, but for very bad reasons. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I’m Begging the Courts to Stop Citing My Workwww.theatlantic.com A court finally took notice of my reporting—but for all the wrong reasons.

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new cartoon: elon & the daleks www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Cartoon: Elon and the Dalekswww.dailykos.com To paraphrase the famous viral tweet, Elon creates the Daleks from the famous British tv series, Don’t Create the Daleks.� As always: if � you find value in this work I do, please consider ...

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this is the most joe biden paragraph ever written.

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Link to the Internet Archive backup of an essay from Israel by translator Joanna Chen published, then retracted by Guernica Magazine after protests and resignations:

From the Edges of a Broken Worldweb.archive.org In Israel, a translator tries to tread the line of empathy.

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Repost from Mastodon, original source uncredited (alas, because it's brilliant)