Jared 🔶
@quantumjared.bsky.social
UK physicist 👨🏻🔬 with a US partner, rock climber 🧗🏻♂️, social liberal 🧡, LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, YIMBY 🚆🏠 (he/him).
I regret to inform you we are going to win.
PS: genocide apologia, transphobia, spam, & dickheadery will all get you blocked
I regret to inform you we are going to win.
PS: genocide apologia, transphobia, spam, & dickheadery will all get you blocked
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I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
September 30, 2026 at 11:24 AM
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
It is surely your incumbent duty to write a script to ask this a bunch of randomly-generated questions and cost them $1,000,000,000 in AI credits
September 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It is surely your incumbent duty to write a script to ask this a bunch of randomly-generated questions and cost them $1,000,000,000 in AI credits
My Irish-passport girlfriend living in France, watching as I navigate a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, literal scams, confusing forms, documentation requirements, and surrendering my passport for a month, just to get a work visa and join her:
September 25, 2026 at 1:09 PM
My Irish-passport girlfriend living in France, watching as I navigate a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, literal scams, confusing forms, documentation requirements, and surrendering my passport for a month, just to get a work visa and join her:
How’s that for “effective altruism”?
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people.
londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
londondaily.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:04 PM
How’s that for “effective altruism”?
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- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s.
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
September 24, 2026 at 11:18 AM
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s.
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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It would be so cool if the liberal state would, like, just once use an ounce of the violence they police the left with to police the right
September 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It would be so cool if the liberal state would, like, just once use an ounce of the violence they police the left with to police the right
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The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is).
It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
September 20, 2026 at 1:50 AM
The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is).
It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
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going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces
September 20, 2026 at 12:22 AM
going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces
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the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
September 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
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Website when James Talarico grits his teeth for an uncomfortable white lie: GENOCIDAL MONSTER WE KNEW ALL ALONG BASICALLY A GOP NAZI TRUMP FASCIST
Website when Tucker Carlson tries to sink a Muslim’s campaign by Shanghaiing him into alliance against The Eternal Jew: omg friend??? ally??? hero?????
Website when Tucker Carlson tries to sink a Muslim’s campaign by Shanghaiing him into alliance against The Eternal Jew: omg friend??? ally??? hero?????
It’s been something like four years now of Tucker saying shit directly out of Mein Kampf because Trump still isn’t enough of an old-style Nazi for him, and progs keep going “waow popular front he could be such a good working people’s ally in the coalition against the genocidal Zionists”
September 14, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Website when James Talarico grits his teeth for an uncomfortable white lie: GENOCIDAL MONSTER WE KNEW ALL ALONG BASICALLY A GOP NAZI TRUMP FASCIST
Website when Tucker Carlson tries to sink a Muslim’s campaign by Shanghaiing him into alliance against The Eternal Jew: omg friend??? ally??? hero?????
Website when Tucker Carlson tries to sink a Muslim’s campaign by Shanghaiing him into alliance against The Eternal Jew: omg friend??? ally??? hero?????
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btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Speech
www.huffpost.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Millions dying because USAID was wiped out isn't enough. Secret police in masks kidnapping people to take them to concentration camps & deporting them while stealing all their earthly goods isn't enough. People dying in those camps from disease & malnutrition isn't enough.
It will never be enough.
It will never be enough.
September 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Millions dying because USAID was wiped out isn't enough. Secret police in masks kidnapping people to take them to concentration camps & deporting them while stealing all their earthly goods isn't enough. People dying in those camps from disease & malnutrition isn't enough.
It will never be enough.
It will never be enough.
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Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million.
So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
September 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million.
So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
Correction: £76 million.
September 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Correction: £76 million.
Criminal crypto billionaires giving £40m to Reform, I’m sure this is fine and healthy for our democracy. I’m certain at least that Labour will treat it as such.
September 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Criminal crypto billionaires giving £40m to Reform, I’m sure this is fine and healthy for our democracy. I’m certain at least that Labour will treat it as such.
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No one will be "taught a lesson" if Talarico loses, any more than anyone was "taught a lesson" by Harris losing. In each case, the evil side wins a significant victory - transphobes get the senator they want, and Israel got the foreign and military policies they wanted.
The position “I’d rather a candidate be be rhetorically pure and lose than dissemble and win” is an aesthetic commitment, not a political or moral one
You can feel your feelings but the expectation that someone running statewide in Texas should speak the exact same way as in incumbent Senator in Massachusetts betrays a fundamental lack of seriousness toward the political project of advancing minority rights
September 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
No one will be "taught a lesson" if Talarico loses, any more than anyone was "taught a lesson" by Harris losing. In each case, the evil side wins a significant victory - transphobes get the senator they want, and Israel got the foreign and military policies they wanted.
What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your giant Kemi Badenoch BuzzBall
September 11, 2026 at 10:16 AM
What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your giant Kemi Badenoch BuzzBall
I might've stayed in academia if there were this much money floating around! Instead, there are literally *no fellowships* offered by the EPSRC - the main funding body for UK physics - in the physical sciences.
NSF CAREER awards max out at $500k for five years so thatt pays for the research of forty-four promising mathematicians (incl training grad students ie more mathematicians) and also overhead to support their institutions).
In a week.
In a week.
September 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I might've stayed in academia if there were this much money floating around! Instead, there are literally *no fellowships* offered by the EPSRC - the main funding body for UK physics - in the physical sciences.
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Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
September 8, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry
But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job
billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job
billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
billmckibben.substack.com
September 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
September 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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I think that if a source tells you 60% of Americans, i.e. inhabitants of the richest nation on earth, cannot achieve a "minimal quality of life" you should express some skepticism of the source
September 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I think that if a source tells you 60% of Americans, i.e. inhabitants of the richest nation on earth, cannot achieve a "minimal quality of life" you should express some skepticism of the source
The reaction to this really mundane article (which is basically saying, don’t stress out about drinking enough water to the point you’re chugging huge bottles) is insane.
No, this isn’t a plot to take your drinking water away and give it to data centres.
No, this isn’t a plot to take your drinking water away and give it to data centres.
You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit.
🔗: on.wsj.com/4hUsBWd
🔗: on.wsj.com/4hUsBWd
August 29, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The reaction to this really mundane article (which is basically saying, don’t stress out about drinking enough water to the point you’re chugging huge bottles) is insane.
No, this isn’t a plot to take your drinking water away and give it to data centres.
No, this isn’t a plot to take your drinking water away and give it to data centres.