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I've always thought of this as the "I'm gonna fuck Dracula 😉" versus "I fucked Dracula ☺️" of physics.


The transition from classical to quantum physics went about as smoothly as you would expect. Happy #QuantumDay!

(Unfortunately, I have no idea who made this classic physics meme. It has been around forever. If you know, please tell me!)





Ragazza di 25 anni cade su un sentiero a Metato, soccorsa da Sast e vigili del fuoco
L'infortunata è stata stabilizzata, quindi è stata trasportata tramite manove su corda per poi congiungersi con l'ambulanza

luccaindiretta.it/cronaca/2025…



Some people think they can have a utopian sci-fi future, but an exclusionary one, built on a reactionary, bigoted society. That's not how it works. That's like trying to build on top of quicksand.

Fascists fundamentally don't believe in science, they don't believe in the openness and honesty needed to make it work, and they will purge society of all the brilliant people because they don't conform to their prejudices. They don't know how to build or create, only how to destroy.

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One of the reasons they're so infatuated by "AI." They're like those guys who prefer blow up dolls to real women. "Now I don't need them for anything anymore."
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reminds me of one of the most chilling lines from Humans (UK Channel 4 show about robots that gain consciousness), when the robot working in the brothel says "what they do to us is what they'd do to you if they had the chance"

There's a very good reason the champions of AI agree with Musk's line that empathy is a malfunction. That's the only way to doublethink their way out of what they're creating.





Do you promise not to make fun of me if I admit that until recently I assumed memcpy was some kind of Python library


Una de las mayores mentiras que nos vienen colando desde la transición es que la convivencia de lo público con lo privado beneficia a ambas partes por igual.

Que las personas que pueden pagarse un seguro privado de salud contribuyen a descongestionar la sanidad pública y a reducir listas de espera. Que los colegios concertados permiten a las administraciones ahorrar en construir y mantener lo que serían escuelas públicas.

Es todo mentira. La única manera de dignificar la sanidad y la educación pública es obligar a los ricos a que tengan que usarlas. Porque los ricos pueden permitirse el privilegio de comprar las políticas que hacen que se deje de invertir en lo público (total, para qué, si no van a usarlo) mientras que consiguen que esos mismos fondos públicos se vayan a financiar sus chiringuitos privados dónde les curan y educan a sus hijes. Así tenemos la mafia de Quirón o las FP privadas llevándoselo gordo.

¿Pero si los ricos tuviesen que llevar a sus hijes a un colegio público? Veríais como bajaban las ratios y no faltaban recursos. Ídem con los centros de salud.

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tonterías !
Elon Musk ha dicho que con Optimus y la conducción autónoma se acabará la pobreza y todas tendremos acceso a la mejor sanidad.

forbes.pe/tecnologia/2025-10-2…

Elon Musk asegura que el robot Optimus terminará con la pobreza.

(Edito para comentar que he puesto tonterías en plan ironía. No sea que alguien lea esto y me tache de seguidor de Elon Musk o algo así)

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Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!

Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.

His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter should be treated as it it emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf.

Image: AIP

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Planck’s quantum hypothesis would revolutionize physics, but he initially thought it wasn’t real.

He suspected that the interaction of matter and radiation was tremendously complicated but still governed by the physics known at the time — what we now call “classical physics.”

Invoking quanta of radiation to derive the blackbody emission spectrum was, it seemed to Planck, just a mathematical trick that somehow encapsulated all that complication.

in reply to Robert McNees

If so, it was a trick that *worked*.

Previous efforts to derive the blackbody emission spectrum using classical physics gave nonsensical results at high frequencies. Replace continuous emission with discrete quanta and things work out perfectly.

Evidence for the reality of quanta began with Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905. The proposal that radiation of frequency f exists only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf was the first result of Einstein’s “Miracle Year.”

in reply to Robert McNees

Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays scattering off electrons was near-incontrovertible evidence that quanta were real.
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Here's a great APS Landmarks entry where you can read more about Compton Scattering and the reality of photons.

physics.aps.org/story/v13/st8

in reply to Robert McNees

This sequence of events was a not uncommon narrative in the transformative years of late 19th and early 20th century physics. It would go something like this:

1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense

2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.

3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient "trick."

4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected.

in reply to Robert McNees

Planck’s hypothesis was in fact a deep statement about the nature of Nature. Electromagnetic adiation of frequency f comes in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. It's not an artifact of a complicated interaction with matter.

Nowadays we refer to the proportionality constant h as "Planck's constant." In the SI system it takes the value h=6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ kg*m²/s, or 4.136 x 10⁻¹⁵ eV*s.

As far as we can tell, h is a fundamental constant that is hardwired into our Universe.

in reply to Robert McNees

The results of Planck’s December 14th lecture were submitted to Annalen der Physik a few weeks later, on January 7th, and published not long after that.

You can see the original (in German) here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ep…

An English translation of Planck’s paper, taken from Dirk ter Haar’s “The Old Quantum Theory,” is available here:
web.archive.org/web/2023052902…

in reply to Robert McNees

Something that isn’t as widely known is that “h” is not the only fundamental constant that was introduced during Planck’s presentation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900!

Planck was investigating emission and absorption by blackbodies, so he needed a way to relate energies and temperatures. Thus, he had to introduce what we now refer to as “Boltzmann’s constant.”

#otd
in reply to Robert McNees

That’s right, the factor of “k” that appears in the formula “S = k log W” — the formula engraved on Boltzmann’s memorial! — was actually introduced by Max Planck. Boltzmann expressed his results in terms of the ideal gas constant R.

Image: user Daderot on Wikipedia

in reply to Robert McNees

The transition from classical to quantum physics went about as smoothly as you would expect. Happy #QuantumDay!

(Unfortunately, I have no idea who made this classic physics meme. It has been around forever. If you know, please tell me!)

in reply to Robert McNees

Max Planck and Edgar Allan Poe - separated at birth?

I guess Max was born 9yrs after Edgar died, so maybe a little spookiness at a temporal distance required. 🤣

#Planck #EdgarAllanPoe




Remember in 2010 when Berlin archaeologists found a bunch of Degenerate Art #sculpture and the ashes of loads of burnt paintings that had fallen into the basement of a building bombed to pieces by the Allies near the end of WW2?

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner…

#art

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The tragicomical aspect here is that the people who finally destroyed all those Degenerate modernist paintings were not the Nazis. They were the Allies.

#art

#Art


Rutland, Vermont
Dec 2025
#silentsunday
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Wir haben geglaubt es gibt hier Leckerlis? 🤨


Antisemitischer Anschlag. Und ich höre wieder dieses bedrückende laute Schweigen. Ist wirklich nicht verstanden, dass diese emotional aufgepeitschten free free palestine- Schreihälse eine zweite, rechtsoffene Front aufgebaut haben? Die Tür heißt Antisemitismus.www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozea...

Tote und Verletzte durch Schüs...




I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac…
#Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text
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@mossfet If it's a joke, my apologies, but in this case it should have been put to the beginning of the article in normal unscrambled text.
in reply to André Polykanine

I don't think it's a joke, more a tech demo. I can't entirely tell but I think the author is taking it seriously as a project that blog authors might want to implement, which I find really worrying.


"A 26-year-old Palestinian detainee, arrested months ago in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces, has died in Israeli custody amid reports of torture and medical negligence, marking the second Palestinian death in Israeli prisons in less than a week"
"There are currently more than 10,800 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including 450 children, 87 women, and 3,629 held without charge or trial"

qudsnen.co/public/post?id=6688…
@palestine
#IsraeliTortureCamps
#IsraelTerroristState



:akkosad: One Punch Man went back to poor animations, big fights behind walls and close doors, I thought the mental stair case was the absolute bottom of abandonism but this episode still delivered some solid frames.

#opm #onepunchman #anime




CN Sydney "Wir wachen an einem Feiertag auf – und wieder haben einige von uns nicht überlebt." Ron Dekel, Präsident der Jüdischen Studierendenunion Deutschland.


Von Accounts geblockt zu werden, die in ihrem Header das rote Dreieck haben, heißt das markieren potentieller, ( jüdischer) Opfer an einem Tag wie heute. Falls du es noch liest. Das ist einfach nur armselig. Was ist bei dir alles schief gelaufen?


♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Joe Bonamassa (22) Judie Tzuke (22) Astrid Noire (14) Motörhead (14) Fleetwood Mac (13). #myweekcounted 465 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue


Spoilers for The War Between the Land and the Sea episode 3

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Wann versteht #Europa endlich, dass es nicht um irgendwas geht, sondern nur um EUROPA!
#USA , #Russland , #China wollen die #EU und Europa destabilisieren und letztlich unter sich aufteilen.
Wir sind schon lange im #Krieg , ob wir den Kopf in den Sand stecken oder nicht.
Wann reagieren wir endlich auf die nicht enden wollenden Angriffe?!
Wann machen wir Europa endlich kriegstüchtig?




Finally written part 1 of "My year going full Apple" blog. It's 2,000 words (😬) but covers background, context, and a look at each item I own from a hardware perspective.

Now onto editing and proof reading. Hopefully have this up soon!

#apple #blogging #blog #tech #writing

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12 min

Look what they found in their backyard. If you want something that’s chill and an island from the insanity of today’s world, this will do

youtu.be/FjfV0bHSLVM



🐭: Huhu, der Zerzauste nochmal hier. Ik wünsch euch 'ne jute Nacht. Ik mach mir dit jetz‘ och ma‘ jemütlich hier 💤🛌

#Plushies #Plüschies #PlushiesOfMastodon #FediPlushies #DerZerzauste #GuteNacht



Is there some kind of outrage going on? There's a bunch of websites I can't reach this morning.




globalist.it/culture/2025/12/1…

Molto bene




Und wieder, diesmal in #Australien: #Antisemitismus tötet! Diese Attacke scheint sich gar gezielt gegen #Chanukka gerichtet zu haben.

„Bei einem antisemitischen Anschlag am Bondi Beach in der australischen Metropole #Sydney sind offiziellen Angaben zufolge mindestens zehn Menschen getötet worden – einer von ihnen ein mutmaßlicher Angreifer. Elf Menschen seien nach jetzigem Stand verletzt, teilte die New South Wales Police Force mit.“

Stop mit jeder Verharmlosung! morgenpost.de/politik/article4…

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Bei dem Mann, der unter Einsatz seines Lebens einen der antisemitischen Mörder von #Sydney entwaffnete, soll es sich um den 43jährigen Ahmed el Ahmed handeln.

Dies als Nachricht an alle Rassisten & Dualisten, die nicht wirklich #Frieden, sondern Menschen gegeneinander hetzen wollen.

Der beste, ja einzige Weg, den #Antisemitismus und feindseligen #Dualismus zu besiegen ist, es gemeinsam mit allen Menschen guten Willens zu tun! #Australien t-online.de/nachrichten/auslan…

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Nostra res agitur: dati personali in mani aziendali. Basta una compravendita per cambiare in peggio - in molto peggio - il loro regime.
ftm.eu/articles/europe-health-…
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OH SH*T: Tucker’s SHOCK SECRET CHAT With Bobby’s LOVER GOES PUBLIC! Via @lukebeasleyofficial #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ youtu.be/4xku3qA_LTQ?...

OH SH*T: Tucker’s SHOCK SECRET...




CTA prerecorded intercom message: Smoking is prohibited when riding the CTA.

me, half deaf and half asleep: The Snow King is prohibited from riding the CTA???!!!

#chicago

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Snow King's gonna ride where the Snow King wants to ride.


Hopefully people realize that Sunni and Shia Muslims are not only different sects of Islam but have tensions between them because the Shia(#Iran) /Sunni (Saudi Arabia) rivalry has gone on for years.

nitter.net/JSAscension/status/…

@palestine
#palestine



I really wish there was a realistic way to get my network off of Meta and onto an alternative like the fediverse.



Right now, #Euroradio Christmas Music Day: #McDowall #Barnett #Rizza #Dunphy and #Nemcová from #London worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch



It's a little known fact that the predator in Predator isn't actually arming a bomb on its wrist computer near the end, but is calling The Police.

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Foggy predawn drive this morning. This stoplight took on an otherworldly aspect. Fog doesn't happen enough in this part of LA to get annoyed, but reveals a different experience.
#Today #Red #Roxanne


Die #Advent​szeit ist für viele Menschen auch eine Zeit des gemeinsamen Singens. Ein #Lied, das von besonderer #Mystik umgeben ist, steht im Mittelpunkt unseres Artikels des Tages dwds.de/wb/Adventslied


Auguri da Raffaella Carrà, la sfida di una pantera grigia a Ella e Frank Sinatra

Nel 2018 Raffaella Carrà, a 75 anni, incide il suo primo disco di Natale e entra nel club dei crooner accanto a Ella Fitzgerald e Frank Sinatra. Ma a modo suo.

boomerissimo.it/2025/12/14/aug…



☢️ It worked on my machine, so I uploaded my machine to the Internet, and the Internet took that personally.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

#docker #cybersecurity

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