Jonah Messinger

Interdisciplinary Physicist, Clean Energy Enthusiast, Ecomodernist | PhD @Cambridge_Uni, #LENR @MIT & @anthrop_inst, Energy @TheBTI, Fellow @rootsofprogress

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I gave a talk for the @CambridgeHPS Coffee with Scientists seminar series titled "Anomalies and Ambiguity in Scientific Discovery: Lessons from Cold Fusion"

Consider giving it a watch!

https://t.co/T0NGveuMoa

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This ain’t how quantum entanglement works 🤦‍♂️

[Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

Joe Rogan speechless after learning from NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller that aliens use “Quantum Entanglement” to travel instantaneously:

THALLER: “I don’t want your listeners to think I’m saying something stupid.”

ROGAN: “It’s not stupid. Quantum entanglement just means two things can be connected regardless of the physical distance apart.”

THALLER: “It’s real. Space and time don’t matter. Aliens would be able to respond to each other instantaneously because they’re entangled.”

ROGAN: “This is so bananas. So then what are humans entangled to?”

THALLER: “If humans all came from The Big Bang does that mean we’re connected to everything in the universe in some way?”

ROGAN: “You think this is how some super advanced intelligent life form would travel?”

THALLER: “It would make a lot more sense than using a spaceship.”

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.

It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution.

https://t.co/u0670ATFRE

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@TimHenke9 @Kaju_Nut I got the point. But would you put yourself on the plot? I assume not. I also wouldn’t want my name anywhere near Ashton’s. You can feel like you’ve made some needed caveat, but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a category error to lump folks y’all don’t like with actual cranks.

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@TimHenke9 @Kaju_Nut Didn’t get around to replying. I guess I just find it strange to the point of being unserious to locate Sabine, Curt, etc on the same plot as Ashton Forbes 🤦‍♂️

Can you understand why I might have an immediate allergic reaction to such a category error?

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@dwarkesh_sp Roger Penrose and Harry Collins (one of the most incisive sociologists of science who embedded himself in the gravity wave detection community long before LIGO was successful)

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@will_townes @dwarkesh_sp @CharlesCMann Agreed!

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@sabaokangan @dwarkesh_sp @drmichaellevin Endorsed

[Roots of Progress Institute @rootsofprogress]

Applications are open until June 1st for the 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive! Launch a blog and improve your progress-focused writing with expert guidance and an amazing community progress builders, writers and intellectuals.

You'll learn from a phenomenal advisor lineup including @tylercowen, @_brianpotter, @elidourado, @vpostrel, @_alice_evans, @kesvelt, @glukianoff, @akoustov, @Brendan_McCord, and Elle Griffin.

RPI fellows are now leading conversations on AI policy, transportation, agriculture, biotech, housing abundance, and more—with work appearing in major outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Atlantic.

What you'll get: Launch/re-launch a blog/Substack, develop consistent writing habits, improve your craft, build your audience, and connect with progress studies leaders and build community with engaged, thoughtful fellow writers.

During the 10-week program, you'll write and publish 4 essays with feedback from our developmental editor @MikeRiggs, the RPI team, and your fellow writers.

This year features two tracks, in addition to our general progress track: human flourishing & potential and security & resilience. We welcome fellows writing on ANY progress topic, but a handful of spots will be reserved for these tracks.

BONUS: Attend a 3-day in-person retreat in Pennsylvania and receive a free ticket to the invitation-only 2026 Progress Conference with ~400 authors, technologists, policy experts, academics, and nonprofit leaders. Meet your peers and your heroes!

This is for you if: You're passionate about progress studies and love writing. Maybe you want to explore a writing career, join a think tank, write to build community around a cause area, and of course take your existing blog to the next level.

Commitment: 10–15 hours weekly for 10 weeks (July 27–Oct 2). The weekend retreat is August 20–23. There is no cost to participate.

Applications close June 1st!

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@MikeNew19512115 @AbbyChavaStein @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani What an antisocial brainwashed idiot

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@DanielWhiteson @roydherbert Very interesting!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I was thrilled to honor the legendary Ruth Messinger at our pre-Shavuot celebration at Gracie Mansion for Jewish American Heritage Month.

Jewish Americans have long been trailblazers for justice, from labor leaders like Clara Lemlich and Rose Schneiderman to Civil Rights leaders like Henry Moskowitz, Rabbi Heschel, and Marjorie G. Wyler — Ruth Messinger’s mother — who marched from Selma alongside Dr. King.

In order to ensure that Jewish communities can continue to thrive here, my administration is increasing hate crime prevention funding by 800% — because New York must be a place where everyone can live safely and freely.

Whether you are about to finish counting the Omer or are looking forward to cheesecake, Chag Sameach and happy Jewish American Heritage Month!

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@TimHenke9 @Kaju_Nut Yes. That’s the whole point. It’s just as ludicrous as calling Sabine a populist. And, as I said, ‘populist’ in that context is obviously an epithet meant to suggest a comparison between Sabine’s science commentary and contemporary illiberal right wing populism. It’s ridiculous!

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@Kaju_Nut @TimHenke9 he has me blocked. To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never interacted with Sam! So what is that? Science fascism? Science puritanism? It just all seems a bit rich.

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@Kaju_Nut @TimHenke9 While I think you made some fair critiques, @Kaju_Nut, it’s sort of interesting that the rhetorical move here is to analogize Sabine’s critical frame to, presumably, contemporary illiberal right wing populism. Then I go to see who Sam is, and was quite surprised to find that…

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

While Jewish extremists attacked and harassed Palestinian Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem, other Jewish activists were distributing flowers to people.

One group chose hate and violence. The other chose love and peace.

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@ZaidJilani Again, this may be true (I happen to agree with you, but mostly due to her lack of foreign policy chops), but this is not relevant to the nonsense people are saying about her this weekend. I don't see how you don't understand this.

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@ZaidJilani Zaid, one can agree with this tweet and also not drag AOC through the mud for not trusting MTG's political motives, right? Forgiveness is a virtue (e.g., Ilhan Omar's comment re MTG), but this discourse on the left is out of hand. And Massie and MTG are not comparable imo.

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@ZaidJilani @arash_tehran Again a nonsense comment Zaid. Clearly you have it out for Arash. His is a perfectly valid critique of folks on the left that ally w/ right wing populists. Again, you can engage w/ the critique and come out pro the alliance for strategic reasons but not engaging is narrow minded.

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@ZaidJilani @arash_tehran @ryangrim But lashing out at AOC for not trusting MTG’s political motives is preposterous and I wish folks on the left that seem to be making an affirmative case for strategically allying, even if selectively, w/ MTG, Tucker, etc would do so with less conviction and a bit more hesitation.

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@ZaidJilani @arash_tehran @ryangrim Do you see no difference between a major politician like AOC aligning with MTG vs being a writer for a magazine that publishes some articles with bad ideas? I don’t even mean that in a normative sense. I’m fine acknowledging that MTG displayed courage on Gaza & Epstein.