@emm0sh you put that ugliness front and center? 3d prints are best suited for applications where the part won’t be seen, like in a trash bin or landfill
Many fail to see the title “Member of Technical Staff” as the honorific it is - it stands as an artifact of the flat structure and collegial meritocracy of ideas that comprised the technical org of Bell Labs
dfw big time genius for predicting the behavior of an illiterate woman who being a woman could not possibly have been inspired to do an infinite jest type bit
When you actually, seriously, sit down and consider the root causes of enshittification it becomes clear that the internet, smartphones, and increasingly frictionless lives lived entirely in virtual space are a massive net negative
Exactly 1 year ago, Max and I rebuilt the quantum physics experiment that won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics by building a magneto-optical trap which supercools atoms in a room temp, tabletop setup.
There are <200 of these across the US and in my time at Open Quantum I'm glad to have increased that number by 1%
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington.
The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.
Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: https://t.co/tbgKk7ESqj
real STEM in america is so washed man, its glup shitto tech startups and webdev shops all the way down. smelly techbros with SW"E" degrees working in the local webdev shop getting to launder themselves as geniuses while screeching about how GOCO labs are turbocommunism