Spent a few hours on this this evening. Current progress: we have a physics engine!

sidenote: GAME DEVELOPMENT IS SO HARD

photo of excerpt from Lynch on Lynch, which reads - "What else were you doing at the time, besides writing? - I was building sheds, and whenever you can build a shed, you've got it made."

David Lynch on sheds

Meteorite strike caught on P.E.I. home security camera YouTube video by The Canadian Press

I am very very jealous that this family on Prince Edward Island (Canada) had a small meteor hit their sidewalk and managed to catch it on their door cam in what is likely the first audio and visual recording of a meteor strike!

youtu.be/F_1xInfNMok?...

Stole this but it's 100% true

I desperately want an AI that submits travel reports for me so I can get reimbursed for my $12 breakfast without spending way more of my time than that $12 is worth to do it.

Is that what's being built or what I'm being offered? Of course not.

I have slowed my aging to 0.64 speed by being covered at all times in a powerful goop

CURRENT OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE

December 31.

Happy new year.

"You will be visited by three spirits"

The three* spirits:

Today we are going to solve for the wave function of a particle in an infinite potential well, or as I call it, hyperprison.

I had exactly the same experience

Well, I’m sure American men losing tens of billions of dollars in a way that barely existed prior to 2020 didn’t influence their opinion on the economy or anything.

Academic Christmas

CASSUM

cosmicorigins.space/cassum

He's making a list
He's checking it twice
Of the fuzziness things that clutter the skies
Charles Messier is coming to town

Literally the only women with a good thing to say about these reptiles are their mothers

2025 American Physical Society CU*iP Help University of Memphis raise $15,000 for the project: 2025 American Physical Society CU*iP. Your gift will make a difference!

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Amazing that google included code to let it's AI generate correctly formatted math, but not enough to generate actually correct math.

The units don't even make sense!

Can you please add me? I'm a simulator who loves feedback and hydrodynamics 😀

I've had really bad job luck (shortlisted numerous times but never quite getting anything) so if anyone has any spare funding for ~6-12 months for a postdoc then let me know 🔭

I'm very experienced with machine learning, software development, and working with large surveys! My CV: cv.emily.space

Exciting news everyone! I am hiring a postdoc scholar to work with me at Oregon State Physics. If you love computational astrophysics, supernovae, and/or compact object mergers, this may be a great fit for you. More information here: aas.org/jobregister/...

You know there was once a famous carpenter with long hair and some crazy ideas that turned out to be wise teachings. His name was John Carpenter and he taught us it's more fun to be stoned and play video games than work.

that ep of TNG where Data’s chest gets a crack in it from an accident on an away team and he discovers a much tinier Data that lives in his abdomen built by Dr Soong and begins to understand this smaller Data is what he conceived of as his “conscious self” and it drives a man-sized Data suit around

It just sucks that anyone who wants to complain about dumbass culture war shit gets paid a million dollars by Russia and anyone who wants to investigate corruption in a Sheriff’s Department has to be like “hey can you PLEASE send me five dollars for my newsletter I’m begging you”

Atlanta you know what to do

WTF is going on here with JD Vance's haircut?

Screenshot of Pete Buttigieg giving a speech and in the closed captioning they get his name wildly wrong

Pete Bud Jttigifgbuttigieg, his name is my name toooooo

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room.

Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course?

Designer: You're fired

a man getting on one knee, taking a ring out of his pocket, and asking a lady to be the betty to his barney hill