So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
Embarrassing email from Department of Energy today: "DOE is moving aggressively to implement this Executive Order" 🙄 have these people never heard of malicious compliance
The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over
It would be a shame if DEIAtruth@opm.gov was clogged with spam 🤷🏻♀️
So what does that mean for us, the researchers? How should we proceed ethically? Abandon QC? Focus on fundamental science over scaling? This question has been genuinely distressing me.
A day will come when quantum computing will face a similar dilemma.
This is happening at NIST right now. Disgusting.
It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself.
ACAB does not include firefighters
Our new paper is on the arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2412.05482
Turns out the loss tangent that dominates superconducting qubit performance varies quite a bit over time, and lower loss materials induce stronger fluctuations in performance.
Someone casually revealing they use Chatgpt is to me equivalent to revealing they drink raw milk every day
