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I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society.

You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Link to szialab on slide for visualizing EOM polarization perhaps?
emanim.szialab.org/index.html

Today we learned about the next steps needed for MOT construction: an electro-optic modulator (EOM) and a double pass acousto-optic modulator (AOM). The EOM creates sidebands for repumping the RB and the AOM, (I think) provides the detuning so that the Doppler cooling works.
Phew, a lot!

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Get lost @washingtonpost.com

We're tired of you. You are harming our country and the world.

Go away.

Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:

"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....

Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Land also seems to be voting against its own interests, as the current administration (brought in largely by the land vote) is dismantling all sorts of protections and norms around ecological health.

”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026

It's only disenfranchisement when someone else does it. 🤔

Verifying Malus' law of polarization with single photons with Thorlabs quantum optics kit.

"recent criticism" ??
I hope this isn't any kind of sane-washing of war-monger, crusade-wanting, Pete Hegseth or our dictator fool of a president.

vacuum chamber, posts and mirrors for MOT on a raised bread-board

MOT chamber and display showing 7.2e-9Torr for the pressure

vacuum chamber in the over for bake-out, with Shawn the technician instructor and a fellow student.

A view of the first optical components we are installing, under the bread board. A polarization beam-splitter sends the laser upwards onto the upper surface.

Starting to put together a magneto-optical trap. The vacuum chamber has been baked out and pumped down to 7nTorr.

At a city council meeting in Monterey Park where an ordinance to ban data centers is under consideration. It’s all true—people are extremely fired up about shutting down data centers. Noise, pollution, NIMBY complaints are all in the mix, but residents are calling out big tech and the rich too.

Nice documentary on the GRA experiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nh...

I believe we've now created single photons, though we still need to send one of them through an additional beam splitter in order to demonstrate this.

Checking counts, time alignment and correlation function for single photons from BBO crystal

time to start week 9/10 of quantum technician training...

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

Why do we seem so determined to replace ourselves with robots?

Catch and release pond

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Superman, in my view, represents the best in all of us. It's not his powers that matter—it's his decency, his compassion and, yes, his innate charm. It's as if, back in 1938, our collective unconscious created the hero we needed.

We need him now more than ever.

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Post on linkedin about the past week
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Thanks for your work! Let's hope the time when this will help achieve justice will come sooner rather than later.

Glad to see this documentation for when we can clean up our government again.