Look, I’m in Megalopolis

My last job was as Senior Stellarator Engineer at an early stage fusion startup. I was the lead design 'ideas' guy for stellarator systems - here's some things I learned about the art and science of stellarator design 🧵 First off, a stellarator is indeed a work of art:

The New York Times today. Don’t say you didn’t know.

It seems so artificial to jump on the garbage thing. Trump is talking about "mass deportations," which means they literally think some people are garbage to be thrown out.

My prediction is that RFK Jr. is going to kill more Americans than COVID

#New Dearborn results 🔴 President - Trump +7 🔵 Congress - Tlaib +32

Switching, I suppose, to bluesky.

I’m muting NYT notifications. Why do I have to hear about every nomination

I genuinely, sincerely, truly do not care whether people come here legally or illegally. And I assert that it’s weird anybody does.

Cardinal Tedesco is going to be the biggest Halloween costume of the year next year.

me buying groceries for just one meal bc i live in a walkable neighborhood and treat my grocery store like a personal fridge

Last night I had a dream that involved the existence of “The Thin Green Line,” which was somehow like Terrence Malick takes on The Grinch.

you all gave her shit for it, but Hawk Tuah walked so Trump and Melania could run.

ElliotOneT🎗️ Asano Paul Graham There are millions of antizionist Jews. Zionism is barely a century old, while Judaism is quite a bit older. Conflating them and thinking that Jews are a monolith or that we all have a foreign allegiance is antisemitism

Jewish students at Columbia protest against Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by chaining and locking themselves to the gates of the university More details in the thread Drop Site

John DiLillo In all the subsequent run-ins between Vader and C3PO/R2D2, I wish it were more clear that they were the best men at Vader's wedding.

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."

I don't understand why Mamdani is repeatedly being asked to speak on a phrase he's never uttered.

I got a lower score than him (also out of 2400) and I actually did go to Columbia. What a non-story.

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