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The education grad students at McGill were on strike from in-person classes for over 10 weeks this term. We were refusing unsafe teaching & learning conditions in the presence of a disabling & deadly virus. A short recap thread of #McGillOnStrike in Winter 2022:
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what if bees are the ones imitating hoverflies
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on implicit militarization in quantum: we have a recent APS News article on developing a quantum workforce. it starts with uses of quantum tech, including sensors. the rest covers how hard it is to teach, new ed programs, etc. many of these sensors will be used in the military!
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this is not unique! this society is structured to produce violence at large scales! often to do so quietly! quantum spaces are no different!
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i want people reporting on quantum stuff, doing quantum stuff, thinking about quantum stuff to speak up more about the presence of the military in their spaces. what might we be able to do with all the anti-imperialists together??? i want to see it happen!!!
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suuuper interesting that even quantum chemistry looks like it won't be all that useful!! arxiv.org/abs/2208.02199 regardless, we'll improve healthcare with internationalist political systems which prioritize health over profit, not with computers!!

Is there evidence for exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry?

The idea to use quantum mechanical devices to simulate other quantum systems is commonly ascribed to Feynman. Since the original suggestion, concrete proposals have appeared for simulating...

arxiv.org
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emma 'phoebe fan' mckay retweeted
Sophia Chen@sophurky8 Aug 2022
Quantum computers get a lot of hype, and @electroweak serves up the skepticism. We dive into their opinions about whether society should be investing in them at all. Read our chat here: aps.org/publications/apsnews…
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emma 'phoebe fan' mckay retweeted
no cops no mines@RedThunderAudio21 Jul 2022
Quackers are really good listeners who accidentally worship ducks
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emma 'phoebe fan' mckay retweeted
no cops no mines@RedThunderAudio11 Jul 2022
Lol muting the word telescope
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would space-based astro collapse if space agencies divested from arms manufacturers? cf. Hubble's primary contractor was Lockheed, JWST was Northrop Grumman, etc.
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join DARPA to envision the world of 2030
pixelated corny conference ad for "Wait, what?: A future technology forum". The st louis arch, centre, is way fucking bigger than usual, above a bland wheat field with a shitty highway running through it. A multi-direction signpost on the right points towards things like "low-cost space launch", "artificial intelligence", and "your ideas here"

ALT pixelated corny conference ad for "Wait, what?: A future technology forum". The st louis arch, centre, is way fucking bigger than usual, above a bland wheat field with a shitty highway running through it. A multi-direction signpost on the right points towards things like "low-cost space launch", "artificial intelligence", and "your ideas here"

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reading about the military
"crowdsource the next generation of combat vehicles" (Ohab 2011) from Voussoughi & Vakil 2018

ALT "crowdsource the next generation of combat vehicles" (Ohab 2011) from Voussoughi & Vakil 2018

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specifically! from high school students
frankly messed up that raspberries even exist
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about to do eat more mustard than humans were designed to consume
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they don't tell you this but it is perfectly legal to go very high ratio with your mustard. 4:1 mustard to potato, easy. 3:1 very doable in small doses. 2:1 is dangerous but i've seen it
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of course i mean potato to mustard!! i would never eat more mustard than potato. that’s uhh. unconscionable. certainly couldn’t be me
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