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Dante Alexander

@tolby.bsky.social

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Pacifist. Spinoza, Christ, Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard in no particular order.

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Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 8h

Do words no longer have the power to stir, to move us?

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder that invariance under temporal shifts leads to conservation of energy.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 2d

Cut Harrison Butker. His confidence is shot.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble, tariff nonsense, ICE raids, RIFs, frayed institutional and regulatory controls, cementing of the police state, approaching healthcare death spiral: the perfect storm is coming together. Failed state risk: 62.3%.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 5d

I taught my cat algebra.
Ok kitty. 3X=6.
So X is equal to…ow ow!
Cat bit me twice! 🤕🤕
Still haven’t taught it manners.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 6d

So you’re telling me they’re due!

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve lost 20 lbs since my TDS cure. Thank you Orange Buddha!

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

Choleric seems to describe too many people in charge these days. Need a calm and assuring hand.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

Can you actually fail an IQ test? 🤔

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

Till Bernie clocked him.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

As always, these physics lessons are brought to you by Crelm Toothpaste made with the miracle ingredient Frauduline.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

But we can’t lose sight of quantum criticality. Theoretically, we must go beyond the standard Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) paradigm to investigate novel mechanisms for mass generation and the role of intertwined degrees of freedom.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 7d

Of course, as we all know, BEC of plasmonic exciton polaritons has been realized in periodic arrays of metal nanoparticles overlaid with dye molecules, exhibiting ultrafast sub-picosecond dynamics and long-range correlations.

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Raphael Bousso @bousso.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to my wonderful colleague John Clarke! And to Berkeley, and to UC. And to everyone who still believes that foundational research is worth investing in

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics | Letters & Science

ls.berkeley.edu

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 8d

Tumulty’s work on quantum phase transitions in Bose Einstein Condensation leading to the creation of exciton polaritons
is groundbreaking.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 8d

Has the tide turded?

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 9d

It’s perilous to try and interpret a David Lynch movie. Nevertheless, here it goes. In Twin Peaks, the Return, Agent Cooper proclaims they are all living inside a dream. The question is raised by Gordon Cole “Who is the dreamer?” Here is my guess. The dreamer is, and always was, Laura Palmer.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 11d

Now we know why she hates puppies. They can go the bathroom anywhere they want.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 11d

And the people that hold up the line while they go and get that bag of Cheetos they forgot to pick up the first time, those people are clearly terrorists.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 11d

Wait, this is a sex thing, right?

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 12d

Ok, now this guy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dante Alexander @tolby.bsky.social · 13d

Childish minds. Neglected souls.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Reposted by Dante Alexander

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm the guy tabulating whether you are "not surprised" by some act of political monstrosity. keep it up, you're doing great work and everyone wants to hear about it