Boaz Nash
@boazhsan.bsky.social
Lafayette, CO, USA
Physicist who likes to paint, hike, work in the garden and think about the past and future of humanity
#cohousing
I strive to embody and model good #DigitalDiscipline though I often need to renew my commitment.
Physicist who likes to paint, hike, work in the garden and think about the past and future of humanity
#cohousing
I strive to embody and model good #DigitalDiscipline though I often need to renew my commitment.
How does this make it through peer review? I mean, if I am reviewing an article and I see a clear error, I tell them they need to fix it. How does one publish in Nature with obvious errors, regardless of the source of the diagram?
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
How does this make it through peer review? I mean, if I am reviewing an article and I see a clear error, I tell them they need to fix it. How does one publish in Nature with obvious errors, regardless of the source of the diagram?
Hanging out at my studio. Soon to shop to make a salad for cohousing Thanksgiving. Yet, a feeling of uncertainty and fragmentation. Fascism & fracture. Listening to Enneads on the one and the many. I don’t know how the many join together.
If something new is forming, I don’t see it right now. Faith?
If something new is forming, I don’t see it right now. Faith?
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hanging out at my studio. Soon to shop to make a salad for cohousing Thanksgiving. Yet, a feeling of uncertainty and fragmentation. Fascism & fracture. Listening to Enneads on the one and the many. I don’t know how the many join together.
If something new is forming, I don’t see it right now. Faith?
If something new is forming, I don’t see it right now. Faith?
I like this framing. I don't know if this is exactly what I experience, but I do sometimes feel like my emotions are hard to read and not doing what I expect. It's true that when I stop and limit the stimulus focusing on my feelings, a new depth shows up and my feelings open up.
Alexithymia isn’t lack of emotion.
It’s emotion without translation.
The feelings are there.
The map isn’t.
And yet autistic people blame themselves for being “numb.”
You’re not numb - you’re flooded.
Your body is speaking a language you were never taught.
It’s emotion without translation.
The feelings are there.
The map isn’t.
And yet autistic people blame themselves for being “numb.”
You’re not numb - you’re flooded.
Your body is speaking a language you were never taught.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I like this framing. I don't know if this is exactly what I experience, but I do sometimes feel like my emotions are hard to read and not doing what I expect. It's true that when I stop and limit the stimulus focusing on my feelings, a new depth shows up and my feelings open up.
"crumbling of the Republican party, like in 1850's or 1890's"
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voh...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voh...
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"crumbling of the Republican party, like in 1850's or 1890's"
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voh...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voh...
Thank you @indivisible.org
This has been such a hard time. It's so tempting to give up and let the fascists win.
This has been such a hard time. It's so tempting to give up and let the fascists win.
Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thank you @indivisible.org
This has been such a hard time. It's so tempting to give up and let the fascists win.
This has been such a hard time. It's so tempting to give up and let the fascists win.
I just saw a linkedIn post by a recruiter complaining about people using AI to write cover letters, who then uses AI to generate an image in the same post.
It seems like basic ethics and integrity are hard to come by these days.
It seems like basic ethics and integrity are hard to come by these days.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I just saw a linkedIn post by a recruiter complaining about people using AI to write cover letters, who then uses AI to generate an image in the same post.
It seems like basic ethics and integrity are hard to come by these days.
It seems like basic ethics and integrity are hard to come by these days.
Why does #strangerThings present 4 episodes at once today? Why not one a week to encourage a normal watching pace?
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Why does #strangerThings present 4 episodes at once today? Why not one a week to encourage a normal watching pace?
Reposted by Boaz Nash
Twitter is no longer an influential platform but a dwindling crowd of clout obsessed people whose likes are mostly botted and whose content goes viral based on Musk's whims. It's not 2019 anymore and people shouldn't confuse likes and For You content as popular anymore.
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Twitter is no longer an influential platform but a dwindling crowd of clout obsessed people whose likes are mostly botted and whose content goes viral based on Musk's whims. It's not 2019 anymore and people shouldn't confuse likes and For You content as popular anymore.
Studies in experimental phenomenology!
Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number.
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Studies in experimental phenomenology!
Good thread about the DOGE insanity.
Will there be accountability for this some day?
Will there be accountability for this some day?
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Good thread about the DOGE insanity.
Will there be accountability for this some day?
Will there be accountability for this some day?
It's interesting how both the measurement problem and the question of consciousness both have the quality that the deeper you look, the more answers you find. It makes both questions exciting, and the thought that they may be linked adds more interest. The literature on both topics are substantial.
"The Quantum Measurement Problem: A Review of Recent Trends", Tommaz, Mattos, Barbatti, [May, 2025]
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's interesting how both the measurement problem and the question of consciousness both have the quality that the deeper you look, the more answers you find. It makes both questions exciting, and the thought that they may be linked adds more interest. The literature on both topics are substantial.
"The Quantum Measurement Problem: A Review of Recent Trends", Tommaz, Mattos, Barbatti, [May, 2025]
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The Quantum Measurement Problem: A Review of Recent Trends", Tommaz, Mattos, Barbatti, [May, 2025]
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
arxiv.org/html/2502.19...
I've been continuing work on this Gaussian Wigner function paper and I have a number of other unfinished papers I'm loosely involved in. I was thinking this morning about what it takes to keep doing research when not closely affiliated with an institution. What tools does one need?
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I've been continuing work on this Gaussian Wigner function paper and I have a number of other unfinished papers I'm loosely involved in. I was thinking this morning about what it takes to keep doing research when not closely affiliated with an institution. What tools does one need?
Stack exchange question about the QM measurement problem:
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/83...
It would be nice to categorize the different attempted solutions in the same way that Robert Kuhn categorized the different ideas about consciousness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38281544/
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/83...
It would be nice to categorize the different attempted solutions in the same way that Robert Kuhn categorized the different ideas about consciousness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38281544/
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Stack exchange question about the QM measurement problem:
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/83...
It would be nice to categorize the different attempted solutions in the same way that Robert Kuhn categorized the different ideas about consciousness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38281544/
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/83...
It would be nice to categorize the different attempted solutions in the same way that Robert Kuhn categorized the different ideas about consciousness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38281544/
I thought that Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil” convinced me that we don’t need the word evil anymore. But it seems that we are all seeing what evil looks like.
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I thought that Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil” convinced me that we don’t need the word evil anymore. But it seems that we are all seeing what evil looks like.
Reposted by Boaz Nash
lots of great cookbooks available right now at your local bookstore and public library, thousands of tested recipes waiting for everyone #booksky
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
lots of great cookbooks available right now at your local bookstore and public library, thousands of tested recipes waiting for everyone #booksky
Let it be so.
More Republicans eyeing the exits amid threats and internal warfare.
Who saw this coming? They pour gasoline everywhere, then freak when the flames reach their doorstep.
Who saw this coming? They pour gasoline everywhere, then freak when the flames reach their doorstep.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Let it be so.
I’ve been really enjoying this quality.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I’ve been really enjoying this quality.
This whole discourse around how hard it is to have conversations with family during Thanksgiving is such a sad statement on American culture. We talk and get together with our families so rarely, that it becomes this epic challenge when we actually do.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This whole discourse around how hard it is to have conversations with family during Thanksgiving is such a sad statement on American culture. We talk and get together with our families so rarely, that it becomes this epic challenge when we actually do.
Politics needs to be more than propositions. There needs to be action and engagement and work. There needs to be an associated practice and engagement to match the communications. A campaign and party should lead to people getting involved in myriad ways.
there isn't a message to win most voters. voters in general aren't paying attention and don't hear your messages.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Politics needs to be more than propositions. There needs to be action and engagement and work. There needs to be an associated practice and engagement to match the communications. A campaign and party should lead to people getting involved in myriad ways.
A new post from @lmsacasas.bsky.social is always a pleasure. He brings depth of thought, optimism, and a tradition of tech criticism to the thorny issues of how humanity and technology do or don't get along.
Michael Sacasas is back on substack.
I really love his posts on technology and humanity. Highly recommend. - I can’t remember how I did it, but I can listen to them as a podcast too.
open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...
I really love his posts on technology and humanity. Highly recommend. - I can’t remember how I did it, but I can listen to them as a podcast too.
open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...
Out of the Wilderness
In hope
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A new post from @lmsacasas.bsky.social is always a pleasure. He brings depth of thought, optimism, and a tradition of tech criticism to the thorny issues of how humanity and technology do or don't get along.
I wish I could find a pdf of Cartwright's thesis:
"A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics"
(I found 24 pages of it.)
philpapers.org/rec/CARAPA-13
"A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics"
(I found 24 pages of it.)
philpapers.org/rec/CARAPA-13
Catching up with Nancy Cartwright again
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPTO...
boazspot.blogspot.com/2011/03/back...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPTO...
boazspot.blogspot.com/2011/03/back...
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I wish I could find a pdf of Cartwright's thesis:
"A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics"
(I found 24 pages of it.)
philpapers.org/rec/CARAPA-13
"A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics"
(I found 24 pages of it.)
philpapers.org/rec/CARAPA-13
Courage and optimism. Thank you @katmabu.bsky.social
This is what push back against fascism looks like.
This is what push back against fascism looks like.
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Courage and optimism. Thank you @katmabu.bsky.social
This is what push back against fascism looks like.
This is what push back against fascism looks like.
inbox: empty
to maybe do: 104
to maybe do: 104
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
inbox: empty
to maybe do: 104
to maybe do: 104
These tech people with truly impoverished views of humanity should really have a lot less influence in the world than they do.
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
These tech people with truly impoverished views of humanity should really have a lot less influence in the world than they do.