Bram Boroson
@bramboro.bsky.social
Sometime astronomy professor. https://bramboroson.com
(NSFW language)
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November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6x6...
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Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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Such important lenses to apply when planning.
So many useful points that I could see apply to physics teaching.
Thanks @carlhendrick.substack.com
#iteachphysics
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
So many useful points that I could see apply to physics teaching.
Thanks @carlhendrick.substack.com
#iteachphysics
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
Why Does Thinking Feel So Hard?
Effort Feels Costly When the Brain Can't Detect Progress
carlhendrick.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Such important lenses to apply when planning.
So many useful points that I could see apply to physics teaching.
Thanks @carlhendrick.substack.com
#iteachphysics
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
So many useful points that I could see apply to physics teaching.
Thanks @carlhendrick.substack.com
#iteachphysics
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
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Jeet Heer's essay on Jeffrey Epstein's role as a foreign policy influence agent is eye-opening and an essential read. It's remarkable that given all the ink spilled over this man—most of it simple scandal-mongering—we still have such a feint understanding of his project. This clarifies a great deal.
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Jeet Heer's essay on Jeffrey Epstein's role as a foreign policy influence agent is eye-opening and an essential read. It's remarkable that given all the ink spilled over this man—most of it simple scandal-mongering—we still have such a feint understanding of his project. This clarifies a great deal.
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ICYMI, tonite I learned that Trump is way pro-Mamdani, Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress on principle, and the biggest US defender of Ukraine's right's to self-determination under the UN Charter is (checks notes) a Republican Senator from Mississippi. Gonna try to sleep it off.
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
ICYMI, tonite I learned that Trump is way pro-Mamdani, Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress on principle, and the biggest US defender of Ukraine's right's to self-determination under the UN Charter is (checks notes) a Republican Senator from Mississippi. Gonna try to sleep it off.
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I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
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This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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You can access the Congressman's floor speech comments by clicking the link here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D
youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You can access the Congressman's floor speech comments by clicking the link here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D
youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D
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it can be overwhelming HOW beautiful existence is but dang does it feel nice to resonate in that space when youre lucky enough to catch hold of it. when you randomly touch the current behind everything. you KNOW its back there but all you get is glimpses when you notice the way light shines on water
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
it can be overwhelming HOW beautiful existence is but dang does it feel nice to resonate in that space when youre lucky enough to catch hold of it. when you randomly touch the current behind everything. you KNOW its back there but all you get is glimpses when you notice the way light shines on water
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Are we in Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies or a secret third thing
He screamed, "QUIET, QUIET PIGGY!!" at all the female reporters
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are we in Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies or a secret third thing
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phrasing it as "no meaningful *management* experience" is so funny. they didn't use the word government specifically because they don't want to imply there's anything wrong with the billionaire to elected office pipeline
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
phrasing it as "no meaningful *management* experience" is so funny. they didn't use the word government specifically because they don't want to imply there's anything wrong with the billionaire to elected office pipeline
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"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
September 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
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I will never get tired of watching meteorites blast new craters on the Moon.
This likely lunar impact flash appeared today. Like a space firefly. 🧪
This likely lunar impact flash appeared today. Like a space firefly. 🧪
Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I will never get tired of watching meteorites blast new craters on the Moon.
This likely lunar impact flash appeared today. Like a space firefly. 🧪
This likely lunar impact flash appeared today. Like a space firefly. 🧪
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
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so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
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I am a sucker for the old Strandbeests ... Strandbeesten? Strandboosters
The latest Strandbeest! These thing are just so cool
youtu.be/ANhA94ZqnEQ?...
youtu.be/ANhA94ZqnEQ?...
Strandbeest evolution 2025
YouTube video by theo jansen
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November 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I am a sucker for the old Strandbeests ... Strandbeesten? Strandboosters
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For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Also, the older I get, the more I realize it's *SO* important as adults to have space just to play.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
Having to focus on how movement looks, sounds, and feels is why enjoy martial arts. I could exercise on a treadmill, but I would 100% stay stuck in the anxiety in my head. With MA, I have to climb out of my head and focus on my body.
That's mindfulness.
Plus, it's practice punching Nazis.
That's mindfulness.
Plus, it's practice punching Nazis.
This morning’s swordplay.
The joy of learning something new (and on your own) is permission to just focus on how something sounds and feels.
I’m a sensory person. I find the sound of wind, metal quite satisfying, and meditative in the morning. #jian #straightsword
The joy of learning something new (and on your own) is permission to just focus on how something sounds and feels.
I’m a sensory person. I find the sound of wind, metal quite satisfying, and meditative in the morning. #jian #straightsword
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Also, the older I get, the more I realize it's *SO* important as adults to have space just to play.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
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Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.