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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · 8d

Did he mention ”looking again” at interpretation of international law, esp. with regards to asylum, then, or was it in a different speech?

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · 8d

By adopting an anti-immigrant stance? Much softer than “the right”, but still

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 14d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 16d

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18d

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP reports.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 21d

How Wealth Inequality Affects You

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 22d

I still can't quite believe that the very first attacks from Labour on Farage's bonkers idea to kick millions of people with INDEFINITE right to remain out of the UK were to argue that it's infeasible and wouldn't save anything like the amount he claimed.

How about:
- It's WRONG
- It's IMMORAL
?

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · 23d

That’s from a different parish (Polish)

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 24d

The only way to protect your future is by taxing the billionaires more.

At the @makethempay.bsky.social rally today.

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · 25d

“Sowing indiscriminate chaos” sounds like a confession.

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RK @rohtweets.bsky.social · 25d

The H1-B visas aren’t just for tech workers either. They’re also, for example, used by universities to hire tenure-track faculty and especially in STEM fields, ie neither cheap nor indentured (except to the extent the label would apply to all new hires in higher ed).

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25d

The claim that people on H-1B are "cheap indentured servants" is just complete nonsense. The median wage paid to a person on an H-1B visa is $120,000 a year.

Source: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Section 2.9 – Approved Petitions by Annual Compensation and
Education
Of all the H-1B petitions approved in FY 2024, beneficiaries with professional degrees had the
highest median compensation ($200,000). Beneficiaries with doctorate degrees had the lowest
median compensation ($99,000), while beneficiaries with bachelor’s degrees had a median
compensation of $116,000. Beneficiaries with professional degrees also had the widest
distribution of incomes. Twenty-five percent of all beneficiaries’ incomes were at $90,000,
while 25 percent of all beneficiaries’ incomes reached $159,000. Professional degrees include
medical and law degrees, among others. See Appendix D, Table 11.
Figure 13. Annual Compensation of H-1B Beneficiaries by Level of Education, FY 2024

This figure shows 25th Percentile, 50th percentile, and 75th percentile broken down by Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctorate, Professional Degree, and all Beneficiaries. For all beneficiaries, it's $90,000 at the 25th percentile, $120,000 at the 50th percentile, and $159,000 at the 75th percentile. For the individual breakdowns, the 25th percentile ranges from around $70,000 for a doctorate to just under $100,000 for a Master's Degree. The 50th percentile ranges from a low of just under $100,000 for a doctorate to $200,000 for a professional degree, and the 75th percentile ranges from a low of just under $150,000 for a doctorate to nearly $300,000 for a professional degree.

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · 26d

How is blocking 3.7% of trade „choking”??

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Stéphane Houle @stephanehoule.bsky.social · Sep 13

Metallicum. I think I win?

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Sep 13

They forgot the obligatory „archeologists were stunned/ shocked”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 12

“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words”

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

zeteo.com

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh, no, Latin America wakes up and votes for #Azurite, team #Kosmochlor, we are in danger!

LeSuPer @lesuper.bsky.uy · Sep 9

9no encuentro en #MinCup25 con los contendientes Cosmoclor #Kosmochlor raro mineral verde y Azurita #Azurite de azul intensos.

Yo voté Azurita pero está muy parejo. ¿Vos?

www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wow, natural coronene!

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our pre-print on a surprising (and surprisingly simple) connection between oo-pCCD and UpCCD, and its application to singlet initial state preparation for QPE, with very shallow circuits and without variational optimization arxiv.org/abs/2508.21679
#QuantumComputing
⚛️🧪

A simple method for seniority-zero quantum state preparation

Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE), the quantum algorithm for estimating eigenvalues of a given Hermitian matrix and preparing its eigenvectors, is considered the most promising approach to finding the gr...

arxiv.org

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hi, I’m Michal Krompiec, a physical chemist / chemical physicist scholar.google.com/citations?us...

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our pre-print on a surprising (and surprisingly simple) connection between oo-pCCD and UpCCD, and its application to singlet initial state preparation for QPE, with very shallow circuits and without variational optimization arxiv.org/abs/2508.21679
#QuantumComputing

A simple method for seniority-zero quantum state preparation

Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE), the quantum algorithm for estimating eigenvalues of a given Hermitian matrix and preparing its eigenvectors, is considered the most promising approach to finding the gr...

arxiv.org

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Aug 30

Look, I love Bernie. But I can’t not enjoy Newsom trolling the 🍊💩. Anyway, I live in the UK so it doesn’t matter

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sure. He ain’t a saint. But he’s effective in rallying people against Trump better than most Dems and that’s what matters most.

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you care about protecting children from abuse, it is necessary that you understand who the actual child sexual predators are.

Who Is The Average Child Sexual Predator?

Child molesters are as equally married, educated, employed, and religious as any other Americans.

rlstollar.com

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Michal Krompiec @mkrompiec.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fascinating “…theory that the brain uses rem sleep to “learn” the body”

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 29

Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.

What Are Dreams For?

Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.

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