Michael Sinko, PhD
@physburgh.bsky.social
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I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
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Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
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September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
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Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
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this isn't the usual context in which you see libertarianism and a 13-year-old
Obituary: Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident
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Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident
It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.
www.thenerdreich.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
this isn't the usual context in which you see libertarianism and a 13-year-old
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Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.
The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party
But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection
From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
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My kitchen is my workshop. I got an induction stove two months ago. It is faster, cleaner, better in every way than my old gas stove. I worried that I'd miss gas, but now I'll never want to go back.
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection
From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.
www.bloomberg.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My kitchen is my workshop. I got an induction stove two months ago. It is faster, cleaner, better in every way than my old gas stove. I worried that I'd miss gas, but now I'll never want to go back.
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No, Prasad is bad. Sometimes everyone involved is just bad.
August 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No, Prasad is bad. Sometimes everyone involved is just bad.
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I think a possibly useful constraint on chatgpt would be against user attempts to *personify* it. I notice in the hallucination/delusion cycles of people having breakdowns that giving it a 'name' seems to be a common trend.
August 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I think a possibly useful constraint on chatgpt would be against user attempts to *personify* it. I notice in the hallucination/delusion cycles of people having breakdowns that giving it a 'name' seems to be a common trend.
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Guy in Costco food court line:
‘yeah, I just come in here and buy exactly what I need.’🤯
‘I make my list before I come and I get exactly that.’ 🤯
‘How do you come here without a list? Wouldn’t you just buy everything then?’😭
Yes, Mr. Willpower, that is exactly what I do, and it makes me happy!!!
‘yeah, I just come in here and buy exactly what I need.’🤯
‘I make my list before I come and I get exactly that.’ 🤯
‘How do you come here without a list? Wouldn’t you just buy everything then?’😭
Yes, Mr. Willpower, that is exactly what I do, and it makes me happy!!!
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Guy in Costco food court line:
‘yeah, I just come in here and buy exactly what I need.’🤯
‘I make my list before I come and I get exactly that.’ 🤯
‘How do you come here without a list? Wouldn’t you just buy everything then?’😭
Yes, Mr. Willpower, that is exactly what I do, and it makes me happy!!!
‘yeah, I just come in here and buy exactly what I need.’🤯
‘I make my list before I come and I get exactly that.’ 🤯
‘How do you come here without a list? Wouldn’t you just buy everything then?’😭
Yes, Mr. Willpower, that is exactly what I do, and it makes me happy!!!
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Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest
William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
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"La théorie pédoconservatrice n'implique pas de réseaux secrets de tunnels souterrains où l'adrénochrome est récolté pour le compte de seigneurs reptiliens. Elle ne se cache pas sous douze couches de subterfuges. Elle est ancrée dans les fondements politiques de la droite réactionnaire."
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"La théorie pédoconservatrice n'implique pas de réseaux secrets de tunnels souterrains où l'adrénochrome est récolté pour le compte de seigneurs reptiliens. Elle ne se cache pas sous douze couches de subterfuges. Elle est ancrée dans les fondements politiques de la droite réactionnaire."
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What happens when you put Mehdi Hasan in a room full of 20 conservative? He owns them all.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “It’s a pretty big story. Maybe if you read the fake news, you might know.”
Watch Mehdi’s episode on ‘Surrounded’:
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@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “It’s a pretty big story. Maybe if you read the fake news, you might know.”
Watch Mehdi’s episode on ‘Surrounded’:
zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...
July 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What happens when you put Mehdi Hasan in a room full of 20 conservative? He owns them all.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “It’s a pretty big story. Maybe if you read the fake news, you might know.”
Watch Mehdi’s episode on ‘Surrounded’:
zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “It’s a pretty big story. Maybe if you read the fake news, you might know.”
Watch Mehdi’s episode on ‘Surrounded’:
zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...
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One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
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This is not the act of a legitimate government.
I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?
July 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
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Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.
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CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business Times
Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camari...
www.pacbiztimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.
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Xinis: When you talk about this, you conveniently leave out that your clients previously removed him in violation of a withholding order
Khojasteh: And I agree that happened....but I don't think you have jurisdiction to press pause
Xinis: Ok well I need to give my staff a break
10 minute recess
Khojasteh: And I agree that happened....but I don't think you have jurisdiction to press pause
Xinis: Ok well I need to give my staff a break
10 minute recess
July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Xinis: When you talk about this, you conveniently leave out that your clients previously removed him in violation of a withholding order
Khojasteh: And I agree that happened....but I don't think you have jurisdiction to press pause
Xinis: Ok well I need to give my staff a break
10 minute recess
Khojasteh: And I agree that happened....but I don't think you have jurisdiction to press pause
Xinis: Ok well I need to give my staff a break
10 minute recess
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Khojasteh: We return Abrego to the US
Xinis: After 3 months of telling me you couldn't...So I have a hard time believing that your clients are going to leave this to a desk officer
Khojasteh: That we didn't have power to return was honest and candid...when we could facilitate return, we did
Xinis: After 3 months of telling me you couldn't...So I have a hard time believing that your clients are going to leave this to a desk officer
Khojasteh: That we didn't have power to return was honest and candid...when we could facilitate return, we did
July 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Khojasteh: We return Abrego to the US
Xinis: After 3 months of telling me you couldn't...So I have a hard time believing that your clients are going to leave this to a desk officer
Khojasteh: That we didn't have power to return was honest and candid...when we could facilitate return, we did
Xinis: After 3 months of telling me you couldn't...So I have a hard time believing that your clients are going to leave this to a desk officer
Khojasteh: That we didn't have power to return was honest and candid...when we could facilitate return, we did
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Xinis: The desk officer will make the decision?
Khojasteh: Based on Giles testimony, yes
Xinis: You're telling me your clients are gonna leave it to a desk officer?.....It "defies reality" that this is going to be left to desk officer
Khojasteh: Based on Giles testimony, yes
Xinis: You're telling me your clients are gonna leave it to a desk officer?.....It "defies reality" that this is going to be left to desk officer
July 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Xinis: The desk officer will make the decision?
Khojasteh: Based on Giles testimony, yes
Xinis: You're telling me your clients are gonna leave it to a desk officer?.....It "defies reality" that this is going to be left to desk officer
Khojasteh: Based on Giles testimony, yes
Xinis: You're telling me your clients are gonna leave it to a desk officer?.....It "defies reality" that this is going to be left to desk officer
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fucking lovecraftian/lynchian horror dude, you start cynically dancing opportunistically for a few tax breaks or industry subsidies and you end up a genuine intellectual peer to Qanoners
July 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
fucking lovecraftian/lynchian horror dude, you start cynically dancing opportunistically for a few tax breaks or industry subsidies and you end up a genuine intellectual peer to Qanoners
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Honestly, him running for reelection wasn't the real fuckup; nominating Garland rather than a partisan attack dog was the biggest mistake of his presidency, and is the main reason we are where we are. The run-up to the 2022 elections should've been public trials of every criminal in Trump's orbit.
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Honestly, him running for reelection wasn't the real fuckup; nominating Garland rather than a partisan attack dog was the biggest mistake of his presidency, and is the main reason we are where we are. The run-up to the 2022 elections should've been public trials of every criminal in Trump's orbit.
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CA too. Play hardball Gavin. Hang them out to dry. They literally asked for this. My entire life it’s been a double standard where rural red areas get to shit on in both rhetoric and policy urban areas and then ask for and get bailouts from them. I’m fucking sick of it dude. Time to return fire.
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
CA too. Play hardball Gavin. Hang them out to dry. They literally asked for this. My entire life it’s been a double standard where rural red areas get to shit on in both rhetoric and policy urban areas and then ask for and get bailouts from them. I’m fucking sick of it dude. Time to return fire.
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Like obviously I don’t prefer a wave of deaths of despair to roll over the rurals, but they are literally the reason this happened. Fuck it. Give them what they want.
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Like obviously I don’t prefer a wave of deaths of despair to roll over the rurals, but they are literally the reason this happened. Fuck it. Give them what they want.
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NOTE: Intrinsically Safe in the non-proliferation sense is "safe from proliferation", not "safe for humans to be anywhere near".
Since some precursor materials also have non-proliferation concerns, we may similarly mark them with a gamma fingerprint. Or, more creatively, one that grows in.
Since some precursor materials also have non-proliferation concerns, we may similarly mark them with a gamma fingerprint. Or, more creatively, one that grows in.
June 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
NOTE: Intrinsically Safe in the non-proliferation sense is "safe from proliferation", not "safe for humans to be anywhere near".
Since some precursor materials also have non-proliferation concerns, we may similarly mark them with a gamma fingerprint. Or, more creatively, one that grows in.
Since some precursor materials also have non-proliferation concerns, we may similarly mark them with a gamma fingerprint. Or, more creatively, one that grows in.