I've been working on a presentation for a collaboration meeting this week, and I'm honestly devastated that this slide couldn't make the cut

Watch once more as the powers at be chip away at the American psyche and manufacture consent to send us into another forever war. If we go to war, we will be told for the next some odd number of years that we don't "support the troops" for not wanting them to be sent overseas to die.

In case anybody forgot, it was the first Trump administration that got us **out** of the Iran Nuclear Deal, which Iran was following according to reporting from the IAEA at the time.

There's just something about the juxtaposition of this news headline and photo that feels like it encapsulates the absurdity of living through history while also living in it.

My heart goes out to the victims of the obscene attack that happened yesterday on Pearl Street in Boulder. For the delegitimization of a legitimate cause, both the blood of the victims of yesterday's attack and that of the children of Palestine are on his hands.

abcnews.go.com/US/victims-a...

Every time you see a story of an activist being detained for standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine, remember that it is because of stories like these.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

Mwahahaha! I managed to write a custom tensor datatype for SwissFit (Python) that runs SIMD-vectorized Nim code in the backend that typically achieves a 3x-4x speedup over NumPy on elementary arithmetic operations performed over reasonably-sized arrays (O(10)-O(1000) entries).

Achieving sub-percent precision on many important observables/parameters of the Standard Model is cool and all, but can we really say that lattice QCD has evolved as a field until we've decided to start referring to "4-tori" as "4-dimensional hyperdoughnuts"?

I had a wonderful time at my first in-person USQCD All-Hands meeting in Maryland this week! It is always so wonderful to come back from a big meeting feeling invigorated to keep pushing on the research that matters to you.

I swear, if we had the modern-day Gestapo busting people's doors down in the US, we'd still have ~50% of the folks here saying, "idk, maybe we should hear them out". Shoot, we'd have a whole culture war over people feeling persecuted for being scolded over considering Gestapo apologia.

I was very happy to see our twelve-flavor dataset being used for its intended purpose. The entire scientific community benefits when we value cooperation over competition!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.03593

here's a quick pointer for all you devs: 0xcff6e3d1

Not even a month in, and has become clear that we're witnessing a coup led by the oligarchs and encouraged by our fragile institutions. This is a time for class solidarity. While us and the rest of the world burns, remember that it is the oligarch robber barons that started the fire and tended to it

Beer + fibre bundles! A principal connection!

Some bulbs just don't burn that bright.
Courtesy: @theravenness.bsky.social

What I had to learn the hard way this week: Long Island is, in fact, quite long

Though it is difficult, I highly recommend taking a moment to see for yourself what Gaza, and especially northern Gaza, looks like. While you do, remember that it was our US tax dollars that contributed to leveling entire neighborhoods through "precision strikes" targeting "Hamas fighters".

Now that war with Mexico is potentially on the table, I think it's appropriate to say that we may have hit the nuclear Gandhi stage of Sid Meier's Civilization

Unsolicited opinion: please, for the love of god, stop putting "ab initio" in paper titles. Literally nothing is "ab initio".