Paul Guinnessy
@paulguinnessy.bsky.social
Physicist, Journalist, Director of Digital Experience. All views are my own, not my employer. Fan of Film Festivals, Opera, and theater. Believer in buying two books for every one leaving the house. Unlikely to respond to DMs unless I know you.
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So I have a job going: Solutions Architect, responsible for designing and implementing effective and scalable technology solutions that meet the needs of an organization that delivers programs and services to a federation of scientific societies. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
This house is describe as beautiful but the front design just burns my eyes with all the angles. It looks like 3 designs piled on top of one another, which for a new build from 2010 is crazy. (Yours for 'only' $2.4 million)
For sale: Impressive, modern home in Bethesda’s Huntington Terrace neighborhood
This Bethesda home for sale offers modern interiors, a spacious floor plan and a prime location.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This house is describe as beautiful but the front design just burns my eyes with all the angles. It looks like 3 designs piled on top of one another, which for a new build from 2010 is crazy. (Yours for 'only' $2.4 million)
Well well well.
NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Well well well.
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A reminder that the US 'diplomat' has no background in diplomacy/
The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A reminder that the US 'diplomat' has no background in diplomacy/
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Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
The U.S.-Russia plan demands that Ukraine concede territory, reduce its army and abandon efforts to join NATO. The U.S. offered security guarantees which are not clearly outlined.
The U.S. wants Ukraine to sign it by 27 Nov.
The U.S.-Russia plan demands that Ukraine concede territory, reduce its army and abandon efforts to join NATO. The U.S. offered security guarantees which are not clearly outlined.
The U.S. wants Ukraine to sign it by 27 Nov.
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
The U.S.-Russia plan demands that Ukraine concede territory, reduce its army and abandon efforts to join NATO. The U.S. offered security guarantees which are not clearly outlined.
The U.S. wants Ukraine to sign it by 27 Nov.
The U.S.-Russia plan demands that Ukraine concede territory, reduce its army and abandon efforts to join NATO. The U.S. offered security guarantees which are not clearly outlined.
The U.S. wants Ukraine to sign it by 27 Nov.
I mean, I live in an area that doesn't suffer climate shocks like down south and my insurance has more than doubled over 3 years.
This is The Great Climate Insurance Collapse coming at us. Republicans look away because it’s what their fossil fuel industry donors demand.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I mean, I live in an area that doesn't suffer climate shocks like down south and my insurance has more than doubled over 3 years.
As stated, it's a surrender, not a peace plan. Which makes me wonder what the pay off for Trump is? (Apart from that ego. How he thinks he brought peace to 8 wars already I don't know).
2/ There are no provisions in the reported peace plan in which Russia makes any concessions, and ISW continues to assess that accepting Russian demands would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As stated, it's a surrender, not a peace plan. Which makes me wonder what the pay off for Trump is? (Apart from that ego. How he thinks he brought peace to 8 wars already I don't know).
If Trump shot someone on 5th Avenue. On what page would the #BrokenTimes report it?
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If Trump shot someone on 5th Avenue. On what page would the #BrokenTimes report it?
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My response as a college would to say, bring it on: it is time to start attacking executive order to the states or private entities that are not federal agencies, www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u.... An executive order is an instruction to a federal agency.
Justice Dept. Sues California Over College Benefits for Undocumented Students
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This does not surprise me. It reminds me of that saying that you learn from your failures, not your successes #AI
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This does not surprise me. It reminds me of that saying that you learn from your failures, not your successes #AI
LinkedIn has gone from "connect and network to people you know" to "I'm a random person trying to show how important I am by having as many connections as possible without explaining why I'm trying to connect to you"
So if I'm ignoring your request, that's why. An introduction helps.
So if I'm ignoring your request, that's why. An introduction helps.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
LinkedIn has gone from "connect and network to people you know" to "I'm a random person trying to show how important I am by having as many connections as possible without explaining why I'm trying to connect to you"
So if I'm ignoring your request, that's why. An introduction helps.
So if I'm ignoring your request, that's why. An introduction helps.
Last time they were really close to picking a site was 2007.....
So call me skeptical.
So call me skeptical.
U.S. Army chooses nine sites for possible microreactor by 2030
www.ans.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Last time they were really close to picking a site was 2007.....
So call me skeptical.
So call me skeptical.
The posturing is really counting on the UK having self discipline.
Russian spy ship enters UK waters and aims lasers at military pilots, Britain says
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/u...
Russian spy ship enters British waters and directs lasers at military pilots | CNN
A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and directed lasers at military pilots, Britain’s defense secretary said Wednesday, as he warned that the country was facing a “new era of threat” from ho...
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The posturing is really counting on the UK having self discipline.
“This year the number of centenarians reached very nearly a hundred thousand. When the survey started in 1963, there were just 153. In 1981 there were a thousand; in 1998 ten thousand. Japan now produces more nappies for incontinent adults than for infants.”
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
“This year the number of centenarians reached very nearly a hundred thousand. When the survey started in 1963, there were just 153. In 1981 there were a thousand; in 1998 ten thousand. Japan now produces more nappies for incontinent adults than for infants.”
And these are just the numbers we know about, not the ones we don't. (and I suspect its even worse than this implies).
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
And these are just the numbers we know about, not the ones we don't. (and I suspect its even worse than this implies).
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Mine were off by default so this may be an uneven rollout (or it hasn't activated yet and I'll need to check back periodically, yay). I just don't know why you'd damage trust in your products like this. Anyway, on web, this is where you look:
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Mine were off by default so this may be an uneven rollout (or it hasn't activated yet and I'll need to check back periodically, yay). I just don't know why you'd damage trust in your products like this. Anyway, on web, this is where you look:
The administration is now experiencing what they typically do to Schumer and Harkin: Lucy whips the ball away from Charlie Brown just before they kick it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The administration is now experiencing what they typically do to Schumer and Harkin: Lucy whips the ball away from Charlie Brown just before they kick it.
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreid5rog4gjpv3qeneunmoyqxoesnuxac2srp3u6ppnjdxphfv7jcoe@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The EU has a very clear two-point plan: first, weaken Russia; second, support Ukraine.
Sanctions are hitting Russia hard.
The export of Russian crude oil is at its lowest. And tax revenues from oil are the lowest since the war started.
My press remarks following today's FAC link.europa.eu/VDdpDw
Sanctions are hitting Russia hard.
The export of Russian crude oil is at its lowest. And tax revenues from oil are the lowest since the war started.
My press remarks following today's FAC link.europa.eu/VDdpDw
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The EU has a very clear two-point plan: first, weaken Russia; second, support Ukraine.
Sanctions are hitting Russia hard.
The export of Russian crude oil is at its lowest. And tax revenues from oil are the lowest since the war started.
My press remarks following today's FAC link.europa.eu/VDdpDw
Sanctions are hitting Russia hard.
The export of Russian crude oil is at its lowest. And tax revenues from oil are the lowest since the war started.
My press remarks following today's FAC link.europa.eu/VDdpDw
Stacyann Nelson has been recognized for research to understand fundamental properties of hadronic matter at high energies and for inspiring students to become leaders in physics research; Christian Aganze receives Honorable Mention.
2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award Goes to Morgan State University Assistant Professor Stacyann Nelson - AIP.ORG
Stacyann Nelson recognized for research to understand fundamental properties of hadronic matter at high energies and for inspiring students to become leaders in physics research; Christian Aganze rece...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Stacyann Nelson has been recognized for research to understand fundamental properties of hadronic matter at high energies and for inspiring students to become leaders in physics research; Christian Aganze receives Honorable Mention.
Thousands of toxic sites, such as coastal power plants, sewage treatment facilities and defunct defence installations, are at risk of increased flooding because of sea-level rise. And you won't be surprised that low income communities are particularly affected.
As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites - Inside Climate News
Flooding from surging seas is likely to inundate thousands of U.S. hazardous sites in coming years as global temperatures rise, placing the nation’s most vulnerable at greatest risk.
insideclimatenews.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thousands of toxic sites, such as coastal power plants, sewage treatment facilities and defunct defence installations, are at risk of increased flooding because of sea-level rise. And you won't be surprised that low income communities are particularly affected.
As an alternative to the h-index Jemielniak proposes a new metric — the j-index — calculated as the total weight, in kilograms, of all publications a scientist has authored, over the number of years since the author earned their doctorate. "real scholarship has weight,” he says.
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As an alternative to the h-index Jemielniak proposes a new metric — the j-index — calculated as the total weight, in kilograms, of all publications a scientist has authored, over the number of years since the author earned their doctorate. "real scholarship has weight,” he says.
Ethicists and neurotech developers are now asking how previously inaccessible brain information should be handled and used as the results of recent experiments suggest we'll soon reach a point in which we will be able to 'see' a thought whether the user acts on it or not.
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Ethicists and neurotech developers are now asking how previously inaccessible brain information should be handled and used as the results of recent experiments suggest we'll soon reach a point in which we will be able to 'see' a thought whether the user acts on it or not.
If the #AIBubble pops then it might be good for #academia. Scientists forced out of one sector can take innovation into another. Redundancies in the tech industry could also drive AI researchers back into academia, which has struggled to attract top AI talent.
If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research?
The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have knock-on effects for funding and jobs.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM