My favorite composite from a storm over Saguaro National Park in 2022. I had the rainbow, the saguaros, but the bolt never landed. Adding that in from another lightning shot I got yielded this pretty merged shot. And yes, I have about 60 legit lightning / rainbow shots.
As @whstancil.bsky.social has pointed out, Musk is making a massive intervention in the election, in a way that’s possibly unprecedented in US history
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There's deeply cynical and then there's things which might be illegal. In the first category we have an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities with diametrically opposed ads…
I should do better. Therefore, short 🧵! Traditional quantum mechanics, a la Bohr/Heisenberg and codified by von Neumann, posits two different kinds of quantum evolution. The system obeys the Schrödinger equation, *except* when it is measured. Two processes: unitary evolution, and measurement. (1/n)
Where and when I was growing up, “secular humanists” were about as despised as any category of people could be. I’ve long since become secular as hell, but I never did become a humanist. It’s safe to say that I never will.
Thing is, some physicists did actually entertain this idea for a while. Almost all of us have long since moved on to better ideas. (From Ross Douthat’s column on new books for God.)
There is a variety of theist that likes nothing more than to notice a temporary puzzlement among scientists, and quickly leap in to declare victory. It’s a good racket, as science will never run out of temporary puzzlements.
Remember when we thought the good guys in Silicon Valley would save us from the bad guys on Wall Street? Gift link.
Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.