Matt Reed

Types of quantum computing papers @xkcd

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

A 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Yale Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics Michel Devoret “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” Learn more: bit.ly/4o85UO7 #Yale #NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

@Noahpinion Surprised they missed Einstein.

Jesus Christ, these fucking people.

@SnazzyLabs It's especially poetic that there are randomly two different dates. "1896!!!! ... also 1847?"

I will never fail to get a laugh out of people to think Utah’s old state flag is better than the new one. It’s literally a seal on a Windows 95 background color. How can you get a worse flag than that?

@mattyglesias @wirraone And you're required to take mass transit to get to your polling place.

⚠️POWERFUL & DAMAGING SANTA ANA WINDSTORM INCOMING!!⚠️ Take action now to prepare your home and loved ones for another round of EXTREME WIND and FIRE WEATHER, staring tomorrow afternoon! Worst winds Mon afternoon - Tue morning. #CAwx #SantaAnaWinds

Heads up! Strong, locally damaging, NE/E winds will affect West LA Co. & much of Ventura Co thru Wednesday. Critical fire weather is expected, so PLEASE have multiple ways of getting notifications in case of new fires & prepare ahead of time. #venturacounty #LA #Cawx #Socal

#KennethFire: Evacuation warning requested for Hidden Hills and Agoura Hills as well as an evacuation warning issued to residents in Oak Park area near Kanan Road and Agoura Road, east of Kanan Road to Deer Hill.

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

If Republican leaders don't enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.

The starkest reality of this race is that it's inconceivable that Donald Trump would ever sacrifice his ego or his personal interests for some larger cause.

An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

@ZaidJilani @chrislhayes Normalize the government taking risks. If everything works, they're leaving a lot of potential good undone.

This is *by far* the most successful industrial policy of my life: creating thousands of good paying jobs, turbo charging the green transition, and as much as we talk about it on the show (which is a lot!) has had approximately zero political effect whatsoever.

@mattyglesias Yeah the situational awareness guy is like “I’m optimistic that we’ll cobble together a heuristic solution to setting goals and ethics for our superintelligent alien god that will rule humanity for the next billion years. If we get our OPSEC right, we might have a year to do it.”

If you believe anything remotely resembling this pace of progress is likely to continue, things are going to get weird really fast. situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/upl…

@Liv_Lanes Update: the same dude emailed me again this morning

@thisismattreed If they send me multiple emails I respond “I will never be interested. Please hesitate to contact me again.”

I hate it when salespeople follow up with me by asking “did you see my previous message???” Like obviously yes, I deleted it to be nice. And now you’re forcing me to be mean.

@Liv_Lanes Basically my core competency

I don’t know why we bother with job titles anymore. At the end of the day we all have the same job: making PowerPoints.

@jayvanbavel All those data are consistent with no effect?

Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to: -decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29% -decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43% -increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bits…