Torbjörn Björkman

Knower of physics. Player of music. Mostly interested.

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2024-11-14 21:14:21

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@nprofile…rqr2 Helplessly laughing at the major 10th. Whoever put this together know their stuff.

2023-12-18 17:35:24

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@npub1tel…4v4v Funny, I remember posting almost exactly that when the stupid dog appeared in place of the blue bird.

2023-11-03 00:00:41

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@npub1sfl…gczt Should I understand this as you not having any fucks to give, or none to take?

2023-10-17 18:00:15

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@npub1tel…4v4v I'm sad about that one that doesn't turn into Led Zeppelin no matter how many times I read it.

2023-10-09 16:21:32

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@npub1tel…4v4v Would you go a match with Chaucer though?

2023-10-09 11:01:28

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@npub1ks7…eg5u The story of von Laue's and Franck's Nobel medals is one of my all time favourite physics anecdotes (unless it's chemistry).
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize

2023-10-03 19:00:43

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@npub1tel…4v4v Do you think they might loosen the dress code enough to allow for Boris Johnson?

2023-09-21 12:14:44

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@npub1tel…4v4v All was fun and games until the host discreetly let slip a "citoyen Windsor".
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/103/079/280/531/628/original/eefde766e5cf065c.png

2023-09-20 20:29:11

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@npub1tel…4v4v Please! The rockets do nothing so crude as "unexpectedly explode". They "unscheduledly disassemble".
You could hurt someone's feelings talking like that.

2023-09-18 19:51:44

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@npub1tel…4v4v Firstly: You are awsome, you really are.
Secondly: The Onion...
https://www.theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838

2023-09-14 12:29:12

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@npub1rdr…wdjz I'm feeling very stupid for not knowing this already, but why is the average temperature of the Earth fluctuating over the year? Is it the northern hemisphere having less heat buffering due to having more land and less water?

2023-09-14 12:29:12

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2023-09-10 21:42:04

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@npub1xwd…68g6 I attended my grandfather's funeral, spent the evening talking with a couple of my siblings and knew nothing of the Twin Towers until noonish 9/12. At which point I felt stupid about my ignorance, not appreciating how lucky I had been to get to go through that day minding the business at hand, undisturbed and uninterrupted with no news from around the world bombarding me. That has become obvious only in later years.

2023-09-10 19:23:39

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@npub1ulm…hweg Those were primitive times! Noone could know back then that the best way to lure a troll to bite is to post something negative about Elon Musk.

2023-09-02 19:23:52

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@npub1tel…4v4v So Brexit is still on the Brits. Go figure.

2023-08-31 20:29:43

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@npub1ept…jcl3 #bloomscrolling

2023-08-30 17:21:10

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@npub1tel…4v4v A glorious opportunity was missed when they went for "boost" instead of "honk" for that feature.

2023-08-25 23:58:25

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@npub1lrv…tth9 'Build us, on
what's left
of our API'

2023-08-25 22:40:47

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@npub1ulm…hweg This is probably behind a paywall and not likely in a language you read, but in any case, this piece cheered me up here in Finland. A digest (the first bit's from the lead):
"Oliver Helander got onto the finals without impressing.
...
'Good thing there were so many that were worse than me', says Helander to Yle."
(Yle is the Finnish public broadcast company)
https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/2609bc08-522d-5ca8-b4c4-b4413f6066fa

2023-08-25 22:39:23

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2023-08-25 21:07:15

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@npub1ulm…hweg Family rewatch of Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
It's really interesting what you arrive at if you insist that everyone *really agree* to watch a movie, and not just buy someone off with getting to pick the next one.

2023-08-20 20:44:40

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@npub1qw5…037m Well, at least that fiasco, from my first year at university, still provides me with a backdrop for when I give my first-year university students problems with imperial unit conversion in them. Which would otherwise make precious little sense to do for physicists here in Finland.

2023-08-15 19:55:49

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@npub15qw…3p2z Credit to @npub1e6y…2dfn
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/895/386/018/503/945/original/ba8b31735cd88eab.mp4

2023-08-15 19:35:34

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@npub15qw…3p2z https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@_L1vY_@mstdn.social/110891721988080693

2023-08-06 21:42:29

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@npub15qw…3p2z That goes down in my book as one of the finest initial sentences of a hatchet job I've ever read.

2023-08-05 00:46:06

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@npub15qw…3p2z The thing you need to hear is at 44.32 really.
But the whole thing is an education, as always.
https://mastodon.social/users/Popehat/statuses/110792123789090889
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/834/237/075/273/430/original/3b81dace7beb1774.png

2023-08-03 22:48:39

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@npub15qw…3p2z I see your reasoning (I think).
A cop would in Sweden be treated in a completely separate court system dealing exclusively with administrative law. You can't really 'sue' the government in Sweden (although you can in the ECJ). That does not mean that there's no reprieve, since there's a whole separate court system for dealing with that.
BTW, a jury is only ever used in Sweden for freedom of speech cases.
My clock here is 1.45 AM, and I'll file this under 'it's complicated' for now.

2023-08-03 22:34:58

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@npub15qw…3p2z Deleting and reframing:
I'm curious to learn how this makes justice less accessible to the poor.
I should probably say that I have the feeling that, compared to the US, civil litigation is almost vanishingly rare in the Nordic countries (I'm a Swede residing in Finland). To my eye, your court records sometimes look a bit like our 18'th century stuff, when people would go to court for someone pissing across a fence over to their neighbour.

2023-08-03 22:29:49

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@npub15qw…3p2z Even present public defenders?

2023-08-03 22:27:30

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@npub15qw…3p2z Let me try a question: In Swedish civil litigation, the losing party essentially *always* pays the other party's legal fees. This was a point hammered into me already in high school as part of basic civics.
Thumb up or down?

2023-08-02 01:04:56

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@npub1tel…4v4v i doubt i though

2023-07-14 21:23:12

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@npub1tel…4v4v OK, now you're just doing The Onion headlines. That's cheating, that's just doing blindingly obvious next month's news.

2023-07-12 07:42:42

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@npub1tel…4v4v Music for the grand celebration
https://youtu.be/44JYKgaPuQo

2023-07-10 22:12:32

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@npub1q2t…jr8a This makes for one hell* of a pendant to Nirvana's "Come as you are"
*Or heaven. Your pick really.

2023-07-10 22:09:22

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@npub1q2t…jr8a "Yet, even so, you won't roam taller,
mere veneer to my earthen sky.
The Ground

2023-07-06 21:53:07

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@npub1tel…4v4v This breadth?
https://mastodon.social/users/MissingThePt/statuses/110666804207084288

2023-07-06 21:50:58

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@npub1tel…4v4v https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/110666804207084288

2023-07-06 21:50:04

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@npub1tel…4v4v https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/110666804207084288

2023-07-04 03:47:47

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@npub1tel…4v4v Good. Better avoid that PhD temptation. This is what I advise my students

2023-07-03 14:17:09

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@npub15qw…3p2z But... but... I thought all I had to do was listen to your podcast?
Here we go with the add-ons...

2023-07-02 08:12:09

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@npub1ate…wkt8 If you go to elk.fedified.com you find an elk fork by @npub1shx…mkqp which adds QT's (which I insist is pronounced 'quoot') and some other stuff.
Choose your app wisely, and (since you won't crumble to dust if you pick the wrong one) shop around liberally for one you like better.

2023-07-02 06:06:03

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@npub16zx…xzxc The last 24 hours hasn't done anything to convince me that Elon is competent enough to execute such a scheme consciously though. And Twitter still allows for community building outside of the algorithmic feed (which means the 'Following' tab will probably be gone before soon...)
When I've been over there lately it seems people I follow exist in a bubble that works roughly like Mastodon, with people only ever reading followings and follows.

2023-07-02 05:37:14

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@npub16zx…xzxc I can totally buy that. I now froth at the mouth at the sight of a Tesla.

2023-07-01 19:36:38

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@npub1tel…4v4v Or they would have, but the bandwidth ran out at "And Fin", and they aren't able to work out what comes next.

2023-07-01 19:09:05

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@npub1lsl…9c2x Thank you for clarifying, I seriously thought it was someone's joke.

2023-06-25 13:12:06

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@npub1tel…4v4v Protip: Do not under any circumstances more favourable than a loaded gun pointed at your head take this job.

2023-06-20 15:13:16

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@npub15qw…3p2z Is Title 26 the one with the stubborn stains?

2023-06-15 11:36:58

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@npub1q2t…jr8a Love the slight ambiguity of the phrase "Any complaint [...] should be at once reported"
Also, I hope people liked sweat corn and stewed figs, or there would have been long lines building outside the loo.

2023-06-15 09:49:06

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@npub1q2t…jr8a Looks like it's got the chimney pipe next to the pantry which is... a choice I guess. If you want to heat your pantry.
I'm guessing these were designed for the warmer parts of the country?

2023-06-13 23:39:33

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@npub1lsl…9c2x @npub1fhd…q58c Speaking of folks here, where are you? Would a follower here want to be there?

2023-06-13 21:09:38

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@npub15qw…3p2z Prompt: an emo legal Cassandra
I bristle at almost every attempt to use AI for the things AI people want to use it for, but I think I've discovered it's Place In This World: generating illustrations of great Popehat phrases.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/538/950/674/702/124/original/c51795da0d5ddb84.png

2023-06-09 23:38:07

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@npub15qw…3p2z That's OK. You tell him we love him anyway.

2023-05-05 18:37:31

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@npub15qw…3p2z Grateful for your clarification that I shouldn't things likely to incriminate me in future court cases in my memoirs. Useful stuff! For US purposes anyway.
Speaking of which, perhaps you should consider officially making today shut-up-in-court-day?
May The Fifth Be With You.

2023-04-21 22:37:01

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#[0] Reading this feels like picking up your binoculars and watching the NYT pitchbot through a very long tunnel that, most improbably, passes through a House of Fun's distorting mirror's section.

2023-04-21 05:56:11

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#[0] Unlike others in this thread I did not read "composting moderation". But I *did* read it with Monty Python's "Decomposing composers" playing in the back of my head.

2023-04-21 05:26:45

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#[0] Somewhere in the Twitter Blue mess there's a decent analogy to a corporation coming to a rainforest, spotting the value in the vibrant eco system, buying the land, razing the forest to plant a monoculture and then being all shock and surprise when the fertile land erodes away.

2023-04-03 15:22:24

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#[0] It's a crazy well-composed piece. I remember practicing just the string part in a chamber orchestra many years ago. You could play large sections with just the strings without anything else like a stand-alone string serenade.
Sadly, you can't make out a lot of those gorgeous details with the full ensemble.

2023-04-03 15:05:22

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#[0] Shouldn't a prosecutor be more likely to go "Nonono, not a gag order. I asked for a RECORDER."

2023-03-23 09:49:34

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#[0] You know, you *could* have been nice and revealed to the media that you told the Manhattan District Attorney to wait for you to get back from your vacation.