Robert McNees

@mcnees

Professor, physicist, sci comm. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Tar Heel. RT = spooky action at a distance. Opinions are mine alone.

Chicago, z=0
Joined June 2008

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    24 Jul 2015
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  2. 6 hours ago
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  3. 7 hours ago

    "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees." Newton recounted the story of a falling apple to the writer William Stukeley, who included it in "The Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life."

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    The easy solution is that committee accounts should just be used for scheduling/official business, and each party can have a separate account. It's absurd they don't do it that way.

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  5. 9 hours ago

    That is, there are some situations where you want to follow someone to their new account, and others where you want to stick with an official account when it changes hands. Probably best to just ask users what they want to do each time.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    Twitter got an earful in 2017 when they did it the other way, having Obama followers automatically follow Trump’s POTUS account. Maybe just set all official accounts to zero at a transition and send folks a message with option to refollow.

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  7. 12 hours ago

    I’m curious to know if this is how it was done in 2011, when the GOP took the majority. The account was created in 2009 when the Dems were in control.

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  8. 12 hours ago

    Hrm. So this wasn’t underhanded, but it was extremely dumb. The idea that most of those 168k followers wanted to follow , rather than the official account, doesn’t make sense.

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    12 hours ago
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    It's always been the Republicans' twitter account. If you've been following the Democrats as well, you will now be automatically following the main committee account. They did the same thing with the websites; the Dem website is now the main website. It's not nefarious.

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  10. 13 hours ago

    If you were following before yesterday, Twitter switched you over to the GOP account and didn’t add the official committee account to your follows. You have to do it manually.

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  11. 13 hours ago

    🚨Please follow and UNFOLLOW . 🚨 The outgoing committee switched the name of the account instead of handing it over to the Dems, taking all the followers with them. Not sure why allowed this.

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  12. 13 hours ago

    Hello, I’m the older of the two detectives in a cop buddy movie. I’m a few weeks away from retirement, and I’m getting too old for this sh*t.

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  13. 13 hours ago

    Hello, I'm a professor in a movie. I am never seen grading papers, ever.

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica," which lays out his laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation, was published in 1687. You can page through Newton's own annotated copy, courtesy of the Cambridge Library:

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  15. 14 hours ago

    The physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton was born in 1643, according to the modern Gregorian calendar. He revolutionized mathematics and our understanding of mechanics, gravity, and optics, Portrait: Barrington Bramley, after Godfrey Kneller ()

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  16. 14 hours ago

    “We have seen the human toll of treating urgent medical intervention as a luxury good, but the idea of retooling our politics to actually sustain human life was nevertheless, and continues to be, framed as the truly preposterous thing.”

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  17. 14 hours ago

    Pretty good address.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    Sputnik 1, the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, re-entered the atmosphere and burned up in 1958. Image:

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    20 hours ago

    Hello, I'm an editor in a movie. I want more pictures of the Spider-Man

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  20. 21 hours ago

    I slept so well last night, probably because Paul Ryan is finally gone from government.

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  21. Jan 3

    AOC has been mocked for growing up in a house, for wearing appropriate clothes to work, and now this. It doesn't slow her down a bit. That "anonymousQ1776" idiot couldn't even take a little heat for his dumb tweet without deleting his account. What a coward.

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