His ability to incite extremism is at a level of fundamentalism.
If he were a person of colour, he would be deemed a global terrorist.
This Friday, SpaceX will list and global greed prevails. He will become even more powerful and wealthy.
PoC and other minorities have to pay the price for this.
So many great talks today from many of our PhD cohorts!
Good day to get across a lot of the work going on in our school -- from modelling Ovarian cancers, to looking for ionisation in the tails of Jellyfish galaxies, and a super interesting talk on what "rotation" actually is!
The most powerful thing you can do, even if you are in other countries, is move away from the money making machines he has.
Twitter is is global propaganda machine.
Extinguish its power by not using it, asking your legislative reps, your media dept's, your friends/family, etc. to stop using it.
Many of us, in particular from minorities, said this in the dying days of Twitter.
We have been saying this for years now (from 2024 below)
Minorities are the first to be subjected to the harm and violence because powerful white supremacists deem it so.
*MOST DANGEROUS PERSON ON THE PLANET*
If you've never felt the fear and anxiety, even from half a world away, when a single bad actor is used as the example to deem an entire race, nationality, or community as 'the enemy', then consider yourself to be extremely privileged.
Every Middle Eastern person, since 9/11, will attest to this.
"Fellows shall not act or fail to act in any way which would […] bring the Society into disrepute." But this morning ministers condemned Elon Musk FRS for enabling violence on the streets of Belfast. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Would the @royalsociety.org like to comment?
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Heading in to campus to hear lots of cool science talks from the HDR students, and also present some of my results on the pesky pulsars too!
Looking forward to seeing how the other students work is progressing -- will try and share some stuff if it is allowed through the day.
Dream on, white dwarf
Dream on, black hole
And wake up to a brand new day
To find your white dwarf shredded away
(sorry for the earworm for those that know the song!)
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Stephen Curry
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.