Proof that Twitter operates in its own touchless-grass reality: in the real world, 99% of people never mask unless forced to. On Twitter, the 0.5% of people who mask “sometimes” are hounded and scolded pic.twitter.com/e9yerfDlPs

— my [69F] boyfriend [420M] is texting other girls (@CartoonsHateHer) February 13, 2023

True. I was recently in some large airports in the US. Out of the maybe 10,000 people I saw with my own eyes, two were in masks. Two that I noticed (and I’m good at noticing things). Masks are done and over.

Quantum Entanglement Isn’t All That Spooky After All.

This is a fucking terrible article — even though I agree with it! It doesn’t explain anything or really offer any reason why quantum entanglement isn’t spooky. It’s just hand-waving without any depth.

QE isn’t spooky because it just falls out of how the universe seems to work and it’s obvious when you understand it. But it also is completely against our macro intuitions and means local reality isn’t “real” in a very meaningful sense. And that actually is a very odd (I won’t say “spooky”) thing. This person could’ve done a lot better job of expanding on that but couldn’t in service of making a poorly-reasoned point.

Terrible non-explanation for something that is in fact counterintuitive to our notions about how the universe works.