David Ling

David Ling

@ddling.bsky.social

Widower, dad, granddad, dog lover, amateur musician, retired physicist/engineer/teacher, UMich grad, Harvard Physics PhD, U Chicago post-doc, IBM Research, ex-WHS faculty. Son of 2 KU profs.

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

The loss of Country Joe is particularly untimely. And it's 1-2-3 what are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, Next stop's gonna be Iran And it's 5-6-7 open up the pearly gates Ain't no time to reason why, whoopee we're all gonna die.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

If other people frequently say that you're great, you might well be. If you frequently say that you're great, you almost certainly are not, and probably have an Earth-sized hole in your soul, and are a deeply insecure person.

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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."

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Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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Maria Popova
@popovaprof.bsky.social

Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

The America I am proud of stands with beleaguered democracies under attack by authoritarian states led by tyrants. Not vice versa. So ashamed today... Slava Ukraini!

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

For 80 years, the US has benefitted from a world order in which free trade policies and mutual defense pacts among democratic allies has resulted in the $USD being the most favored currency, unprecedented absence of major wars, the increasing prosperity of its citizens and US technology leadership.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

The current administration is determined to blow all of this up. They are unleashing chaos on the world and will bring about a less prosperous and weaker US. They are hastening the end of the American century.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Our NATO allies can no longer view the US as a reliable partner. Not only can they not be sure the US would come to their defense if they were attacked by Russia, they can not be sure that the US would not intervene alongside Russia.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

The position of the US in world geopolitics has been immeasurably weakened and will remain so for years to come. America First is really America Alone -- and that is not a good thing.

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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comMusk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

When the inevitable Trump recession comes, we won't know how bad it is because the professionals in the Labor Dept who collect, collate, sort, organize and report labor statistics will have been fired and replaced by loyalist hacks who will fudge the numbers.

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Up until now, we've been like the small Catholic or Prep schools that recruit elite athletic talent in outsize numbers and win state championships year after year with small overall enrollment. 14/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Without drawing on the whole world's talent and generously funding our currently best-in-the-world research institutions, the US will find it harder to maintain its scientific and technological advantage. 15/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

We know a public high school with enrollment of 400 students will find it difficult to compete in athletics against a public school with 4000 students. It's why we have groups or divisions in high schools sports. 12/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

In recent years, we've been much less welcoming to our foreign science & engineering students. Our policies & attitudes have encouraged many students who in the past would have stayed here to enrich our universities & laboratories to instead return to their home countries. 10/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Soon (if not already) much of the best talent from around the world will prefer other destinations for higher education & research and we will be the poorer for it. 11/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

During 4+ decades as a research scientist/engineer, at Michigan, Harvard, Chicago, & IBM Research, I've been fortunate to work with many excellent foreign-born scientists and engineers. They were all enthusiastic contributors to the success of American science & technology. 9/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Many of these students decided they preferred to stay in the US, do cutting edge research and train the next generation of scientists. We welcomed them and they delivered for us. 6/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

For two or three generations, we have recruited many of the best science students from around the world, and the result has been that we have dominated science and technology, despite having only 5% of the world's population. 7/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

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David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

After World War II, as we increased our funding of university, government and industrial science and developed our national laboratory system, many of the very best science and engineering students from around the world came to the US to study. 5/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

This is a repost of a thread from the other place from 2020 commenting about Trump's policies that discouraged foreign grad students in STEM fields from coming to the US. It is newly relevant in light of Trump's vendetta against American Universities & Research Institutes. @jfallows.bsky.social

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Recently, some have suggested that we restrict foreign students, especially Chinese students, from studying technical subjects in our colleges and universities. I have some thoughts about that. 2/15 #R&D #Research #ResearchFunding #NSF

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

The transition of the United States from a scientific backwater to a titan of science and technology was accelerated by the immigration of the cream of European science between the World Wars. 3/15

David Ling
@ddling.bsky.social

Trump is soft on crime...

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

texastribune.orgHouston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex chargeAndrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

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David Rothschild
@davmicrot.bsky.social

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

One of the worst kept secrets in DC, that USAID postings are used as official cover by the intel community, seems to be on the verge of becoming even worse kept.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

also, knowing that USAID does democracy promotion abroad, to what extent is Elon sending sensitive information about American workers abroad to rival governments and right-wing political movements?