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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson\|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick\|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff\|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?"		\|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson\|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick\|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff\|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?"
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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass?		\|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass?
	\|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009		\|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly		\|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly
	\|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009		\|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman\|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so.		\|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman\|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so.
	\|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009		\|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream		\|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream
	\|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009		\|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Ariana Grande is pretty. And she can sing. But she ain’t [[Francis Crick]] or [[Sydney Brenner]], and they would never ask me to stop thinking until Ariana and Jon Stewart give the all clear.		\|content=Ariana Grande is pretty. And she can sing. But she ain’t [[Francis Crick]] or [[Sydney Brenner]], and they would never ask me to stop thinking until Ariana and Jon Stewart give the all clear.

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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=We’ve had many recent stunning reversals that all have the same exact pattern. The mainstream says when the obvious may be acknowledged.		\|content=We’ve had many recent stunning reversals that all have the same exact pattern. The mainstream says when the obvious may be acknowledged.

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	\|name=Eric Weinstein		\|name=Eric Weinstein
	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=I could have been massless outdoors long ago. I knew the Lab was never a racist wildeyed idea. And I knew tech was conspiring against even anti-Trump accounts that were off-narrative.		\|content=I could have been massless outdoors long ago. I knew the Lab was never a racist wildeyed idea. And I knew tech was conspiring against even anti-Trump accounts that were off-narrative.

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Okay. Where is the story: “a lot of people we call crazy got everything right before we did…but we get to determine who is allowed to think and speak using platforms.”		\|content=Okay. Where is the story: “a lot of people we call crazy got everything right before we did…but we get to determine who is allowed to think and speak using platforms.”

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=It’s like an intellectual fire drill where we all get marched out of the building of sane rational thought while lunatic firemen search for the fire that isn’t there.		\|content=It’s like an intellectual fire drill where we all get marched out of the building of sane rational thought while lunatic firemen search for the fire that isn’t there.

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=This is what conservatives and disaffected liberals have in common. We don’t wait to use our mind because the New York Times or NPR isn’t sure what will happen if we think for ourselves.		\|content=This is what conservatives and disaffected liberals have in common. We don’t wait to use our mind because the New York Times or NPR isn’t sure what will happen if we think for ourselves.

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=I think this is the common cause I feel with Conservatives most. I hate outsourcing my brain in my one beautiful life to people appointed to control when it is safe to think. I don’t want intellectual fire Marshall’s unless D-day is next week and we can’t afford a misstep.		\|content=I think this is the common cause I feel with Conservatives most. I hate outsourcing my brain in my one beautiful life to people appointed to control when it is safe to think. I don’t want intellectual fire Marshall’s unless D-day is next week and we can’t afford a misstep.
	\|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021		\|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
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	\|content=I’ll have a lot to say about [[Jim Watson\|Jim]] at some point. But let me share my usual quote before this space fills up with irrelevant comments.		\|content=I’ll have a lot to say about [[Jim Watson\|Jim]] at some point. But let me share my usual quote before this space fills up with irrelevant comments.

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	\|usernameurl=https://x.com/~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein
	\|username=~~EricRWeinstein~~		\|username=ericweinstein
	\|content=Life’s eternal partnership: visualized.		\|content=Life’s eternal partnership: visualized.

Pyrope at 06:08, 10 January 2026

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			=== 2009 ===

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			\|username=EricRWeinstein
			\|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson\|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick\|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff\|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?"
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			\|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass?
			\|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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			\|name=Eric Weinstein
			\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
			\|username=EricRWeinstein
			\|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly
			\|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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			\|name=Eric Weinstein
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			\|username=EricRWeinstein
			\|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman\|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so.
			\|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009
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			\|name=Eric Weinstein
			\|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
			\|username=EricRWeinstein
			\|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream
			\|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009
			}}
			\|timestamp=3:56 AM · Sep 2, 2009
			}}

			=== 2021 ===

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Pyrope at 21:15, 2 January 2026

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			\|username=EricRWeinstein
			\|content=I’ll have a lot to say about [[Jim Watson\|Jim]] at some point. But let me share my usual quote before this space fills up with irrelevant comments.

			“The legacy of [[Jim Watson\|James Watson]] is so singular and profound, that it was always far too important to Western Science to have been entrusted to [[Jim Watson\|Jim]].”
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			\|content=Life’s eternal partnership: visualized.

			[[Jim Watson\|Jim]] did the Hydrogen Bonds across the inside.

			[[Francis Crick\|Francis]] discerned the SugarPhosphate Backbone along the outside.

			Thus inextricably fusing themselves, and our two great nations, together forever.

			RIP [[Jim Watson\|Jim]]. Maybe the greatest man I’ve known.
			\|timestamp=1:04 AM · Nov 8, 2025
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			\|timestamp=1:11 AM · Nov 8, 2025
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|content=Ariana Grande is pretty. And she can sing. But she ain’t [[Francis Crick]] or [[Sydney Brenner]], and they would *never* ask me to stop thinking until Ariana and Jon Stewart give the all clear.

This is why smart people hate this fire Marshall system. It’s going to happen again. End it.
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|content=We’ve had many recent stunning reversals that all have the same exact pattern. The mainstream says when the obvious may be acknowledged.

A) Time mag. says: There Was a conspiracy against Trump in the Election.

B) The Lab is Likely the Covid Origin.

C) You can enjoy Outdoors.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407234334201942016
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|content=I could have been massless outdoors long ago. I knew the Lab was never a racist wildeyed idea. And I knew tech was conspiring against even anti-Trump accounts that were off-narrative.

They did the same on masks. And on flu worse than “no big deal” COVID. The exact same pattern.
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407234335384682496
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Okay. Where is the story: “a lot of people we call crazy got everything right before we did…but we get to determine who is allowed to think and speak using platforms.”

The platforms are punishing everyone who doesn’t wait for the signal. Mostly conservative refuse to wait.
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407234336487837696
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It’s like an intellectual fire drill where we all get marched out of the building of sane rational thought while lunatic firemen search for the fire that isn’t there.

Jon Stewart is a narrative fire Marshall. “You can’t be sane just yet..Okay..Now it’s safe to use your mind.”
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407234338199048192
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is what conservatives and disaffected liberals have in common. We don’t wait to use our mind because the New York Times or NPR isn’t sure what will happen if we think for ourselves.

Ariana Grande is a Fire Marshall. When she dances w no mask, we all can. Thx @ArianaGrande!
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407234339297976321
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I think this is the common cause I feel with Conservatives most. I hate outsourcing my brain in my one beautiful life to people appointed to control when it is safe to think. I don’t want intellectual fire Marshall’s unless D-day is next week and we can’t afford a misstep.
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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|timestamp=7:09 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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