Latest revision as of 21:51, 18 November 2024

$\mathbb{X}$

$\mathbb{X}$ (blackboard X in $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$) is Elon Musk's version of Twitter, which kept much of the old things (including the vocabulary, we're still "tweeting", not "exxing") but—supposedly—withdrew the censorship, which had become intolerable.

The intent of having a live, delocalized and cross-boundaries snapshot of the state of the World's affairs is a great one but in practice, that is diminished by the huge bias of the type of people who would engage in such an endeavor, that is, people with a propensity to opine (often on «tout et n'importe quoi») publicly, so, through the peer-pressure and weight of conformism, also with the personal engagement motivating the reaction, hardened by the passion of immediate and little thought-over reactions. In a nutshell, thing as they are seen through the $\mathbb{X}$ lens tend to be very different from how they look in the real world. Dramatically, some people tend to form their opinion of what is really going on from what they see on social media.

Twitter became $\mathbb{X}$ in July (2023). Interestingly, there has been a dedicated $\mathbb{X}$ page on this website before there's been one on Wikipedia (?!)Snapshot of Wikipedia on 18 October 2023 when the X page is created on my website:
it is still Twitter for Wikipedia!

Memories

I blogged on my first 1001 tweets and also on the next 1001 ones.

Threads

Scientific

• Two particles in a box. (31 March (2021)).
• Two-photon correlations in detuned resonance fluorescence (25 April (2023)).
• The Monty Hall Problem in Quantum Optics
  • Part I: What people know already — follow Ariadne's thread into the Twitter maze (24 June (2023)).
  • Part II: Removing photons from a coherent state — where you meet the Minotaur (26 June (2023)).
• Two Photons Everywhere
  • Part 1: Kindergarten (22 February (2024)).
  • Part 2: The paper (23 February (2024)).
  • Part 3: The circle (11 March (2024)).
  • Part 4: The crème de la crème (9 September (2024)).
• Correlations in circular cascades. (6 August (2024)).
• Unlocking multiphoton emission from a single-photon source through mean-field engineering. (18 November (2024)).

Politics

• Ukraine invasion.

Gallery

Links

• https://twitter.com/fplaussy — our main twitter feed.
• https://twitter.com/OuSommesNous — an attempt at $\mu$-blogging our location.
• https://twitter.com/edelvallereboul — Elena hasn't really a twitter account.