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going back to this talk I gave in 2019 when I first started researching early high purity quartz sourcing for the first computer chips (https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radnets19/videos/198025233) and four years later I totally fucking proved my hypothesis in my master's thesis, go me
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@ingrid I am taking this in and nodding, but also thinking “I need very bright orange wall-safe tape immediately”
tootin my own horn
@ingrid That talk was why I followed you! And it taught me things about the history of quartz in popular imagination that I still bring up in conversation from time to time! (Usually when I'm being grumbly about New Age stuff!)
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also I looked so freakin cute in that video!!