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@nephstar.bsky.social
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Nerd into architecture, feminism, politics & blue tiles. Peak posting after Snortlechops and SqueakyBubble go to sleep. tl;dr: I'm awesome! She/her.

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 10h
Seven year old only just falling asleep. At 10:30. With multiple sleep inducing drugs from his paediatrician on board. The wacky sleep drive is one of the hardest parts for me of parenting a neurospicy child. I’d mind less if he didn’t need physical company I think.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 10h
I have 56 JD Robb books, more than I own of any other author. And yet, I wouldn’t describe her as one of my favourite authors. Wonder if it’s because they’re e-books?
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From my seven year old: Mary had a little lamb, Chck-chck- bam No more lamb Post it her Instagram Hashtag NoMoreLamb
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 30/09/2026
I wonder how many of the West’s leading Russia pundits would admit — perhaps only if cornered — that their policy advice on dealing with the Kremlin rests on the belief that a post-Putin Russia will change course and move closer to the Western consensus on Russia’s “national interests.”
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 27/09/2026
The post-war boom was surprisingly equitable in sharing the benefits across class, but it was a breadwinner society, and it was incredibly inequitable in deciding who those breadwinners were. The boomers shared wealth terribly between husbands and wives.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about all these genAI fuckwits like Jensen Huang constantly announcing in public that they don't know basic life skills, is that they are billionaires. They have outsourced *every single* hassle in life. They then attribute their soft babylike life to genAI and not their wealth.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about ICE is that eventually it WILL be abolished. I don't know if it will be in 5 years or 50 years but it will happen. With certainty. And when it does, it will be remembered along the securitate, Stasi, etc, and so will the people who served there.
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 24/09/2026
www.betootaadvocate.com/hunter-region-…
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Hunter Region SES On Stand By In Case The Knights Get Up
MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT SES in the Hunter region have reportedly been put on standby this week in case the Knights manage to get up against the Panthers on Sunday. After a shock win against the Warriors in a packed out Eden Park in Auckland, emergency services have turned their
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yikes.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My family likes to come up with names for our future cat. Current contenders are Simon and Bloodfang
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Still buzzing that Newcastle won. Two finals wins in two weeks! Bring. It. On!
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Feel like this is just table stakes for the older millennial. I remember upgrading to xtreegold! As like, an eight year old?
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 17/09/2026
clowning is fun for everyone but the problem is that the normie takeaway is, now, "tech people have weird sex" and not "tech people have incestuously tangled power/consent structures the contours of which are worryingly relevant to domestic policy and the future of technology"
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"what is a sankey diagram" they ask innocently "do u have any examples of its utility" they continue blissfully unawares
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is one of my favorite urban fantasy/paranormal romance series. The Elena books aren't where my heart lives--that would be Paige--but this is the beginning of a very fun, very sexy adventure.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
It's not just that Zendaya is beautiful, it's that every time I see a picture of her she looks like a different person. She's like 20 different beautiful people.
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wow... “If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired career FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles.
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"with the backing of their massive PR machine,corporate journalists,tech influencers,they will proudly hold a press conference to claim that their proprietary chatbot has miraculously solved a Millennium Prize problem, completely, shamelessly erasing the human genius they systematically strip-mined"
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😬🚲Yikes on Bikes @yikesonbikes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Everyone should listen to the "60 Words" episode of RadioLab, where the SCOTUS changed the meaning of words so that this "emergency" can last forever and be applied to anything www.radiolab.org/podcast/60-w...
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60 Words
How one sentence—just 60 words written in the hours after the September 11 attacks—became the legal foundation for the "war on terror."
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Explained to a boomer that new dads taking up running is basically a cliche, and that spending hours running isn’t actually more helpful to their partners than spending hours at the pub.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trying to figure out if I’m becoming as NIMBY. I live near Canterbury station which could and should be more developed, which I support. SSD request for SEARS has gone in for a 33 & 35 storey building nearby, approx 100m tall approx 100m away. Current zoning is somewhere between 28-60m height.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
... so there are Navier-Stokes draft solutions out there, and also it seems like OpenAI is spying on mathematics work in GPT, copying approaches, and then throwing their massive compute resources at others' ideas to publish it first. Statement from Andrew Curran: cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Today, Levent Alp¨oge and I have made public three results: finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for incompressible porous media, for Boussinesq, and for 3d incompressible Euler. We believe we also have blowup for hypo-dissipative Navier-Stokes. We are not releasing that paper today: unlike the above, the Lean verification has not yet finished. We do not yet have anything resembling a presentable writeup. I mention it because it is suggestive of a path to unforced Euler. The program this fits into was not started by us nor was it proposed by a Large Language Model. The credit for the basic idea of this program goes to Diego C´ordoba and Luis Mart´ınez-Zoroa, who for several years have been exploring the construction of forced blow ups. We took their work as a starting point, using Large Language Models to push their program to completion. Concretely, what Levent and I did was to take the C´ordoba and Mart´ınezZoroa program, which achieved blowup results with rough forcing, and, with a great deal of help from LLMs, push it to smooth forcing and to the incompressible Euler equations. The ideas making this line of attack possible are due to C´ordoba and Mart´ınez-Zoroa. Let me make plain what I have said to colleagues in private: in view of this body of work, I believe Luis Mart´ınez-Zoroa deserves a Fields Medal. My work with Levent has been a purely personal collaboration, free of any institutional agreements or official involvement by either of our employers. We used several LLMs throughout: Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, especially with GPT-5.6 Sol and, more recently, Astra. The latter was only used for writeups and auditing our arguments.He replied the same day: “If you are willing to give any details it would be useful to avoid competing here and in general we are always thrilled when mathematician make progress with our models. Additionally if there is anything in terms of compute from OpenAI’s end we would be happy to provide it.” I asked to speak the following week. On Friday, September 4th, I was asked whether I could meet that day; I again said the following week. At 12:45 on Sunday, September 6th, I was asked whether I could meet “at any point today.” Sebastien Bubeck joined. The three of us spoke twice that afternoon. Levent was not on the calls. I was told that an internal OpenAI model had produced a proof of finite time blowup for the forced Navier-Stokes equations. When Levent asked by text forthe precise statement, the answer was: “Existence of forced blowup in R3 and T3,” with “the forcing function is smooth option c and d in Fefferman.” I was told the proof is about 100 pages. I have not seen it. I should say here why I interpreted their statement the way I did, the interpretation I will discuss below. The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. When I heard “forced,” it was a bright red flag. I was shown a prompt and told the internal research model had simply been given the problem statement. Levent had been told by Sebastien “very little human input” had been used. This turned out not to be true. Over the course of the call, as members of their team sent Sebastien corrections and details over their internal chat, it emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem, that this was one of a number of things that was tried, that work had started on the unforced problem, that the team first set the model on easier problems, including Euler, that even the prompt that had been shown to me had been written by prompting Codex, and that an insane amount of compute had been used. I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI. I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about training, and I did not get an answer.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Interesting thread by @teorth.bsky.social about LLM math proofs inhibiting math research by giving an answer that's correct but doesn't improve understanding. Speculation online is that he's not just musing, some AI lab showed him a Navier-Stokes solution and he's trying to nudge them a better way.
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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
A concrete example of how AI advances in solving key open problems could inihibit the future development of a mathematical field can be found in the global regularity problem for the incompressible Na...
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this a little too much.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C. In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic
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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
HEY EVERYBODY. YOU CAN ACTUALLY CALL THIS PHONE NUMBER. coyote publicity team out here promoting like it's 1990
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Genuinely can’t recall seeing a vertical note before. How cool!
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
translation: open source ai is only slightly worse than Anthropic's flagship at hacking, once you fix it so that it stops saying things like "that's unethical" and "you shouldn't ransomware hospitals"
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I want people to understand that what’s happening in Nepal is set to literally eclipse the loss of life of Katrina and 9/11 combined if the numbers reported missing are verified deceased. Right now 12,000 are reported missing on the government app. Over 3,000 verified missing so far.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Industry gossip is the best gossip. So many people getting in touch today.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
of the many things to love about Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, here's one: It's as if every time they heard someone say, "you're going too big," they went BIGGER. Big presence, big hair, big charisma, big everything. Pouring one out for two artists who just WENT FOR IT and never apologized for that.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So yesterday inflation fell to 3.5%. That is lower than the 3.6% that the RBA predicted 3 weeks ago it would still be in December. So the reaction of the market? The RBA is going to raise rates!
Charts showing futures market prediction for the cash rate. 

On 25 Aug there was about a 65% chance of a rate rise by March next year.

On 26 Aug there was a 100% chance of a rate rise by March
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026
I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t.
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bronwynn-wolfe.bsky.social @bronwynn-wolfe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean...roof racks represent sexual dimorphism in Subaru's so this can't be that much weirder. (The females have to be able to cary young, males have trailer hitches. If they have both you either have a hermaphrodite or a really competent lesbian driving it)
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Is there already an in bed with the right Dolly Parton episode, @moiradonegan.bsky.social ? I couldn’t find one but not confident in that result. I would listen the heck out of that. She’s such an interesting case study of performing gender self consciously.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My feed is pure Dolly appreciation 🥰
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is one of the best observed jokes about the era we live in I’ve ever seen.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
Can I recommend one of my favorite pastimes: going on youtube and finding videos of The Youths listening to 9 to 5 for the first time.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Her family is also awesome!?! What a lady.
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Holy hell, that number is so high I had to double check it was Australian data. 17x higher than previous peak number of cases! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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500 diphtheria cases recorded as experts warn actual numbers likely higher
There have been more than 500 cases of diphtheria across Australia this year, as governments work to mitigate the largest outbreak since records began.
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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This person woke up and chose violence
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
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