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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Support ends, license remains valid I believe?

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kiddo is suspiciously warm, emotional and cuddly. 😢 he’s also sleeping next to me so let’s see how that goes for us tonight.

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watching the grand final (die hard knights fan). Crazy game. So nervous.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_I Kings used to get their belt somehow caught on a deer's antlers and then get dragged through the woods for 16 solid kilometers by the annoyed and frightened animal

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Basil I - Wikipedia

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The neocloud bubble is wild. Aussie startup Firmus has an IPO next week forecast at $30b. Its plans include 2 data centres that will suck 15% of the electricity in Tasmania, the main customer is OpenAI, it has no audited financials, and its co-founder is a criminal www.reuters.com/business/5-b...

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$5 billion Firmus IPO divides investors after valuation triples in two months

As Australian data centre operator Firmus prepares to launch a $5 billion initial public offering, the country's second-largest ever, prospective investors are questioning the firm's surging valuatio...

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still can’t believe my wife left her mobile on the train to Homebush, we reported it, watched it loop around the city via FindMy, texted staff when it came back to Homebush. Staff retrieved it and had it waiting for us after the footy game.

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like I did when I saw a gameboy in a museum. A survivor from the olden times.

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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

General all purpose to stuff coded as a joke: “sorry, can you explain that joke? I don’t get it.” Very few people comfortable explaining explicitly that their humour relied on racism/misogyny.

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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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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is wild to me as an Australian. 6 bikes in my garage, only one has fenders.

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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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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 · 20/09/2026

I’m sure this will have no long term ill effects.

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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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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Feel free to cheerfully ignore as I know this wasn’t a request for advice, but Compeed blister plasters (hydrocolloid) were life changing. I played 90 mins football on a deroofed inch wide heel blister with no pain or additional damage. Just as good on hot spots as active blisters. Instant relief.

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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.

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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

Only 1% social housing. Surprisingly, local fb group wants to see more social and affordable housing.

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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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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Minister was noticeably non committal about mid October opening in budget estimates…

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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 for

the 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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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.

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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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