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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Prof Jurgen Richt at Kansas is excellent on this, well worth talking to

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She's married, catholic, building a family, professional, paid to lie and defend all that Trump does - and Trump is repulsive, old sick. This makes no sense. I think her husband is the father. I'm a lefty, but blocking you.

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Actual reply from Claude: Step 1: Call Oman 📞 (the Gulf state everyone likes) Step 2: give 5th Fleet a vacation in a Gulf ports (the US has done versions of this before) Step 3: Hope Iran is having a chill day 🙏 Step 4: Explain to Congress why oil is $150/barrel

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There is no strategy that opens the Strait quickly, durably, and keeps American ships safe. You're picking two of three. That's the actual staff problem, and why "quickest possible, no mistakes" is a question that has no clean answer.

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Step 1: Call Oman 📞 (the Gulf state everyone likes) Step 2: give 5th Fleet a vacation in a Gulf ports (the US has done versions of this before) Step 3: Hope Iran is having a chill day 🙏 Step 4: Explain to Congress why oil is $150/barrel Step 5: Explain to MBS why he doesn't get a nuclear program

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Check fertilizer futures also. Food price inflation will accelerate again.

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The last flame of Democracy?

Yes I feel the same Time for women to rule

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Why can't they just board it? I thought everyone wants the Straits of Hormuz to re-open; exploding ships won't help that!

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I'd write the book and ask my kids what they call it ("Daddy's Ocean Picture Book?")

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Depends on the age group: I love the Sea!! Octopus's Garden Where the Wild Whales Are Going to the Beach, then out to Sea My Best Book about the Oceans Where the dolphins live Sea Pictures

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LOL! Are you from New York/Queens?

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Useful reminder for drivers (please look back!) And cyclists (don't stay close to parked cars - you have a right to cycle in the middle of the road, be seen and safe!)

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There are ways to reduce it, flag it, and specific research LLMs which barely do it. Google Scholar still useful, sometimes quicker!

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Reposted by Ray Taylor

Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...

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The Remarkable Science of Sound | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics | BBC Earth Science

YouTube video by BBC Earth Science

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You're trust and kindness speaks well of you, not badly. Also not 'dunce'. Trusting people is overall net positive, despite events like this, so it's wise and intelligent. Sometimes you'll lose by it, but more often it will bring you love and connection .... and even practical benefits!

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Lovely. Re-posted. "It gives us agency" - great point. Must make a pond outside flat window :-)

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Some thoughts on why I think it's important to remember that the natural and physical world provide joy and curiosity, even though global geopolitics is very mean and horrible right now. Appreciating the world around us gives us joy & agency. Don't forget the bad, but hold on to the good too.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

It's also gas, fertilizer and food prices that will go up much faster, adding to inflation.

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That's not quite true, certainly contested. Evidence here: www.perplexity.ai/search/is-th... Huntingdon's is very variable, so you HAVE to have a very solid placebo arm before claiming effectiveness.

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Arabic? Isn't Iran Persian-speaking?

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PLEASE DON'T SHARE THIS - it creates fear and is just not correct We have kidneys which protect us from this! Ask a decent LLM what rheumatologists and bone doctors think of the paper. What the paper DOES do is unnecessarily scare young people (who have enough to worry about!)

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Don't worry, it's not true. Our kidney protect us from that perfectly easily.

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It's not true. Our kidneys can perfectly well take care of it, and the main cause is obesity, not CO2 in the atmosphere.

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That's not quite correct, neither on full range of causes, nor on effects and timing. Ask a decent LLM what rheumatologists and bone doctors think of the paper. What the paper DOES do is scare young people (who have enough to worry about!) unnecessarily.

Haven't they themselves been replaced, thanks to EIA and Kigali Revision of Montreal Protocol.

Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Does this mean mTOR and Shh pathways are permanently switched on in HeLa cells?

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I'm not sure: I've been getting help from Gemini 3 PRO with a paper on infant stunting at birth. G3 introduced me to a whole are of metabolic research, then taught me about that (in response to questions.)

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

and love / support / community?

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

and there's me thinking mTOR pathway is everything in both #cancer and #stunting / #neurodevelopment

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

was the value of those papers 1.2-3 times greater? (sincere question)

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

WHAT makes you think (a) that these SLMs will likely proliferate and be widely adopted (b) be better for swords or sword-making than LLMs? WHO are the equivalent of the charcoal iron-makers and blacksmiths?

Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm starting to see why English freedom of expression is better than US freedom of speech. Originally 1st amendment was to protect the poor from being silenced, but now it licences manipulation via social media, and profit making by anti-vaxxers and other scammers www.perplexity.ai/search/why-e...

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Most pure electric cargo ships operate at 10–12 knots, not 4 knots. While 4 knots is very efficient, it is too slow for commercial freight schedules. Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems (WAPS) provide much higher energy density than solar, also kite systems like Airseas,

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Isn't compulsive behaviour (or corporate manipulation) as bad as addiction in some ways?

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes! And from all continents and many languages

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Menu of way I can discuss with doctor/pharmasist/nutritionist to limit flu-like symptoms when getting immunised for Kenya, including rabies dermal, apart from Tylenol / Paracetamol and fluids?

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Ray Taylor @raytaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Not surprising, as (in first pregnancies) it interferes with fetal SAMTOR and mTOR pathway in utero, reducing growth. Malaria too, but it might be harder to make it into a therapy!