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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 57s

Transferring your account from bluesky to another provider has never been easier - blacksky, eurosky, certainly others: you can transfer your account and keep your posts and mutuals. You'll barely feel the difference!

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 5m

I learned programming using Pascal! Probably related? Never seen it after my 1st year of uni...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10h

Why is the word "quietly" so popular this year? Suddenly everything that happens in news stories is "quietly". He quietly did X, they quietly did Y...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19h

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

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The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics – Emerald Book

◆ Emerald Pages ◆ Technology / Academia The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics Emerald Book Publication October 16, 2026 9 min read The panic over AI solving the Navier-Stokes equatio...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 12h

Beautiful! What was the language?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17h

You can see the reaction diffusion parameters gradient!

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 23h

Yes, I think everyone sees it yellow.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Aren't the comments just joking specifically as a reference to that dress? I don't think there's really a perceptual variation there...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/10/2026

French Revolution-era guillotine earrings, dated around 1794. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

The inverted heads of the king and queen of France form the pendants of these ghoulish earrings while the central guillotine section is suspended from a cap of liberty.

Anon., earrings in the form of guillotines, c.1794, gold and metal gilt

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15/10/2026

Any fish folks?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The layer of dirt, made of decomposed leaves and stuff (funnily enough, called humus in French)... Its carbon is pulled from the air, right. How much thinner is the atmosphere for the entire layer of humus on the entire Earth?

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You don't have to be a C programmer to contribute to R. R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch. r-consortium.org/posts/how-do... #rstats #opensource #RConsortium

R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today, rural news, sadly = facebook. In most small towns, it is the only place where residents can find out about upcoming events, sell things etc. Facebook has a stranglehold on people in these places and is one of the reasons why they vote differently than people in urban areas.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Pour moi c'est surtout la flatterie fleurie qui se remarque. "Ce regard qui sait ou se poser" etc, ca sonne bien mais ça n'a pas vraiment de sens!

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Esthiru 🏳️‍⚧️ @esthiru.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Look honey, I got us the backwards-facing seats" He says to the silent yet somehow disappointed void next to him.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Ah oui, le style classique "super leche-botte" 😬

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

What is an arbitrary (eg not 10 or 100...) number in your language that is used to mean 'a lot'? In French we have 36, and 36 000 In Japanese 8 can sometimes be used that way

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 12/10/2026

Hahahaha they generated their fake data using seed(42) which let someone exactly reproduce their pipeline. 😂

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 12/10/2026

#WSocial’s advice here is TERRIBLE - deleting your account won’t change a thing. Just now I found the record of a minor (15yo) who was verified by #WIdentity. His account status is now “taken down” but his full name, nationality and approx. date of birth are still visible on W's verification list!

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 12/10/2026

Dear #WSocial verified users, who had your account verified after 16-09-2026: if you are not comfortable with your full name, nationality and approx. age being shared *outside* of W, on the open web, please DO NOT delete your account. You need to file a proper right of deletion request instead #GDPR

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think for one second that this is anything else than posturing. He doesn't actually believe that, but pretending he does makes his product look good.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

And finally, not a counter to your point, but a general remark: people who accuse everything of being AI without proof are worse than AI bros. Don't do that again in my mentions.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

1. That tool you use is known for being very unreliable 2. That level of polish and thought in the way people interact with the story is obviously not slop by any definition you can think of 3. The data is real.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What that tells us is that the quality control step was hoisted onto human mathematicians. This reminds me a bit the case of armchair "researchers" from the Covid pandemic, dumping ridiculous claims, that actual researchers had to debunk using more time/effort than what it took to create the claims

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Tbh I don't even think companies should have free access to the commons, or even equal access fees as people. Companies aren't people. They do not consume at the same scale, they do not pay back at the same scale, yet benefit from evonomies of scale. Google's crawler should pay 1$ per page accessed.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I have another proposal: big companies pump everything from the commons, and contribute nothing to the public good that isn't also a source of profit. I say make each company pay a percentage of their revenues to projects they use.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Who should ensure that full time open source contributors are able to live from their work? The story mentions "Germany's public fund for open source", which I think is good, and some developers get paid by companies for tech support.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amazing analysis, and a lot of food for thought about how we prioritize work in the world. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

They changed the normal screen at meitetsu Nagoya for some kind of vibe coded LLM powered shit that is displaying live text instead of prerecorded text. It's chaos.

The screen is displaying English and Mandarin as Japanese, and mangling the airport name, giving different names twice on the same screen.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

"providing semantically faithful AI autoformalisation is harder than any computational problem including the Halting problem (which has SCI =1) [...] we show that the formalised Lean proof does not correspond to the NL proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations."

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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merv @eatsomefood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So he’ll read to AI but not to his kids?

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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

R.I.P Margaret Hamilton. Saw the news on @MIT But she was not just instrumental in the #ApolloProject She was also part of Lorenz disocvery of strange attractor! See this story from @QuantaMagazine "chaos theory: The Hidden Heroines of Chaos" www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, would he have half as good a response? bsky.app/profile/jens...

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have posted some more videos of the (bug-fixed) SD-SCHC simulations youtube.com/shorts/WQfff... Enjoy the strange open-endedness of this minimalistic ALife

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Spatial Dyadic SCHC (Structural Cellular Hash Chemistry): (D, P) = (10, 0.6)

YouTube video by Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo)

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

metamorphosis (but not for you)

a brown leathery silk pod hanging from a string left of a pale yellow empty husk of a caterpillar

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what class solidarity looks like in France 🇫🇷. 8,000 firefighters marching on Paris and hosing police officers down, who are attacking protesters. The firefighters are protesting a lack of resources after a terrible wildfire season while standing in solidarity with students.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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