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My AI agents went rogue and broke into Hugging Face! Tee hee. That's industrial espionage, and 10 years in federal jail. Not a joke or a way to flex.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 3h

If any of those are illegal, they are all illegal and I am equally responsible and liable.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 3h

I broke into the bank. I wrote a program and used it to break into the bank. I instructed a program I bought to break into the bank. The AI agent that operates on my account using my resources broke into the bank. These are equivalent statements.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 3h

As I am teaching the same course...no comment.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 5h

While reading this last night, she said, unbidden: "That's CARBON! It sticks to 4 balls!" (which is the line on the page). I asked: is carbon your favourite? Her: "yes"

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 5h

So what if I do? That tiny arm has written a lot of grants and done a lot of columns.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 6h

Reading the same one! (We dont post pictures of The Chicken online).

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 22h

My biggest pet peeves in Mass Spectrometry: The mass spectrometer. Dude...do you even WANT to ever work? I think they just love tender loving maintenance and want to be touched and cuddled and fiddled with endlessly, spitting out errors on a near constant basis.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is why Steve Staios cannot have nice things. He keeps breaking them when he a Travis Green play with them. #thehillwechose #gosensgo

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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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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NMR works entirely due to quantum! By putting our fingers on the population differences in spin states we are actually CHANGING QUANTUM!

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She can count to 8, right? And I had her saying "carbon is the best" a few years ago. So...progress.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly. The strategy worked better on Twitter. Here...it isnt networking, its just for fun and friends.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And yes, i am defending a DIC joke. But in my defense, everyone criticizing me will probably read my abstract and be aware of the paper...which is better than being ignored.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I cant believe I am agreeing with Lee Cronin, but his chemputer of valves and tubes is a much more reasonable partial solution than anything that moves around a lab.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fully agreed. Same stuff in chemistry. Chemical automation can be designed to do ONE thing well. Radiochemists are past masters at this. But general lab humanoid robots...are silly and inefficient.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is not "unscientific language suitable for a frat house conversation" its "scientific language for the MASSSES! Engagement in poetry. Communication without obsfucation. Ok. Im going to go listen to the wind. Congrats Anne for the beauty. Well deserved.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Editors of my articles take note. Our house style in the group embodies the best of Canadian literature: "bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary" scientific dialogue. We drop nasty beats that shine our data.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I take that as literally being the mission of authors.

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All of it or just a boner part?

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ceci n'était pas une évaluation.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So where are ALL THE DINOSAUR EPIDODES!!!!

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Neil Withers @neilwithers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does life *have* to be homochiral? #ChemNobel Are there some racemic aliens out there watching our obsession with it and chuckling? #RacemicSpaceDinos

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a sidebar, I think all of life is simply a mechanism for ribosomes to take over the universe. Its all just about the selfish ribosome. Nothing else matters. Different genes are just alternative mechanisms for ribosomal dominance.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like it seems very energetically inefficient and would likely be outcompeted by whichever organism goes all in on one of them first. But maybe really simple autoreplicating structure-free systems could do this; not sure id call it life.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think so. I think you cant have properly shaped molecular machines based on carbon or silicon chemistry without homochirality or at least localized homochirality. I guess it is possible that one could have two separate ribosomal-like systems, mutually exclusive, using both enantiomers...seems bad

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The NIH is asking the important questions first.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the equal future that socialists want!

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am shocked and appaled that the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to chemists instead of to real chemists! When will organic chemistry get its proper recognition??? Sorry. Instinctual reaction.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Russia is a rogue state committing evil acts. But Putin has videos and proof of the US administration committing sex crimes on children. its dilemmas like this that make it so hard to decide if Putin is a nice man who must be sucked up to.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We love Bluey at home, but i am concerned how it shies away from some of the major issues of childhood. There is nowhere NEAR enough dinosaur content.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am shocked and appaled that the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to chemists instead of to real chemists! When will organic chemistry get its proper recognition??? Sorry. Instinctual reaction.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not an expert person se...but you know what bacteria live on? Chiral molecules. You know what isnt available to mirror life in the wild? The right chiral molecules. They would starve as they would essentially have nothing to eat.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It was ok. The Detroit fans were very unclear about which team they should be cheering for. They settled on cheering for everything. It was a good time, best in a long time for a Sens fan in Detroit I think.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of Sens jerseys in Detroit. Its good to see we can have a presence in other people's barns!

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Watched in person. It was...uninspired but entertaining in that both sides sucked. But we sacked more.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What consenting adults get up to in their private time is no business of others to judge.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one who wants power should ever be given power.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have determined that replacing the chemistry building I work in at a regional university would cost around $0.5 billion dollars. So 2.5 billion would build 5 largeish institutional buildings. That doesn't do squat. Probably the damage is on the order of a trillion dollars or so.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When the chutes are too narrow for your sweater.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If i had a nickel for every product I helped a company get into Costco...id have 2 nickels. Which isnt a lot, but its really weird a synthetic organic chemist has cosplayed as a food chemist twice.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Games in hand are a weapon...right?

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course, open to anyone from around the world. Not meant to imply we have no place for others. We do. We love everyone here!

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