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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Thirty years of concentrated international effort and cooperation has now had this much effect on "the great moral, economic and social challenge of our time" (Rudd, 2007):

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 6h

So the relativities would still be reasonably valid.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

One step closer.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

Has been claimed that quite a bit of the 'gold' in the US's Fort Knox holding may be gold-plated tungsten. Totally scurrilous of course.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

It's remarkably dense. Interestingly, tungsten metal is almost exactly the same density, and much cheaper. Don't get ideas now. (People already have, often.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

But the data looks dodgy?

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

'It's complicated, like an ecosystem,' the industry lied.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

What Optus is obliged to do is accept *all* 000 calls, including from phones of other than its customers, and direct those to the Telstra national call centre. There is nothing else. No complex interactions are involved ('ecosystem').

The industry lobby is talking crap, for obfuscation.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14h

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

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gigowat Ver.3.0 @gigowat.bsky.social · 18h

GIGAZINE より

2025年ノーベル化学賞を受賞した北川進氏らの「金属有機構造体(MOF)」は何に役立つのか？
What are the benefits of the Metal Organic Structures (MOFs) developed by Shin Kitagawa and others, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025?

2025年ノーベル化学賞を受賞した北川進氏らの「金属有機構造体(MOF)」は何に役立つのか？ - GIGAZINE What is the use of "metallic organic structures (MOFs)" by Shin Kitagawa and others, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025? - GIGAZINE

By Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

Yep. It's all ancient gear; was 30 years ago when did a little job there. And it's presumably been run down into closure.

The (separate) zinc-lead operation remains a substantial going concern, but how long the lead smelter can survive, dunno: www.glencore.com.au/operations-a...

A remarkable 90 years of lead smelting at Mount Isa Mines

This year Mount Isa Mines marks the 90-year anniversary of the commission of the Lead Smelter in June 1931. We delve into the archives to look at Mount Isa’s rich lead smelting history.

www.glencore.com.au

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

"The triple-0 ecosystem," telco lobby spokesbot, repeated at least 10 times this morning.

1. Not an ecosystem
2. Operated by Telstra (not Optus), under its community service obligation.

Which Yank crisis PR consultant came up with this line?

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

Hopefully from the Perth Mint, which apparently was caught selling not-very-pure gold as the real stuff.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 11h

Impossible? The French government has run a Nickel smelter in nearby* Nouméa for decades, exactly for political / regional development reasons ... and often at a loss.

(* Nouméa is the nearest foreign 'capital' to most Australians.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Striking thing is that the US craziness is such a recent phenomenon.

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1d

Mass shootings by year and country.

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davidmckwrites.bsky.social @davidmckwrites.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Laura Tingle is right. The thousands of First Peoples are right. Australia is a racist country. 🤬

'There's no justice': Outrage as Jake Danby walks after fatal hit-and-run

A fatal hit-and-run case in Darwin has exposed deep disparities in the NT’s justice system, say Aboriginal leaders, as the victim’s family speaks out.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

It's remarkably dense. Interestingly, tungsten metal is almost exactly the same density, and much cheaper. Don't get ideas now. (People already have, often.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Bit like Gaza? (Sorry.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

As for mine closure planning and rehabilitation, hahahahahahaha.

Who will be left carrying that can? Guess.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

What's left of the copper orebody is here. An unfortunate thing about open-pitting that is it'd take out much of the surface infrastructure, including the zinc concentrator. How that would be handled is unclear. The prefeasibility study has yet to be published.

www.glencore.com.au/.rest/api/v1...

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

All mines close; no exceptions. Mount Isa copper has been a fabulous resource for 100 years, but it's worked out as an underground mining operation. It closed in July.

There's ore left, at lower grade, but it will be open-pit mined and smelted in China. That is the future of the operation.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Not a war; a mass murder and mass destruction operation by Israel.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · 1d

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long.

🔴 Famine confirmed in Gaza governorate
🔴 455 malnutrition-related deaths
🔴 Almost all cropland damaged, inaccessible, or both

The State of Israel has banned UNRWA from bringing in aid for over 7 months.

UNRWA response: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...

#UNRWAworks

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

It's also now worth ~AUD$200 million a tonne, which mass makes a cube just 37 cm on a side. It's a remarkable material.

Expo'88 in Brisbane had a standard gold bar in a perspex case that you could squeeze you hand into to try to pick it up. Climbing mates had it halfway out the slot before noticed.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that pure ('18 karat') gold is all the one colour. It does not vary, does not tarnish, does not change with time. Gold coloured paint, otoh...

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Shit it's ugly.

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

The Oval looks like Liberace’s bedroom

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

The Isa smelter is too important, regionally -- too much depends on it. Glencore has us over a barrel.