Nerdvana
@nerdvana2.bsky.social
Sailor; early-stage investor; software engineer
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I wish I could work out what happened 10 years ago to cause this 🤔
I wish I could work out what happened 10 years ago to cause this 🤔
UK consumer confidence marks 10 years without a positive reading
GfK index rose by 1 point to minus 16 in January, up from a low of minus 23 in April 2025
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January 23, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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I wish I could work out what happened 10 years ago to cause this 🤔
I wish I could work out what happened 10 years ago to cause this 🤔
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Americans cannot fully comprehend the horror of what they have done by forcing the rest of Europe to concede that de Gaulle was correct
"European nations are exploring a range of options, three of the European officials said. They said those include improving France’s nuclear weaponry, redeploying French nuclear-capable bombers outside of France, and beefing up French and other European conventional forces on NATO’s eastern flank."
Doubting U.S. resolve, Europe looks to bolster its own nuclear arsenal
The discussions have taken on new urgency as President Trump escalates his criticism of Europe. Germany and Poland already have suggested France’s nuclear weapons could be expanded to defend their cou...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Americans cannot fully comprehend the horror of what they have done by forcing the rest of Europe to concede that de Gaulle was correct
The Board if Peace is to other initiatives as the FIFA Peace Prize is to other Peace Prizes
The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The Board if Peace is to other initiatives as the FIFA Peace Prize is to other Peace Prizes
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A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
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I vote we threaten to build a Biden-Obama museum on Trump's golf course in Scotland.
What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
January 17, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I vote we threaten to build a Biden-Obama museum on Trump's golf course in Scotland.
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Smart drugs, apparently.
AI is just Clippy on drugs. Pr0n-making Clippy. Evil Clippy.
January 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Smart drugs, apparently.
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This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.
January 5, 2026 at 4:47 AM
This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.
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Ha! This would give Trump a heart attack!! 🤣🤣
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Ha! This would give Trump a heart attack!! 🤣🤣
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If the US plans to put Maduro on trial, the US says its courts can try other country's presidents for crimes, but not their own.
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
If the US plans to put Maduro on trial, the US says its courts can try other country's presidents for crimes, but not their own.
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I wrote this yesterday. It’s my message in a bottle from 2025. May it find you where you are xx
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On Power
Liminal thoughts from a liminal space, "The Perineum" between Christmas and New Year
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January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I wrote this yesterday. It’s my message in a bottle from 2025. May it find you where you are xx
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0000 UTC: Happy 2026, everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
0000 UTC: Happy 2026, everyone!
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It’s -1°C, but it feels like -5°C.
It’s 2025, but it feels like 1938.
It’s 2025, but it feels like 1938.
December 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It’s -1°C, but it feels like -5°C.
It’s 2025, but it feels like 1938.
It’s 2025, but it feels like 1938.
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As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
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Lovely to listen to this most beautiful of Christmas songs and then read its history—a Ukrainian import to the US that was originally about a swallow flying in to proclaim a bountiful year for a family and their sheep farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedr...
December 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Lovely to listen to this most beautiful of Christmas songs and then read its history—a Ukrainian import to the US that was originally about a swallow flying in to proclaim a bountiful year for a family and their sheep farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedr...
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation.
That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.
That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation.
That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.
That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.
Well... TBF... consensus is that covering 1.3% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels would exceed global energy demand. And as for "fuckass" panels: that really isn't how to mount them; very unpleasant and not scaleable :(
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Well... TBF... consensus is that covering 1.3% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels would exceed global energy demand. And as for "fuckass" panels: that really isn't how to mount them; very unpleasant and not scaleable :(
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I meet a lot of very smart AI critics who never seriously try to make AI work for them by spending a couple of hours with a frontier model working on hard tasks
People can be (and should be & are) critical after realizing what AI can do, but experience leads to better-informed and sharper critiques
People can be (and should be & are) critical after realizing what AI can do, but experience leads to better-informed and sharper critiques
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I meet a lot of very smart AI critics who never seriously try to make AI work for them by spending a couple of hours with a frontier model working on hard tasks
People can be (and should be & are) critical after realizing what AI can do, but experience leads to better-informed and sharper critiques
People can be (and should be & are) critical after realizing what AI can do, but experience leads to better-informed and sharper critiques
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Not sure that this short form of cricket will catch on.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not sure that this short form of cricket will catch on.
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A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
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The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them