Nicholas Walmsley

@Paul_Heron_ @jackbuckby Thanks for sharing. I’ll be having a listen.

One of the greatest of all album covers for me. Contents therein also great.

@MickamiousG @grok From a tax efficiency perspective, I like investing in my family home. No CGT, for now at least.

Based on the latest negative gearing changes and CGT changes which impact stocks, crypto, ETFs, etc., where should young Australians now be investing their money for the most tax, for the best tax benefit possible and for to create wealth @grok ? Be concise.

Please come to Australia. Queensland to be specific. The political climate is more conducive than other parts. You could buy Springfield campus (part of Uni of Southern Queensland) and make that a great HQ. USQ already has good ties to space industry. And Oakey, west of Toowoomba, for launches - Army Aviation Centre there now. Oakey is a little bit far from equator but would make for a very secure location. Let me know if you need a hand setting it up!

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!

@Getinwithgame You answer, my wife says I look about 55 and she knows what she’s talking about.

If you’re wayyyy older and a young, hot girl asks “How old are you?”, don’t just answer normally. Flip the script and tease her hard. You smile, look her straight in the eyes, and say with playful confidence:

@liz_churchill10 But “the science” :/

The ‘Pandemics’ keep happening because the Pandemics Planners weren’t thrown in prison from the last time…

@joe_antognini Just reread your “Consciousness is not Computation” essay. So glad someone is talking sense in the tech world. I agree, but is “1+1=2 does not require external validation” the start of a counter argument?

Consciousness cannot be reduced to a computational phenomenon (like an LLM) because a computation requires an external observer to define the states of the machine whereas a conscious being exists independent of any external observer.

@JEChalmers Tell us a diesel shortage is looming without saying a diesel shortage is looming.

BREAKING: We've just secured another 200M litres of diesel. This brings the total additional diesel secured in the last seven days to approximately 300M litres. We’re doing everything we can to help secure more fuel for Australians.

@PMCSpeakers Care to recommend a sub for the prodigy5?

We’ve never seen anything like this! An unprecedented hat-trick for the prodigy series’ double-win at the What Hi-Fi? Awards. 2025, 2024, 2023 - prodigy1 “Best standmount speaker £1000 - £1500” 2025, 2024, 2023 - prodigy5 “Best floorstanding speaker £1500 - £2000” #whathifiawards

@basedethos Dancing? Also, have read some posts saying the heart is helical. Interesting tie-in.

Stress isn’t mental, it’s physical memory. Your fascia remembers every heartbreak, trauma, and stored emotion. Here’s how to finally let it go:

@redbeardbrian @BrianRoemmele No one will be hiring (people)

@BrianRoemmele I use LinkedIn extensively for its ability to target specific job titles. What do you think will replace that?

I just had a talk with a Wall Street analyst firm about the next 5000 days What listed companies that will go to $0. What startups the will not get to IPO ever. I was gentle as I could be. It was sobering for them. The questions were interesting. Get ready.

@sciencegirl @_CuspofExposure @yungkingmito

For nearly two centuries, scientists believed the magnetic part of light didn’t really matter. That assumption just collapsed. Researchers have shown that the magnetic field of light plays a much stronger role in how light interacts with materials than previously believed. They demonstrated that light’s magnetic component can directly exert a magnetic torque on matter, not just pass through it. When applied to Terbium Gallium Garnet (TGG) — a crystal often used to test magnetic-optical effects — they found that light’s magnetic field accounted for about 17% of the polarization rotation in the visible spectrum and up to 70% in the infrared. This overturns the long-held assumption (dating back to the 1845 discovery of the Faraday Effect by Michael Faraday) that rotation came almost entirely from the electric part of light. This insight suggests that the magnetic field of light has quietly shaped our optical technologies all along — and opens the door to new spin-based devices, magnetic materials, and possibly advances in quantum computing, optical storage, and communication systems. Study: Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field, Scientific Reports (2025)

@obliviosly @SunWeatherMan If the tsunami happen as being predicted here, they are going to expose to the atmosphere millions of tons of highly toxic pollutants.

@SunWeatherMan I guess the big thing I’m confused about is; if the planet does rotate, and the crust unlocks, wouldn’t the rockies be a dangerous place too? The subduction/induction zones would both ’go nuts’ (elevation aside). I’ve been watching the channel for over a decade.

You are up north looking south at Mexico here and much of the United States is visible. This really shows you how well the spine of the continent protects the new valley of the sun and as I have said many many many times, this goes from up into Canada down into Mexico.

@JohnRuddick2 Seems clear there is too high a risk that the regulator’s decisions about which sites are banned may be influenced by political bias. Best of luck.

🚨 Update on High Court Challenge re social media ban Have just ended a meeting with the legal team. The matter has been listed for a Directions Hearing before the Chief Justice of the High Court. That will take place at tomorrow at 4.30pm. I'll hopefully be in a position to post an update tomorrow evening. Instead of having half a fight on an interim injunction, at the Directions Hearing the Digital Freedom Project will be seeking the earliest possible date for a full hearing of this matter. We are putting all of our efforts into the full hearing and convincing the justices of the High Court that this law is unconstitutional. Please join the Digital Freedom Project. @thedfp_au digitalfreedomproject.org.au

Australia here. I get the America first thing. And good on you, it’s your call and totally up to you. But we are close cousins as far as I’m concerned. We’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with you nearly every time you’ve taken on the bad guys. And we actually host infrastructure vital to your own defense. So yeah, I hope we remain close friends despite your desire for America first/only. Cheers.

Where are you?

@RaMansell @memcculloch Meaning it orbits the sun?

It amazes me that 3I/ATLAS is considered an interstellar visitor based on a theory of movement that has incorrectly predicted the rotation of every spiral galaxy. If you apply a different theory that actually fits observations such as @memculloch's QI, then it's not interstellar!

@zebriez I grew up in Australia. We would say someone was cluey. Meant they could work out the clues to find the hidden truth or meaning.

I'm looking for a word for "get it-ness." Something to describe that sense you get of a person that "gets it." Usually immediately apparent. contenders that are close but not quite it: awake. in the details/close to the metal. high-agency.

Just make them accountable. If an official lets someone out on bail or parole but the criminal/accused commits another crime, that counts as a mark against the official. If it happens 3 times in a year (or whatever metric) well it suggests the official isn’t making good decisions and they should find another job. Watch how they treat this problem a lot more seriously, when the negative consequences are for them.

So how many more women have to be brutally stabbed or set on fire before we finally start holding the corrupt judges who keep freeing these criminals accountable?

@TonyLaneNV I just think if someone isn’t good at their job they should get a different job.

UPDATE: Chicago is burning because Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez ignored SEVERAL warnings and let a man with 50 arrests walk free. Prosecutors literally told her he was violent and would strike again. She waved it off and said, “I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to.” Days later? He boarded a train, screamed “burn alive b**,”** poured gasoline on a random woman, and set her on fire. This is what happens when soft-on-crime judges play politics instead of protecting people. This wasn’t an “accident.” It was preventable. And an innocent woman is fighting for her life because a judge didn’t care. Should judges who ignore prosecutor warnings be held legally accountable for what comes next? Thoughts? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

@BasedMikeLee Why no zero?

On a scale of one to ten, how much do you trust climate alarmists?

@DimaZeniuk High chance they can be sent. Lower chance of successful landing. Just pack it full of Optimus and solar cells and see if they have establish solar recharge station.

There is still a slight chance SpaceX can send an uncrewed Starship to Mars at the end of next year