Jason Murphy

Holy moly, the value proposition of mass grade consumer AI is 🤡💩

Musk. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.

Sourdough crackers. One minute less in the oven and this could have been for Instagram!!

Just found out the awful news about Helen Haines. UK politicians killed in recent years include Jo Cox and Ann Widdecombe. Female MPs are rare, except on lists of MPs targeted by violence.

Want some really good news? In the last little while, the quality of medical research worldwide has absolutely shot up. For one reason... 🐉 1/4

There's a book called The Shipping News, published in the 1990s. Never read til now because the title hinted it would be a very subtle, quiet, arty little book. Instead: car crashes, decapitation, storms, and surprisingly, lots of burgers.

It's Happening

Evidence rubber is a liquid; Questacon 2023 and 2026.

Full moon / blossom / bin night.

🔥Get your masks and hepa filters now because the air will be smoke this summer. 🔥

Australians: A people who will, in 3.5 months, salivate over a sport with 2 seconds of action every 30 seconds🏏 , but also complain about the pauses in the action at the mcg today.

Just went outside and It seems to be big number day in Melbourne. Every male under 35 has donned an oversized numeric garment and is on their way to the mcg

I'd like to nominate a piece of iconic contemporary Australiana. It's everywhere. You can draw a straight line through Hills Hoists, Victa Mowers, Bonds Singlets, Holden Commodores, and this :

I'd like to nominate a piece of iconic contemporary Australiana. It's everywhere. You can draw a straight line through Hills Hoists, Victa Mowers, Bonds Singlets, Holden Commodores, and this :

I have what I call a "human factors theory" for why robotaxis will not work, and why car ownership will be the killer app for robotaxis. It's a shit theory: 💩

The more recently a place urbanised, the fewer cities they have. this is an important observation, because some pattern-matching planners are trying to get poor countries to look like rich countries and spread them out, even though that may not make sense any more. 4/

Clambering onto the sourdough trend about 4 years after its demise.

Three months til the American midterm elections and I suspect the people devouring the most @fivethirtyeight content on close Senate races will be in Tehran. Keep US gas prices high and brand Trump will begin to stink.

Anna Krien's book Night Games is a terrifying and compelling read. I had hoped that maybe the #afl had moved past that era. Apparently not.

"Struth Social, it's a potential goldmine " - My Dad, an ideas man

“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”

Americans have passports now. Two aspects to lament here, and one to laud. 1. More americans everywhere. 2. We can no longer consider ourselves superior to them in this domain. but 3. they might actually learn something

Holy heck. Looks like outback South Australia.

Among people aged 65-69, there are an estimated 16,000 taxpayers with student loan debt, and 26,000 among those aged 60-64. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/03/h...

Buzz buzz! Australian government just tested its new alarm tone. Annoyingness confirmed.

Lot of people about to find out their paintings market value = frame value.