Conaire Deagan

The only time I’ve ever had a package stolen was when it was a book. I wonder what they did with that book.

It’s insane how common the use of tear gas is in America

the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.

Also want to shout out some similar work by some good people from U Michigan: “Using Astrometry to Break Degeneracies in Stellar Surface Mapping”.
Arxiv.org/abs/2601.11737

The works are independent, but we released on arxiv on the same day intentionally :)
It’s an interesting topic!

Inferring hemispheric asymmetries of stellar active regions through the information content of astrometric signals Photometric light curves suffer from fundamental degeneracies that limit surface information recovery. We demonstrate that astrometry enables access to complementary information through photocentre va...

Happy to say that my paper “Inferring hemispheric asymmetries of stellar active regions through the information content of astrometric signals” is on the archive: arxiv.org/abs/2601.11707

It’s about what degeneracies are present (and importantly, what aren’t) in stellar surface mapping

Ronald fisher at a party, wearing a newspaper hat, and either a vest or shirt with the confederate flag on it

I mean look at this outfit! 1952!!!

I am creating some Bayesian statistics documents for phds students at UNSW and I thought it would be fun to look at the history of Jeffrey’s and Fisher. Goddamn Fisher was an awful person - Professor of Eugenics, and wrote in favour of nazi eugenicists AFTER Nuremberg 😕

Mulder is a Bayesian and Scully is a Frequentist.

I was reading a paper that got a bit of buzz a little bit ago about the adult literacy crisis. Ironically, the paper itself seems to lack numerical literacy, reporting basic percentages incorrectly…. 😕

The glass I taught this semester had the highest rate of complaints in ages, but also the highest teaching feedback scores in average. Interesting.

I find it funny that when reading books on SETI, many authors describe the inherent chauvinism in assuming intelligence as an “evolutionary goal”, but to describe the pinnacle of technology they all invariably put the peak at radio telescopes. Perhaps radio astronomers are also chauvinists lol

Allies were making fun of this shit during world war 2. We just force Ukraine to give up anything while this is the (fascist) enemy. Death to fascists. Concede nothing to them.

I said this before: I'm pretty sure 2 Muslim terrorists with links to IS were not influenced by the Bridge March against genocide.

How Russia’s Invasion is Impacting Ukraine’s Youth - bellingcat Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainian educational facilities and spaces used by children have been damaged in air strikes or closed because of them.

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

I worry that the government will attempt to use this to expand surveillance, despite the fact that they clearly had enough information to (at least!) take their guns.

I’d even suggest that more surveillance would make it harder to stop things like this - adding hay not finding needles

Very concerning that these guys were armed and not under surveillance.

Why does someone in my
Inner west suburb need 31 guns? Ridiculous

That’s not true, a quick check of their socials show multiple posts about it

I am concerned about the literacy rates in the adult population.

I don’t see how someone could ever need more than one gun. One should be the limit, with a good reason required, and limited ammunition.

This is about Sydney.

This was about the Sydney Massacre. Heart goes out to the Brown students too.

American opinion. Better things are possible.

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Sick and twisted massacre today. Had never imagined that this could happen here, like this. Solidarity to the Jewish community, solidarity to Bondi.

Confirmed: the attack at #Bondi was targeting the Jewish community. It’s a terrorism event.

Awful for all involved.

Thoughts are with Australia’s Jewish community and everyone who was on Bondi who had to witness such horrific events. This is so sad and not what our country is about. Devastating.

I should make it clear that this is clearly a targeted event at the Jewish community in Sydney. Abhorrent.

I hope hell exists for people like this.

I don’t know how these people have gotten guns, but there needs to be a crackdown. We cannot be like the US and allows this shit to happen. It’s unclear how many victims there are, but I hope for a speedy recovery for them. Fuck those shooter cunts.

? LLM behaviour has nothing to do with Ice

❗️Shocking footage. A passerby disarmed the shooter "with bare hands" at Bondi Beach in Sydney.