Peter

An unfinished mind rehearsing infinity through questions. Each prompt a fracture in certainty, each experiment a negotiation with the unknown. Curiosity.

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🇬🇱🇩🇰🇺🇸 BREAKING: Greenland, Denmark and the US expect to sign a new Arctic security agreement next week at the UN General Assembly.
The joint statement says the deal will recognise Greenland's right to self-determination and the Kingdom's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Parliamentary approval will still be required.
Source: Danish Prime Minister's Office, 18 Sept 2026.
https://t.co/VBEnBmSTO5
#Greenland #Arctic #Denmark #USA

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🚨 ATTENTION UK Expats & Aussies who worked in Britain! 🇬🇧✈️🇦🇺

A massive UK inheritance tax change coming in April 2027 is a ticking time bomb for your wealth.If you have a British private or workplace pension, your beneficiaries could face a brutal 40% levy—wiping out nearly half its value when passed to the next generation.The window to restructure your offshore retirement assets is narrowing fast. Don't let tax changes eat your hard-earned legacy. 👇

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Are you owed a share of $274 million in unclaimed money? Nearly a million Australians are owed a slice, averaging around $280 each.

Services Australia says Australians are owed around $274 million in unclaimed Medicare benefits. If you're owed, providing your bank details should allow you to receive the funds within days.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are waiting to be claimed by Australians who have not provided their current bank account details to Services Australia.
The agency says 974,000 Australians are owed a slice of $274.5 million in unpaid Medicare benefits.
It's urging people to check that their bank details are up to date in their Medicare online account.

Young Australians account for the largest share, with more than $65 million payable to 255,000 people aged between 18 and 24.

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Nearly 1,500 properties bought using first home buyers’ 5% deposit scheme converted into investments.

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"Widow Tax" is one of the biggest political controversies in Australia's new property tax reforms.
The issue isn't a new tax—it's that a widow or divorcee could lose valuable negative gearing and CGT concessions simply because ownership changes after a death or separation.
Even Treasurer Jim Chalmers admits it's an unintended consequence and says it will be fixed before the rules start in 2027.
Sometimes, the biggest tax impacts come from the smallest drafting errors. 🇦🇺

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Chalmers urged to fix widow tax as ‘devastated’ casualty seeks help https://t.co/MI0dbabz1e

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Australian car market: Electric vehicle and hybrid sales surge as motorists move away from petrol https://t.co/eI46Tu9vTI

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Minister confirms first bird flu mass mortality in Australian wildlife https://t.co/nVSvxoWlGF via @ABCaustralia

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OpenAI shared the list of 10 long-standing problems that Astra had arrived at an answer to. These include:
•High-dimensional sphere packing
•Binary and spherical codes
•Non-sofic groups
•Connes's rigidity conjecture
•Arithmetic circuit complexity
•Quantum parallel repetition
•Closest vector problem
•Ehrhart's volume conjecture
•Multicolor Ramsey numbers
•Extremal number conjectures

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OpenAI has claimed that its unreleased model Astra was able to solve 10 long standing problems in Mathematics.

The ChatGPT maker says these problems spanned various fields, including geometry, coding theory, group theory, quantum computing, cryptography and graph theory.

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Protection of NDIS funds under the spotlight.
Sydney jury finds provider Ebtesam Ibrahim Hamoud Fahmy guilty of rorting $2.2M from disability services. Case heard before Judge Phillip Mahony in the NSW District Court.
Sentencing scheduled for September 11. #NDIS #TrueCrime

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New Chinese Ambassador to Australia Expected
Former Director-General of Asian Affairs, Liu Jinsong, is tipped to become China's new Ambassador to Australia.
1️⃣ MFA website updated: Liu has formally stepped down from Asian Affairs (succeeded by Shen Minjuan).
2️⃣ Outgoing Ambassador Xiao Qian held his farewell reception in Canberra on July 28.
3️⃣ Major media outlets cite diplomatic sources confirming the upcoming appointment.

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Reuters: The U.S. Treasury has reportedly told several banks to stand by for possible FX intervention to support the Japanese yen.

If carried out, it would mark the first U.S. intervention in the yen market in decades, signalling Washington’s growing concern over the yen’s sharp depreciation and closer coordination with Japan.

#USDJPY #JPY #Forex #Markets

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Australia’s housing slowdown is no longer just a property story—it’s becoming an economy story.

🏠 Higher mortgage rates + changes to investor tax rules are cooling demand.
📉 Fewer home sales mean less work for agents, tradies, removalists and retailers.
💰 States are collecting less stamp duty, banks are seeing weaker loan demand, and consumer spending is slowing.

Property has long been Australia’s economic engine. When housing stalls, the effects ripple through the entire economy.

#Australia #Property #Housing #Economy #RealEstate

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While much of the world focuses on digital assets, Australia has quietly reminded everyone what tangible value looks like.

The Perth Mint's new 521.2 kg, 99.999% pure gold bar is now officially the world's largest.

Physical gold. World-class refining. Australian excellence.

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Perth Mint sets Guinness record for world's largest gold bar

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The Perth Mint created the 521.2 kilogram bar using Australian gold, refined to a 99.999 per cent purity.

Mint chief executive Paul Graham said the current world standard was 99.99 per cent.

"To get to five-nines gold, 99.999, not many can do that," he said.

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Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai are divorcing after 30 years of marriage, with an exclusive joint statement to Page Six revealing they will continue their professional partnership across their tech and multibillion-dollar sports empires.

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Billionaire divorce done right?
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai & Clara Wu Tsai are splitting after 30 years—but their $6.8B sports empire won't https://t.co/lL8f3N6nJd exclusive statement to @PageSix reveals an "amicable" split that transitions their marriage into a pure business partnership.

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The assets in play are massive.
Per @Sportico data, the Tsais bought the @BrooklynNets & Barclays Center in 2018/19 at a $3.3B valuation—now worth $6.22B.
They bought the @nyliberty for ~$14M, freshly fresh off a 2024 championship, now worth $600M.