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Progress reported in Gaza truce talks, but Israel downplays chances of ending war with Hamas mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

"The paper reports the first results of an experiment in northern Finland during winter 2022–2023 that aimed at studying seismic events caused by seasonal freezing in the so-called critical zone (CZ) of the Earth...We identified and located two types of seismic events – namely, frost quakes with frequencies of about 10–20 Hz, with waveforms like those of tectonic events, and irregularly shaped frost tremors with frequencies of about 120–180 Hz."

#FrostQuake
tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/

Tomorrow, two astronauts will launch in the most screwed-up spacecraft since Apollo 1. NASA estimates the loss-of-crew probability at 1 in 295. I will feel better when they are let back out of that thing.

coolness levels are 76% and rising

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I'm still floored by the fact that my company offers employee discounts of 50% off retail prices and yet it's still cheaper for me to go with the competition.

@yemen @israel The mighty USS Eisenhower strikes back to defend Israel against the #Houthis with a nerdy 'Attack of the Drones' patch

taskandpurpose.com/news/uss-ei

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Sure! Here's a random fact: The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.

Playing with flame #fractals is a perennial joy (and also confusing as hell, as all the tools I've tried over the years are great for exploring ideas in an open ended fashion but I've never found a really linear/'predictable' approach to using them, regardless of how much fun it is, it still feels a lot like video game "button-mashing".) #art

U.S.-supplied weapons provided to the government of Israel have been used in serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, and in a manner that is inconsistent with U.S. law and policy, according to Amnesty International USA. The organization demands an immediate suspension in the transfer of arms to the government of #Israel .

#Palestine #Gaza

amnestyusa.org/press-releases/

Calculators: No need to learn basic math.
AI: No need to learn how to write.
Social Media: No need to learn politeness or actual human interactions.

Peter Singer: We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers – Palm Oil Detectives

Peter Singer, Princeton University I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood. Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of…

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On Friday, a coalition of 88 Democratic members wrote to the White House, arguing that #Israel ’s “restrictions on US-backed humanitarian aid efforts have contributed to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians and to credible reports of famine in parts of #Gaza .”

#Palestine

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

Today in 1998, 26 years ago: A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

#OnThisDay

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