herid @herid@qoto.org

A presidential reward. Putin has appointed Moscow district judge Anastasia Loskutova to a spot on the city's main court. Her rulings sent Navalny to jail multiple times. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202301040002?index=0

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Pro-Putin operatives in Germany work to turn Berlin against Ukraine

In Germany some are clamouring for a change in course on Ukraine. Key figures in the campaign have links to the Russian state or far right, a Reuters investigation has found.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-germany-influencers/

Rishi Sunak wants all pupils in the UK to study maths to age 18.

I stopped studying maths when I was 16.

I can't see how studying it for another 4 years would have helped me?

Not about economics or politics, at least directly, but I thought this was interesting and ties into how I've been trying to understand the Ukraine War 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drones.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News

Donald Trump goes all in for Kevin McCarthy. Fourth round of voting for House speaker scheduled to begin at noon.

heard from a reputable source that elon wants tony soprano to be the next twitter ceo and no one around him is telling him that’s a tv show character. i think this is the best choice honestly

Musk now amplifying false claims about COVID vaccines and athlete cardiac events

Over the month of December 🇺🇦 liberated approximately 70km² of Ukraine.

This means that 🇷🇺 currently occupies ~16.55% of Ukraine.

The charts below show how the control of Ukraine has changed since the beginning of the year.

#Twitter outage in #Australia. https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/technology/twitter-outage-detected-in-australia-website-and-app-incredibly-slow/news-story/60deef5077a7628c41d60aeaf4642a87

Universal mask wearing is not a lockdown. It’s the opposite: Mask mandates make society accessible to many more people, especially those at higher risk.

#COVID #COVID19

Céu - Amore

https://youtu.be/xYWhZ6Ea02I

#SongOfTheDay

#FavoriteMusic 48/

'Who could have predicted the climate crisis?' - Macron

I'll tell you who - Exxon in 1982.

Carl Sagan testifying to congress in 1985

Multiple IPCC reports over decades, involving tens of thousands of scientists

Thats who

#ClimateChange #climateCrisis

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/01/03/who-could-have-predicted-the-climate-crisis-macron-slammed-on-climate-change-remark_6010139_5.html