Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

I've been coming back to this and find it ever more difficult to trace it back, so now I repost.

A group of middle-ranking officers of the Self-Defense Forces inspected a Chinese air force facility in Tianjin on Thursday as part of an exchange program between the two countries' defense personnel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/29/japan/japan-sdf-visit-chinese-military/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sdf #defense #china #chinajapanrelations

Mapping knots onto a Menger sponge

Un fighissimo esempio di combinatorica applicata su un tema quotidiano

https://www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathematicians-tie-knots-through-a-mind-blowing-fractal-20241126/
@matematica

Elon Musk fires back on excluding Tesla from California’s new EV incentive he wants to kill https://electrek.co/2024/11/26/elon-musk-fires-back-on-excluding-tesla-from-californias-new-ev-incentive-he-wants-to-kill/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Reproducible examples, from a friend's feed, of what Copilot spits out when you ask it calculate women's salaries in python and ruby respectively.

It's important to note: these are not "errors" or "hallucinations". These are "correct", at least in the sense that they're giving you accurate data about the status quo reality of tech salaries, justice and fairness be damned.

But ask yourself what else they're repeating back to you that's not so easy to spot.

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/113549897292144975

At
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23COP29
in Baku, no agreement has yet been reached on a new climate finance goal. Meanwhile, ERC-funded research reveals how a major Antarctic ice shelf has melted faster over 4 decades due to warming oceans. The process is expected to intensify as
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23ClimateChange
continues.

[2024-11-20 12:00 UTC]

L'autodipendenza è stata una folle parentesi nella storia dell'uomo. Chiudiamola.

Per decenni le industrie automobilistiche hanno fatto profitti enormi facendo credere che l'#auto fosse la soluzione alla #mobilità

Abbiamo distrutto le città per fare spazio a quelle pericolose ed inefficienti scatole di metallo e solo adesso stiamo cercando di riparare i danni

Nelle 3 foto corso Vittorio Emanuele II a #Milano prima, durante, e dopo l'auto (da Lemmy se ne vede una)

@energia #autoNarcotizzati

Wir nehmen den aktuellen #eXit in Richtung #Bluesky zum Anlass, nochmals auf unseren Fokus auf das #Fediverse hinzuweisen:

https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2024/bluesky-fur-uni-innsbruck-ist-mastodon-wegweisend/

Die Beiträge hier werden via https://fed.brid.gy auf Bluesky gespiegelt.

In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...

... so they wrote one

and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this

So they explained how fascism would come to the US

Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024

Portuguese PM says G20 not ready to decide on taxing the super-rich: Countries like the US and Germany are particularly against the idea.  https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/portuguese-pm-says-g20-not-ready-to-decide-on-taxing-the-super-rich/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

HI @Fanua, this account is actually the account to which the Guardian's press.coop followers have been migrated after Flipboard took over press.coop's accounts (read more here). https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-takes-over-press-coop-accounts/.

Unfortunately since The Guardian has stopped updating its account on Flipboard, we are no longer able to post its content. The account you're replying to here has been created to "house" The Guardian's followers in case they wish to build their own presence in the fediverse. We can move those followers to any server, any time, and will of course do that if The Guardian joins Mastodon.

@TonyStark @MariaHill

The disinformation machine that is right wing/corporate-owned media, centralized social media owned by the likes of Zuck and Musk, and Russia is a huge reason why we’re where we are. We will get nowhere until and unless something is done to counter it.

@garymarcus has a great article on this that captures my view nicely: Hinton's Nobel is a mistake, but the Chemistry Nobel's inclusion of Hassabis and Jumper for AlphaFold was deserved recognition of important, original work.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-nobel-prizes-for-ai-and-two-paths

Il Guardian non pubblicherà più notizie sul social network X di proprietà e assoluto controllo di Elon Musk

Do you know your #HorizonEU requirements? (7/11) TRUE or FALSE - "In the grant proposal, not addressing the other recommended #OpenScience practices (e.g. #CitizenScience, #preregistration) will have a negative impact on your score" ??

@openaire_eu webinar https://bit.ly/48fmapH

Reminder: These were our chances of exceeding 2ºC *prior* to the US election result.

Now we can be certain we will be breaching that threshold and more.

We have NO TIME to lose to prepare, as best we can, for the consequences of this.

#ClimateCrisis #Adaptation #Resilience

Graphic: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024