tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

De senaste tre åren har 53 svenska miljarder investerats i norsk olja och gas via bl a fonder och banklån. AP7 har 3 miljarder kr i norsk olja. "Det är anmärkningsvärt att svenska sparpengar fortsätter att satsas på en industri som undergräver allas framtid" www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Oo...

Dear Mastodon instance admins,

Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.

If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @joynewacc and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.

Please have some humanity.

Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

#mastodon #fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #famine

This science story has everything:
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded

https://www.science.org/content/article/driven-pain-endometriosis-scientist-uncovering-clues-its-causes

A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the center of the Will Smith AI crowd video. I wanted to know what it was like to find yourselves in the middle of a hypermodern problem: being confused for AI slop. https://waxy.org/2025/09/interviewing-the-couple-in-the-will-smith-ai-crowd-video/

Att mördarna som avslöjas här växt upp i USA och Tyskland säger så klart något rätt centralt om konflikten. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Gaza family torn apart by ...

Regeringen får 67 mandat med dagens mätning. Alla regeringspartier tappar. S Mp V har ökat med 7,3 procentenheter sedan valet. L 2,1% det lägsta som uppmätts för ett riksdagsparti. 39% vill ha Andersson som statsminister, dött lopp Åkesson/Kristersson på 18% www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/svar...

Svårt läge för regeringen – re...

"Biträdande utbildningsminister Maria Arnholm (L) aviserar skärpta bestämmelser för fristående förskolor. Ägare ska inte kunna starta nya förskolor så länge det finns brister på de redan verksamma." ÄNTLIGEN!! Jaha, detta skrevs 2014, för elva år sedan. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Skärpta krav på förskolor

Mycket bra tråd och reflektion om att tidigare fransk politisk stabilitet byggde på fiktion skapad av (majoritets)valsystemet, där majoriteterna hade lågt väljarstöd.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cy3nxnkuk6qvibtybejs65nm/post/3lyg6u4glbc2k

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker says, "I've never really paid much attention to Vladimir Putin & his reasons for the war." Great policy, Matt. Bang-up job. (He then goes on to say the U.S. might endorse "protecting Russian churches in Ukraine & Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine," lol)

Fun fact about the Handbook of Mathematical Functions. You know who wanted to kill this project? Republicans. Why? The mathematical tables project under NBS was instigated by the Works Project Administration (WPA) under FDR which was widely criticized by Republicans as being Communist.

Yes, you have that right. Tables of logarithms and Bessel functions are Communist.

"When Computers Were Human" by David Alan Grier* is a fantastic book that details the history of the Handbook of Mathematical Functions and the work of Irene Stegun and Milton Abramowitz. It's a wonderful and fascinating book that provides a ton of context for the transition from human to electronic computing. Programming was done for decades before electronic computers existed but you wouldn't know that from the way computer history is taught. Looking at who was doing that work explains a lot about why it's not typically taught as history. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691133829/when-computers-were-human

*Not the one from the cast of In Living Color, sadly.

Rivka Galchen asks in The New Yorker why we stopped taking nuclear weapons seriously. Apparently, most Americans say they would support the use of an atomic weapon that would kill 2 million Iranians if 20,000 U.S. troops were at risk. I am not filled with hope. https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/why-dont-we-take-nuclear-weapons-seriously

NYT report on how tanks in Ukraine joined Don Hertzfeldt’s Silly Hats Only Club. It turns out that America’s “top of class” M1 Abrams modern marvels are just as easy to drone as Russia’s older, far less technologically advanced clunkers. Cue the body modifications. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-drones-tanks-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.Kw4O.u_LFG3KGvEjh&smid=url-share

Starlink, annoying people looking from space at earth, and from earth at space.

My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs aren’t answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question “what would a reply to this look like?” It’s one of the first things I explain in the “Should I use LLMs?” portion of my syllabus.

Nu har jag läst klart ”Fuskarna” av Natalia Kazmierska. Det borde egentligen vara omöjligt men boken lyckades göra mig ännu argare på marknadsskolan än vad jag redan var. Sågningen av Academedia är briljant. Köp/låna den och tipsa icke-arga vänner och kollegor om att läsa den.

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done
http://mediagazer.com/250908/p20#a250908p20

More on from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.
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For context (apart from everything earlier in this thread):
In the current version of the Reuters article (linked to earlier):
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Tunisian authorities said the explosion originated inside the vessel, and Tunisia's National Guard spokesperson told Mosaique FM radio that reports of a drone attack on the flotilla "have no basis in truth".
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But in the video you can see that their statement can not be accurate, since an object apparently on fire strikes the boat straight from above.

Vår tid i en postning och en rättelse.

Here is a very good disease treatment story. It's about the successes in the fight against African sleeping sickness.

The layout and narrative of the reporting is beautiful, as well. (It is written in French.)

Many takeaways: A big one is the need for community involvement, trust, acceptance, and training.

(Key in the story is that humans are the reservoir of the disease.)

((On a personal note, I played a minor and indirect role in the development of acoziborole))

https://dndi.org/stories/2025/elimination-maladie-sommeil-en-guinee/