tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

As Trump makes nice with Gulf states, Elon Musk isn't the only one to benefit. Musk's brother has deals for his drone co. His mom is headlining conferences there. And his dad has a memecoin to back a Dubai "Musk Institute" to study “space-time travel.” Our latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

Gulf Deal-Making Spree Also Be...

Oh look at that 🤯

Tanks on standard gauge wagons with gauge change bogies to allow them to be used on Swiss metre gauge lines

https://www.bahnbilder.de/bild/Schweiz~Privatbahnen~BAM+Chemin+de+fer+Biere-Apples-Morges/888479/mbcbam-nicht-gerade-mit-der-hoechstgeschwindigkeit.html

And you’re telling me that instead of that we should re-gauge to move military equipment?

Jag tänker så mycket på ränteavdraget. Jag är så arg på ränteavdraget. Om jag någonsin sommarpratar kommer jag att prata om ränteavdraget. Det saknar tak. Det saknar behovsprövning. Därmed noll förvånande att rika män får störst del av kakan. REFORMERA RÄNTEAVDRAGET. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Rekordnota för ränteavdrag: 61...

The researchers at @energyinnovation.org have modeled the effects of the current GOP reconciliation bill. Folks ... it's bad. The top line: "Between 2026 and 2034 (the reconciliation window), national GDP decreases by nearly $1.1 trillion, cumulatively" I'm bad at budgeting. Is a trillion a lot?

Assessing Impacts Of The 2025 ...

#arXiv A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 "The redshift is confirmed with NIRSpec/prism spectroscopy through a sharp Lyman- break and detections of five rest-UV emission lines. The steep UV slope implies negligible dust attenuation and a young stellar population. The absence of a strong damping wing may indicate that the immediate surroundings of MoM-z14 are partially ionized at a z where virtually every reionization model predicts a neutral fraction"

Columbia U, NYU, George Washington U, and more -- universities continue to punish students for mentioning Netanyahu's U.S. funded genocide of Palestinians in their commencement speeches.

Imagine recruiting kids to your school with the promise they can change the world, educating them for 4 years to change the world, and then slamming them for daring to act to change the world.

The hypocrisy and cowardice of it all.

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter

Have now lost count of the number of frocks removed during performances this year at #eurovision... #Malta is what, number 8?

Tellusgruppen är en av fler koncerner där en stor del av bolaget ägs av fd politiker och där fd politiker och/eller politiska tjänstemän sitter i styrelsen. Lobbyn försöker intala oss något annat men det handlar bara om att tjäna pengar. #Kvartalsrapport #Tillväxt #Lönsamhet

Frankrikes inrikesminister vill förbjuda den största propalestinska rörelsen i landet, Urgence Palestine. ”Yttrande- och föreningsfriheten hotas”, varnar Amnesty, som ser ett oroande mönster i Europa och USA.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/palestinarorelsen-i-frankrike-hotas-av-foreningsforbud-angrepp-mot-yttrandefriheten/

When I feed the ducks with my two year old son I'm really just trying to bounce chunks of bread off their heads.

I understood Climeworks to be one of the better run DAC startups, and yikes - these are the first stats I've seen showing how the tech has been underperforming against it's stated goals.

Interesting long read, as it has a number of interesting numbers in the piece to help understand the tech and political economy around it too.
https://mastodon.green/@akshatrathi/114512750123877258

Charter to buy Cox for $21.9 billion, which would combine two of America’s biggest broadband/cable operators. https://corporate.charter.com/newsroom/charter-communications-and-cox-communications-announce-definitive-agreement-to-combine-companies

Känner jag någon som jobbar som lärare i Finland och som pratar svenska?

#Microsoft has blocked its services to the International Criminal Court by order of Donald #Trump. The #ICC prosecutor doesn’t have access to his #email. Source:AP

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

Octopus Energy posted me a 321 A4 page electricity bill printed out on paper as a physical 5cm thick package (on their "Agile tariff" the rate changes every half hour, so there are 48 line items per day). I enquired as to why they'd done that?
Apparently they tried to email it first, but the 15 MB email exceeded my email server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead.

Big news this evening
7 years in the making
The Court speaks
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

FT’s Guy Chazan reports that the Trump admin is slowly realizing that Putin, not Zelensky, “may be the biggest obstacle to peace” in Ukraine. However, it’s still too soon to say whether this is a true epiphany or just a temporary mood swing. https://www.ft.com/content/9a75a55d-21d4-460a-bb50-5b4fe9c000a1

Kan journalister sluta vara såna fega as och göra sitt jobb. Det är ett folkmord som pågår, inte ett ”folkmord”.

I don't have to imagine, I've even tried taken medication for that exact same problem before, what I don't understand is why you'd WANT that