tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Några tänkvärda poänger av Guillou, särskilt det där med ammunitionen. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/EyrW8G/polisen-i-orebro-ville-ha-ett-opolitiskt-massmord

Nu stoppas alltså Pettson & Findus i Ryssland. Jag intervjuade den farliga översättaren häromåret. Fast på ryska, jag förstod först under samtalets gång att det nog hade gått lika bra att prata svenska.

Nobelstipendium beslagtogs hos Pettson och Findus ryska översättare – Glasnost.se
https://www.glasnost.se/2023/nobelstipendium-beslagtogs-hos-pettson-och-findus-ryska-oversattare/

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/pP88aE/fyra-av-sven-nordkvists-bocker-om-pettson-och-findus-stoppade-i-ryssland

The Supreme Court is dropping some pretty awful decisions. I wrote about yesterday's regarding gun smuggling, for Slate. Just published there. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-ketanji-brown-jackson-guns.html #lawfedi #PLCAA #Mexico #FirearmsIndustry

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy
Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands.

Radio frequency interference from Starlink not only spans the narrowband intended emissions, but also broadband unintended emissions too, coming from propulsion and avionics.

This RFI is unregulated and affects key science goals.

Starlink appears in ~30% of all sky images.

This new study, from Dylan Grigg at Curtin University, is not the first to study the impacts of Starlink on #RadioAstronomy, but is the largest of its kind, and quantifies how this type of radio frequency interference - that comes from above - will impact the mega-science SKA project.

My latest piece for #SpaceAustralia

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emerging-risk-radio-astronomy

Astro_Work (supplied) / Griggs et al. 2025

#Starlink #Satellites #SKA #Astrodon #Astronomy #RFSpectrum

the University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

#Gaza #StudentProtests #UniversityNonsense

Depressing but instructive as hell

AI really is "fake data science for software bros" so often

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia

The inability to understand WHAT generative models are genuinely good at should be studied as its own cognitive bias network I stg. It's like people are looking for the places where we most obviously have existing solutions.

Reading the designs of these attempts reveals so many foolish mental models from the HUMAN that read just pure software bro to me: e.g., arbitrary limits that feel efficient or something (limiting # of characters considered by the model in the contract)

"Not to brag, but..."

Lithuania’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the exclusion of same-sex couples from legal partnership violates the country’s constitution. The decision compels lawmakers to extend civil protections to LGBTQ+ families for the first time - a long-overdue affirmation of dignity and legal equality in one of Europe’s most conservative legal environments. Go Mag https://www.baltictimes.com/absence_of_same-sex_partnerships_in_lithuania_s_civil_code__unconstitutional__-_court/?ref=fixthenews.com
#ShareGoodNewsToo

#Trump Admin redirecting anti-drone technology from #Ukraine to US troops based in the Middle East

Pentagon notified Congress last week that redirection of special fuzes used in ground-to-air rocket systems is an "urgent issue"

#UkraineWar #TrumpRussia

If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime

"Human and material losses" from #Israel strikes on #Daraa Province

Israel: We responded to 2 rockets fired towards Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

Groups linked to #Iran and #Hamas claim responsibility but Israel Defense Minister: "We consider President of #Syria directly responsible"

I arrived at Hamburg main station, tracks 13+14 - just where over a week ago, a mentally ill German woman injured 15 in a brutal knife attack, some severely. She was stopped by two men: a young refugee from Syria and a man from Chechnya. The press quickly dropped the case.

That had not at all been the case when a similarly ill man, but a refugee, killed two in Bavaria. For weeks, up to our elections, this tragic event was heavily exploited to push anti-migrant politics.

Honesty, and humanity.

Russia’s diplomatic delegation has arrived in Istanbul for tomorrow's next round of talks with Ukraine. https://t.me/mash/64544

Min magkänsla säger att med skärpta krav på fast inkomst för att alls få bo – eller rätt att stanna i landet – så följer också en växande svart marknad för fejkade anställningskontrakt.

I stället för timjobb får du en "fast" anställning, mot löfte om en motprestation som inte nämns i kontraktet.

To whoever showed me this #Conference #LifeHack you have my unending thanks

At least four reported dead in train derailing in Russia’s Bryansk region. An apparently timed explosion toppled a bridge onto the passing passenger train. Dozens more injured. 379 people were onboard. https://t.me/bazabazon/37852

ICE and police in San Diego deployed flash bang grenades against community members who surrounded them and blocked ICE vans, when they attempted to arrest several workers at an Italian restaurant.

From Pedro Rios on BlueSky:

"ICE discharged 3 flash-bang grenades. The people, even more determined, then pushed ICE agents out of their neighborhood with anti-fascist slogans forcing them to retreat. This is the way it should be everywhere."

From a report:

"A large crowd began to gather and witnessed one individual being placed into a federal vehicle. Cody said agents then started taking people out through the back of the restaurant to avoid the crowd.

The crowd surrounded the agents, yelling profanities and calling them fascists. Many people recorded the agents and the license plates of their vehicles.

At one point, a group blocked an unmarked vehicle carrying agents from leaving the intersection at 30th and Beech Streets. After activating the sirens multiple times without success, agents used what appeared to be a smoke device to disperse the crowd."

Read more here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/05/30/ice-arrests-several-workers-from-south-park-restaurant

Did any cultures reject coin currencies? /u/thestoryteller69 explores the unique situation of Angkor, a Southeast Asian city that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, and their preference for barter.

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