tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
> Geneticist Marlena Fejzo has been awarded the inaugural 2025 BioInnovation Institute & Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s Health for her leading discoveries about the genetic basis of severe morning sickness.
> [...]
> “People should not still be dying from severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, but women are far too often told their severe symptoms are normal or that they are exaggerating, leading to a lack of treatment and poor and sometimes fatal outcomes,” Fejzo said.
@Mabande Eventuellt av intresse https://www.info-res.org/articles/we-analysed-the-hate-speech-on-our-social-media-videos-heres-what-we-found/
> After our recent videos on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) were flooded with online hate speech, we decided to investigate what was being said, and why.
> This April, CIR published new findings on the presence of harmful TFGBV on TikTok and YouTube in Ethiopia. The message is clear: Ethiopian women and girls face a barrage of insults, stereotypes, and mockery on social media, which diminishes their voices and restricts their participation in public life.
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Doge’s cuts fall far, far short of Musk’s wild claims. I appreciate the BBC doing this analysis: it’s important to contrast promises with reality when dealing with con artists.
Please note: these are •cuts•, not “savings.” They’re cutting programs that save or generate more money than they cost. Musk is •increasing• US debt with this unconstitutional nonsense.
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A revolution in unmanned drone systems is reshaping the dynamics of Africa’s armed conflicts. African governments need to develop a more complex understanding of the risks and limitations of using armed drones.
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/drone-proliferation-africa-destabilizing/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-African-Languages
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In the Titan habitability calculation, we estimated the total amount of cell mass that could be supported by glycine fermentation based on the estimate glycine delivery from the top surface all the way through 100 km of ice into the deep subsurface ocean of Titan.
And we came up with a small dog's worth of cell mass.
Affholder et al. 2025 (open-access article): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adbc66
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Just seeing that they are threatening Wikipedia's tax exempt status. The one good thing on the internet, the one healthy way we have of interacting with information.
https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat
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For environmental reasons, the city of The Hague (usually my home town) banned billboards that advertise cruises and flights.
Several travel companies sued, saying that The Hague violates their interests and their freedom of expression.
Court: the city wins; the ban can remain in place.
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2025:6874
#law #netherlands #denhaag #environment #humanrights #politics
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International students who got their visas revoked for various interactions with law enforcement such as speeding tickets are seeing their statuses reinstated after a flurry of lawsuits where judges ruled against the US government.
I’m glad to see the judicial system is still in place to protect people from this government’s senseless cruelty.
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Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people
Latest denial of disaster funding comes as Trump has repeatedly stated he wants to eliminate FEMA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-denies-aid-arkansas-tornados
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Who maintains digital infrastructure?
(found on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3lnkkukyfos2i )
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Election watchers rejoice: #Canada is going to the polls real soon 🍿🍿🍿
https://goodauthority.org/news/canada-2025-general-election-carney-tariffs-poilievre/
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Värdet på de 360 (av 7500) kvarvarande broschyrerna om lärares kollektivavtal sköt i höjden igår när facket avvisade SKR:s sista bud. Är du lärare och vill lägga den på personalrummet kan du ändå få den för osannolikt billiga noll kronor! Skicka din postadress på DM.
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See if you can spot the difference between the Trump and Biden White House statements commemorating Armenian Remembrance Day.
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A new UCLA study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form — such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter — significantly increases people’s ability to see the impact of climate change
Making an emotional connection to the loss of local traditions may also help overcome climate apathy
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/climate-change-apathy-how-to-break-through
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #MassExtinction ##environment #climate
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Extreme heat linked to carbon dioxide and methane from 111 companies cost the world economy $28 trillion from 1991 to 2020, with $9 trillion of those losses attributable to the five top-emitting firms, according to the study. The highest-emitting investor-owned firm the researchers examined may be responsible for $791 billion to $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over that period, according to the study.
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04/study-lays-out-scientific-path-recouping-climate-costs
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #pollution #environment #climate
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Who could possibly have predicted that the TERFs "celebrating" the Supreme Court ruling are now campaigning against immigration? It's almost as if fascists will never run out of hatred.
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"Even in a hysterical #bubble where everybody is agreeing that this is the future, #OpenAI currently requires more money and more compute than is reasonable to acquire. Nobody has ever raised as much as OpenAI needs to, and based on the sheer amount of difficulty that SoftBank is having in raising the funds to meet the lower tranche ($10bn) of its commitment, it may simply not be possible for this company to continue."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
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My taxi driver has just confirmed with me that I do not need the toilet before we hit the highway to the airport.
It’s been a pretty stressful month and I may no longer look my age 🧐👵🏻
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‘The #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”’
Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.
#HeatPumps are NOT controversial outside UK.
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How the Trump administration's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in its litigation being shockingly awful
The US government is on the back-foot in its own courts because it is not thinking strategically
By me
Substack:
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-administrations-shock
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
