tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@anne_kreft
Oh, I thought you were looking for academics? ;)
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Yet another sign that the footprint of the death penalty is shrinking. I thank Gov. Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
Here’s the first part of his statement today:
Today, I'm announcing I will not issue any execution warrants during my term as Governor.
When one comes to my desk, I will sign a reprieve every time — and I’m asking the General Assembly to send me a bill abolishing the death penalty in Pennsylvania once and for all…
@anne_kreft
At first it seemed like fun branding to have the deadline on intenasjonale kvinedagen, but then I started to wonder if it isn't more likely to annoy much of the intended audience that has other plans that day...
@j_bertolotti
Oops, should have been "must *not*" but I leave it as is.
@j_bertolotti
While the importance of individual responsibility is undeniable, we must neglected addressing structural factors! :p
@j_bertolotti
But then people would fall asleep at meetings more!
@ProfHughLewis
how many collisions would we expect by now you treat all encounters as iid an assuming no avoidance maneuver?
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On #Poland's schizophrenic border regime: while #refugees are welcomed on the Ukrainian border, the Belarusian border is a militarized "death zone" where humanitarian aid is criminalized.
30 dead, 200 missing, broken bones, food and water poisoning, dog bites, miscarriages, hypothermia, starvation, trauma..
https://twitter.com/ManuelaBoatca/status/1601534875659558912
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From "Hurry up and leave, Bachar" to "People's revolution everywhere" — a thread by @ayoub about how a Syrian #protest song was adopted and adapted, over and again, by Lebanese and Iranians, with lyrics that similarly came to refer to shared global fights: "From Lebanon to Hong Kong, from Chile to Lebanon"
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If the US wants to reduce inflation, maybe the solution should include sending USD 1tn to the developing world to invest in climate solutions. Rising US rates are causing massive unemployment -- in places like Colombia, where it's at 14%.
@kallekn
det tog dock de andra nordiska förbunden nära ett år att bestämma sig för att gå ur, och en undrar ju om det verkligen var så att det stod och vägde om ryssarna skulle bli uteslutna under hela den tiden.
Det känns lika beklämmande att Svenskarna stannar som att Danskarna först igår upptäckte att nationer som Ryssland och Saudiarabien har förbund i IFJ
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I'd say that great powers do arms control when they feel like it. And don't when they don't.
RT @DouglasBShaw@twitter.com
Heather Williams @csisponi@twitter.com hopes China comes to understand that arms control: 1) is what great powers do, & 2) can get them things they want (isn’t a gift you give to someone else)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DouglasBShaw/status/1618646903331364865
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US China's Military Developments Report (CMDR) says the 300 missile silos are real. Well, what about fissile material production? China doesn't have that much plutonium. USG people tell me that "it's all real, it's all in the report." But there is not much there. 1/
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Givetvis är såväl feodalismen som mongolerna relevanta delar av Rysslands historia. Men bara två delar och man kan hitta otaliga andra.
Ska vi förstå dagens Ryssland måste vi hur som helst inse att det är ett kapitalistiskt land, integrerat i en global ekonomi.
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My own two cents: these stories should be reported not because they help or hinder Ukraine’s war effort, but because they are what is happening. It’s just the news.
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I see people are still talking about that "science is getting less #disruptive" paper.
It is, of course, wrong in its interpretation because as usual scientists don't evaluate the profit taking systems that structure science and instead treat them like some natural phenomenon.
The results are trivially explained by the way citations are structured to prop up a prestige hierarchy of journals, I already wrote about this here about the last paper that said "science is slowing down" but y'all only read 15 page papers squarely within your discipline 🙃: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.07493
@kevinrothrock
Yeah, but after seeing examples of Ukrainians arguing Navalny is worse than Putin I find it hard to have a more positive attitude about his project these days.
The war has certainly devalued the moral weight the West assigns to being a political prisoner, so I'm unsure if anyone in power is even willing to pay for him.
@kevinjelliott
Interesting observation. But now I wonder if the rules were used to solve similar problems that came up repeatedly (since the core of human experience is very durable), or if they were repeatedly reinterpreted to solve new problems (because society is ever changing)?
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
