tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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"[T]he exiled Russians need to adapt to the societies where they have settled. They need to follow local rules and laws, and put up with local views about Russia – there is no avoiding that. However, their hosts should allow them to be themselves – Russian Russians – not just Russian-speaking Europeans.
Ultimately, Europeans’ approach should be to provide space for Russians without over-investing in them or instrumentalising them. [...] For now, exile is the only place where there can be a Russian debate about the country’s political system, how to fix it, and how to atone for its crimes. Parts of their soul-searching may connect with the discourse in Russia, although there is no guarantee of this. But above all, Europeans should not view them as a column that will smash the Putinist regime. Do not embrace them as such, do not project your hopes onto them, and do not try to micromanage Russian politics with the help of exiled political leaders (even if they ask you to).
The rationale for welcoming Russians should be that Europe is Europe: a place that provides shelter for refugees and a home for honest debate."
https://ecfr.eu/article/caution-and-embrace-how-europeans-should-treat-exiles-from-putins-russia/
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A few days ago on Sol 911, @NASAPersevere arrived at her new location in the Margin Carbonate Unit and captured this stunning panorama. 🧵
https://www.360cities.net/image/marsrover-perseverance-navcam-sol-911
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
#NASA #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Soloarrocks
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Facebook is Blocking Canadians’ Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India’s Government.
Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law.
#canada #HardeepSinghNijjar #JustinTrudeau #sovereignty #facebook #meta #censorship #sikhs #ITAct2000 #khalistan #diplomacy #india
@Loukas
Though please include some details about the specialisation; recently I came across a storm chaser that had a metrology PhD, however when I looked at his actual thesis it was about variations in climate affect farming, which is not at all related to tornadoes...
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This was inevitable: EU's new ban on vehicles exiting Russia forced a Ukrainian refugee with terminal cancer to wait in line with everyone else at the Estonian border as her son pushed her in a wheelchair for nearly a mile. She couldn't get an ambulance. https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-66838864?ocid=wsrussian.social.in-app-messaging.telegram..russiantelegram_.edit
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In "we can adapt" news:
• 1998: cracks reported in dams
• 2011: project to fix them halted
• budget allocated to fix them every year since but nothing done
• 2021: audit bureau criticises procrastination
• 2022: engineer warns of catastrophe
People who say that adaptation is cheap and easy and will somehow just happen automatically are wrong. It requires sustained political will to overcome the in-built tendency not to act to mitigate serious risks which haven't yet materialised.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-burst-dams-had-decades-old-cracks-says-official
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California 🇺🇸 has sued 👨⚖️ several of the world’s biggest #oil companies, including #ExxonMobil, #Shell & #BP, claiming they deceived the public for decades about how the burning of #FossilFuels is destroying the planet https://www.ft.com/content/3b655443-5721-4524-9e8f-ffbf314b06a7
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J'apprends la langue française, mais aussi la culture française. Qu'en pensez-vous ?
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Inspired by @pnorman’s animation, here’s a year of daily OpenStreetMap tile traffic. One frame per UTC day, from the start of September 2022 through end of August 2023. It’s from the public log aggregates, so some low-traffic tiles are left out for (I assume) efficiency and privacy.
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Seven years ago today, Jimi Joonas Karttunen was beaten to death by neo-nazis in Helsinki, Finland.
Never forget.
Never forgive.
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It would see that SocArXiv is a sociologist-run, academy-owned, non-profit, service organization that distributes thousands of papers by its members for free /3
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@Loukas
Verkar inte finnas några oberoende tecken på att det är sant: https://twitter.com/chambersharold8/status/1702787216987005091
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How big problem it is that cross-validation (CV) is biased? I briefly discuss some points on this.
0. Unbiasedness has a special role in statistics, and too often there are dichotomous comments that something is not valid or is inferior because it's not unbiased. However, often the non-zero bias is negligible, and by modifying the estimator we may even increase bias but reduce the variance a lot, providing an overall improved performance.
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The normalisation of the extreme-right by the centre-right in Sweden went like this.
- we will never work with them.
- we happened to vote the same way as them.
- since we know they also like this policy, we will propose it. But we are not working with them!
- our policies are based on extreme-right support so it makes sense to talk to them
- a local council will be run with extreme-right support. But never nationally!
- YOLO national government with extreme right support, it's normal now
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“I know how this information looks—when taken out of context, it seems bad,” Exxon CEO Darren Woods said in response to the Wall Street Journal’s inquiry about the documents that show Exxon executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business.
Lol. In what context does this look good?
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af
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Philosophy has a WEIRD people problem too: “we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification”
@osma
Not a certain finding is an understatement, the same group that hype this very marginal detection had shown that the systematic uncertainty in JWST line strength can be an order of magnitude! Even if, by pure chance, this result turns out to be correct the credit for discovery should not be awarded to their paper.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
