tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

"The hegemony that algorithmic culture is in the process of achieving doesn’t depend on what algorithms “really” do, but on the ways we come to tolerate their deployment — what sorts of stories we come to tell ourselves about algorithms to domesticate them or disavow them, to make their threat to our autonomy seem manageable."

https://robhorning.substack.com/p/two-riders-were-approaching

What do #Climate activists need from #ClimateScience?
A brave choice to invite the Danish green student movement to the #NCKF symposium - but actually quite moving to see how much science they use. (They may be the only people in the world to have read the #IPCC reports from start to finish...

#denGronneUngdomsBevægelse
#DenGrønneUngdomsBevægelse

#ClimateActivists

Ireland, CERN and Science

And lo! it came to pass that Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today secured Government approval to submit Ireland’s formal application to join the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an Associate Member. I have posted about this before, for example here. Currently Ireland is in the anomalous position of not having any form of association agreement with CERN; the…

http://telescoper.blog/2023/11/15/ireland-cern-and-science/

Svenska Freds och Palestinagrupperna är verkligen helt fel ute. Att bara demonstrera för sin åsikt är ett hot mot demokratin. Vill de utnyttja sin sanna yttandefrihet ska de fredligt registrera sig på en kurs, fredligt trakassera föreläsaren och sina kursare, fredligt posta sina trakasserier på hatbloggar och videokanaler och fredligt syssla med nazism och förföljelse på fritiden. Så funkar demokratin. Iallafall på svenska högskolor.

Svenska Freds ba: "Stoppa Chalmers vapensamarbete med israeliska företaget Elbit Systems för svenska universitet ska inte stötta eller uppmuntra brott mot folkrätten"

Chalmers ba: "Hold my beer"

Tack för tipset @pettter

Här är blixtaktion från Svenska Freds:

https://www.svenskafreds.se/engagera-dig/blixtaktion-chalmers-samarbete-vapenforetag/

Och här är Chalmers trista censurbudskap:

https://www.chalmers.se/aktuellt/rektor-kommenterar/inga-politiska-manifestationer-pa-chalmers-campus/

This chart from the recent Carbon Brief analysis is wild.

Is shows the massive increase in solar built in China in 2023, which effectively means that next year, the worlds largest carbon emitter will peak next year and likely start reducing emissions every year going forward, as ever more clean generation displaces fossil energy.

Really worth a read:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/

Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-63-african-debt-crisis/

Through their new programmes, the Structural Adjustment Facility (1986), and then the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (1987), the IMF put a singular recipe on the table: privatise the economy, including the state sector; commodify areas of human life that had up to that…

"More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-654920118f0832f412179e1c

As I read this account of how Turkish Cypriots made an inventory of the properties and belongings of the Greek Cypriots who had to flee back in 1974, I can't but think of present day #Karabakh. I am still unaware about relevant measures being taken or planned in the area https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812297133/html

Every new LLM start-up needs detailed discussions of water & energy use in their public facing documents, & all public sector discussion of these systems must require said.

I want everything we're doing to be interconnected efforts, because the problems also are. Demonstrate we've LEARNED something

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain