tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Enligt Chang Frick som har besökt trollfabriken i dagarna pågår verksamheten som vanligt och omplaceringen har inneburit en förflyttning i decimetrar: ”allt var som vanligt och man skrattar mest åt det hela”.

Bara Persson tycker "woke" är ett problem.
DN:
"Om Persson på riktigt var rädd för en amerikansk utveckling med kulturkrig kring universiteten så är det dumt att han själv varit den största kulturkrigaren om den högre utbildningen."

Jfr min tidigare artikel om Persson och "woke"

Spain has suffered 22,000 heat-related deaths in the last 8 years. How will a new map help?

Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, after two record hot years.

Copernicus, the EU’s climate service, says there is an up to 70 per cent chance that this summer will be one of the hottest 20 per cent on record for the country. #ClimateChange #Spain

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/17/spain-has-suffered-22000-heat-related-deaths-in-the-last-8-years-how-will-a-new-map-help

"'It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken.'"

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

#Space #Satellites #PlanetaryDefense #NEOs #Asteroids #Astronomy #Starlink

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{ "user_id": "282657081457115136", "predicted_gender": "male", "probability": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881, "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778, "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z", "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC" }

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

Porto Alegre Brazil 🇧🇷 is planning at least 4 "tent cities" to accommodate some 8,000 people currently in improvised shelters due to historic floods devastating the region. Roughly 500,000 ppl fled their homes, with over 77,000 currently in public shelters https://buff.ly/4bEDCVa

This beautiful image of the vibrant aurora australis was taken from Banks Peninsula near Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on May 11.

"The base of a tower-like rocky sea stack is awash in the foreground, with stars of the Southern Cross at the top of the frame and planet Earth's south celestial pole near center."

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240517.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Kavan Chay
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