tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@jonbrunberg
Jo, Rysslands false flags brukar vara på nivån "Sprängde ett utedass vid övergiven anläggning och påstå att ett slag utkämpas och tusen dog".
Någon tyckte det kunde förstås som att bränna båtarna efter att armen gått i land. Men det skulle mest vara signal till eliten och dessa är inte så många: enklare för Putin att bara ställa nån med pistol bakom varje.
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On a different note it's disheartening to see how many more starlink satellites are in my recent photos compared to even two years ago
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People love to generalize about the sociology, especially about the prevalence of activist research, political perspectives, and overwrought claims. I wish my new paper with Micah Altman, "The State of Sociology: Evidence from Dissertation Abstracts" answered these questions. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/a8uyp
@kevinrothrock
The WSJ story reada more like it was the Dutch that sat on the intel, not the US. Especially as the dutch could have just biked over to Germany if they felt it was really important to tip them off ...
@lightningjeff
@lightningjeff
Nord Stream bombing was never really a threat to US support, Washington tried to block it legally and has gained a lot financially from Europe having to buy it's gas. By now supporting Ukraine has become a solidly partisan issue, the bombing is not likely to flip that.
It will be interesting to see what it does Germany on the other hand, it was quite a few billions that Ukraine spoiled, and the Germans aren't big on giving away money...
@kevinrothrock
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If I had to give one piece of advice to anyone who is similarly too-online and writing about Russia, it would be this: block any NAFO-affiliated account as soon as it engages you. (Purging them from your followers is too time-consuming unless you notice a bunch joining at once.)
@kevinrothrock
Do you have any similar rule of thumb for the mindless pro-Putin trolls?
#Trees are methane sinks
"Our paper details how we examined in situ woody surface (bark) methane exchange in upland tropical, temperate and boreal forest trees. [...] Sometimes we found a little methane emitted from the tree bases, but the higher up the tree we went, (> 1m above the forest floor) we observed something unexpected: Methane uptake from the atmosphere resulting in a net tree methane sink.
[...] Ultimately these procedures allow us to suggest that trees may contribute 24.6-49.9 Tg of atmospheric methane uptake globally. Similar in size to the only other land-based sink that we know of. And when taking these numbers for upland forest, we established that trees maybe 7% (temperate forest) to 12% (Tropics) better for climate than we’ve previously given them credit for."
Start of thread: https://x.com/GauciGauci/status/1816129071321063694
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🧬 Well-equipped labs are key for biologists to continue their work. With a growing concern for climate change, there is also a call for more green practices within labs. What do you think will have the biggest impact in making our labs more sustainable?
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Most people think the Baby Boom in the United States was “officially” from 1946 to 1964, and yet neither of our two principal candidates for president in 2024 are Baby Boomers. How is this possible?
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/the-definitive-explanation-for-why-neither-donald-trump-nor-kamala-harris-are-baby-boomers/
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CEO: "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. My company emitted one million tonnes of CO₂ and contributed to climate change."
Priest: "Say three Hail Marys and pay $250 to plant 1000 trees."
CEO: "Thank you, Father."
@ulfbjereld
Har väl mest att göra med vår övergivna neutralitet, som betytt att vi alltid deltagit hittills? Eller är det så att vi var med tidigt så det är några tidiga OS länder som Ryssland och USA alltid kommer sakna?
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💫DID YOU KNOW💫
that if you move a mouse cursor fast enough, you can get persistence of vision and, say...
*run a game of Pong inside your mouse's firmware*
🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️
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It remains way past time to stop letting corporations unilaterally make a mess of the sky.
Not with Starlink, not with OneWeb, and not with Qianfan.
QT Andrew Jones @AndrewJonesSpace
2024 August 6
"China launches first satellites for Thousand Sails megaconstellation"
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-satellites-for-thousand-sails-megaconstellation/
A quite scornful commentary on the outcome of the prisoner exchange:
> "However, in reality, those who yesterday spoke against travel bans and sanctions were consciously or not arguing for the restoration of their rights *as a class* of extremely privileged Russians – and not on behalf of the majority of Russians who have never had an opportunity to travel or study abroad (69% according to Levada-Center 2022 poll) This is why, although they might sincerely think they are speaking in defence of their national collective, in reality they are arguing for class interest and inadvertently revealing how the main discourse among the small but vocal group of Russian ‘opposition think-leaders’ in Europe and the US is really about an ‘antipolitical’ technocratic approach. In addition, this quite narrow interpretation of Russian rights (travel to the West) gives more fuel for regime propagandists to deflect growing dissatisfaction of ordinary Russians by the war: ‘look, these westernized traitors are self-serving’…"
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Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress
Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/climate-change-denial-congress
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'Analyses of R&D spending and equity investment in biotech predict that the industry is capable of weathering a drop in revenue due to lower drug prices, with no corresponding loss in new approved drugs.'
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Really cool study investigating correlations and differences in music perception in relation to native langue, in particular whether your native tongue is tonal or not. TL;DR speaking a tonal language means you're better at perceiving pitch, but worse at perceiving rhythm!
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
