Ça m'avait échappé: L'ex-dircab de Darmanin, Jérôme Fournel (dont je vous révélais qu'il a été placé chez Barnier à Matignon) est mis en cause pour avoir aidé le PSG à ne pas payer des dizaines de millions d’euros de taxes contre l’administration fiscale. En toute logique, il a donc été promus par Macron. Avec toutes les casseroles de la Macronie, je n'arrive plus à suivre. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/070924/le-directeur-de-cabinet-de-michel-barnier-est-mis-en-cause-dans-l-affaire-darmaninpsg
#Politique #Mediapart #Darmanin #Barnier #Administration #Foot #PSG #Gouvernement
The framing on this story is wild. Summary: as a deadly fungal epidemic in bats spread across the US, increased insect activity resulted in an average 31% increase in pesticide use by local farmers, resulting in an average 8% increase in human infant mortality in affected areas.
And the message is: bats provide important economic benefits.
And yes, very true.
But also: The correlation between pesticide use & infant mortality is that well known & it's still allowed???
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bats-north-america-research-1.7314579
@kallekn
Så fullskalig förnekelse av alla anklagelserna helt enkelt?
@araneida
Nej då, matplotlib är för experter också ;)
@olafurw
I see that "I've had this pain, and by Harald others will have it too" is alive and well in the world
@erikdelareguera
Så svårt utmaning är det väl inte? Receptet är välkänt för de flesta svenskar: böj dig för alla kulturkrav från rasisterna och håll kvar de egna med hot om vänstern och löften om skattesänkningar och bidrag till rika.
'In their new paper 'Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?', published by the Royal Society Open Science, the Oxford researchers set out how LLMs produce responses that are plausible, helpful and confident but contain factual inaccuracies, misleading references and biased information. They term this problematic phenomenon as ‘careless speech’ which they believe causes long-term harms to science, education and society.'
@araneida
hurra! är det matplotlib du får använda?
Stockholm Resilience Centre "advances science for a liveable planet"
We are hiring
3 Postdocs
4 PhD positions
and 1 project manager
to work on:
+emerging pests and pathogens
+resilience and transformations in fragile contexts
+resilience and sustainability in food systems
+Building models of, with and for sustainability transformations
+financial risk analysis
+manager for Global Resilience Partnership
https://www.https://www.stockholmresilience.org/about-us/careers.html
@Mabande
Fel Mabande, ryktet syftar helt klart på din fru, såg allt bilden på nya solglajorna!
(ev inte så nya, såg bilden på fb som har berömt avslappnad inställning till kronologi)
Another deep dive into Putin’s private life with Alina Kabaeva from The Dossier Center. The main takeaway is that Putin leverages his inner circle's wealth to provide a princely life for his two young sons. dossier.center/succession-en/
Some other takeaways: they hire private tutors through publicly placed ads. Foreign national tutors (South Africans preferred) get healthcare at the same elite clinic that treats elites' prostitutes. Despite heavy isolation, there are strange loopholes in the family's security (unless Putin is visiting).
Their eldest son apparently loves Disney heroes despite Putin’s hatred of Hollywood decadence. Kabaeva and Putin are grooming the boys for major sports exploits, but it's unclear if they've got mom's talents. A planned stint at the Sirius Lyceum in Sochi fell through due to security concerns.
Kabaeva has a whole coterie of Putin’s rich friends and their wives. She's also apparently recruited her own family, especially two cousins, to basically raise the kids for her.
The family has whole fleets of yachts and planes, all owned and made available by Putin’s inner circle through a network of companies and shareholdings that made my eyes go crossed.
All in all, maybe a bit tabloidy of an investigation, but Putin’s royal secrecy makes it all public interest in the end, I'd argue, given that this whole lavish lifestyle is ruling class politics in the end. Thank goodness for one thing: it doesn't seem that Putin is grooming his boys for politics, though sometimes politics finds such people...
@quinn
Hit them with the old Machiavellian razzle dazzle!
"Nor do I hold with those who regard it as a presumption if a man of low and humble condition dare to discuss and settle the concerns of princes; because, just as those who draw landscapes place themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature of the mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate the plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to understand that of princes it needs to be of the people."
@kallekn
Ett sidospår, men undrar om statsministern får pengar från Instagram för alla likes han får? Alla stora plattformar har ersättnings program till sina "content creators", och han lär ju inte ha bara ett vanligt konto vid det här laget.
Sweden’s foreign minister announces shock departure from politics
https://apnews.com/article/sweden-tobias-billstrom-foreign-ministry-quits-politics-bf0d386980ec945f589040ac48a07231
Important news from BepiColombo, ESA’s Mercury mission, due to below par performance of its key ion thrusters:
1. This week’s 4th Mercury flyby (23:48CEST on 4 Sep) has been deliberately altered to be 35km lower than originally planned, just 165km above the surface.
2. This is the first part of a new lower-power cruise trajectory that will see Bepi now enter Mercury orbit in Nov 2026, 11 months later than originally scheduled.
More below
@erikdelareguera
Och ansedd nog att bjudas in till Élysee alltså?
@erikdelareguera
oh, är sarkozy ute bland folk? var inte han åtalad för korruption?
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, explore two #RStats packages that provide crucial data on Latin American disappearances.
Digital tools can be important for understanding, documenting, and advocating for the victims and their families.
pinochet: Data About the Victims of the Pinochet Regime, 1973-1990: https://danilofreire.r-universe.dev/pinochet
presentes: Registry of Victims of State Terrorism in Argentina https://diegokoz.r-universe.dev/presentes
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.