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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Lagrådet har svarat på lagrådsremissen som gäller skärpta regler för unga lagöverträdare, alltså fängelse för 13-åringar.
Jag rekommenderar verkligen läsning. Det visar med all önskvärd tydlighet hur vilse regeringen är i den här frågan, hur illa det beretts och vilka oerhörda konsekvenser det får.
För att göra det lättare för dig att läsa har jag extraherat texten från pdf:en och lagt på denna webbsida. Det funkar alltså att läsa texten med skärmläsare, och det går att läsa i mobilen. PDF-formatet gjorde annars detta svårt.
Idag är det 109 dagar tills 13-åringar ska placeras på fängelse.
Lagrådet skriver:
”Detta sätt att parallellt bedriva flera lagstiftningsprojekt som direkt påverkar förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder medför att det inte funnits ett beredningsunderlag som möjliggjort för remissinstanserna att samlat kunna bedöma och ge synpunkter på innebörden av förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder. Beredningen uppfyller därmed inte de krav som följer av 7 kap. 2 § regeringsformen. Det är särskilt allvarligt när det gäller ett förslag som förändrar grunderna för det straffrättsliga systemet och möjliggör frihetsberövanden i form av häktning och fängelse för barn från 13 års ålder.”
https://pm.axbom.se/lagradet-straffbarhetsalder/
Jag rekommenderar verkligen läsning. Det visar med all önskvärd tydlighet hur vilse regeringen är i den här frågan, hur illa det beretts och vilka oerhörda konsekvenser det får.
För att göra det lättare för dig att läsa har jag extraherat texten från pdf:en och lagt på denna webbsida. Det funkar alltså att läsa texten med skärmläsare, och det går att läsa i mobilen. PDF-formatet gjorde annars detta svårt.
Idag är det 109 dagar tills 13-åringar ska placeras på fängelse.
Lagrådet skriver:
”Detta sätt att parallellt bedriva flera lagstiftningsprojekt som direkt påverkar förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder medför att det inte funnits ett beredningsunderlag som möjliggjort för remissinstanserna att samlat kunna bedöma och ge synpunkter på innebörden av förslaget om sänkt straffbarhetsålder. Beredningen uppfyller därmed inte de krav som följer av 7 kap. 2 § regeringsformen. Det är särskilt allvarligt när det gäller ett förslag som förändrar grunderna för det straffrättsliga systemet och möjliggör frihetsberövanden i form av häktning och fängelse för barn från 13 års ålder.”
https://pm.axbom.se/lagradet-straffbarhetsalder/
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Den röda linjen ska bort – Liberalerna öppnar för att sitta i regering med Sverigedemokraterna, bekräftar källor för Dagens ETC. https://www.etc.se/inrikes/l-kaellor-svaenger-om-sd-igen?utm_source=mastodon
A legal analysis published in [just security](https://www.justsecurity.org/133397/sinking-iran-frigate-dena-law-naval-warfare/), from authors that are evidently quite sympathetic to the USN but not quite ready to just outright lie, contains the following discussion
> "After each engagement, Parties to the conflict shall, without delay, take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded and sick, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled."
> The Convention expressly extends the protection to enemy forces who are shipwrecked (art. 12).
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> [The commanders handbook on the Law of Naval operations states]: "To the extent that military exigencies permit, submarines are required to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded, and sick following an engagement."
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> With respect to submarines, [ICRC commentary on the 1949 Geneva convention] points to the fact that “space is extremely limited on board a submarine, thus complicating their ability to take on board shipwrecked, wounded and sick, let alone dead, persons” (¶ 1637).
> However, the Commentary emphasizes that this does not exempt the submarine from taking other reasonable steps to help the shipwrecked crew of an enemy warship. For example, it points out that, depending on the situation, submarines might be able to “supply materials such as lifeboats, survival craft (including inflatable rafts), buoyancy aids, alert aids, detection aids, food, and water.”
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> Whether the Charlotte (and U.S. forces more broadly) complied with these obligations depends on facts that are not fully available in publicly available sources. What we can say is that the submarine was under a legal obligation to take feasible measures to rescue those who were shipwrecked.
They then decline to discuss if there existed any actual reason making providing aid unfeasible, instead quietly pretending there definitively was some military threat preventing surfacing and thus don't have to conclude the USN ship failed to perform its duty.
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@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @jaredwhite @tante I would clarify also that I am not quite #NoAI in terms of AI tech, but I am definitely opposed to the *AI industry* and this hype wave. There may be various useful things from this tech, but the net version of things with it being forced upon society right now in this hype wave is that everything is getting much worse, and sickeningly so.
Several more pieces need to be added to the puzzle to make "AI" tech more useful, and I'm also simply opposed to a direction in society that dismisses and devalues creative endeavors, which a lot of this hype is putting at the center of itself. Creativity is what makes life largely worthwhile. I'm not willing to give that up.
I have no problem with OpenImageDenoiser in Blender, which speeds up renders through machine learning, and in no way devalues creativity. But something which made it so I just typed a few words into Blender and it did all my artwork for me, I would oppose.
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Since getting to the US is way too dangerous for too many people, they are moving the IgNobel prize to Zurich (and them probably moving it around Europe in the next years).
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe
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Stop bombing schools
Stop bombing hospitals
Stop bombing homes
Stop bombing children
Stop bombing.
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- 158 people killed in 188 days. Guilt for a non-capital crime unknown.
- 42 separate attacks.
- 27 in the Eastern Pacific. 13 in the Caribbean. 2 unspecified.
- 17 listed as at Donald Trump's orders. 16 at Pete Hegseth's orders. The last 9 at the orders of Southcom's Gen. Francis Donovan.
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I'm in a pagan group. One evening during a sea ritual at the beach one of our more prominent members said that she heard a song in the waves that was in another language, and everyone was awestruck. In fact, it was just me singing a song from Moana. I can't tell anyone.
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Indian Railways has electrified 99.4% of its broad gauge by January 2026, significantly cutting diesel consumption. This shift helps India reduce reliance on imports and insulates the economy from global fuel price shocks. It also advances the country's climate commitments with massive economic savings
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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Kosovo heads to elections again after a failed presidential vote.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s decision not to back President Vjosa Osmani marks the end of a key political alliance in Kosovo.
#Kosovo #Politics #Elections #Democracy #Balkans #AlbinKurti #VjosaOsmani
@UlrikeHahn
I think you misunderstood my intent, I didn't speak of the contrast between the parliamentarian and the scientist.
Rather I wish to highlight that the same person can use different modes of communication depending on the context, because what is appropriate depends on the context. For example, Greta roared "How dare you" at the UN climate action summit, delivering a speech centered around emotions. But in her climate book the mode is instead presenting a wide range of expertise with the concluding hope "you can start connecting the dots yourself". However in both cases what she is doing is fundamentally political activism.
@adredish @bpaassen
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Vi måste stå upp för rätten att inte fira när onda människor dödas i olagliga krig som kan leda till oräkneliga döda. Jag fattar att folk gör det och att det inte betyder att man stöder kriget. Men vi måste vara medvetna om att det inte sker i ett vakuum.
@UlrikeHahn
I think part of the confusion you express comes from not specifying the context in which the political speech is happening; political speech on an apple box in the street is different in kind from the political speech at the parliamentary hearing.
For example the initial claims that the activists doesn't have to engage with the arguments of the other side is true for the street case, but is not necessarily true in parliament (depends largely on how good the opposing arguments are).
The reason for this distinction is partially the social context, but also that the content of debate is different, on the street you do not bother with the details and it's only the big principles that matter. In parliament you are in the unfortunate position of having to do all the detailed work, and have to resolve the contradictions between opposing principles that arise in the particulars.
@bpaassen
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🇮🇷Opinión | Esta no es una guerra para cambiar el régimen: Irán está siendo empujado hacia el colapso del Estado.
"La guerra no funciona con precisión quirúrgica. No elimina a una figura para instalar a otra. Transfiere el poder a quienes son más capaces de ejercer la fuerza."
🖋Mahbod Seraji.
https://elsal.to/46749
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We keep hearing that only 'AI', whose profound ability to grasp complex systems, could solve a problem as wicked, entangled and multi-dimensional as global warming.*
This report details not only why that has no basis in reality, but that this fairytale is part of an industry campaign to make BigAI look like it's part of a habitable future, covering the tracks for genAI's massive footprint.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
* Turns out the trick is not spewing CO2 & CH4 into the air
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Jag minns inte att vi röstat för att det ska finnas reklam för beroendeframkallande produkter.
Igår lyssnade jag på en svensk podcast från en av kvällstidningarna. Reklam för snus och spel. Varför har det blivit så här?
Så var det inte förr. Detta har inte kommit av en stark önskan ur folkdjupet och en demokratisk process. Det är ett resultat av lobbyismens frätande korrugerande gift.
Är samhället inte till för människorna? Är det bara profit och pengar som allting handlar om?
#lobbyism
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Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics and Middle East Studies at Lancaster University, says that the prospect of Iran coming back to the negotiating table is very remote, arguing that the United States has lost any goodwill because during the past two rounds of diplomatic talks "diplomacy has seemingly been used as a fig leaf to prepare for military strikes".
#Iran #US #war #Israel #MiddleEast
> I found it strange that Roy couldn’t see the glaring contradiction in his own project. Here was someone who reacted very violently to anyone who tried to tell him what to do. At the same time, his grand contribution to the world was a piece of software that told people what to do.
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> It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills, but simply for having agency, when agency essentially meant whatever it was that was afflicting Roy Lee. Unlike Eric Zhu or Donald Boat, Roy didn’t really seem to have anything in his life except his own sense of agency. Everything was a means to an end, a way of fortifying his ability to do whatever he wanted in the world. But there was a great sucking void where the end ought to be.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
