tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Skollobbyisten Thorstenson sitter i styrelsen för bolaget som driver "Näringslivets Medieinstitut" vars affärsidé är att ta in pengar från näringslivet (bland annat Hans o Barbara Bergström) och granska journalister som granskar näringslivet (bland annat skolkoncerner). Lyssna på podden.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jpjmnu6x2h7gq7uvi4whpavk/post/3moaabcnxtc2u

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.

KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f

”Skolkoncernen Academedia har infört ett nytt prestationsprogram för sina chefer, som till 90 procent styrs av ekonomiska mål kring bland annat aktiekurs och vinstutveckling. Inget av målen tar upp den pedagogiska kvaliteten på själva verksamheten.” www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/acad...

Even better, *any* metric on the sphere that's flat except at finitely many cone points with positive angle deficits comes from some convex polyhedron! This is called Alexandrov's theorem.

So general relativity when space is a 2d sphere has a lot to do with polyhedra!

This is just the start: when you do *quantum* gravity in this context you get into lots more mindblowing math. At this stage I'm mainly just learning that math and trying to apply it to this problem. But it's a fun way to learn math. Quantum polyhedra! 👍

More later, I hope.

(4/n)

Global CO2 emissions have plateaued since 2013, leading to a slower growth in atmospheric CO2 than would have otherwise been the case. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I've taken look at what would have happened if emissions had continued to grow: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/plateauing-co2-emissions-have-slowed

"District cooling is taking root in the tropical island-nation, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average and sharpening the focus on climate adaptation. That the old technology uses less electricity than centralized air conditioners is a major advantage for a resource-starved country that has to import nearly all its energy."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-08/singapore-brings-back-19th-century-tech-to-beat-warming-climate

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

Another drone, presumably Ukrainian and geospoofed by Russia, wandered into Latvia, and this time was shot down.

Tio års forskning pekar åt samma håll: vinstdrivna skolor är sämre än kommunala. Skolsystemet ger starka incitament att prioritera vinst framför kvalitet. ”Aktörer som vill ha vinst vill inte ha dålig skola men de vill inte ha bra skola heller. De vill ha den typ av skola som ger dem vinst”.

Forskarnas tydliga besked: Vin...

https://cartoguophy.com/climate-visualized/

this kind of runs like arse on my phone which i don't really understand because it is a tiny amount of data BUT it is an exceptionally cool visualisation of climate and you should all go and check it out

i am going to forget it exists before i get nerd sniped into making it run better and fixing all my mapping pet hates (slow geocoding, transparency rather than CSS blending)

Kosovo’s Prime ‌Minister ⁠Albin ⁠Kurti wins a snap vote, but with no majority.

Kurti’s Vetevendosje ​party won the most votes in Sunday’s snap election, yet failed to secure enough votes to govern alone.

Sunday’s vote, the country’s third in just over a year, was marked by low turnout. The country’s prolonged political crisis has further debilitated an already ailing economy.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260607-kosovos-prime-minister-albin-kurti-wins-a-snap-vote-but-with-no-majority?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Kosovo #Politics #Elections #AlbinKurti

The Vatican is set to build an agrivoltaic installation (on land outside the Vatican in Italy) as part of its efforts to achieve energy neutrality for Vatican City

The foundation will be called “Fratello Sole” (Brother Sun)
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/chirograph-fratello-sole-foundation-agrivoltaic-vatican-radio.html

We're celebrating two birthdays with this image!⁠
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The first is the ongoing birth of new stars within Gum 10 and Gum 11, the star-forming regions featured here.
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The second is the birthday of the telescope that captured this image: the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), which had its first light 15 years ago today. Happy birthday, VST, and thank you for 15 years of stunning views of our Universe 🤩⁠

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2623a/

📷 ESO/VPHAS+

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

https://www.schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purple-dots-illusion/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

An Asian man was travelling without a ticket, but the conductor stopped asking for his ID and enquired instead: "Have you eaten today?".

https://euobserver.com/220455/have-you-eaten-today-what-an-incident-on-an-italian-train-taught-me-about-eu-values/

Ukraine's and Russia's human rights commissioners met yesterday in Belarus (at the latest POW swap) and agreed to establish the direct exchange of civil documents (eg, pension records), family correspondence, and official paperwork for relatives of soldiers killed in the war. https://t.me/astrapress/114942