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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In @thecontinent this weekend.
« "When I went to Africa, it seemed like no one was paying attention. It was like: ‘We can do whatever we want.’"
These are the words of an American military drone operator – someone who, at the press of a button, can decide whether Africans live or die.
A devastating new investigation details how one particular drone strike killed a Somali mother and her four-year-old daughter. The United States military investigated itself and exonerated itself. Because in Africa, you can do whatever you want. »
#TheContinent #Somalia
https://mas.to/@thecontinent/111430566639579861
« "When I went to Africa, it seemed like no one was paying attention. It was like: ‘We can do whatever we want.’"
These are the words of an American military drone operator – someone who, at the press of a button, can decide whether Africans live or die.
A devastating new investigation details how one particular drone strike killed a Somali mother and her four-year-old daughter. The United States military investigated itself and exonerated itself. Because in Africa, you can do whatever you want. »
#TheContinent #Somalia
https://mas.to/@thecontinent/111430566639579861
tobychev
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Reposting with alt text because I can't not boost memes about this.
@CosmicRami
In an example of very heavy handed irony, I don't have access to this article via my institution ...
@franco_vazza
What? I'm not sure I can guess what you tried to say...
@stevegutterman
@OlyaOliker The more I think about it the more sceptical I am of this (throwaway?) argument about not sending a message of weakness: first of all because with Putin the west and Ukraine has very little hope of being properly understood in the first place, the Winter before the war wasn't exactly one where people were trying to look weak.
Secondly, because the risk of looking weak if it failed didn't stop the offensive, so why should the exact same principle stop negotiations?
@Mabande
Nja, östersjön är fri att åka på så de kan invadera den vägen.
Dock är det sant att det är mycket svårt att föreställa sig en rysk invasion av bara Sverige, det enda rimliga scenariot är att det skulle ske när Ryssland redan krigar med resten av Nato.
Att nuvarande regering skulle stoppa natoprocessen i protest är ungefär lika omöjlig att se, försvarspolitikerna på Rosenbad drömmer fortfarande om Natoguldet fast allt de fått är sand.
@Aspergerblues @winterkvist
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"The hegemony that algorithmic culture is in the process of achieving doesn’t depend on what algorithms “really” do, but on the ways we come to tolerate their deployment — what sorts of stories we come to tell ourselves about algorithms to domesticate them or disavow them, to make their threat to our autonomy seem manageable."
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/two-riders-were-approaching
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What do #Climate activists need from #ClimateScience?
A brave choice to invite the Danish green student movement to the #NCKF symposium - but actually quite moving to see how much science they use. (They may be the only people in the world to have read the #IPCC reports from start to finish...
@landetannien
Vad var så hemligt med byggarbetsplatsen?
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Ireland, CERN and Science
And lo! it came to pass that Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today secured Government approval to submit Ireland’s formal application to join the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an Associate Member. I have posted about this before, for example here. Currently Ireland is in the anomalous position of not having any form of association agreement with CERN; the…
@landetannien
Ett sent tips för den skeptiske är denna artikel https://europeanspaceflight.substack.com/p/arianegroup-wants-210m-per-year-more om hur det gått med Arianne 6, från den i sammanhanget mycket intressanta bloggen https://europeanspaceflight.substack.com/
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Svenska Freds och Palestinagrupperna är verkligen helt fel ute. Att bara demonstrera för sin åsikt är ett hot mot demokratin. Vill de utnyttja sin sanna yttandefrihet ska de fredligt registrera sig på en kurs, fredligt trakassera föreläsaren och sina kursare, fredligt posta sina trakasserier på hatbloggar och videokanaler och fredligt syssla med nazism och förföljelse på fritiden. Så funkar demokratin. Iallafall på svenska högskolor.
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Svenska Freds ba: "Stoppa Chalmers vapensamarbete med israeliska företaget Elbit Systems för svenska universitet ska inte stötta eller uppmuntra brott mot folkrätten"
Chalmers ba: "Hold my beer"
Tack för tipset @pettter
Här är blixtaktion från Svenska Freds:
https://www.svenskafreds.se/engagera-dig/blixtaktion-chalmers-samarbete-vapenforetag/
Och här är Chalmers trista censurbudskap:
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This chart from the recent Carbon Brief analysis is wild.
Is shows the massive increase in solar built in China in 2023, which effectively means that next year, the worlds largest carbon emitter will peak next year and likely start reducing emissions every year going forward, as ever more clean generation displaces fossil energy.
Really worth a read:
@philipncohen
Is that good or bad? I have no idea of how useful the "race" category is...
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Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-63-african-debt-crisis/
Through their new programmes, the Structural Adjustment Facility (1986), and then the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (1987), the IMF put a singular recipe on the table: privatise the economy, including the state sector; commodify areas of human life that had up to that…
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"More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-654920118f0832f412179e1c
@kevinrothrock
Amazing, I didn't know she was the mastermind behind Putin!
@kallekn
"Best" is of course deeply subjective and depends on what you like. "The man in the high castle" is a famous and pretty straightforward one, "Now wait for Last Year" is weird and strange, but a bit of fun. Far out there you have "VALIS". One that's become a movie this millennia is "A scanner darkly", it's closer to the "high castle" in terms of strangeness, but it was honestly a bit depressing.
These are simply the ones I've read, but reading Dick never felt like a waste of time.
@ukuli@mastodon.social
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
