tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@kallekn
> After receiving information from the ZNPP about the drone attacks, the IAEA experts stationed at the site went to three affected locations. They were able to confirm the physical impact of the drone detonations, including at one of the site’s six reactor buildings where surveillance and communication equipment appeared to have been targeted. While they were at the roof of the reactor, unit 6, Russian troops engaged what appeared to be an approaching drone. This was followed by an explosion near the reactor building.
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> While the team so far has not observed any structural damage to systems, structures, and components important to nuclear safety or security of the plant, they reported observing minor superficial scorching to the top of the reactor dome roof of Unit 6 and scoring of a concrete slab supporting the primary make-up water storage tanks.
On the one hand, striking surveillance equipment with small drones that does little damage to the building structure does seem plausible.
On the other hand, having the Russians engage and destroy an approaching drone as the IAEA watches seems like a _suspiciously_ convenient propaganda image.
But if this is a false flag, that means the Russians have somehow produced a convincing false flag, but recalling their efforts in the leadup of the invasion, this is not something one should just accept that they can.
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You could easily fund ten honest scientists with the grant money stolen by Ranga Dias.
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Elon Musk never wanted to build the low-cost car, according to Walter Isaacson. He wanted the design team to focus on the robotaxi, but they eventually convinced him to do both. Now he’s overruled them again.
If the board really cares about Tesla, they’d use this to oust Musk.
@Anders_S
Intressant artikel, men det hade varit bra om du tydligare skiljde på det som är maskinöversatta citat från pressreleasen och vad som är dina egna kommentarer, missade dem hela första gången jag kollade.
@Mabande
De har väl helt enkelt använt olika kriterier, och de svenska gängen sågs som för tama.
Enligt @Anders_S är inga av gängen på listan svenska ( https://mastodon.nu/@Anders_S/112217957378021488 )
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Colombia is firing an Assistant Professor who taught human rights and public health courses for teaching that Israel is a “colonial settler state” (aka a completely reasonable position backed by mounds of scholarship). https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/04/mailman-professor-abdul-kayum-ahmed-to-receive-letter-of-nonrenewal-following-claims-of-political-indoctrination/?fbclid=IwAR3LHKK47UQBTR49YBx9uQfj0v0Co6WXuXDvzgHidanAi_BDBHBnrpXBqmE_aem_ATYYaKKz2XnoxPY2DNeH0hual_DYozCnSLVOQtZQ-S43LUgtltbsCzRADomo8NNyIBE
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Today I published a state-by-state guide to all of 2024's state supreme court races.
Abortion, voting rights, & other civil rights issues keep coming down to who voters put on bench... & they're electing 82 judges this year.
No excuse to not know! https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/
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NASA has selected 3 teams to develop the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) - Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab.
The 12-month feasibility task-order will be followed by down-selection to one vendor.
Rover-as-a-Service - vendor is responsible for DevOps and , transportation to the moon’s south polar region.
Key req'ments – carry 2 suited astronauts, remote controlled uncrewed operation, robotic arm, operate in extreme temps at the lunar South Pole.
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War is failure.
Moral failure, diplomatic failure, democratic failure, systems failure.
War is what failure looks like. https://mastodonapp.uk/@georgepotter/112208562115386469
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“It would be untrue to say that we are not afraid of Putin and threats to us”, says Russian exile news site Meduza’s editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov. Read my interview with him on Scoop! https://www.scoopmagasin.se/artiklar/english/meduza
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"or" and "else" are both common constructs in programming languages, but "or else" is typically a syntax error. this is a major deficiency. we need to be able to threaten our code.
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Report into MS breach is out: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf
I had a tweet in 2021 saying MSTIC should not use the Nation State Notification process to hide breaches from the public.
That was a reference to the Affirmed Networks breach - aka Azure for Operators - listed in this report. They hid it.
The website for Azure for Operators at the time had Satya’s face on it.. that breach, which they refused to share details about, apparently led to this one.
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Assam’s land sale ban between Hindus and Muslims may be unconstitutional – but it's happening anyway
Scroll found that the bar on inter-faith land sale has already been unofficial policy in Barpeta district since 2019.
#assam #land #communalism #hindutva #BJP #BJPStates #IndianMuslims #india
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Dr Ali Frolop on good form this morning. But Douglas has confided in me that the size of the internet in bits is now > Avogadro’s Number, so data should be an uncountable noun, like water
#astrodon
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"Me: Can I see that book from 1571?
Librarian: of course."
she looks looks it up on the shelf list, which looks centuries old in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Angelica
4/6
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In Pusesavali: doctored images, destroyed lives
In Maharashtra, majoritarian Hindutva mobs are whipping up the communal cauldron. Photoshopped images, doctored videos and rumours are enough to set them off, resulting in the loss of Muslim lives and property.
#maharashtra #satara #pusesavali #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #CommunalViolence #hindutva #MaharashtraPolice #BJPStates #india
https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/in-pusesavali-doctored-images-destroyed-lives/
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Researchers are beginning to capture data that seems to show Meta's pivot away from political and news content.
This shift on Facebook, between spring and winter 2023, is wild:
https://psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-media-that-is-bad-for-the-world
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Today we completed instrument calibration checks and prepared the data storage racks to receive fresh black hole observation data at a blazing fast 64 Gbps. The storage array for SPT's portion of EHT alone holds ~1.3 petabytes which we will fill up over the course of several days.
@kevinrothrock
Do they get better disability pay if they get injured by an enemy weapon or something like that?
Because all this noise being purely about people being too prideful to swallow being knocked down by stress is just depressing.
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I rewired the back of the panel to tidy up all the loose flappy cables. It now manages 600 rpm, which is not too flickery.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
