tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Police shot and killed a student in Wisconsin after receiving a report of someone with a weapon while class was in session.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/01/police-kill-mount-horeb-student-to-prevent-school-shooting/73533915007/

I feel like 75% of #exoplanet astronomers get confused by stars in binary systems for some reason...
The simplest configuration is planets orbiting stars which have a stellar companion. This is extremely common and, honestly, it isn't even that interesting - a large fraction of star systems are binaries or triples. Both stars can happily host "normal" planetary systems (unless the stellar companion is particularly close/large). For example: Kepler-444, HD80606, HD110067, Proxima Centauri, etc.

PFA, Denmark’s biggest pension fund, has revealed it has divested its entire holding in #Shell, citing recent disappointment with the #oilandgas giant’s climate stance https://buff.ly/44mGPWU

ABC - Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia's trade relationships. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/modi-government-operated-nest-of-spies-in-australia-/103786892

1/ Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting has published an excellent if rather gloomy thread on the current situation in Ukraine. In the interests of helping it to reach a wider audience, I thought an English translation would be useful. https://twitter.com/konrad_muzyka/status/1784875510805262538

Bundeswehr officer confesses to sending military secrets to Moscow, says he hoped to gain insider knowledge of when the nukes would start falling, so he could get his family to safety. After watching Threads, I’m more inclined to put myself and all my loved ones in the bombs’ immediate path, to avoid living in an irradiated Dark Ages. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/ofitser-bundesvera-priznalsya-v-shpionazhe-v-polzu-rossii-po-ego-slovam-on-boyalsya-yadernoy-voyny/32925483.html

Sobering comments from @eugene_rumer: “Ukraine has no good options, even with the latest aid package. Many military analysts have already come to that conclusion privately but are unwilling to voice that sentiment […]. The latest $61 billion U.S. aid package is almost certainly the last package of such magnitude, regardless of who gets elected as the next U.S. president. […] Instead of arguing about Ukraine’s path to NATO membership, the allies should put in place a series of concrete commitments […].” https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/25/u.s.-aid-package-for-ukraine-is-breakthrough-but-no-silver-bullet-pub-92311

Numpy broke my heart. A blog post about multiprocessing in python, numpy, etc.
https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/25-04-2024-numpy-broke-my-heart/numpy-broke-my-heart.html

The mansion of the gods, Dunmanifestin on top the axle around which the Discworld spins, js so called because that's where the gods go when they're not acting directly in the world. Where they go when they are

Done

Manifesting.

Can't believe it's taken me decades to catch that one.

Every thing I think I have my head around what a shithole Florida is, they find a new way to shock me with their evil.

Here, instead of helping inmates get back on their feet, they're charging them $50/day for the cell they would be occupying if they had not been granted early release.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/pay-to-stay-florida-inmates-charged-for-prison-cells-long-after-incarceration

Global data center energy use is set to triple this year, from 15TWh last year to 46TWh this year.

That's on the order of what Serbia or Ireland consumes in a year.

Given that most of this demand is being driven by Nvidia GPU systems for AI compute and Nvidia is manufacturing capacity limited right now, with all available hardware being installed, we can expect that growth rate to continue, adding another ~30TWh next year — except that the next generation of hardware consumes even more power, so it could be more like an additional 40TWh, another Denmark or New Zealand. If Nvidia gets over their supply chain crunch, this could go much higher, assuming the market and grid can support it. Even with only linear growth, this would put us at ~285TWh by 2030, approximately the same as all of the UK.

It won't, of course — it's an obvious bubble and the infrastructure simply isn't there to support this, but it's a catastrophe in the making regardless.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-electric-utilities-brace-surge-power-demand-data-centers-2024-04-10/

On April 19, lawmakers in Togo's ruling party adopted a change to the Constitution, by a vote of 87-0, that eliminates citizens’ right to vote directly for the president of the republic. This allows President Faure Gnassingbé to extend his 19-year tenure in power, and his family’s 57-year dynastic rule.

Here's everything you need to know:
https://buff.ly/3JBajqB

This is such a brilliantly simple flaw, I can't believe I didn't think of it.

Maybe because it is brilliant. And simple.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/edr_attack_remote_data_deletion/

#security #malware

Keeps getting more crowded in the sky.

The Cosmos 2221 and TIMED satellites passed within < 10 m of each other on 2024 February 28; avoiding a collision only by the chance of their orientations.

https://www.space.com/nasa-timed-satellite-russian-space-junk-near-miss-february-2024

“Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.” #UnionStrong https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/volkswagen-unionize-uaw-tennessee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other