tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@kevinrothrock
Like reading a polite Spider Jerusalem that doesn't believe in Justice and who hates Truth.
A fine example of post truth writing, is the author in advertising?
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What am I doing online right now? Well my doctor says I should do more activities that raise my heart rate.
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Forgetting things when you are a certain age is normal 🙂I never remember what I had for lunch yesterday and I'm fine with that.
But I vividly remember a lot of stuff from when I was like 2 years old up to about my 20s and it's a little bit more poignant when I think I've forgotten something from that period ...
Yesterday I was talking to a friend from school whom I'd known since the early 80s. I mentioned another friend from the same school that I'd met in the early 90s (but who I hadn't known at school) and this friend said something like "What do you mean? He was in the same class as you!"
I was dumbfounded. Had I known he was my classmate when I met him in the 90s? Or had we not recognized each other at all? All I remember about him was from meeting him in the 90s. Nothing about knowing himi from the 80s.
So I contacted this other friend. He said that he hadn't known me before the 90s even though we'd gone to the same school (it was a big school ...)
You can't imagine how relieved I felt 🙂 I had not lost a chunk of my childhood memories after all.
It later turned out that my first friend had confused the other one with somebody else who had the same name ... But for a while there, I really wasn't sure if I was losing chunks of memory or if my friend was wrong or if something else was going on.
It's funny the things we cling to 🙂
But I vividly remember a lot of stuff from when I was like 2 years old up to about my 20s and it's a little bit more poignant when I think I've forgotten something from that period ...
Yesterday I was talking to a friend from school whom I'd known since the early 80s. I mentioned another friend from the same school that I'd met in the early 90s (but who I hadn't known at school) and this friend said something like "What do you mean? He was in the same class as you!"
I was dumbfounded. Had I known he was my classmate when I met him in the 90s? Or had we not recognized each other at all? All I remember about him was from meeting him in the 90s. Nothing about knowing himi from the 80s.
So I contacted this other friend. He said that he hadn't known me before the 90s even though we'd gone to the same school (it was a big school ...)
You can't imagine how relieved I felt 🙂 I had not lost a chunk of my childhood memories after all.
It later turned out that my first friend had confused the other one with somebody else who had the same name ... But for a while there, I really wasn't sure if I was losing chunks of memory or if my friend was wrong or if something else was going on.
It's funny the things we cling to 🙂
@kallekn
Efter första val omgången blev en kollegas sambo antastad av en rasistiskt tant på bussen, nått om lämna landet tror jag. Det ska ha varit första gången någonsin det hänt henne.
Erik hörde liknande saker när han var i Marseille, så jag tror att det inte är så otydligt vad de menar.
Mer förvånande är att första omgången räckte för att ge rasisterna sådant mod.
@erikdelareguera
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Hey, remember ALF?
Well the kid from ALF was just killed by Climate Change!
Boy, if only the 1980s knew how things would turn out....
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The Netanyahu Government kills 90, wounds 300, in an attempt to kill 2 terrorists.
Let me repeat that: For the chance to kill 2 terrorists, The Netanyahu Government has approved a JDAM bombing which kills 90 and wounds 300.
Not a single country in the democratic world would allow these losses. No country would view this as compliant with the laws of war, so why are we turning a blind eye to the war crimes of the Netanyahu Government?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/13/middleeast/mawasi-deif-israel-hamas-gaza-intl
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Det sprids en uppgift om att 54 % av Nationell samlings (RN) väljare beskriver sig själva som rasistiska. Källan är denna, och alternativen som räknats ihop är "plutôt" och "un peu" rasistisk.
Övr. alternativ att välja på var: "pas très" och "pas du tout". https://www.cncdh.fr/sites/default/files/2024-06/CNCDH_Rapport_Racisme_2023.pdf
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Did this animation of the Crab pulsar nebula about a year ago. I used all of the data from the Chandra archive that I could scrounge up to make the most complete animation I could. Most of the frames do not overlap the entire image, giving it a patchy appearance.
A version of it is on the NYT today. They missed me in the credits, but I'm told they've been informed of that. Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/science/space/chandra-videos-supernova-explosions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.65Q6.bRjgEbMjyrCI&smid=url-share
@cy
The idea that someone would write a short text about a single topic is suspicious? Weird position to have, but ok.
It is also wrong to say people are attacking the party when the discussion is clearly about the candidate the party intends to field, which actually hasn't been formally decided, that happens towards the end of August.
Also, I'm a bit sorry for you as it sounds like you are unable to ignore banner ads...
@dhnexon
You have lived in a time where the Munich argument wasn't deployed?! What was it like?
@ct_bergstrom
I think there's still something wrong with the supplementary materials? It is just the socarxiv pdf again, in spite of the "_SI2" suffix...
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BREAKING: U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will notify millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone and text records of "nearly all" of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.
AT&T confirmed the breach was linked to a data theft at cloud data giant Snowflake. AT&T said the data breach affects at least 110 million AT&T customers.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/
@cy
Arguing "they are both bad" is not in contradiction with "Trump is bad", and if you make "he's not Trump" the central argument in favour of Biden, obviously anyone who isn't Trump will do just as well.
With this background I don't think it's useful to demand every critical thread about Biden have a "obviously Trump is a disaster" disclaimer at the start.
But maybe of you put "obviously I don't like that Biden is supporting a genocide" notice in every pro-Biden toot things gets interesting: let everyone be the muslim condemning terrorist violence whenever they have to speak about cheese tarrifs.
@nullagent
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The Kremlin prides itself on being master trolls, but only someone with a terrible sense of humor could pursue this: Russia’s Prosecutor General is ordering bookstores to stop selling a novel about a zombie apocalypse spread by an infected mouse that escapes a lab making an everlasting life serum for Putin. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ddk9FhRo6zMDN7b8zUwGWgF6RW4LhQjeuVWc7B77dajE7dcPM3BaqsdAaWMTTNpql&id=1329192159
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Microsoft is suspending email and skype accounts of Palestinians who call home to Gaza. Multiple Palestinians mention buying Skype credits in order to make international calls home. But when they used those credits to call family in Gaza their entire decades old Skype and hotmail accounts were suspended.
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@quinn
This was so good the egregious misspelling of football must be forgiven!
I didn't know Mechelon isn't actually formally in charge of anything.
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HISTORY OF PHYSICS
Ach Du, Pauli!
Peter Freund told this story about Wolfgang Pauli.
A student at Cambridge, Homi J. Bhabha, who later became one of the first internationally recognized Indian theoretical physicists, was sent by his adviser to work with Pauli in Zurich.
The introduction letter said,
“Pauli, you are the only one who can possibly make a physicist out of Mr. Bhabha”,
hardly a very flattering thing to say.
Pauli, who respected the author of this letter [R.H. Fowler], interpreted it to mean that this was a hopeless case.
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Dr. Aiyana Willard (Explaining #Atheism Co-PI explainingatheism.org/people/core-team) presented quantitative "interim findings" for their 2nd #British survey.
1. The best explanation of #nonTheism: not being raised #religious
2. The next best explanation? #Reflection test performance?
#DataAnalysis notes:
- #bayesian logistic #regression with regularizing priors
- results similar for both binary (#atheist/#agnostic v. #theist) and ordinal (1-7) outcome, even when controlling for #demographics
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Did you know #NewAtheism is being ressurected in #India?
I'm not talking about the #FourHorsemen or their white, middle class disciples (but there is a connection!)
- "old #atheism" associated with #rationalism and #communism in a region of South India (#Kerala)
- there, new atheism was introduced in part by dissemination of Western #newAtheists (now spread in #esSENSEglobal's Summer camps and other church-like activities)
- India's new atheism seems linked to #caste and #neoliberal #politics
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
