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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A senior U.S. military official said yesterday that Ukrainian troops had killed or wounded “several hundred” North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. The North Koreans are “not battle-hardened,” and Ukraine “struck their command and control sites as well as infantry positions.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/politics/ukraine-aid-biden-trump.html
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Vladimir Putin, 72, says, "We need more girls" and expresses concern that too much Russian land is being left empty. Maybe cool it with the annexations and tend to that unpopulated territory, my dude. https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/territory-is-good-but-it-must-be-populated-says-putin-telling-russians-we-need-more-girls
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Taught my parrot to swear in Finnish, no body in the house speaks the language, the family are confused but it fills me with warmth when he says "vittu" or "perkele". Childish I know but so much fun.
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16 months ago, these young people sued the state of Montana and won. A judge ruled that the state’s greenhouse gas emissions are “a substantial factor in causing climate impacts to Montana’s environment, and harm and injury to the youth plaintiffs.” The judge rolled back two Montana laws that prevent the state from considering climate impacts when deciding whether to approve permits for energy and mining projects.
The state of Montana appealed the decision.
But today the Montana Supreme Court upheld the judge's ruling! It affirmed that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment”. And it said:
"Plaintiffs showed at trial—without dispute—that climate change is harming Montana’s environmental life support system now and with increasing severity for the foreseeable future."
The battle is far from done. It will probably go to the Supreme Court, packed with judges appointed by Trump. But this is a sign: as the climate crisis worsens, more and more of us will fight to make governments treat it as the calamity that it is.
Think of the world these kids will face.
More details here:
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"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."
Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.
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"``I grow jasmine in a pot to see something beautiful amidst the slum where I live and to mask the stench of waste,`` said Ramani, a 32-year-old [textile worker] from Dindigul, who tends to a garden of flowering plants in old paint cans. [...] ``It's something of beauty I created, something I own and enjoy - unlike the clothes I make at the factory,`` she explains."
via @tansy
@kevinrothrock
Dangerous topic to touch if you aren't a true believer, but even then I'd expect the true believers to manage a substantial amount of questions.
The reasonable conclusion is that the Kremlin is trying to minimise the SMO, which isn't exactly news, though it might be notable they want to do it in this context. Probably indicative that the pressure for a mobilisation is forecast to be manageable for a while, which might not be news either?
@mcc
If you put Fortran under paelo languages you ought to specify that it has to be the 77 variant (or earlier if you really want to taste the dust).
With that label even Fortran 90 would, in my opinion, be cheating.
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What's it like to live in a country where the president is held accountable? https://www.politico.eu/article/court-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-corruption-france-human-rights-supreme/
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"In light of the continuing proliferation threat of Pakistan’s long-range missile development, the United States is designating four entities for sanctions pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery." - State Dept.
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Up until the age of 27 I thought the word knackered was spelt NAKED. Day to day this wasn't a huge problem. But sometimes I would text people and say something like "I'm not going out, I am totally naked. You can come round here if you like?"
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Don Pettit is one of the astronauts currently on board the International Space Station. He's also a serious shutterbug and amateur astronomer. To take advantage of his current lofty perspective, he rigged up a special star tracking mount that he could use to take long-exposure astrophotos from the ISS. The homemade orbital sidereal tracker rotates at a 90-minute period to match the pitch rate of the ISS, allowing him to take 30-second exposures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1h9dovl/time_exposure_from_iss/
"With so much of its identity wrapped up in rejecting “the Left,” Modern Conservatism always had a reactionary quality. As the commitment to ultimate values was never balanced by an equally strong commitment to limiting principles that could have moderated political action, where was the restraint against further escalation and radicalization supposed to come from?"
@tzimmer_history on the radical core of Modern Conservatives
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-modern-conservative-tradition
@mrundkvist
How big is your margin in Hamburg? Deutsch Bahn is a capricious master...
@kevinrothrock
Wouit be better to have Tucker ask a question that Putin could answer by singing "Bluberry hill"?
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Are there any PhDs in law/social sciences/public policy out there in the fediverse who would like to help hammer global, regional, and local AI Policy into shape? The AI Policy Lab at Umeå University is looking for a staff scientist/policy analyst for a full-time, permanent position. #getfedihired #academicchatter
Last day to apply is January 15th!
@kaiarzheimer
Hm, if you use the GDR as control you might be able to test for the influence of "the Arzheimer" factor on the stability of German politics? ;p
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A new report from Human Rights Watch recalls that the first Trump administration's family separation policy met the definitions of "enforced disappearance" and "torture."
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Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
