tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
tobychev
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De senaste tre åren har 53 svenska miljarder investerats i norsk olja och gas via bl a fonder och banklån. AP7 har 3 miljarder kr i norsk olja. "Det är anmärkningsvärt att svenska sparpengar fortsätter att satsas på en industri som undergräver allas framtid" www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Oo...
@ramiismail.com
While I agree with the central point, that people in power can use the phrase in deceptive ways, I think the claim this is _always_ true overstate things in an unhelpful way.
tobychev
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Dear Mastodon instance admins,
Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.
If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @joynewacc and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:
Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.
Please have some humanity.
Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/
@malteengeler
That doesn't make much sense, did you make a typo? Of course it is perfectly possible to oppose both "systemic" and "political" violence.
@Ruth_Mottram
I'm pretty sceptical that the timing is intentional; this is an administration that thought invading Ukraine to change the president was a smart plan and organised like two unconvincing false flag operations as an excuse.
To me launching 19 drones that don't do anything in particular is more indicative of someone in Russia really screwing up: too many for a warning, too unaimed for an actual attack.
On our side there is a tremendous amount of people who will ascribe devious and subtle plans to any hard to understand act by the Russians, because apparently "stupid and careless" will not do as an explanation.
Think back to all those people who had ready explanations for why Russia blew up Nord stream, what are they saying now about how their theories held up?
tobychev
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This science story has everything:
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded
tobychev
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A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the center of the Will Smith AI crowd video. I wanted to know what it was like to find yourselves in the middle of a hypermodern problem: being confused for AI slop. https://waxy.org/2025/09/interviewing-the-couple-in-the-will-smith-ai-crowd-video/
tobychev
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Att mördarna som avslöjas här växt upp i USA och Tyskland säger så klart något rätt centralt om konflikten.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
The Gaza family torn apart by ...
@fesshole
Somehow not the most unethical cybersec business model I've heard of.
tobychev
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Regeringen får 67 mandat med dagens mätning. Alla regeringspartier tappar. S Mp V har ökat med 7,3 procentenheter sedan valet. L 2,1% det lägsta som uppmätts för ett riksdagsparti. 39% vill ha Andersson som statsminister, dött lopp Åkesson/Kristersson på 18%
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/svar...
Svårt läge för regeringen – re...
> Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb [...] says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.
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> “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
tobychev
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"Biträdande utbildningsminister Maria Arnholm (L) aviserar skärpta bestämmelser för fristående förskolor. Ägare ska inte kunna starta nya förskolor så länge det finns brister på de redan verksamma."
ÄNTLIGEN!!
Jaha, detta skrevs 2014, för elva år sedan.
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
Skärpta krav på förskolor
tobychev
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Mycket bra tråd och reflektion om att tidigare fransk politisk stabilitet byggde på fiktion skapad av (majoritets)valsystemet, där majoriteterna hade lågt väljarstöd.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cy3nxnkuk6qvibtybejs65nm/post/3lyg6u4glbc2k
tobychev
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U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker says, "I've never really paid much attention to Vladimir Putin & his reasons for the war." Great policy, Matt. Bang-up job. (He then goes on to say the U.S. might endorse "protecting Russian churches in Ukraine & Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine," lol)
@sundogplanets
Just the boring ones: write an outline, then fill it in one bit at the time.
When stuck, try just getting _something_ onto the page, rereading it has a good chance of getting you unstuck.
Try doing the easy bits first to get started.
tobychev
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Fun fact about the Handbook of Mathematical Functions. You know who wanted to kill this project? Republicans. Why? The mathematical tables project under NBS was instigated by the Works Project Administration (WPA) under FDR which was widely criticized by Republicans as being Communist.
Yes, you have that right. Tables of logarithms and Bessel functions are Communist.
"When Computers Were Human" by David Alan Grier* is a fantastic book that details the history of the Handbook of Mathematical Functions and the work of Irene Stegun and Milton Abramowitz. It's a wonderful and fascinating book that provides a ton of context for the transition from human to electronic computing. Programming was done for decades before electronic computers existed but you wouldn't know that from the way computer history is taught. Looking at who was doing that work explains a lot about why it's not typically taught as history. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691133829/when-computers-were-human
*Not the one from the cast of In Living Color, sadly.
tobychev
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Rivka Galchen asks in The New Yorker why we stopped taking nuclear weapons seriously. Apparently, most Americans say they would support the use of an atomic weapon that would kill 2 million Iranians if 20,000 U.S. troops were at risk. I am not filled with hope. https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/why-dont-we-take-nuclear-weapons-seriously
@kevinrothrock
I think it's just a general fact that the words people _actually_ say are much much more confused and stuttering than what the brain tells us it hears.
That said it is well possible that she's extra unclear here, even if the transcript would have been edited for clarity.
tobychev
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NYT report on how tanks in Ukraine joined Don Hertzfeldt’s Silly Hats Only Club. It turns out that America’s “top of class” M1 Abrams modern marvels are just as easy to drone as Russia’s older, far less technologically advanced clunkers. Cue the body modifications. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-drones-tanks-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.Kw4O.u_LFG3KGvEjh&smid=url-share
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
