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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Stop bombing schools
Stop bombing hospitals
Stop bombing homes
Stop bombing children
Stop bombing.
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- 158 people killed in 188 days. Guilt for a non-capital crime unknown.
- 42 separate attacks.
- 27 in the Eastern Pacific. 13 in the Caribbean. 2 unspecified.
- 17 listed as at Donald Trump's orders. 16 at Pete Hegseth's orders. The last 9 at the orders of Southcom's Gen. Francis Donovan.
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I'm in a pagan group. One evening during a sea ritual at the beach one of our more prominent members said that she heard a song in the waves that was in another language, and everyone was awestruck. In fact, it was just me singing a song from Moana. I can't tell anyone.
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Indian Railways has electrified 99.4% of its broad gauge by January 2026, significantly cutting diesel consumption. This shift helps India reduce reliance on imports and insulates the economy from global fuel price shocks. It also advances the country's climate commitments with massive economic savings
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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Kosovo heads to elections again after a failed presidential vote.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s decision not to back President Vjosa Osmani marks the end of a key political alliance in Kosovo.
#Kosovo #Politics #Elections #Democracy #Balkans #AlbinKurti #VjosaOsmani
@UlrikeHahn
I think you misunderstood my intent, I didn't speak of the contrast between the parliamentarian and the scientist.
Rather I wish to highlight that the same person can use different modes of communication depending on the context, because what is appropriate depends on the context. For example, Greta roared "How dare you" at the UN climate action summit, delivering a speech centered around emotions. But in her climate book the mode is instead presenting a wide range of expertise with the concluding hope "you can start connecting the dots yourself". However in both cases what she is doing is fundamentally political activism.
@adredish @bpaassen
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Vi måste stå upp för rätten att inte fira när onda människor dödas i olagliga krig som kan leda till oräkneliga döda. Jag fattar att folk gör det och att det inte betyder att man stöder kriget. Men vi måste vara medvetna om att det inte sker i ett vakuum.
@UlrikeHahn
I think part of the confusion you express comes from not specifying the context in which the political speech is happening; political speech on an apple box in the street is different in kind from the political speech at the parliamentary hearing.
For example the initial claims that the activists doesn't have to engage with the arguments of the other side is true for the street case, but is not necessarily true in parliament (depends largely on how good the opposing arguments are).
The reason for this distinction is partially the social context, but also that the content of debate is different, on the street you do not bother with the details and it's only the big principles that matter. In parliament you are in the unfortunate position of having to do all the detailed work, and have to resolve the contradictions between opposing principles that arise in the particulars.
@bpaassen
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🇮🇷Opinión | Esta no es una guerra para cambiar el régimen: Irán está siendo empujado hacia el colapso del Estado.
"La guerra no funciona con precisión quirúrgica. No elimina a una figura para instalar a otra. Transfiere el poder a quienes son más capaces de ejercer la fuerza."
🖋Mahbod Seraji.
https://elsal.to/46749
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We keep hearing that only 'AI', whose profound ability to grasp complex systems, could solve a problem as wicked, entangled and multi-dimensional as global warming.*
This report details not only why that has no basis in reality, but that this fairytale is part of an industry campaign to make BigAI look like it's part of a habitable future, covering the tracks for genAI's massive footprint.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
* Turns out the trick is not spewing CO2 & CH4 into the air
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Jag minns inte att vi röstat för att det ska finnas reklam för beroendeframkallande produkter.
Igår lyssnade jag på en svensk podcast från en av kvällstidningarna. Reklam för snus och spel. Varför har det blivit så här?
Så var det inte förr. Detta har inte kommit av en stark önskan ur folkdjupet och en demokratisk process. Det är ett resultat av lobbyismens frätande korrugerande gift.
Är samhället inte till för människorna? Är det bara profit och pengar som allting handlar om?
#lobbyism
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Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics and Middle East Studies at Lancaster University, says that the prospect of Iran coming back to the negotiating table is very remote, arguing that the United States has lost any goodwill because during the past two rounds of diplomatic talks "diplomacy has seemingly been used as a fig leaf to prepare for military strikes".
#Iran #US #war #Israel #MiddleEast
> I found it strange that Roy couldn’t see the glaring contradiction in his own project. Here was someone who reacted very violently to anyone who tried to tell him what to do. At the same time, his grand contribution to the world was a piece of software that told people what to do.
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> It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills, but simply for having agency, when agency essentially meant whatever it was that was afflicting Roy Lee. Unlike Eric Zhu or Donald Boat, Roy didn’t really seem to have anything in his life except his own sense of agency. Everything was a means to an end, a way of fortifying his ability to do whatever he wanted in the world. But there was a great sucking void where the end ought to be.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
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A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved
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@MikeFromLFE it made me curious enough to look and yeah, sure enough, it's that crucial step 0) on the route to success that people often omit - be filthy rich
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My dudes, om ni ligger med betydligt yngre och mer attraktiva kvinnor och sen betalar för dyra saker som utbildning och hyra åt dem så betalar ni för sex (även om det sker via en kompis). Punkt. Man kan ha olika åsikt om prostitution, men kalla en spade för en spade.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gates-makes-bombshell-admission-on-affairs-with-russian-women-amid-epstein-fallout/
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De sa aldrig att det var gulliga bebisar som skulle utvisas, jag trodde bara det var fula gubbar 😔
https://bsky.app/profile/rasmushansson.bsky.social/post/3mfok4kvqyk2t
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– Vi tittade på alltifrån koldioxid, kvävenedfall och temperatur till skogens densitet för att se vad som faktiskt kan förklara de minskande kvävenivåerna i träden. Endast den stigande koldioxidhalten I atmosfären kunde förklara förändringen vi ser, och det var extremt tydligt. https://www.natursidan.se/nyheter/klimatforandringar-forsamrar-skogens-tillvaxt/
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
