tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

The woke mind virus is so common in Sweden that almost every single public door here has the word 'drag' on it.

People who hate negative numbers will stop at nothing to avoid them..

The full landing sequence of #Chandrayaan3

I wrote a python script to undo the frame blending from the original video and then upscaled the images with AI.
The video is at 120x playback speed, in reality this took about 66 minutes.

Credit: #ISRO / Simeon Schmauß

In its first announcement since June 26 (and possibly last ever post), Prigozhin's press center says he was buried privately at Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg. The site closed 30 minutes earlier, so reporters can't even verify this yet. https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1305

Globally we produce A LOT of #energy, but did you know the majority of fossil energy gets wasted? In the US alone, two-thirds of that energy is *wasted* as heat.

As Hannah Ritchie has pointed out, we don’t actually need to produce a low carbon equivalent of all of the coal, oil & gas we currently use.

That means we can decarbonize quickly by being less wasteful & more efficient. #ClimateChange #science

Visste inte att dom var kompisar

Fem år. Längre tid tar det alltså inte.

Oh, the time I’ve wasted clicking “accept cookies” in my rush to read a page

Turns out going through all the options and flipping every allegedly “legitimate interest” cookie to off is more satisfying and addictive than popping bubble wrap

I barely even read the actual pages anymore

The @DataColada team has been sued by Francesca Gino for exposing the fraudulent data underlying four of her papers (she claims defamation). The legal defense could get expensive. Please join us in providing financial support for their defense.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/uhbka-support-data-coladas-legal-defense?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.

@asociologist I was just reading https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

“‘ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.’ Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong. … Even when the answer has a glaring error, the paper stated, two out of 12 participants still marked the response preferred.”

We know they’re wrong but we still like the answers it gives!

Over the month of July Ukraine has liberated approximately 85km² of the country.

This means that Russia currently occupies a total of 17.49% of Ukraine, a 0.01% decrease since the end of June.

Prior to the invasion on 24th February 2022, Russia occupied approximately 7.04% of Ukraine.

Subsequently, Russia has expanded its occupation to an additional 10.46% of Ukraine.

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"‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties - Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, a supporter of leading xenophobe Eric Zemmour"

"More than half the journalists at France’s only standalone Sunday newspaper have resigned after failing to prevent the arrival of an editor with far-right ties in a bitter dispute that has fanned fears of a further US-style polarisation of the country’s media.
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"In particular the company refused to contemplate committing not to publish “racist, sexist and homophobic statements and, more generally, any discriminatory or hateful content”, a guarantee the association had demanded given Lejeune’s past record."

“We didn’t win,” said Antoine Malo, a roving foreign correspondent at the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) and member of its editorial association. “We didn’t stop him, and now there’s a mass exodus. But the bigger fight will go on – from outside.”

The mainstream paper’s 100-odd journalists ended a 40-day strike – the longest media strike in France since the 1970s – on Tuesday after Geoffroy Lejeune, previously editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, took up his post as editor-in-chief.

The 34-year-old is a leading supporter of the xenophobic polemicist Eric Zemmour, who ran for the French presidency in 2022, promotes the racist “great replacement” theory, and has been investigated 16 times – and convicted on three occasions – for hate speech."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/06/we-fight-on-fears-for-frances-sunday-paper-over-rightwing-editor-geoffroy-lejeune

#France #FarRight #Xenophobia #Fascism #FrenchPolitics #News #Bias #Racism #Zemmour #Lejeune #JournalDuDimanche #JDD #Homophobia #LGBTQ #Sexism

RIP. :-(

"Dear all,

It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023.

Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.

Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of."

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324 ]

#Editors #VIM

Det kan vara svårt för en del att höra, men böcker är inte någonting som är värt att skydda mer än ett människoliv.
Absoluta förbud mot att bränna / skända heliga skrifter är ett stort principiellt steg längre än de lagar vi har emot att döda någon - där tas uppsåtet i beaktande.

En specifik antibokbrännarlag betraktar uppsåtet som egalt och alla potentiella konsekvenser som likställda den värsta tänkbara. En förolämpning via att sträcka upp långfingret ses som ett överlagt mord.
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Very cool paper on the arXiv this morning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15289

tl;dr: IceCube started a public competition on ML algorithms for reconstructing #neutrino events. Hundreds of submissions, including several that are better than the current IceCube reconstruction and that they’re hoping to adopt now. Sounds like an incredibly successful outreach project!

Vichayanun, a student I co-supervise, will be the first person defending an experimental particle physics #PhD at a #Thailand university (as far as I know)! Such #trailblazing is an incredible achievement, don't underestimate how difficult it is to do something first in your country!

Also, as I like #SciComm, I'm highlighting his fantastic Barbie-themed defense announcement (Love it!)

#science #sciencecommunication #particlephysics #CERN @CMSexperiment #Chulalongkorn @DESYnews

"Look we're all trying to find the guy who did this" says Sweden's prime minister, who rules with the support of the party whose supporters have been burning the Quran recently.

Hard to process Sinéad’s death. The nuns stole my cousin and sold her to Americans. My uncle drank himself to death after a childhood of rape by a priest in Ballyfermot - my mam and her 12 siblings grew up feral because the same priest told my nan to keep having kids. You can’t parent 13 kids and this predator knew it, so there was constant fresh meat for his appetites. Yet my mam was SHOCKED TO HER CORE when Sinéad ripped up the photo, she was so indoctrinated by that awful society.