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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"Let's Do the Twist"
Fifty-five million light-years away, in the galaxy known as M87, lies a supermassive black hole. The radio image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides direct confirmation that the black hole rotates.
A new study published in "Nature" has given us more rotational evidence, but also questions what exactly causes the black hole to precess.
Read more at: https://briankoberlein.com/blog/lets-do-the-twist/
#astrophysics #astronomy #science #cosmology #blackhole #nature #physics
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Context for those arguments that Ukraine should have kept the Soviet nuclear weapons.
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/revising-the-history-of-the-1990s/
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10 of the 14 African leaders who have evaded term limits have come to power via military coup, civil conflict, or military support.
In other words, leaders who gained power through extraconstitutional means, subsequently tend to violate legal constraints on their time in power.
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/term-limit-evasions-coups-africa-same-coin/
ŋozze
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https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23ImageOfTheDay
On 25 October,
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Mexico
🇲🇽 was severely affected by
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23HurricaneOtis
⬇️
https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEMS
has mapped the damage in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Acapulco
(
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23EMSR703
), identifying more than 6,200 hectares of affected built-up🏚️
More at 🔗
http://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR703
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEU/status/1718911884345143679#m
[2023-10-30 08:45 UTC]
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I (en icke bindande) omröstning i FN:s generalförsamling om en humanitär vapenvila i Gaza röstade 120 länder för. Däribland EU-länder som Frankrike och Spanien.
14 röstade emot, däribland USA och Israel.
45 lade ned sina röster, däribland Sverige.
#FN #UN #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
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I was absolutely convinced that "the British Navy is firing all its Chinese laundrymen because it's afraid they might be PRC spies and instead of not having any racialized subaltern class doing their laundry, decided to replace them with Nepalese laundrymen" had to be fake news because I was convinced that was too racist even for the British but no, it seems to be real
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#HurricaneOtis has made landfall near Acapulco as a category 5 storm after having intensified from a tropical storm to a major hurricane within just 12 hours, as measured by a wind speed increase of ~130 km/h. Nothing comparable has been observed so far in this part of the world.
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The Swedish Academy's historical dictionary of modern Swedish has finally been completed after 140 years!
https://www.dn.se/kultur/svenska-akademiens-ordbok-ar-klar-efter-140-ar/
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What we've come to: Michael Eisen tweets: "I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @theonion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians."
I dissent!
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Good news IEA World Energy Outlook
Coal, oil & gas will have peaked latest by 2030
Only 10 years ago fossil fuel demand had only one direction: up
This has now changed: decline is unstoppable
To be first with the transition is now a competitive advantage
Halving demand by 2030 is needed for 1.5°C
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Hmm, I kinda like "statistical systems with attributed agency" as a stand-in for "AI".
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Babe are you ok? You’ve barely touched your new domain name.
"In the final hours of negotiations this week, the U.S. continued to insist that the fund be housed within the World Bank. Developing countries have pushed for it instead to be constituted as an independent body like the already established Global Climate Fund, which is housed within the UNFCCC. The U.S. just happens to be the largest shareholder in the World Bank, where overall decision-making power is determined by financial contribution. The Global Climate Fund is governed by a 24-person board, composed of an equal number of representatives from developing and developed countries."
https://newrepublic.com/article/176354/us-spending-israel-ukraine-war-climate-crisis
The reference negotiations on the loss and damages fund have now concluded without any result besides agreeing to one more meeting.
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The platform formerly known as Twitter has removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/19/x-twitter-nyt-dispute-musk/
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@ren_stats Looking only at renewables doesn't tell about GHG emissions, the truly important thing.
Norway looks great, but has a strong oil and gas industry (ok, these emissions are not directly theirs since they export a lot; but they enable emissions from other countries).
France looks worse than Germany here, but a lot of its electricity is nuclear, so its GHG emissions are in fact lower than those of Germany.
This gives a more accurate picture (still not for Norway): https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
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Vova ain't the only guest of honor in China today.
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IF Metall har lagt ett världsunikt varsel mot Tesla i Sverige, för att få företaget att teckna kollektivavtal. ”Vi går i bräschen här”, säger avtalssekreterare Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.
https://da.se/2023/10/total-strejk-pa-tesla-i-sverige-varsel-fran-if-metall/
#ifmetall #tesla #fackligt #kollektivavtal
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
