tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

The new eco-modernism. Zero-car. Zero survivors. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445

Mike Johnson saying American universities are hostile to Jews, Biden saying Jews need Israel to be safe anywhere in the world, Trump saying Jews must be loyal to Israel. Seriously fuck you all. We're privileged, safe, fucking Americans and we really don't need you to kill Gazan babies to protect us

Un estudio de la Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul afirma que la inundación de Porto Alegre no bajará en al menos un mes. Solo una de las ocho depuradoras de agua potable de la ciudad funcionan y más de un millón de personas no tienen qué beber en la mayor ciudad del estado

https://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/07/projecao-guaiba-abaixo-dos-3-metros-iph.ghtml

With Vladimir Putin now sworn into office, the old Russian government has been disbanded and a new one will need to be established. Here’s what changes Kremlin insiders are expecting:
https://t.co/L2bZnhjs8V

The arrival in Nalmö of That Song Contest is heralded by the appearance on local public transport of public service announcements reminding people that buying sex is illegal here, and that is telling me something I did not know or expect about the audience for thid thing

Your institution (department/university) probably does not love you, and that's not its role. Instead of demanding they make political statements you agree with, insist on the freedom to make your own statements without repercussion. Academic freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. #highered

@pluralistic
If you haven't seen it, this article in IEEE Spectrum is just nuts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup Just like Amazon's grab and go stores, the whole company is smoke and mirrors hiding a team of Filipino workers who do the actual work. The author, Benjamin Shestakofsky, has writing a book "Behind the Startup" about his experience embedded there. https://bookshop.org/p/books/behind-the-startup-how-venture-capital-shapes-work-innovation-and-inequality-benjamin-shestakofsky/20685145?ean=9780520395039

This company is going to be enshittified in record time. I bet it's claiming AI drives it's matching to VCs.

Canadian police have arrested three members of an alleged hit squad they believe was ordered by the government of India to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver last year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nijjar-killing-arrests-made-1.7192807

Police shot and killed a student in Wisconsin after receiving a report of someone with a weapon while class was in session.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/01/police-kill-mount-horeb-student-to-prevent-school-shooting/73533915007/

I feel like 75% of #exoplanet astronomers get confused by stars in binary systems for some reason...
The simplest configuration is planets orbiting stars which have a stellar companion. This is extremely common and, honestly, it isn't even that interesting - a large fraction of star systems are binaries or triples. Both stars can happily host "normal" planetary systems (unless the stellar companion is particularly close/large). For example: Kepler-444, HD80606, HD110067, Proxima Centauri, etc.

PFA, Denmark’s 🇩🇰 biggest pension fund, has revealed it has divested its entire holding in #Shell, citing recent disappointment with the #oilandgas giant’s climate stance https://buff.ly/44mGPWU

ABC - Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia's trade relationships. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/modi-government-operated-nest-of-spies-in-australia-/103786892

1/ Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting has published an excellent if rather gloomy thread on the current situation in Ukraine. In the interests of helping it to reach a wider audience, I thought an English translation would be useful. https://twitter.com/konrad_muzyka/status/1784875510805262538

Bundeswehr officer confesses to sending military secrets to Moscow, says he hoped to gain insider knowledge of when the nukes would start falling, so he could get his family to safety. After watching Threads, I’m more inclined to put myself and all my loved ones in the bombs’ immediate path, to avoid living in an irradiated Dark Ages. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/ofitser-bundesvera-priznalsya-v-shpionazhe-v-polzu-rossii-po-ego-slovam-on-boyalsya-yadernoy-voyny/32925483.html

Sobering comments from @eugene_rumer: “Ukraine has no good options, even with the latest aid package. Many military analysts have already come to that conclusion privately but are unwilling to voice that sentiment […]. The latest $61 billion U.S. aid package is almost certainly the last package of such magnitude, regardless of who gets elected as the next U.S. president. […] Instead of arguing about Ukraine’s path to NATO membership, the allies should put in place a series of concrete commitments […].” https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/25/u.s.-aid-package-for-ukraine-is-breakthrough-but-no-silver-bullet-pub-92311

Numpy broke my heart. A blog post about multiprocessing in python, numpy, etc.
https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/25-04-2024-numpy-broke-my-heart/numpy-broke-my-heart.html