tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

I dag hade Aleksej Navalnyj fyllt 48 år, om inte Putin hade mördat honom. Så här skrev Navalnyj en månad före sin död:

Om dina övertygelser ska vara värda något, då måste du vara beredd att stå upp för dem. Och göra uppoffringar, ifall det behövs. I annat fall har du inga övertygelser. Det är bara som du tror. Då är det inga övertygelser eller principer, bara tankar i ditt huvud.

https://www.feldmanphotography.com/this-is-navalny

#navalnyj

"most murder cases by Jews were framed as an outcome of individual personality or the pathology of the culprit. Conversely, when Palestinian citizens were the killers, culture and tradition were invoked as the main motives. We suggest that the routine work of narration that the Israeli media preform when covering femicide is a case of political use of cultural stereotypes to gain moral ground in the intractable conflict between Jews and Palestinians." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13080?campaign=woletoc

Two male Texas professors are suing to flunk students who get abortions.

Their reason? The students had "consensual sexual intercourse."

Which the professors appear to believe is their right to punish.

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

200 years of climate science.

140 years of warnings about climate change due to human greenhouse gas emissions.

65 years of continuous atmospheric CO2 monitoring.

And now the monitors are at about 427 ppm CO2 this year; with the largest year-to-year increase on record - https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/

https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2024/05/08/largest-year-over-year-gain-in-keeling-curve-set-in-march/

As always everyone:

Work for the extensive efforts that _ must _ be made to address #ClimateChange .

No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds.

Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached. #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/no-need-for-countries-to-issue-new-oil-gas-or-coal-licences-study-finds

TIL: The 1st Maverick was Black? How did I not know this?!

I could have been annoying in dozens of viewings of Top Gun over my lifetime!

"Y'know, the first Maverick was a Black man... "

🤔 I'll have to work this into the Black History Month megathread somehow...

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2900145/mission-accomplished-tuskegee-airmen-recognized-for-1949-top-gun-victory/

#ECB to Impose First-Ever Fines on Banks for Climate Failures - up to four lenders face penalties after not meeting deadlines set by the ECB 🇪🇺 for assessing their exposure to #ClimateRisks https://buff.ly/3yyZG5e

Folks, we at @meduza_en are polling you fine people to find out what makes you tick. If you’ve got a spare minute, please share a little autobiographical info and then spill the beans. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/05/28/help-make-meduza-better

#PhysicsFactlet
The human eyes have "only" 3 different colour receptors, so multiple spectra can be perceived as the same colour.
(And this without considering all the ways the signal is processed before you actually "see" it.)
#Optics #Colour #Color #Vision

Swedish is like Linux. It's quite obvious how the language works, and you can make your own words if you care to.

French is Apple. Try to make your own modifications and they will SEND YOU TO JAIL.

English is your grandparents' PC. We have no idea how it works. Where did all these weird plug-in words come from????

Oh now THIS is very intriguing! Bernhard and Lloyd with ZTF J185259.31+124955.2: A new evolved disc-eclipsing binary system where the shape of the transit is evolving significantly on every eclipse - look at how much it changes… just wow. 🔭🪐 #astrodon https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15555

This is very bad news.

From: @lgatto
https://fosstodon.org/@lgatto/112508317208170298

„For example, for heat waves, I found that most of the heat wave coverage didn't address climate change at all. … We find the same for extreme rainfall events: they are mostly discussed without contextualising climate change.“

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/protests-spark-media-attention-about-climate-change

“From the perspective of insurers, democratic reform of police agencies is undesirable, not because it will predictably increase or decrease claims, but because its effects are uncertain… because it is relatively untested, radical democratic reform threatens the core of the business model for liability insurance by creating uncertainty as how much municipal liability the insurer will have to cover.” https://lpeproject.org/blog/insurance-risk-and-democratic-police-reform/

New study: “We examine how gender shapes 25,000 everyday interactions between strangers. We manipulate gender, class, and ethnicity of research assistants [who prompt] pedestrians...to provide directions, help with dropped groceries, or lend cell phone to RA.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59a360bacd0f681b1cb27caa/t/65fedd90de47053304ef31a2/1711201688003/gender_trust_gap_maintext_11March2024.pdf

“Black social movements face a dilemma in that the public often perceives nonviolent Black disruptive protest as violent…we find Congress is generally more accepting of nondisruptive protest but nondisruptive protest is only roughly one-tenth as effective for Blacks” https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soae073/7676333?redirectedFrom=fulltext

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

I went to CVS yesterday to pick up a prescription. For years when I’ve done so, there’s a step where you need to sign on the terminal and agree that you’re receiving the listed medications. This time, I noticed a super dark pattern.

In the place where historically they’ve collected this signature, they still ask for your signature—but to agree that CVS can use your *medical data* for marketing.

There’s no way this is informed consent. One of the darkest patterns I’ve seen.

It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees.

At least 138 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco since May 16, according to a conservation group. #ClimateChange

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hot-mexico-howler-monkeys-falling-dead-trees-110439435