tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

There's something that nearly everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @newscientist (sign up for a free account to read).
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234952-100-what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-the-2015-ashley-madison-scandal/

So I have this right:
Synagogue: We will host a real estate event literally in the synagogue and sell property to Jews on illegally occupied land in Palestine.
Antizionists: Colonialists! We will protest!
Israeli flag bearers: Fight us!
<fisticuffs>
Politicians: You're protesting a synagogue?! Terrorists! Antizionism is antisemitism!

Do you have a book that you are currently reading? (To qualify, it has to be a book - physical or e-book - that you have read within the past 3 days.)

Give this a boost, if you don't mind. It'd be nice to have lots of respondents.

Great news about HIV protection: “Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from the virus.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/health/lenacapavir-hiv-prevention-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.48pH.ML6CbYVKmd5v

The geo-politics of climate geo-engineering is set to become a thing. A good example is the recent finding that tweaking the Californian climate to lower temperatures would likely result in heatwaves in the EU.

It's as though we're running out of different ways to find out we all share the same atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds

"In a meta-analysis of nutritional impacts of deworming, we find that in areas where the WHO recommends mass drug administration (>20% prevalence), multiple-dose deworming leads to statistically significant, positive increases in child weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and height. We then conduct a cost effectiveness analysis and find that MDA is many times more cost-effective than widely implemented school-feeding programs."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308733121#sec-2

The cryptocurrency industry Super PAC Fairshake is now #1 out of all Super PACs by total funds raised.

They've raised more than $175 million to influence upcoming elections in the US, and have more than $100 million of it still waiting to deploy.

#CryptoLobby #Fairshake #USPolitics #cryptocurrency

Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change. Now they're celebrating a settlement that emphasizes a plan to decarbonize Hawaii's transportation system in the next 20 years.

It's the latest example of frustrated youth in the United States taking their climate concerns into the courtroom. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-settles-climate-change-lawsuit-filed-youth-plaintiffs-111301740

One question at the heart of the #h5n1 outbreak in US cows has been: Is there something special about this virus? Or is H5N1 generally able to do this and this particular version was just "in the right place at the right time"?
Quick thread, because it seems we have an answer

The Netherlands already warmed by 2°C, we recently had our first 40°C, and rainfall patterns are changing. More of this is coming until we reduce global emissions to zero.
Today is #showyourstripesday!
https://showyourstripes.info/c/europe/netherlands/all

Därför är det kanske inte konstigt att utbildningsministern och politiken framstår som det största hotet mot den akademiska friheten just nu på Sveriges lärosäten.

https://universitetslararen.se/2024/05/23/kritik-mot-regeringen-vid-debatt-om-akademisk-frihet/

This post from @MissingThePt brought me back to my 9th grade Civics class:
https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/112649562587904467

Our teacher decided that we needed to learn about the virtues of the Free Market, so he devised a special plan: students would own resources in the classroom, and rent them out to other students. Educational!

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I can't believe I'm explaining this but here we are. It is a racist trope that Palestinians are the real "semites" and European Jews are not so that Israeli oppression of Palestinians is the real antisemitism. "Antisemitic," because of old racist European theories, means anti-Jew. It shouldn't, but it does. Obviously, this semantic distraction does not affect who is right and wrong in the Middle East and if you think it does you're thinking like a racist.

@Anders_S Håller helt med om att Karlsten drar väldigt stora växlar på det här. Spontant så skulle jag tro att en enormt stor del av det här är regeringens fel genom sin överstressade behandling, och det är "intressant" att Karlsten väljer att göra en stor grej av V/MPs vändning snarare än de faktiska regeringspartiernas svek.

How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?

Give me your best guess.

(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)

Bra artikel om den långdragna konflikten som ledde till att hela Astronomiska institutionen i Lund lades ner. Har själv skrivit ett tiotal artiklar om detta.

Astronomisk kollaps i Lund | Forskning & Framsteg
https://fof.se/artikel/2024/6/astronomisk-kollaps-i-lund/

#lund

More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F).

Temperatures hit 51.8°C (125°F) at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on Monday, the Saudi national meteorology centre said.

Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hundreds-of-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-from-heat-related-illness

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

During the post-war years, the US quickly became embroiled both in the cold war and in an internal anti- communist frenzy. Driven by Senator McCarthy, stigmas then became into vogue.

Unfortunately, acceptance of stigmas by the populace appears to foster the malignant creation of additional stigmas, specially in an environment that is dominated by religious fanaticism. Thus, in keeping with the times, a very powerful secondary stigma began to develop within the physics community towards anyone who sacrilegiously was critical of quantum theory’s fundamentals.

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As Russia’s war drags on and the number of Russians charged with treason rises, phone scams aiming to cash in on citizens’ fear of prosecution continue to run rampant. A new report from BBC Russian tells the stories of two people targeted by these scams.
https://t.co/EPkdwrVN5G