tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

You might've seen some buzz and histrionics about Russians At War, which follows Russian soldiers to their death in eastern Ukraine.

I watched the film, interviewed its director, and tried to make sense of the competing criticism. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/what-everybody-is-getting-wrong-about-the-years-most-controversial-film/article_4a9007ae-7531-11ef-9516-77047be32003.html

Study (N=280 companies) finds less commitment to DEI. 78% of employers said gender diversity was high priority vs 87% in 2019. Racial diversity=69% now vs 77% in 2019.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/09/17/dei-backlash-hits-women-workplace/75264686007/

I should have bought more solar panels, crap https://www.pv-tech.org/us-finalises-section-301-tariffs-proposes-50-duty-on-wafers-and-polysilicon/

LOOK!

These odd plots represent the first data from the SKA-low telescope working as an interferometer.

Data comes from two stations (each with 256 antennas) where the signal is correlated. That little kink is the radio galaxy Centaurus A.

SKA is starting to come online!

SKA-low features these odd-looking antennas that resemble Christmas trees. 256 of them sit in a ‘station’ which acts as a single unit. Once construction is complete (end of decade) there will be 512 stations separated by distance creating a large virtual telescope.

SKA-low is the Australian side of the project and will feature over 131,000 antennas to cover the low-frequency bands.

This will complement SKA-mid, located in South Africa which will have an interferometer made of dish antennas and cove a huge bandwidth up to 15 GHz.

📸 SKAO

#RadioAstronomy #Astrodon #SKAO #Observatories #Telescopes

#SimulatedUniverses : X-ray emission from growing and merging halos in a small simulated cosmic volume. It approximately shows the visible part of the cosmic web through X-ray emission, which only traces hot (>1e7K) gas.

Below: full evolving gas distribution

#astrodon #astronomy #science

“All of humanity could share a prosperous, equitable future but the space for development is rapidly shrinking under pressure from a wealthy minority of ultra-consumers, a groundbreaking study has shown.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/consumerism-and-the-climate-crisis-threaten-equitable-future-for-humanity-report-says

In college, a professor had the same name as me. I sometimes got calls. Once near the end of the term I got a sobby call at 5am from a student "please can I have an extension on my project". Sure, no problem.

Astronomers have found a seriously gravitationally messed up planet. It speeds up and slows down so much that its year changes length by up to *15%*. Imagine one year being 11 months and the next being 13. The market for belated birthday cards would be HUGE.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomers-find-exoplanet-year-keeps-changing-length

Nu är första poddavsittet ute. Jag och @alexvoronov vill gärna veta vad ni tycker, och vad ni vill att vi pratar om framöver.

Godmorgon Ukraina: Skolstart i krigets skugga https://pod.space/godmorgonukraina/skolstart-i-krigets-skugga

#Ukraina #podd

Disney recreated Peter Cushing’s face in “Rogue One,” but is now facing a lawsuit that claims it didn’t have the proper permission.

Kevin Francis says Cushing signed a contract with him and his production company to protect his likeness after his death.

https://kotaku.com/star-wars-rogue-one-peter-cushing-disney-sued-1851645468

#tech #disney #starwars #ai

I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.

I handed in my older brother's handwritten GCSE coursework for Geography, pretending it was my own, despite him having the same teacher as me only 2 years before. I got a B and he got a C.

The DOJ will recommend remedies for addressing Google’s monopoly dominance of search in December.

Options vary from banning Google from paying Apple, Mozilla and others for search defaults to forcing the company to sell the Android operating system.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-search-monopoly-case-remedies-come-by-december-2024-09-06/

Macron et Marine Le Pen auraient passé un accord secret pour la nomination de Barnier à Matignon, selon le JDD, évoquant plusieurs sources en Macronie et au RN. Ce deal aurait été mené par Thierry Solère, conseiller officieux du président et politicien le plus mis en examen en France à ce jour. Je mets un gros conditionnel sur ces informations car le journal de Bolloré a déjà propagé plusieurs fake news par le passé.

#Politique #Macron #MarineLePen #RN #Barnier #Gouvernement

Barnier donne sa première interview exclusive à la presse au JDD, devenu un journal d'extrême-droite depuis son rachat par Bolloré. https://www.lejdd.fr/politique/exclusif-les-premieres-confidences-de-michel-barnier-au-jdd-149225

#Politique #Barnier #Medias #Presse #ExtremeDroite #Bollore #Interview