tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Don’t be like the Lebanese sectarian movement that kills Syrians and is allied with the Iranian theocratic dictatorship, be like the Azerbaijani one-man dictatorship that commits genocide against Armenians

A very canny strategy—buying shares to gain inside information and propose changes at shareholder meetings—has revealed that Microsoft's deals with fossil fuel extractors contradict their carbon-friendly claims.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_greenwashing_ai/

The Extreme Weather Report, only this week...

Sometimes it's the only reframing that helps me not to drown: I'm not waiting for the catastrophe. The catastrophe has already happened. We are living the apocalypse. How do I make my life and the lives of others as bearable as possible in the aftermath?

You know what takes courage - trying to be a mature human in a system that is operating in domination and separation mode.

Tons of great Sophos research is dropping today which I’ll link in thread. China goes brrr.

I want to give them particular credit for directly talking about the cyber industry elephants in the room, both in the research and during media interviews

e.g. insecurity in appliances, need for industry change, monitoring threat actors through telemetry etc etc.

It’s really refreshing as they’re talking about what is *actually happening* - not all vendors do this.

https://www.wired.com/story/sophos-chengdu-china-five-year-hacker-war/

I hesitate to offer "biggest takeaways" because the case is so convoluted, but one key observation is that the duo's legal victories in Western courts seem to rely more on the ill repute of Russia's justice system (which would love to arrest Z&L) and not the merits of the bankers' case, per se. Amplifying this is the fact that several of the FSB officers and regulators who eventually cracked down on Probusinessbank are suspects in the Magnitsky case.

Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.

#weather #wx #ClimateChange

#PPOD: Little moon Daphnis making waves inside the Keeler Gap of Saturn's rings; a view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 3, 2010. Daphnis' dimensions are: 9.8 × 8.4 × 5.6 km. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS

#space #science #scicomm

EU and UK agree on cooperation in antitrust investigations

The agreement is the first that would allow national competition authorities from EU countries to cooperate directly with a competition authority outside the bloc.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-and-britain-agree-on-cooperation-in-antitrust-investigations/

Bank of Finland report on Russian economic statistics

In addition to increased uncertainty related to Russian statistics since the invasion of Ukraine, some observers have raised doubts about the quality of Russian statistics. Applying simple analytical tools to detecting irregularities in Russian economic data that could implicate data manipulation, our analysis reveals irregularities. We find, however, no compelling evidence of extensive systematic data manipulation.

https://publications.bof.fi/handle/10024/53847

It's amazing to think that there are more galaxies in the observable universe than there are episodes of Midsomer Murders.

Jensen vill öka antalet skolplatser i Göteborg med 700 platser som inte behövs förrän om tio år. Göteborgs stad kan välja: lägga ner kommunala skolor till dess platserna behövs igen, eller betala för tomma skolplatser i tio år.

https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/sa-knacker-koncernerna-den-kommunala-skolan-i-goteborg/

A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

https://www.facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography

Some institutions have already indicated that this will mean the elimination of numerous programs, particularly in language studies (the government party PVV has already indicated that the study of useless small languages like Hebrew and Aramaic is a woke left-wing hobby). Additionally, most English-language teaching will be prohibited (!), forcing many international faculty members, who moved here with their families, to quit.

@danderson And the machine with address 1 has the nickname of 'sex', literally the first thing on the internet.

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

If nothing else, a trivial thing I hadn't considered: tides. Coastlines aren't a constant feature even on a day timescale. OpenStreetMap standardizes on the coastline feature being "mean high water springs", the high tide line in spring averaged over the past 19 years.

There's a dedicated path in the OSM rendering pipeline just for producing the coastline+ocean backdrops, completely separate from the entire rest of the mapping logic, because it's just its own cursed little problem.