tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

It turns out that one of the enablers of COVID was actually our increased carbon footprint.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/virus.html

#covid #covid19 #CarbonFootprint #CO2 #climate #ClimateChange

Droughts in Brazil and Vietnam Are Driving up Global Coffee Prices.

Climate change is projected to drastically reduce suitable coffee-growing regions by 2050. #ClimateChange

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122024/todays-climate-droughts-coffee-prices/

Non violent climate activist Gaie Delap, aged 77, is facing imprisonment in the UK again due to home tagging wristbands not being made small enough for her, and an ankleband not being safe due to her health.

In other news #StormDarragh has smashed the UK, killing two and leaving 200,000 without power.

Make this make sense.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/07/just-stop-oil-activist-gaie-delap-facing-jail-recall-as-wrists-too-small-for-electronic-tag?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Street Complete v60 was just released, with 3 new quests and a lot of work behind the scenes and fixes!

@mcc My "favorite" version of this was spending a good half a day wondering why "x" wasn't being printed only to realize the Android phone I was holding was just plugged into a charging brick and the one I had actually been deploying to all day was tucked under my desk.

The third #Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite was launched on a #VegaC rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. #Sentinel1C extends the legacy of its predecessors, delivering high-resolution radar imagery to monitor Earth’s changing environment, supporting a diverse range of applications and advancing scientific research: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Double_win_for_Europe_Sentinel-1C_and_Vega-C_take_to_the_skies - additionally, Sentinel-1C introduces new capabilities for detecting and monitoring maritime traffic.

Mary Wareham, the deputy director of the crisis, conflict, and arms division at HRW, explains how the Biden Admin misrepresents the mines it’s sending to Kyiv and how the decision to aid Ukraine in violating its 1997 Mine Ban Treaty obligations is already unraveling disarmament elsewhere. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/02/pulling-at-the-fine-fabric-of-international-humanitarian-law

Last week, an agreement holding together seven decades of Russian-European scientific collaboration expired due to a mix of sanctions over the Ukraine invasion and Putin’s personal science whisperer (another damned Kovalchuk), who thinks Russia is better off on its own. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/03/concerning-cern

Here's a copy of the Hardy's Rouse Ball lecture in 1928:

http://wwwprof.uniandes.edu.co/~amartin/cursos/filomat/bibliografia/Hardy.pdf

and here is an extended quote that I think is interesting. The first continues a metaphor of mathematician as an observer of a mountain range who has discovered a distant peak.

"If [the mathematician] wishes someone else to see it, he [sic] *points to it*, either directly or through the chain of summits which led him to recognise it himself. When his pupil also sees it, the research, the argument, the *proof* is finished.

The analogy is a rough one, but I am sure that it is not altogether misleading. If we were to push it to its extreme we should be led to a rather paradoxical conclusion; that there is, strictly, no such thing as mathematical proof; that we can, in the last analysis, do nothing but *point*; that proofs are what Littlewood and I call *gas*, rhetorical flourishes designed to affect psychology, pictures on the board in the lecture, devices to stimulate the imagination of pupils. This is plainly not the whole truth, but there is a good deal in it. The image gives us a genuine approximation to the processes of mathematical pedagogy on the one hand and of mathematical discovery on the other; it is only the very unsophisticated outsider who imagines that mathematicians make discoveries by turning the handle of some miraculous machine."

Worth thinking of, in this age when mechanised proof is becoming more and more common.

Can a group of set theory fans contain themselves?

#30daymapchallenge Day 26 (Projections): New Zealand - a victim of projections. World maps have a bad habit of dropping New Zealand. If putting it through the alternative distortion is preferrable remains an open question.

This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.

Say “McDonald’s” to end commercial is from a very real patent, btw...

no better metaphor for thanksgiving today than some story about "indigenous culture" getting obscured by an overprinted advertisement

X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.

This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible

https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/

@Santaclaus

#climatechange