tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

#Korea

Climate change on the Korean Peninsula is accelerating. Due to global warming, temperatures rose by 1.9 degrees Celsius over 100 years from the 1910s to the 2010s, but increased by 0.9 degrees during the 2020s (2020–2024). This means temperatures rose in five years by an amount equivalent to 50 years

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/12/31/L6HCDDH3XJGXTN3ZWJERULD5BY/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Only two more days till we get to live on Mars, y’all!!

We may not be able to control the shocks and stresses to come, but we can, to some extent at least, try to increase our coping capacity by investing in things that add water to the coping bucket, and avoiding things that drain it.

Strikes and protests in Iran spread nationwide. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202512291716

European colonizers carved up the Somali territories, with Britain, France and Italy all taking portions and leaving a segment for Ethiopia.

Formerly a British colony , the newly independent Somaliland voted to join the larger country, formerly an Italian colony, in 1960, creating the modern day Somalia we know today.

But it was a tumultuous unity. Eventually a decade long Somaliland war of independence culminated in independence and the declaration of Hargeisa as the capital of Somaliland.

Way back in the day the University of Waterloo's Math Society had a shirt on it with dozens of definitions and identity formulas on the front and back; the ones on the front were upside down, so the wearer could read them, and the ones on the back were all subtly wrong so the person cribbing off your shirt during the exam was screwed.

Anyway, I feel like this shirt is a missed opportunity.

https://social.chinwag.org/@brad/115776906262650344

”Det är fruktansvärt om mitt politiska projekt att få invandrare att inte känna sig välkomna får invandrare att inte känna sig välkomna”, säger minister som ägnat hela sin ministertid åt att få invandrare att inte känna sig välkomna i Sverige.

Ledare: Inte konstigt att Davi...

NEW – Sweden: Storm knocks down Gävle Goat
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/gavleborg/har-blaser-gavlebocken-omkull-under-stormen-johannes

“I came to D.C. when it had seats of comfort, and left it with seats of marble.”

#India

Why did India face climate disasters on 99% of days in 2025? Know what's next

India faced relentless extreme weather events for 331 days in 2025, claiming thousands of lives and ravaging millions of hectares of crops. Urgent global mitigation and local resilient farming are now the only paths to survival

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/science/story/india-climate-change-2025-extreme-weather-events-india-flood-casualties-heatwave-impact-india-crop-damage-statistics-cse-down-to-earth-report-arabian-sea-cyclones-himalayan-glacier-melting-climate-2842706-2025-12-27

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

I've been thinking about this since I read it. I'm about to make this my entire personality

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29993325/

Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/24/slop-is-not-distinguishable-by-its-attributes-it-is-an-attitude-of-production/

And of course, what #NerdReich CEOs are celebrating this?

Tesla CEO and Palantir co-founders are cheering on sanctions on public officials.

Vote with your wallets

We're happy to announce that the release candidate for pandas 3.0 is ready for testing!

This major release brings some exciting new features such as a new default string data type and consistent copy/view behaviour (alongside many improvements and bug fixes), but those also come with some potentially breaking changes.

Have some code or library using pandas? You can help us by testing with the release candidate! 🙏

See the blogpost at https://pandas.pydata.org/community/blog/pandas-3.0-release-candidate.html for more details

As academic nightmares go, this one seems way worse than just showing up for a test you forgot to study for. https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/a-collection-of-almanac-prints-in-conversation-with-the-collector#96300

SEASONS GREASONS!

#SeasonsGreasons #IdLoveSomeoneToComeDownMyChimney

"This paper projects when each of 150 countries can transition to 100% clean, renewable electricity and heat across all energy sectors after near electrification of each sector.

Eight countries, including China, the world's largest CO2 emitter, can reach 100% by 2051. The U.S. and India may reach 100% only after 2130. China’ transition rate is faster than any clean-energy conversion in history.

Thus, a focus on clean, renewable energy can speed a transition."

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/su/d5su00912j

Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that "attack" its armed forces (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netanyahu-government-moves-shut-down-israels-army-radio-station-2025-12-22/
http://mediagazer.com/251222/p10#a251222p10