tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Finland to take part in Trump's Board of Peace meeting as an observer
https://yle.fi/a/74-20211207

Another #AfD state party chapter has been classified as right-wing extremist (the first in the western states afaik). Following the usual pattern, the party will sue, lose, appeal to the higher courts, lose again, give countless interviews, all while complaining that 🇩🇪 is a dictatorship
https://www.dw.com/en/lower-saxony-afd-put-on-far-right-intelligence-watchlist/a-76004012?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

Wait, so Trump lied? American consumers, not foreign countries or suppliers, are paying the costs of the tariffs that he illegally imposed.

https://www.wsj.com/business/price-increases-consumers-businesses-b70e4542?st=BGGfGa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Ukraine's most popular politician, former army chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, gives a pretty wild interview to AP, considering he's the sitting ambassador to the UK. He describes a 2022 raid on his office — an "act of intimidation" by Zelensky — and blames Ze for botching the 2023 counteroffensive.

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-zaluzhnyi-zelenskyy-raid-5ff9e5e2054e0b17c10daf58d7eab63e

Terroravslöjandet som kom av sig. Till och med högern är besvikna.

Strikingly, the study finds that models perform much better with simulated users than with real people. This suggests that 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. Gurevych’s practical takeaway is clear: to be useful as a medical first contact, chatbots must do more than answer questions. They should 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝘂𝗽 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.

Är du nöjd nu @magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se@bsky.brid.gy? När din ”strama” politik kör ut ungdomar som Afnan, 21. När Köpings sossar inte längre känner igen sitt parti. När politiken du skryter om förstör livet för din egen valarbetare. ”Sverige verkar inte vilja ha mig” www.dn.se/sverige/ssus...

"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."

Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop 😜

Omröstning i socialförsäkringsutskottet idag: stoppa tonårsutvisningarna? Nej: S, SD, M, KD, L Ja: C, V, MP www.etc.se/inrikes/tona...

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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This experiment (authored by several well-known mathematicians) revives an archaic practice (last seen in the era of Gauss) of posting encrypted proofs before revealing them: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192 . Here, the challenge is to see whether 10 research-level problems (that arose in the course of the authors research) are amenable to modern AI tools within a fixed time period (until Feb 13).

The problems appear to be out of reach of current "one-shot" AI prompts, but were solved by human domain experts, and would presumably a fair fraction would also be solvable by other domain experts equipped with AI tools. They are technical enough that a non-domain-expert would struggle to verify any AI-generated output on these problems, so it seems quite challenging to me to have such a non-expert solve any of these problems, but one could always be surprised. It will be interesting to see if there were any notable outcomes to this experiment by the expiration of the time linit.

"The Trump admin is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a UN draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take action.

In guidance issued this week to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, the State Department said it “strongly objects” to the proposal being discussed and that its adoption “could pose a major threat to US industry.”"

https://www.courant.com/2026/02/13/trump-un-climate-proposal/

När andra politiska aktörer rättar sig efter lagstiftningen fortsätter en ensam, välfinansierad tankesmedja som vanligt och kringgår reglerna. Det är ett demokratiskt problem, skriver Kent Vihelmsson
https://www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/varfoer-struntar-timbro-i-eu-s-regler?utm_source=mastodon

Hypersonica has emerged from stealth, announcing a €23.3 million Series A funding round and the successful completion of a hypersonic missile test.
https://europeanspaceflight.com/hypersonic-systems-startup-emerges-from-stealth-with-series-a-and-test-launch/