tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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The platform formerly known as Twitter has removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/19/x-twitter-nyt-dispute-musk/
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@ren_stats Looking only at renewables doesn't tell about GHG emissions, the truly important thing.
Norway looks great, but has a strong oil and gas industry (ok, these emissions are not directly theirs since they export a lot; but they enable emissions from other countries).
France looks worse than Germany here, but a lot of its electricity is nuclear, so its GHG emissions are in fact lower than those of Germany.
This gives a more accurate picture (still not for Norway): https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
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Vova ain't the only guest of honor in China today.
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IF Metall har lagt ett världsunikt varsel mot Tesla i Sverige, för att få företaget att teckna kollektivavtal. ”Vi går i bräschen här”, säger avtalssekreterare Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.
https://da.se/2023/10/total-strejk-pa-tesla-i-sverige-varsel-fran-if-metall/
#ifmetall #tesla #fackligt #kollektivavtal
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Humble request: do you know of any real life experience of post-capitalist economies, even partial ones? Local currencies? Cooperative models? Community land trusts? Priority given to resilience over efficiency? #solarpunk economies? There are a few usual suspects (Mondragon, Cooperativa Integral Catalana, Transition Network...), but I struggle to find long lists of cases. Boost appreciated @g_kallis @jks @jasonhickel #postcapitalism #economics #degrowth #postgrowth
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#Europe - #renewables as % of #electricity demand from 01.01.2023 to 16.10.2023
Top 5 countries:
115% 🇳🇴 #Norway
115% 🇫🇮 #Finland
82% 🇦🇹 #Austria
79% 🇸🇪 #Sweden
77% 🇩🇰 #Denmark
Source: ENTSO-E
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Paris's bedbug problem is probably no worse than other major cities.
An apparent resurgence of bedbugs has incited panic in France, but there is no scientific evidence of any increase in infestation rates this year.
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Oklahoma's judicial selection process needs scrutiny
2006: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13599320
…during a trial in 2002, she heard the [penis] pump during the emotional testimony of a murdered toddler’s grandfather.
The grandfather “was getting real teary-eyed, and the judge was up there pumping on that pump,” she said. “It was sickening.”
…she texted her way through a trial over the beating death of a 2-year-old boy… (including jokes about the DA's genitalia)
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Tack @dn för att ni inte släpper den här storyn.
Regeringen behöver faktiskt förklara vad den egentligen orsaken var. För säkerhetshot var det ju bevisligen inte.
"Forskare: Extinction Rebellion utgör ingen säkerhetsrisk mot ministrar" https://www.dn.se/sverige/forskare-extinction-rebellion-utgor-ingen-sakerhetsrisk-mot-ministrar/
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I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.
It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.
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So much wrong with the US health care system.
New research "published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found a wide discrepancy in prices [for baby delivery]...ranging from less than $1,000...up to $100,000. Even at the same hospital, price quotes varied—sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars—depending on whether the researchers checked online or asked for a price quote by phone."
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Gift link:
https://wapo.st/3rDfYH8
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A new satellite appears brighter in the night sky than most stars, causing concern for astronomers, as well as the casual stargazer.
TAGS: #space #astronomy
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Inom sju veckor har två av de områden som pekats ut som särskilda riskområden av MSB drabbats av katastrofer. Samtidigt kapar regeringen budgeten till just den typen av kartläggningar.
Regeringen har en egen agenda som inte är förankrad i verkligheten, baseras på ren ideologi och fantasi och som absolut inte har Sveriges bästa för ögonen.
https://www.dn.se/sverige/peter-alestig-vi-har-varnats-for-just-detta-men-alltfor-fa-har-lyssnat/
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"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."
Suez at home:
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30 years ago, Russia's elected president and parliament both attempted to seize power. Yeltsin rolled out the tanks. A super-presidential constitution followed in December. Democrats abandoned Yeltsin, who turned to oligarchs for support and put #Russia on the path to #autocracy.
Nobel Prize in physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
Three laureates, one woman, work from ~1987 to ~2001
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release/
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Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
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And we are live 🙀
It has only taken 25 years to get to this point, but here we are.
I'll post much more soon, but first I think need a moment.
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Once again we are appealing on behalf of the many victims of Harvard Brain Disease
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
