tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Porto Alegre Brazil 🇧🇷 is planning at least 4 "tent cities" to accommodate some 8,000 people currently in improvised shelters due to historic floods devastating the region. Roughly 500,000 ppl fled their homes, with over 77,000 currently in public shelters https://buff.ly/4bEDCVa

This beautiful image of the vibrant aurora australis was taken from Banks Peninsula near Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on May 11.

"The base of a tower-like rocky sea stack is awash in the foreground, with stars of the Southern Cross at the top of the frame and planet Earth's south celestial pole near center."

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240517.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Kavan Chay
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#Wikidata currently holds information on almost 20000 periodicals published worldwide before 1930: https://w.wiki/A6s8. But, as one would suspect, quality of data and coverage differs widely between regions.

So, if you work on periodicals, particularly those published outside the Global North and major centres of publication, consider adding your knowledge to Wikidata for others to link to and discover these awesome resources.

#PeriodicalStudies #multilingualDH #CrowdSourcing #DecoloniseKnowledge #DH #DigitalHumanities #LOD #SemanticWeb

Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/just-believing-that-an-ai-is-helping-boosts-your-performance

Researchers discover an **AI placebo effect** where task performance improves when people believe an AI helps them.

"The results also pose a significant challenge for research on HCI, since expectations would influence the outcome unless placebo control studies were used.

‘These results suggest that many studies in the field may have been skewed in favor of AI systems,’ concludes Welsch."

This case deserves a movie. https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-vuteff-money-laundering-48f1ba6f4a82a00adca7ccc0586b6e67

SD trollfabriks utveckling 2018 – den finns inte 2022 – den finns fortfarande inte 2024, 7 maj – den finns faktiskt fortfarande inte 2024, 14 maj, lunchtid – jävla vänsteretablissemang som klagar på helt normala grejer 14 maj, eftermiddag – allt är en lögn 14 maj, kväll – det är en anonym humorgrupp

I have a very specific question about Matplotlib usage at NASA in the Science Mission Directorate:

Does anyone know of usage of Matplotlib specifically in the Biological and Physical Sciences Division?

EU 🇪🇺 countries gave their final approval today a law to cut CO2 emissions from trucks 🚛, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the EU from 2040 to be #emissions-free https://buff.ly/3wECRwk

Everybody thinks about poor Prometheus stuck to the mountain but no one spares a thought for the eagle who is also trapped in this relationship and is probably thinking “ugh, liver? Again?!”

Problemet är inte att ett rasistparti har trollfabriker. Det kommer de alltid ha. Det stora problemet är att journalister köpt och fortsätter köpa de budskap som fabrikerna prånglar ut.

För journalister är det lätt att hylla grävet och säga att det förtjänar priser. Vilket det gör.

Men var är självrannsakan för alla de gångar alla gånger man vikt sig, ändrat rapportering och helt svalt trollfabrikens talepunkter?

New from Macklemore

#Seattle #FreePalestine #HipHop #Macklemore

Here is an image of last night's aurora over N. America as seen from space.

The image was taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer (VIIRS) instrument onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite, using its Day Night Band sensor (DNB).

The VIIRS DNB images in wavelengths between 0.5 – 0.9 µm (visible and some near-infrared). It is able to image at very low levels of light at night and is uniquely capable of imaging Auroras.

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/59112
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All 12 universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed & ~250 teachers & 5000 students killed.

Why is anyone surprised students globally want their universities to divest from corporations building the bombs destroying Gaza’s universities & killing their students & teachers?

On what moral grounds can a university administration claim to care about higher education while actively funding the violent destruction of universities in another part of the world? It’s absurd this is even a debate.

Jewish faculty on here - please consider signing & sharing this letter asking Biden & Congress not to enshrine into law a definition of antisemitism that equates all criticism of Israel with antisemitism! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lButpIiajBJ3vYIykA-mj5gV35btDhwfczfFUoXQRMQ/edit

Shell has sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits based on emissions savings that never happened, according to a new investigation.

Shell made more than $200 million dollars selling the credits from its flagship carbon capture facility called 'Quest'.

Canadian taxpayers covered 93% of the costs of building the 'Quest' carbon capture project. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/07/false-promises-and-phantom-emissions-how-was-shell-able-to-double-its-carbon-credits-in-ca

Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrunk so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.

It is thought Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times. #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/venezuela-loses-its-last-glacier-as-it-shrinks-down-to-an-ice-field?CMP=share_btn_url

Today's distressing reminder that atrocities are happening in many places, yet news coverage in the US is focussed on just a few - like Gaza or Ukraine:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/darfur-atrocities-ethnic-cleansing-human-rights-watch-report-rsf-sudan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

And I feel quite helpless in the face of what appears to be global indifference to these crises. Yes, these are complex problems, with no easy solutions. BUt is that really a reason to let these crises propagate?