tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

After another - poorly communicated - delay of the first crewed #Starliner launch NASA is now "working toward a launch opportunity at 12:25 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 1, with additional opportunities on Sunday, June 2, Wednesday, June 5, and Thursday, June 6": https://blogs.nasa.gov/boeing-crew-flight-test/2024/05/22/nasa-mission-partners-assessing-launch-opportunities-for-crew-flight-test/

Two quick updates -

A) if you disallow recording of a website in Control Panel or GPO, in Chrome it is still recorded - disallow recording only works in Edge browser

B) Firefox and Tor Browser is recorded always, including in private mode - the exception is Hollywood DRM’d videos

Israel har stoppat amerikanska AP:s livefeed av norra Gaza – som filmats på distans från Sderot i Israel – och beslagtagit en kamera och annan utrustning, enligt nyhetsbyrån. Skälet som angetts är att bilderna sänds på Al Jazeera (som är en av AP:s tusentals kunder). https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190?taid=664c9c58d740d60001d59053

"Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law"
https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190

A wave of retractions is shaking physics. Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/15/1092535/a-wave-of-retractions-is-shaking-physics/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We’ve talked in the past about there being academic evidence, engineering studies. What we are actually seeing now with those satellites in operation is empirical evidence. You see the noise floor on our satellites increase to the degree that services cannot be provided.”

https://spacenews.com/omnispace-reports-interference-from-starlink-direct-to-device-payloads/

#SCS #Satellites #Space #SpaceX #Omnispace #RFI

Förklaringen till sista minuten-avhoppet på LO-kongressen.
"Jag bekände mig inte till nazismen. Men jag kallade mig för patriot eller Sverigevän."
https://arbetet.se/2024/05/21/darfor-hoppade-pim-van-dorpel-av-jag-var-en-del-av-skinnskallekulturen/

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I think: Wow Google Maps, you really fucked up this time

Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.😜

Hawai'i News

Another telescope controversy is brewing, this time on #Maui

The U.S. Air Force wants to build seven more telescopes on the summit of #Haleakala to help better track the growing number of objects whizzing about in #space.

But the proposal, unveiled in public meetings on Maui for the first time last week, ran into a buzz saw of resistance similar to the ongoing opposition to the planned Thirty Meter Telescope on #Maunakea.

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/05/20/hawaii-news/another-telescope-controvery-is-brewing-this-time-on-maui/

#Astronomy #Hawaii #news #USA

Four zebrafish are on board the Chinese Space Station, getting accustomed to life in weightlessness. The fish were delivered as an experiment as part of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft, which arrived last month. The taikonauts at the station say that the fish have been swimming upside down, in circles, or even spinning as they become accustomed to life without "up and down." The long-term hope is to establish a self-sustaining ecosystem in a space station environment.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html

If the US saw lack of ICC jurisdiction as a valid defense that exempts Israel from ICC prosecution, then US would not have welcomed ICC arrest warrants for Putin—who also rejects ICC jurisdiction. But instead the US happily welcomed ICC warrants against Putin, and stands by those warrants to this day.

International rules based order mandates consistency in law and the application of law—for opponents & allies alike. That's how justice is supposed to work.

SD riktigt anstränger sig för att håna regeringen och visa att de gör vad de vill. Och regeringspartierna accepterar snällt

"De båda medarbetarna på Sverigedemokraternas kommunikationsavdelning fick sin utbildning före helgen, och gjorde därefter, enligt Expressens uppgifter, ett utspring med konfetti, diplom, Pommac och studentskyltar. I stället för barnbilder hade foton från TV4:s dolda kamera satts på plakaten."

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/sds-troll-firade-respektutbildning-med-pommac-och-utspring/

Enligt Chang Frick som har besökt trollfabriken i dagarna pågår verksamheten som vanligt och omplaceringen har inneburit en förflyttning i decimetrar: ”allt var som vanligt och man skrattar mest åt det hela”.

Bara Persson tycker "woke" är ett problem.
DN:
"Om Persson på riktigt var rädd för en amerikansk utveckling med kulturkrig kring universiteten så är det dumt att han själv varit den största kulturkrigaren om den högre utbildningen."

Jfr min tidigare artikel om Persson och "woke"

Spain has suffered 22,000 heat-related deaths in the last 8 years. How will a new map help?

Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, after two record hot years.

Copernicus, the EU’s climate service, says there is an up to 70 per cent chance that this summer will be one of the hottest 20 per cent on record for the country. #ClimateChange #Spain

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/17/spain-has-suffered-22000-heat-related-deaths-in-the-last-8-years-how-will-a-new-map-help

"'It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken.'"

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

#Space #Satellites #PlanetaryDefense #NEOs #Asteroids #Astronomy #Starlink

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{ "user_id": "282657081457115136", "predicted_gender": "male", "probability": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881, "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778, "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z", "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC" }

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.