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 ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’.
That’s not quite right.
Climate is feeling increasingly energized.
The big loser is us, the people of Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/election-climate-change-far-right
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Ukraine can’t afford to lose tens of thousands of lives to reclaim Crimea, but the peninsula could be returned through diplomacy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview.
https://buff.ly/3ASHPb2
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"Musk’s corporate empire has received $15bn in public contracts, while facing 20 federal investigations. But it would be no more than coincidence should that first number skyrocket and the second number plummet over the next four years."
Say what you will about Ayn Rand (I certainly do), but in any Rand novel, Musk would be a cartoonishly evil villain. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/elon-musk-donald-trump
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"The proposed $250 billion in the latest COP29 text us a 30% REDUCTION in real terms from the $100 billion promised in 2009.
Inflation not only makes life ever more expensive for people across the world, but it also allows rich countries to hide the real value of their distant promises.
The reality of the 250 billion commitment for 2035 is that not only is it a fifth of the 1.3 trillion that developing countries need, it’s a 30% REDUCTION from the $100bn that was promised in 2009 in real terms (when inflation of 5% is taken into account).
So rich countries promised a wholly insufficient amount in 2009, failed to fulfil that promise for 15 years, and now are kicking the can down the road by delaying real targets for another 10 years, all while DECREASING the real value of their initial commitment by 30% by the time we get there.
This truly is the great escape from responsibility for the rich. $100 billion in 2009 couldn’t even buy the global south the coffins we would need for the climate trajectory the rich countries had locked us into. $250 billion in 2035 will buy us even less."
"💯 ...sign of our times that a US President repeats the absurd notion that criminal law compares perpetrators to each other.
Gallant & Netanyahu were compared to the demands of law and found wanting...the resulting similarity with Hamas is of their own choosing."
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when you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it
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We live in the internet age, so how on earth did "ability to google search" end up in the same chronic generational decline as "ability to use a sewing machine" did for our parents???
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3 months before the early election 🗳️, just how strong is the #farright Alternative for Germany? My trusty poll aggregator says: 18-19%, after hovering around 17% for months. They are still below the all-time high they achieved a year ago, but ...
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This morning #AFSCME3299 has been facing down the cops and the pinkertons head on, and even though their strike has a planned end date and is just two days, the university has made it abundantly clear that they intend to illegally police and surveil their way through every strike from here on out.
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The Hague court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I said it “issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 Oct. 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.”
In so doing it also unanimously rejected challenges by Israel under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute, it said in a statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftlCqRWkeE
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
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American herd continues to deliver excellent results for farmers.
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Niantic has announced that it’s used the data generated by Polemon Go players to train a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
Niantic believes these LGM’s can power audio-only or 2D display smart glasses. The models can guide users through the world, answer questions, provide recommendations, help with navigation, and enhance real-world interactions.
Everything we do online has been training AI all along.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
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The actual outcome of this election with •the whole US population• as the denominator:
22% voted for Harris
23% voted for Trump
<1% voted for other
26% eligible but did not vote*
28% not eligible to vote
* (whether by choice or by voter suppression)
Numbers might shift a tiny bit as last votes are counted, but this is close to the final tally.
Just sit with that for one quality minute. Think about what stories people are telling about this election. Then think about what stories are true.
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An extremely beautiful, harrowing report from James Meek on war-weariness in Ukraine. The draft, underground schooling, a liberal-nationalist coalition, how the West has lost the plot (both Ukraine's and Putin’s), and more. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/james-meek/nobody-wants-to-hear-this
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Twitter’s latest EU transparency report is out: https://transparency.x.com/dsa-transparency-report.html
Shows they have 1275 people working in moderation across all regions worldwide.
They had 1849 doing the same role 6 months ago, so roughly a third of staff left and weren’t replaced during the period.
It works out as one moderator per 431k daily active users.
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The differential achievement stuff truly blows my mind. I'm just that Jennifer Lawrence WHAT DO YOU MEAN gif every time I read about how low and average achieving boys go into STEM at the same rate as high achieving girls
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Passing 1.5C will make impacts of climate change worse, but ultimately is more of a target than a climate threshold. Every tenth of a degree matters, and the lower we can keep peak warming the more we will minimize harms to human and natural systems.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
