Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

#WhatAboutMagneticFields ?
Galaxy mergers edition, cool paper by Joseph Whittingham and collab.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13208
with quantitative studies (based on Arepo moving mesh simulations) of the influence of galactic magnetism in the transport of angular momentum, bar stability, formation of a remnant disc, large scale impact of stellar feedback and post-merger growth of central supermassive black holes.

#Astrodon #Astronomy

Days later, Twitter is still blocking links to the BBC documentary about Modi and Musk has yet to say anything about the censorship other than that he didn't know about it. That was 6 days ago. https://kenklippenstein.substack.com/p/elon-musk-continues-to-block-access

@Siceloff

If it's anything like NYC if you want to have a good classroom library you build it yourself. Sometimes you can get the school to buy the books, but just as often they just slowly collect as you find things you know your students will like or might need.

I have a fairly big math library. That's also becoming an electronics library.

Lots of cool stuff you can't find online.

Point is these collections take years and years to build and represent a huge investment from teachers.

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

"The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is a fundamental attack on the peace and security architecture in Europe.

So, we urgently need to strengthen our common Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union", says @davidmcallister MEP.

Watch⤵️
#EPP4EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1620693437740728322

I was planning to procrastinate today but never got around to it

Because police don't solve crimes the way that TV shows pretend they do. Most serious crimes, especially murders, are solved by:

1) someone calls the cops (caller)
2) someone tells the cops exactly what happened (witness)
3) cops gather enough evidence to show that the witness's story is credible
4) DA builds a case

Without callers or witnesses, it's almost impossible to even know who committed a murder, let alone get a conviction in court. And Black folk don't call or play witness.

I dunno, maybe social media is just a bad indicator of real public opinion

If this child was strong enough to survive colonization, land theft and reservation internment — then white kids should be strong enough to learn about it in school. #nativeamerican #NativeNations

Police are worse than useless. They are actively harmful. We just had a medical emergency with one of our encampment residents. She was flat on the ground, stuporous, with severe decerebrate posturing and breathing normally.

The cops radioed it in as an overdose (which means EMS will take forever to respond), even though there were no signs of OD. To make things worse, the 911 dispatcher confirmed to me that the cops had given them the complete wrong address in their call.

Even worse, I was the only one on scene carrying Naloxone. The cops made everything worse and were not even prepared for an overdose. The cops asked me several times if I could administer Narcan; I had to correct them repeatedly and tell them there were no overdose symptoms and that the woman had a recent history of aneurysm. They stood their and did nothing, and were afraid to even touch her.

NEVER assume that police have made a proper emergency call. Always call 911 yourself. Carry Narcan.

Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine

/ A new game codenamed Tatanka will use Unreal Engine instead of the previous in-house Slipspace engine used for Halo Infinite, according to a new Bloomberg report.

By Jay Peters

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579819/microsoft-layoffs-halo-343-industries-tatanka-unreal-engine

#microsoft #halo #unrealengine #tatanka #slipspace #343industries