tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

A survey finds only 28% of US adults overall and 8% of Republicans have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, radio, and TV news, a new low (Megan Brenan/Gallup)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx
http://mediagazer.com/251002/p9#a251002p9

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: https://flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

#Perseverance #NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Deimos #twilight

Oh welp: "Russia remained the top supplier of nuclear reactor fuel to the U.S. last year, even after a ban on Russian enriched uranium imports became law in May, data from the Energy Dept. show." This, as Trump lectures Europe and others to curb reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/russia-still-top-supplier-of-us-nuclear-fuel-despite-import-ban

Fd folkpartipolitiker i (Lotta Edholms förra skolkoncern) dömer ut reglering av lärares undervisningstid (minskar hans skolbolags vinster) och föreslår istället fokus på AI (ökar hans Ed-techbolags vinster) och fjärrundervisning (ökar hans fjärrundervisningsbolags vinster). www.di.se/debatt/overr...

Överreglering driver skolan mo...

Ni måste fatta nivån. Statsministerns bästa kompis satt i bolagsstyrelse vars skola (inte IES) granskades av journalister. Han satt även i styrelsen för bolaget som driver Näringslivets Medieinstitut (NMI) som sedan granskade journalisterna som granskat skolbolaget. Bergströms finansierar NMI.

Sedan Academedias grundskole- och gymnasiechef i februari 2024 påstod att de ”varken fokuserar på ägare eller aktiekurser” har deras eget aktieinnehav i Academedia gått upp med total 2,4 miljoner kronor (optioner ej inräknat). tankesmedjanbalans.se/academedias-...

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

#Wikipedia #AI

British physicist Geoffrey Taylor famously worked out the yield of the Trinity test, using just a few still photos, some frames from Brixner’s famous film, and the sort of estimation and deductive physical reasoning that Fermi adored.

Here are the steps and the relevant data — see if you can work it out for yourself!

Ponera att en väldigt söt valp kommer in på akuten efter att ha tagit en kula för statsministern. Samtidigt anländer en person som brukar titta på youtubevideor utan hörlurar på bussen som har klämt pungen i gylfen. Vem ska få vård först?

ARINC/Collins have been unable to restore the systems in Brussels airport so they are ripping out and replacing everything.

https://www.lesoir.be/700923/article/2025-09-24/cyberattaque-brussels-airport-un-nouveau-systeme-deploye-ce-lundi-avec-lespoir

HT @0xThiebaut

There’s a bit more info here: https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussels-airport-bru/accelerate-rollout-of-new-check-in-system-after-cyberattack-on-collins-aerospace-software/

They will keep cancelling 10% of flights each day for the foreseeable future.

It wasn't political violence when we ginned up a fake reason to embark on endless wars in the Bush years, and let all the fucked up vets, including more friends and family slip through the cracks. Not when the rest of America got to learn about my family disease when pharma companies started pushing opioid addictions on people, killing almost a million people and disabling who the hell knows how many more. That wasn't political violence, apparently.

SVT avslöjar nazistiskt terrornätverk som planerat attentat i Sverige och Europa i oktober ifjol. Ledaren är en 35-årig amerikan som just dömts i Brasilien. Genom en sluten chattgrupp på Signal har han instruerat 149 följare om bombtillverkning och måltavlor www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

Unik inblick i nazist-nätverk ...

It’s fascinating how much people care more about the disappearance of civility than the actual oppression by the current administration.

I’ve seen more people upset about Portland being described as “war ravaged” than the fact the city is about to become occupied by the military.

Exemplen är så många nu på L-politiker i kommunerna som agerar och uttrycker sig tvärt emot vad skolministern säger att det nog är dags att fråga sig om hennes uttalanden i skolfrågan ens har stöd av det egna partiet.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jpjmnu6x2h7gq7uvi4whpavk/post/3lzuqkfojk22w

It's normal to be against genocide.

Sam Altman’s description of ChatGPT Pulse is practically a sales pitch for an ad network. You tell ChatGPT your favorite vacation destinations and later on it gives you “updates” about these destinations? 🤔

Sounds like ads.

Please watch this short video. You will not be disappointed.

#cow

Around a third of US adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020; 6% say they paid for news podcasts in the past 12 months (Pew Research Center)

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/podcasts-and-news-fact-sheet/
http://mediagazer.com/250927/p1#a250927p1

Astronomers found an #atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an #exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old to have air, at least in theory.

Observations of the blazing-hot lava #planet TOI-561 b suggest not only that it has a thick atmosphere but also that it may have had one for billions of years.

This is the strongest evidence yet for "air" around a hot rocky world that isn’t just a temporary veil of #hydrogen and #helium left over from planetary formation.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-atmosphere-on-lava-planet-toi-561-b/

Det har gått för bra för de ensamkommande under flyktingkrisen så Tidöregeringen måste rättsvidrigt flytta målstolparna för permanent uppehållstillstånd för att kunna kunna tvinga dem ur landet. www.vf.se/2025/09/27/i...

Ledare: Nu blir ensamkommande ...