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A presidential reward. Putin has appointed Moscow district judge Anastasia Loskutova to a spot on the city's main court. Her rulings sent Navalny to jail multiple times. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202301040002?index=0

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Pro-Putin operatives in Germany work to turn Berlin against Ukraine

In Germany some are clamouring for a change in course on Ukraine. Key figures in the campaign have links to the Russian state or far right, a Reuters investigation has found.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-germany-influencers/

Rishi Sunak wants all pupils in the UK to study maths to age 18.

I stopped studying maths when I was 16.

I can't see how studying it for another 4 years would have helped me?

Not about economics or politics, at least directly, but I thought this was interesting and ties into how I've been trying to understand the Ukraine War 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drones.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News

Donald Trump goes all in for Kevin McCarthy. Fourth round of voting for House speaker scheduled to begin at noon.

heard from a reputable source that elon wants tony soprano to be the next twitter ceo and no one around him is telling him that’s a tv show character. i think this is the best choice honestly

Musk now amplifying false claims about COVID vaccines and athlete cardiac events

Over the month of December 🇺🇦 liberated approximately 70km² of Ukraine.

This means that 🇷🇺 currently occupies ~16.55% of Ukraine.

The charts below show how the control of Ukraine has changed since the beginning of the year.

#Twitter outage in #Australia. https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/technology/twitter-outage-detected-in-australia-website-and-app-incredibly-slow/news-story/60deef5077a7628c41d60aeaf4642a87

Universal mask wearing is not a lockdown. It’s the opposite: Mask mandates make society accessible to many more people, especially those at higher risk.

#COVID #COVID19

Céu - Amore

https://youtu.be/xYWhZ6Ea02I

#SongOfTheDay

#FavoriteMusic 48/

'Who could have predicted the climate crisis?' - Macron

I'll tell you who - Exxon in 1982.

Carl Sagan testifying to congress in 1985

Multiple IPCC reports over decades, involving tens of thousands of scientists

Thats who

#ClimateChange #climateCrisis

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/01/03/who-could-have-predicted-the-climate-crisis-macron-slammed-on-climate-change-remark_6010139_5.html

Just had a request for a "Share on Mastodon" button for a blog.

As far as I know there's no official "Share on Mastodon" button, but there are several third party options.

If you've used a "Share on Mastodon" button on your site, could you give your recommendations/experiences?

#Mastodon #AskMastodon #AskFedi

Spot-on Twitter algorithm. No notes.

No, this claim is disinformation actually. We now have epidemiological evidence that bivalent boosters enhance protection against novel Omicron subvariants.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm715152e2.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm

There is no evidence that the existence of prior immunity to pre-Omicron variants via vaccine or via infection harms the development of immune responses against novel subvariants. If anything, data shows the exact opposite as those most immunologically experienced...

The entire article is a travesty but this part is pathetic. Stop using terms like "imprinting" or "original antigenic sin" if you have no idea what they mean. People who received a bivalent booster in this study have had 4 exposures to ancestral spike vs. 1 for BA.5.

It genuinely seems like WSJ is incapable of covering science without resorting to sophomoric, ideologically motivated analysis by people who have no idea what they're talking about.