tobychev @tobychev@social.cleverlibre.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
tobychev
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The 117th & final launch of an #Ariane5 rocket is scheduled this afternoon.
Ariane 5 has played a crucial role in ESA's science programme from the very first flight, the failed launch of Cluster I, to almost the very last, with JUICE's success in April.
And between have come XMM-Newton, Rosetta, Herschel, Planck, BepiColombo, & JWST, all outstanding scientific missions 👏
Thank you Arianespace & CNES, & ad astra, Ariane 5 🙇♂️🚀✨
tobychev
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Apparently Zaha Hadid's firm are now generating design ideas by using "Zaha Hadid [building type] [location]" as image-generator prompts, and quite happy to say so publicly.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/04/26/zaha-hadid-architects-patrik-schumacher-ai-dalle-midjourney/#
Howzat for efficiency, eh? The reduction of a starchitect's signature style to a tired cartoon cliche of itself used to take decades! What a time to be alive, etc etc.
@PaulGrahamRaven
My friend who (I believe) spends a lot of time on such things has been using glesys for the last 10 years or so. Definitely small and Swedish
tobychev
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Lots of tear gas being used in France. For those of you who are interested, I wrote one of the few, ever, pieces in the journal Nature on the subject of tear gas. Here it is.
tobychev
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Metrics
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks
@kevinrothrock
This is not one the supposed victims of the "bombing" that supposedly set off the entire thing, right?
Is this someone killed in airstrikes after they left Rostov?
@erikdelareguera Här är ett konto som verkar rätt bra på täcka in en aspekt av nätternas händelser
via @violencespolice
tobychev
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9. Why does it matter?
At a very basic level, it's important to point to the immediate causal sources of problems that one wants to remedy, because those sources are the best targets for interventions.
Telling women to cite themselves more frequently is not necessarily going to be a fruitful remedy to a self-citation disparity if men and women with similar numbers of previous publications cite themselves at similar rates, and the disparity is driven by an upstream cause (publication number).
@Mabande
But yeah, separation of powers doesn't on its own prevent a fascist turn if the support is strong enough, and it's really weird when people argue that anything but anti-fascist agitation and action is inherently able to stop it.
@Mabande
Well, that's not true since checks and balances include separation of powers as a pretty big part of its concept.
Had Trump been able to pass laws by decree there would for sure not be any federal elections left in the US, so the fact that there's been some since then is a pretty solid deliverable.
tobychev
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This is hilarious. Twitter appears to be DDOSing itself.
Something's wrong with Twitter so feeds aren't loading. Nothing loads, but my Twitter feed is still trying to load, but it doesn't stop trying after so many attempts.
Notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. I haven't done anything more than attempt to view my home feed. Now notice the bouncing scrollbar.
I'm gonna guess there was an bug introduced that was resulting in an endless loop of trying to fetch results, but with no results available, Twitter would have basically been DDOSing itself.
@warmapper The extra nice thing is the only way people experiencing problems will know if is they read this explanation somewhere other than twitter...
@erikdelareguera
Hela grejen med landsomfattande protester mot ändringar av pensionerna och så viftas lagen igenom utan omröstning kanske gör att folk är lite mindre övertygande om fördelarna med mer fredliga metoder?
tobychev
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TIL that „beyond the pale“ actually derives from „pale“ as in a stake driven into the ground as part of a fence (think of „impaling“ someone or „palisades“).
So its meaning of going beyond acceptable behaviour suddenly makes much more sense to me
tobychev
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@Mabande
Moahahahah! Ännu ett offer till groddammen!
@philipncohen
Must have been some Chinese hackers that changed the data once it was on his computer! /s
More seriously, I guess the NYT editors didn't pass the story to a journalist with the patience to read more than the headline of the one datacolada post ...
@Mabande
Har du kollat på DiVA eller Google Scholar?
Spontant känns det dock inte som om det är så mycket där, Ben är ju en självgående karaktär medan hela golem grejen handlar om att det inte är helt lyckat att leka gud...
@franco_vazza
Some species have root networks that can be on the order of a kilometre think, the sort of thing that happens when a species can just grow new bits indefinitely
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
