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@landetannien
Hur gör astronomerna för att upptäcka jättestruktrer? Stoppar de in en massa rödförskjutningar och positioner i en algoritm och tar det som kommer ut, eller måste de hålla på och fippla med data för att bli av med galaxer som är konstiga och inställningar till algoritmen för att det ska komma ut rimliga strukturer?

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Here's a photo I bet you haven't seen before.

Buran test article OK-ML1 lifted by the mate-demate device at the Zhukovskiy airfield before being attached to the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant (seen in the background).

After mating, the Atlant will ferry the orbiter to Baikonur.

source: "The Energia blasts off", Mashinostroyeniye, 1990

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Title slide for a talk I'm giving tomorrow, because why not.

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🎄 Die Hard är ingen julfilm. Bruce Willis smyger runt i ett torn på natten och undviker Alan Rickman. Det är en Harry Potterfilm. 🎄

@carnage4life
What a weird way to provide a bonus: Amazon averaged 13 million deliveries per day in 2022, so if one in six deliveries gets a "thank you" only people working on the 12:th itself can get the bonus. For the programme to last a mere week no more than 1 in 40 deliveries can lead to a thank you...

@annmlipton
Does the ad mention you have to take care of your own trash, or did that development not make the deadline?

@scronide
Yeah, I think the impression Dare is talking about is mostly about media logic, where streaming is normalised enough that every day growth and events stop making news, but there's not enough interest for mainstream media to provide the type of breathless navel gazing the car industry earns
@carnage4life

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If you are serious about giving an intellectual a prize for their work, and then you don't like something they write, you should value your own former judgment enough to consider it might be you, not them, that is wrong. "Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza" lithub.com/masha-gessens-hanna

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Thoughtful commentary here from Dr. Radchenko. Make sure to read to the end, lest you be triggered by something in the beginning or middle. (Come to think of it, that’s good advice for anything longer than an unexpanded tweet.) twitter.com/DrRadchenko/status

@kallekn
Electrokhimpribor aka Sverdlovsk 45 utför montering inom ramen av Rysslands kärnvapenprogram, senast isotopdelen gjorde material åt vapenprogrammet verkar vara kring 1952 enligt Pavel Podvig (doi 10.1080/08929882.2011.566467 pdfsida 13), och sen 1985 har de levererat civila kärnproduktet enligt NTI.org

Förstås fult att påskina att isotoperna är från Sverige, och tveksamt men inte helt otroligt att inte känna till kärnvapenkopplingen (typ som att inte veta vad National Ignition Facility gör).

Verkar för övrigt inte finnas annan kommersiell leverantör av Yb-176 i världen för tillfället, finns ett företag i USA som har byggt huset till sin produktionslina och kanske kommer producera något nästa år

@cfiesler
It can take a lot of courage to cold email people, making putting it off understandable to me.

Being in journalism is maybe not the right career if they struggle with reaching out, though one is also not required to be good at a subject until graduation :)

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Abelardo captured on camera at least three soldiers firing into the ground near civilians. The army denies this.

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@kaiarzheimer
Personally I think the "second pillar" is by far the most important, AfD isn't growing simply because they have good tactics...I don't know about the situation in Germany, but the experience in Sweden is that the dominant parties have no ambitious visions left: we are already at practically the best world one can hope for and it is all stewardship from here on, small wonder clear alternative visions are attractive...

To me the big question is why Greens aren't doing better

@kevinrothrock
A secret project ordered by Putin to address the perceived imbalance resulting from the Cats movie?

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In the latest shocking example of blatant disregard for humanity by western powers, an investigation by Al Jazeera and partners revealed that Frontex, the EU's official border patrol agency, has secretly been handing coordinates of #Europe bound crowded #migrant boats, to a Wagner linked Libyan militia vessel, known for horrendous abuses of migrants.

The militias then arrive at the location to kidnap & return migrants to #Libya.

It's the EU's plan to keep migrants out.

aljazeera.com/features/longfor

@jmaris Saying that is just outright denying the reality created by article 15.2 of the Treaty on European Union, not sure what you want to accomplish with it...

@Ruth_Mottram
Orban wins his national elections, he earned his place at the EU table and there's no quick way to "deal with" that.

In any case, he's hardly a big player in German or Dutch politics, a factor that can explain the illiberal gain: we simply do the undermining to ourselves and then try to blame an outsider rather than admit our own faults.
@ScottLucas

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Wow, Zotero & Retraction Watch just stopped me from citing a retracted paper that had been hanging around in my bibliography. How great is that?
#academia

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"I hate maths because I had a bad maths teacher"

"I hate books because I had a bad english teacher"

One of these is seen as a perfectly reasonable thing to say. The other one would prompt responses like "why the hell didn't you experience books anywhere other than a classroom?"

Flyktingkonventionens avskaffande 

@Mabande
Intressant att Rwanda börjar få kalla fötter, men jag har ingen koll på deras sida av dealen alls så kan inte säga hur tveksamheten ska tolkas: är det genuint pathos eller försök att pressa upp den monetära ersättning som jag föreställer mig är varför de är med i leken alls?

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