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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X Community Notes now means that opinion/analytical criticism can’t be tweeted without a stamp of disapproval from the EU, the Council of Europe, and Chatham House.
@thriveth
Not too distant *future*? You don't mean a recent interaction in its past?
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JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is getting ready for landing on the lunar surface tomorrow Friday Jan 19 at 15:20 UTC.
The spacecraft, nicknamed the “Moon Sniper,” will demonstrate precision landing in a target area less than 100m in diameter, using real-time image recognition technology.
The spacecraft will land on a sloping surface near the crater Shioli.
SLIM carries a number of science instruments and will also deploy 2 rovers.
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@erik
well good news (?) apparently customer data got stolen after all!
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/coop-varmland-bekraftar-medlemslacka-ror-over-hundratusen-medlemmar
@GossiTheDog
tobychev
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As of yesterday? Trogdor, the Burninator, is old enough to buy alcohol in the united states.
@mastodonmigration
Yeah, it is amazing how completely erased the coming energy transition is from the American imagination...
@carnage4life
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The next paper examined with simulations how competitive expectation-based updating is relative to a simple, fixed trust strategy with respect to accuracy vis a vis a single source. The surprising answer to that is “not very”: accuracy gains are minimal and come at the cost of order effects. This counterintuitive result makes sense with the benefit of hindsight (see paper)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12374
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tobychev
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More info on #ConnectAround from @volexity
- Exploitation dates to at least late 2023
- Chinese nation state actor
Loads of info in the blog.
@erik
Allegedly just emploee data, so nothing about your points unfortunately: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/varmland/coop-anstallda-hangs-ut-pa-darknet-efter-cyberattack
@GossiTheDog
@CelloMomOnCars
It was hard to find detailed information, so this is rather sparse: temperature control is by district heating and heat pumps, somehow connected to neighbouring buildings and coordinated by some adaptive "ai-system".
Overall the building is allegedly 20% below the energy use required by law from passive elements only, and supposing the requirements on energy use is purely thermal lossses this probably means the cladding has a therma coefficient around 0.4 Watt m^-2 K^-1.
In any case, they claim the building is slightly climate positive using the mentioned heating system and solar panels in a building at 64 North, so energy losses can't be too bad.
@falcennial
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Mandela left Ethiopia safely, but had only returned to South Africa incognito for a few months, when he was detained. He would stay behind bars for 27 years.
US diplomat and CIA spy Donald Rickard revealed just prior to his death in 2016, that the CIA had tracked Mandela's movements and passed them on to the Apartheid regime which arrested him. He said they did so because they feared he would facilitate the spread of communist ideology across Africa.
And that is that.
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"To understand this extraordinary spasm of violence as an act of national self-defense, you’d have to accept that Israel’s only chance for safety depends upon #Gaza being crushed and emptied of virtually all Palestinians." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/israel-icj-genocide-south-africa.html
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It's not possible to understand the actions of a government, or maybe anything in the human world, via a priori theory. The only way to understand is via facts and constantly tested interpretive models.
E.g. it's a commonplace that "homeless encampment sweeps make no sense." In this context making no sense means contradicting a theory. Maybe "municipalities intend to end homelessness" or "the purpose of government is to meet people's needs". An attractive way to reconcile the contradictions is assuming that governments are dumb or incompetent.
It's necessary to assume that facts make sense. If they keep on doing something that seems senseless it's the theory that has to go, otherwise it's impossible to understand what's really going on. They don't want to end homelessness. They're not in the needs-meeting business, at least not the needs of the unhoused, and they're made up of people and people aren't dumb or incompetent.
What they're really doing is a much more complex and difficult problem. I don't have all the answers and they're not necessarily easy to explain, but attaining a deep instinctual acceptance of the principle that theories never trump facts, that actual facts always make sense, is the first step towards understanding.
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ℹ️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since the #Gaza Strip fell largely offline, in the ninth major telecoms outage since the start of the war; metrics indicate that the situation is ongoing, leaving most residents cut off from the rest of the world 📉
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"who knew poop shaming was even a thing?"
@joannekelly
That makes sense, thanks.
However, I wonder if they really boxed themselves in or if they rather just stalled for time when making these threats: Biden is under lots of republican pressure to bomb stuff, but is really not very interested in foreign policy at all and would rather not.
So the threats are more to excuse not bomb immediately while hoping things resolve themselves. It's not like the state department could _really_ expect that making a few threats would deter a regime that's been bombed for ten years already... maybe if they also offered bribes, but I don't think Biden wants to put in the capital for that.
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Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).
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@Mabande
Huddisarna, du vet, sådana som bor kring Hudisksvall ;)
@joannekelly
So, am I reading you correctly if I say that you, Stocker-Kelly, understand "saving face" to only refer to actions without (serious) consequences? (and made as a reaction to some external challenge made in public)
@jlayt
I think we need to be careful to stick to the Amazonas and not the larger Americas or the discussion about expectations doesn't make much sense.
I agree that the possibility of large civilizations was not unfairly dismissed by archeologists: the initial conquest saw a lot of people search for El Dorado, the mythical city and empire in the internal lands of South America, and people looked for a very long time.
Admittedly, racist ideas about the unchanging nature of the people they found in the Americas will have helped establish and entrench this idea that there were no advanced civilisations in that Amazon into the consciousness of what became modern Archaeology.
But once people have explored a region for maybe 300 years without finding any cities in the jungle, thinking "maybe this region never had any" seems pretty reasonable. Especially when many of the ruined jungle cities of the Mayas were known basically from the start of colonisation.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
