The Pearl fire started Monday near Crystal Lakes and evacuations extend to the Wyoming border
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🟡 🇸🇪 Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right
“Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD).”
Isaksson, Z. (2024) ‘Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,’ Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.20….
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #PoliticalScience #Politics #Populism #Europe #Sweden #Swedish #Alcohol #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
Ahead of talks this autumn about #Rosetta, I've been reviewing some of my old presentations.
I found a lovely two-panel panorama of Comet 67P/C-G that Aster Cowart made back in 2016 & remembered I'd always wanted to remake it myself, to see if I could pull up some extra shadow detail.
Here's my take on that image from 5 October 2014 at 19km from the comet, starting from scratch with data from the PSA.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0
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Yeah, I admit I do that too.
Then again it suddenly hits me that I might be followed myself if I walk as if I know where I'm going 😀
Getting lost in a massive hospital is also no fun! It happens to me more often than not, one is really bad and each time I have to go I absolutely dread going there. I ended up taking pictures of the route one day, but still got lost because they completely changed the entrance location due to big renovations 😂
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@pascaline 😆
We have a hospital near us like that - it has a stupidly long corridor with so many doors of it - its like that corridor in Matrix!
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"A Labour government committed to a humane migration policy needs a proper moral compass to guide its thinking. It will not find evidence of that in Ms Meloni’s Rome."
iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting
A future iOS update may be needed to unlock better Apple-to-Android messages.
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A few years ago, AMD's FSR was revolutionary for Steam Deck. It helped games run smoother and boosted framerates without needing a more powerful GPU. In essence, a free upgrade!
Now, #AMD wants FSR4 to do the same thing for battery life.
Breaking it down: forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelh…
Up until now, FSR has been an analytical-based technique, so it requires pre-determined algorithms and filters. FSR4 is a dramatic departure from that.
📷: Winners are seen at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Sept. 15, 2024.
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A fascinating and tragic moment of South Carolina history that impact our nation's future. Too often, we wait until tragedy occurs to act.
"National outrage over the violence would ultimately aid passage of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which established the 40-hour work week, created the minimum wage and barred child labor."
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In France, A Shocking Story and Difficult Questions About Society
A rape case in France involving a woman whose ex-husband is on trial for drugging her and recruiting other men to sexually assault her. Now thousands have turned out to support her and many are asking hard questions about the culture that allowed this to happen for years.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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I don't think the Wildlabs.net folk are on here (sadly), but they've got an excellent looking conservation tech fund open at the moment.
The Boring Fund - $50k (up to $12.5k for one project)
Looking to fund documenting, events, tech debt paydown, maintenance...
wildlabs.net/article/boring-fu…
#WildLabs #OSHW #OpenSource #conservation #maintenance #funding
OK, so you are obviously a business, you've approached me as author of a Open Source Project and know I do freelance work, You asked for a new feature, lets see if you are now actually prepared to pay for it (even at my Beer money rates)...
Pima County supervisors will vote on housing items meant to help on the fringes, plus: livestock has future in Oro Valley and more from local government meetings around Tucson.
#Tucson #Arizona
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@werawelt -- Ich bin froh, dass es übersetzt werden kann und nicht nur einem englischsprachigen Publikum vorbehalten ist.
I am also happy that it is traveling across social media silos, and is a validation of my philosophy of social media cross-sharing.
I often post screenshots from old Twitter posts but you have to evaluate the message, not that it happens to come from one social media platform or another.
"Can't stop the signal"
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •The two original OSIRIS Narrow-Angle Camera images are:
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and from the timestamps, you can see that they were taken about 11 minutes apart.
In that time, Rosetta moved around the comet & the comet rotated, changing the perspective, so the two images don't really match. Thus this is a collage rather than a true panorama & if you look extremely carefully, you might see the join. The empty sky has been slightly extended on the left too.
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •Both images were taken through the OSIRIS F22 filter which is in the orange. Thus this is a monochrome picture & the slight blue-silver tone I've added is just for dramatic effect – it's not true colour.
I've also had to compress the data logarithmically to pull up the shadows in the cliffs – in the original images, the contrast is extreme between the sunlit parts of the comet & those parts illuminated dimly by light reflected off the surface.
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •The glow in the sky & between the cliffs is real – it's due to sunlight being scattered off the dust & ice particles in the comet's inner coma.
The comet was not particularly active at this point, about a month before the small probe Philae was dropped to the surface.
That was by design, to avoid outbursts from the comet which became significant a year later when the comet approached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •For a sense of scale, the image covers roughly 1100 x 720 metres at the 19km from Rosetta, although obviously some bits of the roughly 4km wide comet are closer to the camera than others, making that approximate.
Thus those promontories on the skyline to the left are roughly 80 metres high above the pedestal they're on – that's a 20-25 story building, so fairly substantial.
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •For reference, here's the original two-panel panorama that Aster made & posted on Flickr in 2016: there are shadow details in there which can pulled up with processing & essentially what I've done is remake the panorama from scratch to reveal more of the dynamic range:
flic.kr/p/GKnS9u
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •And if you're interested in knowing where on Comet 67P/C-G this is, I believe that the smoother Anubis region on the side of the large lobe of the comet is in the foreground, looking towards the rougher Seth region, "over the hill", & with the neck (Hapi) & chin (Maat) regions of the smaller lobe in the background.
Here's a view of Anubis from further out where you can recognise some of the features & some maps to orient yourself.
sci.esa.int/web/rosetta/-/5654…
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •Finally, the original two-panel mosaic at full resolution is 3248 x 2044 pixels: I downsized it to 2048 x 1389 pixels for posting here, not least because Mastodon isn't exactly kind to images when it compresses them.
I'll put the original PNG on my Flickr account in PNG format for download under CC BY 4.0 copyright.
Mark McCaughrean
in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •For the patient among you, here's the full-resolution uncompressed image on Flickr.
Just remember, it's licenced CC BY 4.0, so you can use it freely but must give credit as in the caption.
flic.kr/p/2qgPSCQ
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in reply to Mark McCaughrean • • •Mark McCaughrean
in reply to StarkRG • • •@StarkRG Apologies for the delay in replying. The largest of the ice-dust matrix boulders in that field, in the centre of this cut-out, are around 20 metres in width & by the looks of it, about as tall.
So more like a 5 story building than a house. Scales can be a little misleading & daunting, even on a comet that's only 4km in size.