This is really an important article. Also the bit that sticks in my mind is "Brandi Morin made a critical point during her speech. If the proportion of Indigenous people killed by police was put into the terms of the general population, it would equal 127 Canadians killed by police in two weeks."
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My son is terrified of the "star gate" scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but loves the concept and the beauty of it.
So I made him an edit to emphasize the wonder of the journey rather than the anxiety, taking out the awesome Gyรถrgy Ligeti's music and David Bowman's frightened face, but keeping Douglas Trumbull's work and adding a Justice track because I'm in an electro rock mood at the moment ๐ and the lyrics almost make sense in that context.
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La justicia cuando un grupo de empresarios monta una trama para violar a menores de edad
Gray Goo is winning
404 Media: Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History
Brazil judge seizes cash from Starlink to cover fine imposed on Elon Muskโs X
Starlink and X treated as one economic group, forcing both to pay X fines.
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Did that company's board admonish him?
Musk treats all the companies as his personal playthings so the court seems to have been right.
The question is whether he shared engineering talent, hardware, or tech between the two "off the books" as he did with Tesla. If so, they are not truly separate companies.
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NEW: As the climate crisis worsens extreme weather events, the rights of voters in disaster-prone regions become threatened. The stakes can't be higher in key battleground Georgia, which saw twice as many severe storms in 2023 than any other recorded year. ๐
Part of our #DemocracyDay coverage:
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#georgia #environment #climate #weather #elections2024 #vote #news #journalism
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Do you ever have a page that once it's open you simply cannot bring yourself to close it so the tab just stays up and open for weeks and weeks
AI Models are producing inaccurate information about voting options for people with disabilities more than 60% of the time, according to a new study using Proofโs AI testing platform. From broken links to incorrect details, experts say these errors could impede voting.
The Pearl fire started Monday near Crystal Lakes and evacuations extend to the Wyoming border
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๐ก ๐ธ๐ช Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right
โDrawing 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).โ
Isaksson, Z. (2024) โSpirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,โ Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.20โฆ.
#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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The glow in the sky & between the cliffs is real โ 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.
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 โ that's a 20-25 story building, so fairly substantial.
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:
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/-/5654โฆ
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.
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.
@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.
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Grinning here ๐
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 ๐
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 ๐
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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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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •somewhere deep in every grandparent's basement a box of Britannica encyclopedias awake from their slumber. The Age of the Internet is waning and the Second Age of the Encyclopedia is nigh.
Drums in the East signal publishing house HR departments beginning to hire real humans to staff writer and fact checker rooms for updates to the encyclopedias.
Rumbling in the West is the song of thousands of lumber trucks and paper mills starting up and producing the pulp for the New Age.