Week 31
Speedometer - Four Flights Up #music
In other words expanding universe theories are wrong. The universe is static. There was no Big Bang.
Paper: "In recent years, some observational hints have emerged indicating that the Standard Cosmological Model could require correcting. One of these hints is related to the discovery of remote galaxies whose redshifts correspond to the very young Universe (less than one billion years after the Big Bang) but which are similar to nearby galaxies. The issue is that such galaxies in the early Universe do not have enough time to evolve into something similar to the late-Universe galaxies...
We compare this result with predictions of the standard ΛCDM [Big Bang] cosmological model and some static cosmological models, including Zwicky’s.. model. The latter is currently assumed to be ruled out by observations. We challenge this assumption and show that a static model can provide a natural and straightforward way of solving the puzzle of the well-evolved galaxies and better agreements with the results of the JWST 'angular diameter—redshift' test at higher redshifts than the correcting evolution model within the ΛCDM framework"
H2 View: "EU supports Dutch 200MW hydrogen scheme with $1bn state aid"
Open it up. Academia needs to follow the route of FOSS whose project management structures, committers, patch submitters can form the basis of a new way for sci. Combine with reproducability movement, we can get somewhere.
"@danstowell@mastodon.social
It's clear to me there's a crisis in #peerreview. As an academic editor it's been close-to-impossible to get good reviewers since ~2021. This year I see the symptoms in many 'good' journals in my field: they repeatedly invite me to review or edit the same paper I've already declined. True even of the 'top' journals, even though I'd expect their staff to be paid and experienced enough. (Solutions? I don't know. Pay reviewers? Open peer review systems like PCI?)"
Ars Technica: "One of the most unlikely passengers on the AI gadgets hype train is the toothbrush. With claims of using advanced algorithms and companion apps to help you brush your teeth better, toothbrushes have become a tech product for some brands.
So-called 'AI toothbrushes' have become more common since debuting in 2017. Numerous brands now market AI capabilities for toothbrushes with three-figure price tags. But there's limited scientific evidence that AI algorithms help oral health, and companies are becoming more interested in using tech-laden toothbrushes to source user data"
TDB: "Gov. Josh Shapiro once wrote in an op-ed for his college paper that he 'was a past volunteer in the Israeli army.' On Friday, he changed his story"
Forbes: "Hydrogen Is A Gamechanger For Vertical Flight.. [B]atteries have 5% of the energy density (per unit volume) of the kerosene-based fuels used by aircraft, and about 5% of the specific energy (per unit weight). This means that batteries are 20 times larger and 20 times heavier than the kerosene fuel used for turbine-powered aircraft [H2 suffers no such problems]...
[O]n July 11, Joby announced that it had converted its second [battery] aircraft.. to an H2eVTOL demonstrator and completed a 523-mile (842-km) flight on June 24. This.. hydrogen electric technology demonstrator flew around Marina, California, 'with no in-flight emissions except water,' the company stated, and landed with 10% of its hydrogen fuel remaining.. this huge leap in capability was a testament to the potential of hydrogen fuel cell electric propulsion.
🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
CrowdStrike made a net loss of $845m between 2018 until this year, and has taken on 743m of debt during this period"
BBC: "CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over global outage"
Haha.. he lost to the Nip/Tuck guy. It was probably for the best..
"Robert Downey Jr was almost cast as Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four (2005), 19 years later he has been confirmed as Dr. Doom in the MCU"
CarScoops: "Ford’s EV Division Lost $1.1B, Or 50,000 Dollar Per Car.. It was recently revealed that Ford will reduce battery orders from three of its suppliers.. [Ford] discovered that building EVs and not losing staggering amounts of money isn’t easy...
Financial information released by Ford for the second quarter reveals the Ford Model e electric car division lost $1.1 billion. During this period, it sold 23,957 EVs in the U.S., meaning it lost the equivalent of 47,600 dollars per EV sold. Factoring in a poor Q1, Ford E has lost 2.5 billion this year and is on track to lose between 5 billion and 5.5 billion by year’s end"
Sustainable Bus: "+1,000 fuel cell buses to be deployed in California within U.S. Department of Energy plan to establish a hydrogen hub"
Paper: "When activated, aluminum reacts with water to generate hydrogen gas, heat, and aluminum oxyhydroxide, a non-toxic and valuable commodity. This process serves as an efficient and cost-effective means of producing and transporting both hydrogen and thermal energy...
After noticing a significant increase in reaction rates with edible coffee, the main component, caffeine, was isolated and tested (using reagent grade 99%). Results.. were consistent with kitchen-grade coffee and allowed increasing rates to similar orders of magnitude as the standard reaction in DI water"
Science Daily: "In a study appearing today in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, the researchers show they can produce hydrogen gas by dropping pretreated, pebble-sized aluminum pellets into a beaker of filtered seawater. The aluminum is pretreated with a rare-metal alloy that effectively scrubs aluminum into a pure form that can react with seawater to generate hydrogen. The salt ions in the seawater can in turn attract and recover the alloy, which can be reused to generate more hydrogen, in a sustainable cycle...
The team found that this reaction between aluminum and seawater successfully produces hydrogen gas, though slowly. On a lark, they tossed into the mix some coffee grounds and found, to their surprise, that the reaction picked up its pace"
"@fellows@cyberplace.social
If you have no good reason for your users to be accessing Microsoft Forms online, consider blocking it. Started seeing an uptick in the use of forms.microsoft[.]com as the lure URL in phishing emails about a month ago"
NYT: "Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen, With U.S. Seen as ‘Not in Control’"
Arab News: "Malaysia PM Anwar outraged over removal of Facebook post on Haniyeh assassination.. Muslim-majority Malaysia is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and Anwar had posted a video recording of his phone call with a Hamas official to offer condolences over Haniyeh’s death, which was later removed"
H2 View: "Plans approved for DH2’s 35MW electrolysis plant in Spain"
Truck News: "ITD opens Ontario’s first commercial hydrogen fueling station"
Sustainable Bus: "Wiener Linien buys short hydrogen city buses (by Rampini) for operations in city centre"
Nature Medicine: "Evaluation and mitigation of the limitations of large language models in clinical decision-making.. We show that current state-of-the-art LLMs do not accurately diagnose patients across all pathologies (performing significantly worse than physicians), follow neither diagnostic nor treatment guidelines, and cannot interpret laboratory results, thus posing a serious risk to the health of patients. Furthermore, we move beyond diagnostic accuracy and demonstrate that they cannot be easily integrated into existing workflows because they often fail to follow instructions and are sensitive to both the quantity and order of information. Overall, our analysis reveals that LLMs are currently not ready for autonomous clinical decision-making"
"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
If you want a laugh, Oracle have renamed Oracle Database 23c to Oracle Database 23ai"
"@fuck_cars_bot@botsin.space
'We did it!'"
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Free Open Source Software ROCKS
"@Zitzero@julialang.social
I'm a little ashamed to admit that I only learned last week that #proteins are #polymers. That said, there is much to learn about non-Newtonian rheology and polymer physics. Also, thanks for the all the #FOSS #MD packages 😊"
Execubetch CEO: "Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app"
"@frankrausch@mastodon.social
PSA: If an American corporation says they are not able to delete your data for legal reasons and offer to 'close' your account instead, tell them you’ll file a GDPR complaint against their EU-based subsidiary. I got a deletion confirmation and an apology within 10 minutes. 🇪🇺"
Science Daily: "Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. The reaction can be sped up by adding caffeine." via @SETSystems@defcon.social
"Suppression efforts complicated by contents". NO SHIT.
San Bernardino County Fire: "BAKER: #SBCoFD is on scene of a TRUCK FIRE, MM 113 NB I-15. ME53 advising overturned semi with fuel/oil leak, hauling connex of lithium ion batteries. Cargo now burning. Suppression efforts complicated by contents"
FOX 5 Las Vegas: "I-15 traffic nightmare: truck carrying lithium batteries catches fire, shuts down interstate.. A hard closure was implemented to establish a safe distance from the fuel and oil along the roadway. Suppression efforts were complicated by the truck's content. Lithium battery fires are notoriously hard to fight and can burn for hours"
These are all great theories #MCU
Pedreed Pascal.. Robert Doomney Jr. :) #MCU
Burj Khalifa is still the highest building, ok..
"@kottke@mastodon.social
Results of LA’s 3-year basic income experiment were 'transformative'. It gave people 'time and space' to improve their lives by 'landing better jobs, leaving unsafe living conditions and escaping abusive relationships'. via LA Times
Monbiot, The Guardian: "Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future.. According to calculations by Oxfam, the wealth of billionaires has been growing so fast in recent years that maintaining it at a constant level would have required an annual tax of 12.8%. Trillions, in other words: enough to address global problems long written off as intractable...
Brazil’s very modest proposal.. addresses, albeit to a tiny extent, one of the great democratic deficits of our time: that capital operates globally, while voting power stops at the national border. Without global measures, in the contest between people and plutocrats, the plutocrats will inevitably win..
In the two years following the start of the pandemic, the world’s richest 1% captured 63% of economic growth. The collective fortune of billionaires rose by $2.7bn a day, while some of the world’s poorest became poorer still. Between 2020 and 2023, the five richest men on Earth doubled their wealth.
MSN: "Mass boycott of Thames Water bill payments is set to take place in October with the aim of forcing the Government to take the company back into public ownership"
Reuters: "[2023/11] Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row"
Sure oil companies make a lot of money but MIC is bigger. How much did Pentagon truly spend since the 80s? Noone bloody knows. They keep failing their audits right?
eVTOL Insights: "Lyte Aviation Chooses H3 Dynamics for Hydrogen Propulsion and Refueling of Skybus eVTOL Aircraft.. Lyte Aviation announced last week it has selected France-based H3 Dynamics to equip its new 40-seater eVTOL aircraft with aviation-grade hydrogen-electric fuel cell propulsion systems, reports a press release. Lyte is also supporting the installation of H3 Dynamics’ self-contained electrolyser systems at its airport destinations"
No ISR is not strategically important for US, by strategy I mean "long-term decisions that are optimal for one's national benefit". Many at high levels of government might think they are acting strategically, that support for Israel is crucial, but that's because the military/industrial/private complex manuevered the kind of moron who believes such things into position. In statistical terms what we see in front of us is a "biased dataset".
Israel is not "the tail that wags the dog" they have power because US plutocrats give them that power. Americans complaining about AIPAC should give their natives some credit, they are in total control. It follows if the plutocrats wanted, Israel / Palestine issue would cease to exist. The whole thing can go away within a day. Fixed. That includes the "Christian Zionists", who could a U-turn so fast anyone watching would be flabbergasted, stand in awe how such a supposedly religious precept could be abandoned so fast.
Arms, destroy/build/destroy/rebuild lobby trumps the oil lobby.
Hossein-Zadeh: "It is no secret that the major force behind the [1996] Iran-Libya Sanction Act was the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the main Political Economy of U.S. Militarism Zionist lobby in Washington. The success of AIPAC in passing ILSA through both the Congress and the White House over the opposition of the major U.S. oil companies is testament to the fact that, in the context of U.S. policy in the Middle East, even the influence of the oil industry pales vis-à-vis the influence of the Zionist lobby"
Politico: "Biden’s efforts to assist transgender students are unraveling.. Pending lawsuits and vague guidance have muddied the administration’s efforts to protect transgender and pregnant students"
Politico: "UAW planning to endorse Harris"
Shapiro graduated from private school, and his kids are in private schools, is that right?
Mark Kelly: "As the son of two police officers, I know how important unions are to working families. Both my parents were union members. When my mom was injured in the line of duty, it was her union that helped our family. They made sure my mom got the benefits she earned when she had to retire"
#Oliver #WestBank
#Frontline #UA #RU 07/24 - 07/31
The Next Web: "KLM targets liquid hydrogen plane takeoff in 2026.. The hydrogen-powered aircraft could transport 80 passengers over 1500 kilometres"
The Japan Times: "How Germany's hydrogen economy could transform energy use.. German utility EnBW this week pledged €1 billion ($1.08 billion) to build pipelines to carry clean hydrogen as part of a plan for a nationwide grid that will start commercial operations by 2032..Germany is betting on green hydrogen.. For some, it is a gamble; for others, a world-leading example.
The transport grid is just one element in a strategy that spans 10 gigawatts (GW) of domestic production capacity and an import strategy that will draw on supply from elsewhere in Europe and overseas. New gas-to-power generation plants that can switch to hydrogen will be put to tender by the end of 2024 or early next year.
Industry players in steelmaking and chemicals have plans to replace coal- and gas-based hydrogen with green hydrogen and utilities are adding electrolysis and import facilities to their investment portfolios"
We mentioned the 'axis of evil' issue before.. there is a correlation between the plane of our solar system and aspects of the CMB. That should not be possible... The "afterglow of the Big Bang" cannot be aligned that perfectly with our solar system. If however the CMB originated from our solar system, due to a measurement error made by incompetent physicist who thought they were measuring something but actually measuring something else, the fail can be explained. CMB is likely nothing but a reflection from Earth's oceans, a local phenomenon rather than "cosmic". It's sad.
The case against the Cosmic Microwave Background itself, a big feature of Big Bang, is also getting stronger... The universe expansion (Hubble) constant can be calculated two different ways. One uses CMB, the other looks at nearby galaxies. Two calculations do not agree. How could that be? Not possible, unless something went very wrong at the root of cosmology.
Eric Lerner: "The Big Ring contradicts another basic feature of the Big Bang hypothesis.. and that's what's called the Cosmological Principle.. [CP] is a very simple assumption, it is the assumption that the universe at a large enough scale is completely homogeneous and isotropic. In other words, it has no structure at a large enough scale, it's smooth like a well-made pudding. This hypothesis is fundamental to the theoretical basis of the Big Bang hypothesis.
You may have heard incorrectly from some people that General Relativity predicts that the Big Bang must have happened, that the universe must be expanding or contracting. That's not true. What is true is that the equations of General Relativity predict an expanding or contracting universe if you also assume the cosmological principle that the universe at a large enough scale is completely homogenous, the same density at every point, and isotropic, the same density in every direction..
If there is structure at the scales that are larger than that predicted by The Big Bang, larger than the scales at which objects could form in the time since the Big Bang, larger than the scale of about about half a billion light years, then the cosmological principle is wrong"
Space.com: "An intergalactic ring-shaped superstructure of galaxies.. so large it defies explanation — has been discovered.. Cosmological theory [Big Bang] suggests that the largest structures.. could form should be, at most, 1.2 billion light-years in length. Yet, the circumference of the Big Ring and the length of the Giant Arc dwarf this constraint"
They have to provide some explanation... This is not Chris Evans playing two different characters.. RDJ started as Stark and only played that role in the MCU, he is too critical for the universe. The casting and possible adaptation of 2011 storyline makes sense for another reason, regular VVD origin story is too tied to Fantastic Four whose reboot is not out yet, plus it can flop then everything downstream is screwed. If VVD is tied to Stark's background however, on an established backdrop, with RDJ's face and acting chops now you are steaming ahead.
How will they explain Doom looks like Stark? A claim is a variation of a storyline from 2011 will be used, Demon in An Armor. Victor Van Doom tricks Stark into a body swap, Doom becomes CEO of Stark Industries, looks like TS, but inside he is bad guy Dr Doom.
RDJ will play Dr Doom and Russo bros are back for next two Avengers. Good.. Only RDJ could make that character matter, esp. this late in the game..
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The timing is political.. the arrest helps Dems to fight back Trump's border/crime/drugs attacks on them.
CNN: "US arrests alleged Sinaloa cartel leader and son of ‘El Chapo’ in Texas sting operation"
CNBC: "Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage"
Auto Futures: "Daimler Truck Starts Customer Trials of Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Fuel Cell Trucks"
Arab News: "The US Justice Department submitted an agreement with Boeing on Wednesday in which the aerospace giant will plead guilty to a fraud charge for misleading US regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people"
Fossil fuel companies switching to clean fuels.. I support this
Grafa: "Shell has announced plans to construct a 100-megawatt renewable hydrogen electrolyser in Germany, marking a significant step in the company's low-carbon energy initiatives. The announcement was made on Thursday as Shell made the final investment decision on the Refhyne II project. Slated to commence operations in 2027, the electrolyser will produce up to 44,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen daily. This development aims to partially decarbonize operations at the Shell Rheinland facility"
Euractiv: "[2023/11] Rome, Berlin plan massive hydrogen pipeline to Africa"
I've been paying attn to WBT ever since I coded it in my weather app, I found 22 C is extremely uncomfortable... I can't even imagine what 36 C wld be like.. possibly not unlike being drowned in boiling water.
"@heatwave@botsin.space
About now in Ganpu... there will be a #Heatwave with a wet-bulb temperature of 36°C. This will be a margin of 1 degrees below body temperature which will kill anyone not protected"
Reuters: "EnBW to invest 1 bln euros as Germany's hydrogen grid takes shape
- EnBW and subsidiaries to take part in national plan
- Pipeline group FNB has submitted overall plan to regulator
- Regulator expected to give approval in two months
- Aim is for construction to begin next year"
"@todayilearned@noc.social
[I]n his autobiographical account of taking on monopolies, Roosevelt recounted: '...we had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy'"
F24: "G20 agrees on joint effort to tax the super-rich, avoids broader deal.. G20 nations committed to working together to ensure the super-rich pay their taxes but fell short of reaching a comprehensive agreement, according to a declaration adopted Friday after a finance ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro. The two-day conference highlighted divisions among member states over the issue, with the final statement emphasizing cooperative engagement and tax fairness as a priority"
Paper: "[2023] The Universe is not statistically isotropic"
Dubious claim
"[A]fter the Big Bang, the cosmos has continuously expanded. A common analogy is that this expansion is like a baking loaf of raisin bread. As the bread bakes, the raisins (which represent cosmic objects like galaxies and galaxy clusters) all move away from one another as the entire loaf (representing space) expands. With an even mix the expansion should be uniform in all directions, as it should be with an isotropic universe"
NYT: "Rocket From Lebanon Kills at Least 10 in Israeli-Controlled Golan Heights"
Routine my ass.. this is in response to Western moves in Ukraine
Arab News: "Havana residents watched from shore on Saturday as Russian warships arrived for the second time in as many months, in a visit that Cuba called routine"
"@catsalad@infosec.exchange
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's commit on his github already, code spaghetti"
Its README on Github is hilarious
"CalcGPT
A silly calculator unnecessarily powered by GPT.
TODO
Add blockchain into this somehow to make it more stupid"
"@neilk@xoxo.zone
You simply must try https://calcgpt.io, a calculator that uses a LLM to do math"
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#AI
via @spaf@mstdn.social
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Business Insider: "Russia may arm Houthi rebels with advanced anti-ship missiles, report says"
Hindustan Times World: "Russia's Putin vows 'mirror measures' in response to U.S. missiles in Germany"
Firstpost: "India, China agree to urgently work to withdraw troops at LAC in Ladakh"
CNET: "The First Zero-Emission Hydrogen Train in the US Is Setting Off in Late 2024"
"@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social
Unplugged was founded by Erik Prince, noted war criminal and illegal arms dealer... Unplugged is using an SoC from MediaTek, a company known to have poor security practices, which fares poorly against real attackers and which has a history of repeatedly shipping actual backdoors"
Due to an explosion of bloat, surveillance on major smartphone OS brands, some are looking for alternatives. For Android some seek "de-Googled" phones, some have fresh new Linux-based OSs. GrapheneOS is one of these new approaches. They do not think highly of Erik Prince's phone.
Erik Prince in the smartphone business.. fishy
MIT Technology Review: "[2022/08] Erik Prince wants to sell you a 'secure' smartphone that’s too good to be true.. [MTR] obtained Prince’s investor presentation for the 'RedPill Phone,' which promises more than it could possibly deliver"
"Some M..f..kers are still trying to ice skate uphill". 😂 😂 Great line.
Deadpool and Wolverine, head and shoulders above most recent Marvel junk.
Good. The debacle is mostly their fault. The OS should not have allowed faulty programs to cause this much damage.
The Verge: "Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage.. Microsoft appears to be starting the conversation about moving security vendors out of the Windows kernel"