Week 28
#Ukraine 06/30 - 07/07
Mondoweiss: "New UN report reveals the companies getting rich off Israeli occupation and genocide.. While the report itself names a lot of names, from states to corporations, banks, and universities, Albanese concludes, “the entities named in the present report constitute a fraction of a much deeper structure of corporate involvement, profiteering from and enabling violations and crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
The report comes on the heels of two other major reports by Albanese last year: the “Anatomy of a Genocide” from March 2024 and the “Genocide as Colonial Erasure” in October 2024. In the latter, Albanese identified how Israel was expanding its genocide from Gaza to the West Bank."
F24: "Heatwaves and wildfires break out in Europe"
F24: "Trump to push Netanyahu for Gaza truce in crunch talks"
"@HarriettMB@beige.party
The UK has made a food agreement with the USA, so the UK will be importing American foods which are contaminated with too many products banned in the EU. Those ‘not for sale in the EU’ stickers on products available in the UK governed six counties in Northern Ireland are important. Do not buy that stuff."
China Daily: "As a bus glides away from a station in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu province, a faint wisp of steam rises from its tailpipe and vanishes into the cool morning air. There's no roar, no rumble, just the silent whoosh of progress.
Such a scene is an everyday life phenomenon in Zhangjiagang, where hydrogen-powered public transport has become the new normal. Now, one in every 10 city buses in Zhangjiagang runs on hydrogen.
For this compact port city nestled along the Yangtze River, once synonymous with steel mills and freight yards, the quiet hum of hydrogen buses signals an emerging industrial transformation — one not only powered by coal or oil, but by hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant element in the universe."
CleanTechnica: "New Green Hydrogen Project Targets Green Ammonia.. The latest news about sustainable fertilizer comes from the UK-listed firm ATOME. The company is planning to construct a new, $630 million USD fertilizer facility in Paraguay, which will deploy green hydrogen to produce ammonia-based fertilizer."
World’s first nuclear reactor producing 200 tons of hydrogen daily launched in US.. Central to this architecture are Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (RSOFCs), a dual-function technology capable of generating electricity, hydrogen, and clean water simultaneously.
MEE: "Baku is leveraging the latest spat with Moscow to reduce Russian influence in the region and potentially strengthen security cooperation with Turkey"
MEE: "[RU/AZ] relations deteriorated.. after Russian police, during the course of a murder investigation in Yekaterinburg, raided a house and killed Azerbaijani-born brothers Ziyaddin and Guseyn Safarov, injuring several others on Friday. A post-mortem conducted in Azerbaijan found the brothers were actually tortured in police custody. Baku responded strongly, first cancelling a visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, then suspending all planned cultural events with Russian state and private institutions"
If you substitute Brics for Nato in your head while watching it's fine. The story is good, the actors were great. Almost perfect casting.
Heads of State, good movie but also blatant Anglo/NATO propaganda. By "diversifying" the cast the mini psyop tried to soften the blow but it is clear to see the parallels to real life figures.
That is a massive area
BBC: "Everglades National Park is a 1.5-million-acre wetlands preserve on the southern tip of the U.S. state of Florida. Often compared to a grassy, slow-moving river, the Everglades is made up of coastal mangroves, sawgrass marshes and pine flatwoods that are home to hundreds of animal species"
Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz', the next step in his immigration crackdown.. The administration said alligators, crocodiles and pythons in the surrounding wetlands would keep detainees from escaping.
"@Victor@spore.social
A new gasification process designed for the disposal of biosolids is also capable of destroying per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminants and it works by using two high-temperature processing steps."
"@ravensrod@mstdn.social
When I were a lad we had proper terrorists, IRA, Bader Meinhof etc. Todays politicians wouldn't know a terrorist organisation if it formed it's own state and commited acts of genocide, while bribing them to look the other way."
No Page and Brin did not invent Markov Chains, nor the eigenvec
calculation, that stuff was known since the 50s. They merely applied
given math, did not invent new math. And even for that much
"innovation" they were spoon fed by the government, their research was
done at Stanford on public's dime. The first Google ran on
http://google.stanford.edu. That's how it works, public funds your
shit, you make billions, later pay little or not tax to help the
public.
I literally got the same numbers
import numpy.linalg as lin
P = np.array([[0, 4.0, 17.0, 29.0, 4.0],
[42.0, 0, 23.0, 34.0, 8.0],
[39.0, 27.0, 0, 23.0, 3.0],
[28.0, 14.0, 5.0, 0, 0],
[22.0, 18.0, 31.0, 44.0, 0]])
P = P / P.sum(axis=1).reshape(1,len(P)).T
evals,evec = lin.eig(P.T)
# Bulls, Cavaliers, Pistons, Pacers, Bucks
evec[:,0]
Out[1]: array([0.64516903, 0.33846416, 0.36006211, 0.576504 , 0.08483719])
So much code.. Isn't PR a simple eigenvector calculation?
This guy has sample data
Page Rank is another application of the same base technique. Create a (sparse) "transition matrix" between pages, and imagined random user browsing infinitely.. how frequently would each page be visited? For sports an arrow (connection), its weight from A to B could be seen as "how many times did A lose to B" then MC can give you projected loss after infinite games.. Later you can deduce things like "A beats B, B beats C, then it is likely A will beat C". A's "ranking" would be higher than C.
I knew it.. Sports Ranking calculation with little game play data can be done via Markov Chains... You could rank all teams.
I took out all the neural net shit out of the sciency part of my tutorials into the "blog" part... Like they are part of the daily, monthly brain farts issued, have some engineering, some how-to recipe-like content, nothing more.. They can't be at the same level as Euler's formulation of buckling. As such I feel no obligation to maintain the code either.
WION picked up on it too.. maybe they received some behind-the-scenes info from India's intel (WION is ideologically friendly to the governing BJP, so they could be a trusted channel to share such intel with).
"Xi Jinping’s Disappearance Signals Power Shift In China | WION Newspoint"
"Construction of hydrogen-specialized [Korean] hubs to start at year's end.. The ministry is promoting construction of a hydrogen cluster jointly with local governments such as those of Gangwon-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do with an investment of some KRW 500 billion.
After concluding a feasibility study and basic construction plan last year, work on the project like land purchase and design of the facilities will begin this year. The main objective of the complexes in the two Gangwon-do cities is formation of an industrial base for the storage and transportation of liquid hydrogen.
In Donghae, construction of centers for industrial promotion and safety tests of materials and components will begin in March next year. An economic feasibility analysis for a hydrogen liquefaction plant in Samcheok will be completed by July this year.
The specialized complex in Pohang, which will focus on the fuel cell industry for power generation, will complete the purchase of land for the construction of a performance evaluation center for fuel cell components and materials and a system verification facility by August to begin construction by year's end. The complex has also signed investment agreements worth a combined KRW 149.2 billion with six companies."
"Plug Power Stock Surges as It Sparks Clean Hydrogen Boom with Almost $1.7B DOE Funding"
BBC: "Tax the wealthy, FM says after welfare rebellion.. Wales' first minister has called for the wealthiest to be taxed more as the Treasury considers how to deal with the fallout of the Commons welfare rebellion. Labour pulled back from significant cuts to disability benefit on Tuesday as government ministers feared a humiliating defeat."
Al Jazeera: "UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s report names more than 60 companies said to play a role in ‘sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project’... ‘For some, genocide is profitable’.. The report, titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, detailed what it described as “the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory”.
The report singled out companies, including arms manufacturers, tech giants, heavy machinery companies and financial institutions, for their “complicity” in Israel’s repression of Palestinians, from sustaining Israeli expansion on occupied land to enabling the surveillance and killing of Palestinians."
Jeremy Corbyn: "It's been a scare story all my life that somehow or other the welfare state is too expensive.. Things only become too expensive, it seems, when you’re helping people on low incomes or in poverty. They never say it’s too expensive to spend money on weapons and war."
TASS: "Yemen’s Houthis say they struck Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport with ballistic missile"