2026-05-02T08:53:03Z https://yabu.me Luke Drury https://yabu.me/npub16w40ag0qk3av5vcau4he0sxgufdzwt75rz3222kwsh3a7gm5w3fsny44mw https://mastodon.dias.ie/system/accounts/avatars/109/303/329/846/248/376/original/44fabc69d1998bda.jpg https://mastodon.dias.ie/system/accounts/avatars/109/303/329/846/248/376/original/44fabc69d1998bda.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg6evjp0s8vsxr8lfcsqsncrngs4e9rsve4t5frjdlzpvcdaecg8gzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xyezg8m Hobbs said something rather profound which has always stuck in my mind since I first read it: &#34;peace is not the mere absence of war, but the absence of the expectation of war&#34;. 2025-12-02T12:08:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvqqwq5j5zkggda43a9qek2p4uqwnt9f9n9afg7zt2f6xy32uwvdqzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xz35f2n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7pexvlgszdf440k5t97xgsj2ajdrqvlclpal3fyz9djjyz86snqzl6xsu'>nevent1q…6xsu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Interesting. In Ireland, because all major road building and other construction activity in archaeologically sensitive area required a professional survey, many archaeology graduates were hired by commercial archaeology survey firms. Not sure if this is still the case. 2025-08-17T10:43:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyegrf8sc8j92gzdcs60l95wgmrf7j2l7evpx3kgv6ue0zglyzqkgzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xp9u23c According to the Guardian the Israeli mass surveillance of essentially all cell phone calls by Palestinians is partly enabled by Microsoft&#39;s Irish data centres and Azure cloud services. Perhaps one reason why the government is so keen to keep &#34;services&#34; out of the occupied territories bill? I<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud</a><br/><br/>#Palestine #Microsoft #IrishDataCentres 2025-08-07T11:35:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8y0x4x0wzl4nv3vwnvgnkgaqnhfpwunfel7q4x9stlud7v30v4vgzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369x9u2m2h Good editorial in the Journal of Music about Gaza, the Kneecap prosecution, and Irish history. It is indeed &#34;a carnival of distraction&#34; as was, on the other side of the Atlantic, the farcical ambush of the president of South Africa with accusations of a fake genocide the main purpose of which seems to have been to distract from an all too real one.<br/><br/><a href="https://journalofmusic.com/opinion/history-repeats-itself-british-authorities-get-decide-who-terrorists-are">https://journalofmusic.com/opinion/history-repeats-itself-british-authorities-get-decide-who-terrorists-are</a><br/><br/>#Gaza #Kneecap #IrishHistory 2025-05-22T15:04:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgkqy9x8dqr8v0paalrg2z0m308c8s58eje7sa6g88pnmdqfcdteczyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369x64cdez This is what happens when for profit corporations get to buy up what should be public good serving journals. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01198-6?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250502&amp;utm_source=nature_etoc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-250502">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01198-6?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250502&amp;utm_source=nature_etoc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-250502</a> 2025-05-05T11:44:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswjhmatd3at6043ryylv6t3776jcdv22jecphhytz6vg9nt3904yqzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369x822g5j The German Leopoldina academy has a discussion paper on the financing of diamond publishing where they propose to fund it in the same way as research, through competitive grants to academic bodies. The idea has merit.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.leopoldina.org/presse-1/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/press/3129/">https://www.leopoldina.org/presse-1/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/press/3129/</a><br/><br/>#OpenScience #DiamondOA #ResearchFunding #Leopoldina 2025-04-15T16:37:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvlqvw56lm4kjuxfuryf4u5axpzf4u5jngwgnxq5tdpk8vywrl5uqzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xhtxq5z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0588a96gmfhv4hekvzcjjkl4xvlqnheut9ef9ezvdywwxe4karzgs0krfz'>nevent1q…krfz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not to difficult to insert a mention of the triangle inequality, statistical bias, colour quarks, linguistic gender etc.... 2025-03-10T14:00:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0hr5lvj5k7544crjtrf3kvptsdes5zs82nvf6mj02y5f90dde73szyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xlsy7p5 It is really very simple. Putin does not fear NATO (he has lived with it in Turkey for decades and knows that it is a purely defensive alliance), he hates the EU for spreading the idea of democracy and the rule of law (even if imperfectly) Silicon valley hates the EU for attempting to regulate it (even if with little success so far). American &#34;Republicans&#34; hate Europe for showing that social democracy works (publicly funded health etc). Europe&#39;s core values are anathema to these people. 2025-03-02T15:01:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdhtk5zhn7uhaef73c9m5cq4h2z4k8nye0nrwfce5f5jstd53xpqszyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xnurz49 We now see the wisdom of Europe having its own satellite positioning system as well as an independent launch capability. <br/>#Galileo #Ariane6 2025-02-22T13:08:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvu9496vlr8f9pww5mftuf9w85c3kkxh00fmr3kmlmqazaa5k8drszyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xrvkhmh Apropos of the Chinese AI panic, worth remembering that the old Soviet Union produced excellent computational fluid dynamics work (Godunov methods etc) precisely because they had limited computational resources and well trained theoreticians. If you can’t just throw money and resources at a problem you are forced to be clever! 2025-01-28T18:40:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszhee4k3mp2ktpz2xcegj5gtmphdcrwnvz5s0a9nfxm9mptkpcf6qzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xnazeyf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxudfzh7dz3gag8a8d8hx69d7kmn8xqklah78fspjvdt2urtcuttsca9rzr'>nevent1q…9rzr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I enjoyed reading some of his very well written books. I have always thought it quite ironic that he thought commercial companies would become more like universities, whereas what has happened is that universities have become more like commercial companies. 2024-12-15T09:25:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsry9443qkefqkgscm2yzr89vf6qsh0yw7l0cuwy52teuafwpjh5hqzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369x4ahdq3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv9kjvuev4m08v86u5g053szqeluatw26pxadsm8qlsnxj8kcpl9qlrpl54'>nevent1q…pl54</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>How long before we see massive pressure on Europe to undo the Digital Services Act and GDPR? The TechBros of Silicon Valley are no fans of the EU. 2024-12-14T12:30:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6kmlr03686nepevpnjucs2th6gq6p6ey3lkyqe4539x5crdckhqzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xlscplq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrg5jkdp78snw78vsr3zeal5nx2wu9mggsfq96uvzzlkn48m75mfg2nlut8'>nevent1q…lut8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfortunately we don’t really have time for that. The scientific consensus is clear - we need to take decisive action now. 2024-12-02T06:50:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxpqg66fvg65stqltwv6ne462pxnyutsv4x22szmxd8hc495m655szyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xq6rswm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdr4zk8z7tzvfw9vzq0su7h2vk57x8q09lxag7dzu7z9jm43uljugddq308'>nevent1q…q308</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Part of the problem was that all the main parties put green policies in their manifestos and Friends of the Earth actually ranked those of Labour and the SocDems as greener than those of the Green Party! Of course putting an aspirational policy in your manifesto is very different from delivering in a coalition which is what the Greens had achieved, but it meant that the greens looked less unique in the policy space.<br/><br/>Full disclosure, I am a member of the Greens. 2024-12-01T22:24:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswal0gk2ec40pdkucychsdwtp4dtnnw8cea3fa97rq6kpen9er8hgzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369x5vsave Sadly the Green Party vote collapsed this time in the Irish general election despite, or perhaps for some because of, a very significant influence on the last government. But the issues remain and will have to be addressed. 2024-12-01T16:58:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx6dh2ewawr54v5kf7f675sjkxn5zyjy9eqfpm7ysyv7et3m523hgzyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xcp5kch So Musk and Thiel have managed to buy the US. To quote one of them “let that sink in”. 2024-11-06T09:06:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxmxpcj5qqsckqtdxn5jsdh4ag0hyewcs80l8evtegrmal2m6qsjszyrf64l4puz684j3nrhjkl97qer395fe06sv29ff2e6z78herw369xz6h9xj Worked for many years in Ireland at the Armagh Observatory. <br/><br/>#IrishAstronomy #ArmaghObservatory<br/><br/>From: [@gutenberg_org](<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org">https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org</a> )<br/><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113356318559424357">https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113356318559424357</a> 2024-10-23T10:55:58Z