@alanrew
UK-based retired software developer. Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology I can't send/receive DMs here. Signal: alan.285
🔥 Analogue of the "Mavic" drone "Slavik" will appear in Ukraine - a modified version of the DJI Mavic, - Militarnyi
Its active development is underway, engineers have already "trained" the drone to perform modern military tasks. Next week, combat tests of "Slavik" will begin.
Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head
I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.
Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.
(And would much appreciate a RT please)
Any Brummie of my generation will get a memory jolt when they look at the background of this picture. Can anyone help Mike with his query?
So it was just generally a thing? Could be! Is there another example?
A total solar eclipse seen from space.
The shadow of the Moon looks like a giant bruise from the perspective of the astronauts aboard the ISS.
#astronomy
Image: NASA
Been talking about the joy of the first Beatles film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night- subject of my new book on The Word… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
#DefendTheBBC
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
www.wired.com/story/from-u...
Since the Dow is at 47,500 are we allowed to talk about Epstein now?
Distribution of woolly mammoths at their peak
More about them: brilliantmaps.com/woolly-ma...
Record heat in BRAZIL
39.5C at Porto Murtinho
New record of March hottest day.
Heat has been relentless in the area for several weeks.
An iceberg diagram illustrating visible and hidden symptoms of depression, including low mood, sadness, and social withdrawal above water, and concentration difficulties and numbness below water.
We don't always see depression's full impact on people living with dementia and their carers.
#Alzheimers #dementia #depression #mentalhealth
"The software detected 18 cases in the first 600 datasets"
One paper with data duplications (not previously detected) has been cited 3000 times.
"It could be either a fat-finger mistake when editing the Excel file or deliberate tampering to cover up real data that didn't tell the right story"
Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
London doctor carries out first UK remote robotic surgery: A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long‑distance robotic operation on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away in Gibraltar.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
People dumb enough to trust AI are also dumb enough not to have backups of their data, it seems.
People that don't have backups of their critical data are asking for trouble. People who trust AI not to damage their data are asking for it twice.
AI transforming productivity, is it
My photo shows a Roman fresco of a brown rabbit with long ears, curled on the ground, with a rounded, soft-looking body. Its head is lowered as if nibbling at three figs placed in front of it. The figs are small and round with short stems, painted in dark reddish and bluish tones. From Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
Here’s a charming Roman fresco of a little rabbit eating figs 🐰❤️
From Pompeii, 45-79 AD.
Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Any journalists who have leads on Farage in any shape or form, please pass them to John Sweeney for his book.
#JournoSky
I have to say you're the best man for the job. Having covered Scientology, Farage should be a lot easier. His supporters are much less intelligent.
@ketsudo.bsky.social FYI, maybe you can help John with his book on Farage?
3/3 Did you drive the pink Cadillac hired by Nathan Gill who last year got ten years for taking bribes from a Russian spy?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.
Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
“Who was Jesse Jackson?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
ICYMI: Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation
General cargo (stolen grain) vessel CAFFA was boarded by Swedish Coast Guard and police special forces 3 hours ago. Reason stated: false flag.
Now drifting south of Trelleborg, south Sweden. Company: SE coast guard vessels
Background below.
Government doesn’t always get things right - when the terms and conditions of policies cause people to get into debt it’s right that we act. Ask your MP to join me next Wednesday taking practical action to stop finfluencers exploiting tax returns to cause you financial harm.
#TrueLabour
