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🇯🇵 #Japan is mad because the default free world maps on the #EqualEarth website depict the Kuril Islands under Russian control.

Japan seeks change to new UN world map over Russia 'misconception'
The new ‘true-scale’ map shrinks Europe and North America while enlarging Africa – and depicts the disputed Kuril islands as ruled by Moscow

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Radio Free Society 🗼 🏳️‍🌈 (@X00001@masto.hackers.town)
Attached: 1 image Ohayo, first #PortfolioDay of the year~ I’m X00001 and I’m a glitch artist and sticker maker. Here’s my top four stickers by sales. You can purchase these and more on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/essbee/shop

The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.
It is how difficult that number was for the public to obtain.
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
— then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply

The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally came out, the company's data centers were drinking 29 percent of the town's water.

Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra (Alex Townsend)
https://alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMNews_CrouzeixConjecture.pdf

Today is the 10th anniversary of the arbitration ruling that declared that China’s (and Taiwan’s) nine-dash line in the South China Sea is invalid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea_Arbitration

South China Sea Arbitration - Wikipedia

Ohhhhhhh shit! Glad to see Radio Free Society back on the air!!!
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Radio Free Society 🗼 🏳️‍🌈 (@X00001@masto.hackers.town)
Attached: 1 image 🚨 May Day! May Day! 🚨 Look Alive, Chooms! This is a re #introduction! The Radio Wave Girl is back in the bunker! You thought I'd be gone forever but only for a little while. A pack of radioactive replyguys couldn't keep me away from the hot mic! Our format is going to change a little bit. (Trying to stay away from those radioactive replyguys, tbh) We're going to focus a little more on music this time around. So sit back, pour yourself your stimulant of choice, and tu…

RE: #OpenStreetMap …

I’ve started watching season 5 of The Bear and I’m still wondering why it’s categorized under comedy for the Emmys given how anxiety-inducing it is. 😬
#TV #TVShows #TheBear

#TuneTuesday (Aug 11)
I like a lot of Imagine Dragons’ songs and if I were to recommend one of them, “Wrecked” from 2021 would be the one. This song is very emotional yet demonstrates the band’s versatile musical chops, with the song transitioning from acoustic verses to the rock chorus and the choral-like falsetto vocals of the pre-chorus and outro.

Good documentary by #DeutscheWelle on 9/11 with a bit more focus on journalism on that day.
https://youtu.be/ppUSZlntc7M
#911