We call bullshit on DuoLingo. Jean has been fooling with it in a dedicated fashion every weekday morning for weeks, and so far, no important practical Spanish phrases, like

"Do you have a phone charger?"

"Why does the hotel not have cats available?"

"Pardon me, did you throw up here?"

⚡️The EU transferred Ukraine 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of profits from frozen Russian assets, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on July 26.  https://kyivindependent.com/eu-transfers-ukraine-1-6-billion-in-proceeds-from-frozen-russian-assets/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816786881578705059#m

[2024/07/26 10:45]

⚡️ Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least three civilians and injured at least 19 over the past day, regional authorities reported on July 26. https://kyivindependent.com/attacks-69/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816724236246950045#m

[2024/07/26 06:36]

⚡️Update: Ukraine hit Russian airfield in occupied Crimea, General Staff confirms. The consequences of Ukraine’s attack on the Saky military airfield in occupied Crimea are being clarified, the military said. https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-fire-reported-at-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816785400939053439#m

[2024/07/26 10:39]

⚡️ Russian man ‘confesses’ to Moscow car bomb attack, says Ukraine’s SBU ordered operation Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) identified the man as Yevgeny Serebryakov, who claimed he was working for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). https://kyivindependent.com/russian-man-confesses-to-moscow-car-bomb-attack-says-ukraines-sbu-ordered-operation/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816778033598017659#m

[2024/07/26 10:10]

⚡️Сeasefire would leave 25% of Ukraine under Russian control, ambassador says. “Many countries have proposed the idea of a ceasefire, but no one thinks about what it means,” Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar said. https://kyivindependent.com/seasefire-means-25-of-territories-remain-under-russian-control-ambassador-says/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816755639479087529#m

[2024/07/26 08:41]

⚡️ Hungary quietly takes record $1 billion loan from Chinese banks. The loan was provided by the China Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank of China, and the Hungarian branch of the Bank of China, Politico writes. https://kyivindependent.com/hungary-non-publicly-takes-record-1-billion-loan-from-chinese-banks/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816727948184940686#m

[2024/07/26 06:51]

⚡️Ukraine downs 20 of 23 Russian aerial targets overnight, Air Force reports. Ukrainian air defense shot down 20 of the 22 Shahed-type attack drones launched by Russia overnight on July 26, the Air Force reported. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-downs-20-of-23-russian-aerial-targets-overnight-air-force-reports/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816701215746465922#m

[2024/07/26 05:04]

⚡️Tennis player Svitolina, swimmer Romanchuk to carry Ukrainian flags at Olympics opening ceremony. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-olympics-flag-bearers/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816731500752023609#m

[2024/07/26 07:05]

⚡️An explosion at the Urengoyskoe East oil and gas field in Russia’s Arctic Yamal-Nenets region killed at least one person and injured seven others, the Russian state-run media outlet RIA Novosti reported on July 26, citing state-run oil company Rosneft. https://kyivindependent.com/explosion-at-russian-arctic-gas-field-kills-at-least-1-injures-7-others/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816721241375383613#m

[2024/07/26 06:24]

⚡️ Lithuanian authorities are drawing up plans for mass evacuations of civilians in case of an armed conflict, the LRT public broadcaster reported on July 25, citing the country’s Interior Ministry. https://kyivindependent.com/lithuania-preparing-evacuation-plans-in-case-of-war/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816710412462637513#m

[2024/07/26 05:41]

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of July 26, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816716653305921760#m

[2024/07/26 06:06]

Trump: "We have to have unity".

Senator George Lang speaking at J. D. Vance's rally a few days later, saying what they really think:

When the S&P 500 fell 19% in 2022, retail traders collectively lost $350 billion, according to Vanda Research.

The average retail portfolio was down 30%.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

No, you don’t need to be drinking raw milk.

Raw (also known as unpasteurized) milk can contain a variety of disease-causing pathogens, as shown by numerous scientific studies – and the risks have only risen with bird flu spreading across dairy farms.

#health #food #farming

Apple Agrees to Follow President Biden's AI Safety Guidelines https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/26/apple-agrees-to-ai-safety-guidelines/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Researchers develop innovative battery recycling method | ScienceDaily. Cobalt-based battery cathodes -- typically used in EVs is is easily separated. This breakthrough results in an overall 98% recycling rate!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240724171602.htm

Reminder: @numba is an *excellent* accelerator for numeric computations in Python. Also, issues with Python's stability are greatly exaggerated. Case in point: I just ran my 8yo n-body benchmarks without modification:

https://github.com/jni/nbody-numba

and they were just 10% slower than the fastest C code — and that's including all the Python launch time and JIT warmup!

#numba #Python

⚡️Explosions, fire reported at airfield in occupied Crimea. Following sounds of explosions heard by local residents, a fire was reported at the Saky military airfield in the western town of Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported overnight on July 26. https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-fire-reported-at-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816655898561118494#m

[2024/07/26 02:04]

Scientists, deep-sea miner spar over ‘dark oxygen’ discovery
https://www.eenews.net/articles/scientists-deep-sea-miner-spar-over-dark-oxygen-discovery/
The Metals Co. is trying to discredit new research that bolsters opponents’ claims that the deep sea is too unknown to mine.

Let's be clear, this is research funded by Metals Co. and published in Nature Geoscience. But they don't like what the science is telling them, so they try to discredit it. The same play book as the fossil carbon industry has used to stop action on #ClimateChange

Cyclist killed on Bloor just east of University/Avenue yesterday around 8:30-9:00am. I biked past this tragic event shortly after it happened. Three ambulances, six police cruisers still arriving as I reached this spot and a frightening amount of blood on the roadway.

I bike past this spot every commute. I consider it one of the safer areas that I bike.

Yikes.

#bikeTO https://mas.to/@rzaichkowski/112850168112760318

All I want is for someone in the #WhiteHouse to make clear that they know that #Hamas is not the same thing as the entire country of #Palestine #uspol #uspolitics #kamala2024

My very talented friend Renan Bernardo has a solarpunk graphic novel up on backerkit (via Android Press), and I highly recommend you check it out!

"Janet and her outdated android friend Lyria live in the post-fossil fuel city of Sundyal in this story about accepting loss and the importance of ensuring utopia is accessible to everyone."

#solarpunk #hopepunk #graphicnovel
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/android-press/anticipation-of-hollowness-a-solarpunk-graphic-novel

"Famous killers are already riding around the city, calling us back, promising not to mess around anymore". The investigator of special cases in St. Petersburg told about the prisoners who returned from the war in Ukraine https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/znatnye-killery-uzhe-kataiutsia-po-gorodu-otzvanivaiutsia-nam-obeshchaiut-bolshe-ne-shalit-sledovatel-po-osobo-vazhnym-delam-v-peterburge-rasskazal-o-vernuvshikhsia-s-voiny-v-ukraine-zakliuchennykh-news

Russian investigators have arrested another top defense ministry official as part of a corruption case: Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, who oversaw logistics operations at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/biZZXP4JKq

The Kremlin wants to make its war against Ukraine an integral part of all new Russian art. To achieve this, the Russian authorities need to fully consolidate their control over the arts in Russia — and they plan to bring back Soviet-era methods to do so.
https://t.co/WesBtqdQ0w

Last month, Belarus sentenced a 29-year-old German citizen to death for his alleged role in a railway explosion. At least one Belarusian opposition politician has suggested the case is the result of a “backroom deal” with Moscow. Here’s what we know.
https://t.co/OAsKJuPgXW

YouTube will load 70 percent more slowly on desktop computers in Russia by the end of next week, according to lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein. He said Moscow is throttling the service in retaliation for Google’s removal of pro-Kremlin content.
https://t.co/rTIN7pYL6z

Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov arrested in connection with corruption case - Meduza https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/07/26/former-russian-deputy-defense-minister-dmitry-bulgakov-arrested-in-connection-with-corruption-case

Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov detained https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/zaderzhan-byvshiy-zamestitel-ministra-oborony-dmitriy-bulgakov

Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, whom the ICC has charged with war crimes, is having an affair with Konstantin Malofeev, an Orthodox media tycoon with monarchist views and big political ambitions, according to @verstka_media.
https://t.co/PrzO8NSwOM

Former Deputy Defense Minister General Dmitry Bulgakov detained in corruption case - FSB https://theins.ru/news/273386

Update: On Thursday, Belarusian state TV aired a segment titled “Confessions of a German terrorist” in which Rico Krieger appears to confess to collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence. At the end of the segment, he’s shown crying and asking Alexander Lukashenko to pardon him. https://t.co/9ltG6n2lUm

The defendants in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in "Sheremetyevo" received sentences of up to 22 years in a strict regime colony https://theins.ru/news/273385

The Central Bank raised the key rate from 16% to 18% https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/tsentrobank-podnial-kliuchevuiu-stavku-s-16-do-18-news

An Argentine soccer player was robbed at the Olympics during a training session of the national team. He estimated the damage at 50,000 euros https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/argentinskogo-futbolista-obokrali-na-olimpiade-vo-vremya-trenirovki-sbornoy-on-otsenil-uscherb-v-50-tysyach-evro

Shoot the archers, not the arrows. Colby Bedwor on why Ukraine will be protected not by air defense but by U.S. permission to strike targets in Russia https://theins.ru/opinions/kolbi-bedvor/273322

Military court sentences two defendants in Sheremetyevo terrorist attack case to up to 22 years in prison https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/voennyy-sud-prigovoril-k-srokam-do-22-let-dvuh-obvinyaemyh-po-delu-o-podgotovke-terakta-v-sheremetievo

Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Farion was shot with a modified pistol, a sports shell casing was found on the spot - investigation https://theins.ru/news/273380