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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

It's GeoMakie with GLMakie using OpenGL as backend, then OBS to record the screen while I spin the globe manually!

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

Big oil has always been lying to us.

Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 1d

A new Nature article using GEM data (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) found that the top 250 oil and gas firms own just 2% of the world's renewable power. #renewables 💡🧪

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

Haha casual office sounds in the background 🙈

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

Want to look at variables from a climate model simulation interactively? SpeedyWeather got you covered

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

Big fan of Pluto notebooks @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social for SpeedyWeather github.com/SpeedyWeathe...

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 1d

GeoMakie & GLMakie usage in SpeedyWeather. Interactive climate modelling yay! Here just visualising the HEALPix grid

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 5d

Amazon is a pile of shit. Turns out, enshittification has not reached BlueSky yet www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 8d

on the way it looks super jaggedy. Now having spectral ripples isn't really any different, you are trying to represent something in from one space that isn't perfectly representable in another. And arguably many things in reality are smooth, so are waves or rectangles a better approximation?

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 8d

we are simply more used to. Think about a digital picture. You zoom in, it gets pixelated even though the real object might be smooth. We don't even question that. In high school, we learn integration of smooth functions by summing up rectangles. In the limit the approximation converges, but ...

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 8d

You think ripples in spectral models are weird? Yes, step functions in spectral models are represented with many "weird" oscillations. Sea level will be negative next to big mountains, etc. But that's just the equivalent of representing something smooth with little discrete steps, which arguably 🧵

Title: Grid space vs spectral space; Subtitle: You think ripples are weird?; Step function in black, oscillatory approximation in blue; 2nd subtitle: So are discrete steps; Smooth blue function approximated by a black step function

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 11d

Bikes, also effective against ICE.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 11d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 13d

Turns out they aren’t!

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 13d

Sorry Brits, stupid question: What’s baked about baked beans?!

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 16d

Is it professionally acceptable to not have MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel etc and ask for other formats? Maybe just me but I find this software exceptionally fragile: A powerpoint presentation created with powerpoint cannot be opened with powerpoint with a hint to open it with powerpoint, wut???

Microsoft PowerPoint error message saying "Sorry, we can't open this presentation becasue we ran into a problem. To view or edit this presentation, open it in Microsoft PowerPoint"

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 18d

Actually quantifying effective artists payouts is really complicated it seems because of various systems the platforms use, most recent summary I found is here www.musicradar.com/music-indust... but feel free to post other analyses below

Which streaming service pays artists the most per stream? Benn Jordan has crunched the numbers - and the answer will surprise you

It's not Apple Music, Deezer, or even TIDAL...

www.musicradar.com

Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 18d

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

www.latimes.com

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 18d

Closed my spotify account as other music streaming services like Deezer pay 2x more to artists and don't invest into AI weapons like the Spotify CEO does. Consumer choices are important!

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · 22d

Hahaha. I would not have expected to give better live demos than Mark Zuckerberg 🤣

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 23d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Sep 10

Name it Kentwich University, what a missed opportunity for a sandwich www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Kent and Greenwich universities to merge in attempt to improve financial viability

The institutions want to rebrand as London and South East University group from autumn 2026

www.theguardian.com

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Aug 6

@zacklabe.com Looking at your awesome graphs, why does the Arctic freeze/melt at similar rates (~6 months of freezing then ~6 months of melting) but Antarctica melts considerably faster (in ~5 months) than it freezes (in ~7 months)?

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Aug 6

First attempt at writing a sea ice model 🧊🌊 Only uses sea ice concentration not thickness so there is not enough "memory" of thick ice to retain some sea ice cover during summer. Not bad for zero tuning though, I find! Will be in the next release of SpeedyWeather github.com/SpeedyWeathe...

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Aug 3

Car drivers criticise cyclists for jumping red lights. If it’s busy or in any way potentially dangerous I 100% agree. But in other situations I also understand cyclists thinking: I don’t kill people, cars do, most road infrastructure (🚦🔄🛑⛔️…) is built to safe people and cars from cars (🤯) so I can go

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Aug 3

Everytime I cycle through a traffic jam and feel that some cars might be annoyed by me squeezing through, I think: It’s not my traffic jam, is it?

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Jul 28

But I really want cars to wear high vis vests!!

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Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social · Jul 9

That’s also misleading. The 2100 summer of NYC becomes the 2020 summer of further south. So arrows should go north? And the years are also south to north increasing?

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