“He used a Soviet lens to discuss the culture and food,” Druziuk said with a wry expression as he watched our comically awkward efforts to order from Kanapa’s decadent menu.
Kanapa is pictured below.
“Everything the U.S. knows about #Ukraine is #Chernobyl, the #Russian invasion, and annexation,” he said as he gazed around Kanapa’s dark paneled walls, the elegant table settings, and the open-air veranda.
“The Ukraine he (Bourdain) visited was a totally different country.”
I was in physics at that time.
Rain fell. Next morning colleagues reported radiation measurements of the rain. Fellow student immediately pulled off his👖he’d worn in that rain. The physicists organized a meeting to inform the public. The ministry forbade the measurements. 1/2
RT @W_Lucht
April 26: Chernobyl explosion day.
I remember, in the days after we took shelter when rain started to drizzle.
@rahmstorf I was 6 years old, and still remember a shot of an endless row of firefighter trucks driving to #Chernobyl, shown on the Swiss TV news. After that, an expert discussion round, saying kids shouldnnot go outdoors, dont drink milk. From this year, my drawings book became full of catastrophies. I had realised that there was something wrong with the world I was growing up.
Ukrainians are being forcefully expelled from their homes in Enerhodar, near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. This is an act of terrorism by the Russian invaders.
This is not by any stretch of the imagination an “evacuation.”
Interviewed by BBC News early this morning, I said part of the reason Russian terrorists are throwing Enerhodar residents out of their homes is the Ukrainians are the skilled technicians who run the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
...it'll have human #bias. Humans have always been great at bending or breaking the law when it suited their interests. How could a #Superintelligence created with human values not arrive at the same, self-preserving conclusion?
A gloomy, yet, IMO, quite fitting assessment of the shape of things to come unless there's a #Chernobyl-style "fallout" before #GAI evolves into #AGI + humanity gets its act together and, as Prof. #Tegmark admonishes: "Just look up!"
Ukrainian activists from the Cyber Resistance (KiberSprotyv) have hacked the email of Colonel Roman Ershov, Chief of Russian National Guard OMON (Russia's riot police) special unit in Kaluga Oblast, who led the invasion of Ukraine’s town of Prypiat in 2022.
The mystery of Chernobyl’s post-invasion radiation spikes.
Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.
Does climate change cost you?
We have operated this pool for 18 years. For the last five or so I’ve noticed much more problem with green algae in the spring. My pool expert tells me it’s warming winter temperatures. It never fully freezes off, the algae survives dormant during the winter, and gets an early start in the spring.
The cost? About $150 each year in chemicals for start up that we’re not needed in the past.
"The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more specific calculation methods to show the connection between radiation dose and certain types of cancer."