Im Kreml wird offenbar weiter von der Auslöschung der Ukraine geträumt. Nikolai Patruschew betont, mögliche Verhandlungen gebe es nur zwischen Russland und den USA. Der Hardliner im Beraterkreis Putins erkennt zudem einem anderen Staat die Eigenständigkeit ab.

Ein enger Vertrauter von Kremlchef Wladimir Putin spricht offen über ein mögliches Ende der Ukraine und der Republik Moldau als eigenständige Staaten. Beide Länder seien durch ihre antirussische Politik in die Krise geraten, sagte Nikolai Patruschew, früher Sekretär des russischen Sicherheitsrates, im Interview der Moskauer Zeitung "Komsomolskaja Prawda". "Es ist nicht ausgeschlossen, dass die Ukraine in diesem Jahr aufhört zu existieren", sagte er. Bei der Republik Moldau sei es wahrscheinlich, "dass sie zu einem anderen Staat kommt oder überhaupt aufhört zu existieren".

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to take the “strongest possible action” against Russia if it is confirmed that Russian forces killed a Melbourne school teacher in their captivity in Ukraine.

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It allows for up to 70 km of range on a charge, or about 45 miles, and has a charging time to 80% of 15 minutes. The base Yadea Q1 with sodium-ion battery costs the equivalent of $450 USD, while the top-end Q50 model with traction control goes for $590.

The 24Ah sodium-ion battery that Yadea uses comes with innovative hard carbon electrodes that allow more than 1,500 charge cycles, or about five years of usage if the scooter is charged almost daily. A big advantage of its sodium cells is also the fact that they can retain more than 92% of their capacity even when operating at -20°C (-4 Fahrenheit) and discharging at those freezing temps.

The ho-hum part is that the first e-bike with sodium-ion battery only carries a load of up to 75kg (165 pounds), but urban scooters like the Yadea Q1 are usually used en masse in Asia by a younger crowd where that shouldn't be much of a problem.

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United States.

The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”.

It joins The Guardian and other European media outlets including Dagens Nyheter, La Vanguardia, Ouest-France and Sud-Ouest in coming off the platform, due to the impact of Musk on the organisation.

The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries has announced that it will stop posting content on X.

The company’s general secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez stated:

“After the US elections, EFJ pointed out the threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who is also the owner of social network X and has been appointed to lead a “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) when Donald J. Trump takes office as president on January 20, 2025.

“We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists”, said the president of EFJ, Maja Sever.

“The social media site X has become the preferred vector for conspiracy theories, racism, far-right ideas and misogynistic rhetoric. X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies”, he writes further.

“The editorial evolution of X, since its acquisition by Elon Musk, is simply contrary to our humanist values, our commitment to press freedom and media pluralism, and our fight against all forms of hatred and discrimination. The decision to suspend our @EFJEUROPE account seemed clear to us and we invite all our members and all organizations defending freedom of expression to migrate to other platforms.”

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Dozens of members of the Women's Institute (WI) have begun testing a river's water as part of a long-term project to improve its biodiversity.

Three groups at Amble, Warkworth and Rothbury in Northumberland are part of the Coquet River Action Group (Crag), a new partnership of community groups which want to protect the river catchment.

They have begun testing at 30 sites along the river to produce a database of information about the river's health.

I was just thinking about the word social media as a term answer how it relates to regular media.

Like what is regular media? it's someone that is paid to entertain you for money or influence you for people that pay them for power.

Now the word social media if it relates to old media what would it be at face value. It's a person that is paid to make you feel like you have a social connection with them for money influence you for people that pay them that want power.

Like what was social connections on the internet before the rise of social media.

It was forums and if we look at that word what is it as face value from the word itself its meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Ideas to be exchanged everyone was equal there was no media personalities no popularity contests. No followers just a group of people sharing ideas around a common interest.

How off base am I? did I miss anything in my reasoning here?

This is what is wrong with modern society. I take a train downtown and no inner city kid is worshiping the sun. Our leaders no longer cut out the hearts of their enemies as tribute.

Amateur Astronomers Detect Voyager 1 Using Vintage 1950s Telescope After Glitch

And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager’s signals on a 1950s telescope designed to detect weak, low-frequency emissions from deep space: NASA uses the [Earth-based] Deep Space Network (DSN) to communicate with its spacecraft, but the global array of giant radio antennas is optimized for higher frequency signals. Though NASA’s DSN antennas are capable of detecting S-band missives from Voyager — it can also communicate in X-band — the spacecraft’s signal can appear to drop due to how far Voyager is from Earth. The Dwingeloo telescope, on the other hand, is designed for observing at lower frequencies than the 8.4 gigahertz telemetry transmitted by Voyager 1, according to the C.A. Muller Radio Astronomy Station… [W]hen Voyager 1 switched to a lower frequency, its messages fell within Dwingeloo’s frequency band. Thus, the astronomers took advantage of the spacecraft’s communication glitch to listen in on its faint signals to NASA.

The astronomers used orbital predictions of Voyager 1’s position in space to correct for the Doppler shift in frequency caused by the motion of Earth, as well as the motion of the spacecraft through space. The weak signal was found live, and further analysis later confirmed that it corresponded to the position of Voyager 1. Thankfully, the mission team at NASA turned Voyager 1’s X-band transmitter back on in November, and is currently carrying out a few remaining tasks to get the spacecraft back to its regular state. Fortunately, radio telescopes like Dwingeloo can help fill in the gaps while NASA’s communications array has trouble reaching its spacecraft.

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The historian offers a look at the making of modern Britain. Plus, Ella Maisy Purvis is an autistic criminal-evidence cataloguer in Patience. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC TwoMovies that bite back against convention. Paintings that turn the tables. Music that crosses tribal boundaries. “It’s the arts that have heralded dramatic changes in our lives,” says Simon Schama in this perceptive, personal series. He continues from 1953, examining the realities of what the queen’s coronation, the Commonwealth and mass immigration meant for Britain – using Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Hanif Kureishi’s radical writing, and 2 Tone band the Specials. He also speaks to Clive Myrie about the Windrush generation and the scandal that followed. Hollie Richardson

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