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Alastair Thompson Profile picture
@althecat
Aug 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Comprehensive report here below in quoted tweet from @jcokechukwu - a morning update on the Niger war situation.

Sounds like the threat of war is now over.

Nigeria’s president was told no by the Nigeria senate to an ECOWAS “intervention” yesterday. Now Algeria and Chad have… https://t.co/ADKTWiFzwUtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And from @aljazeera France agrees to seek a diplomatic solution.

Also confirms much of what is in the post above.

Seems to me that the African Union ought to be active in the diplomacy that follows. “African solutions to African problems.”

The… https://t.co/JfrkM00jJw
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@AlJazeera Looked at in the round the issues in West Africa have clear roots in the colonial crimes of successive Western developed world governments in support of “corporate interests” which for a long time has been a synonym for “national interests” in the European, Anglos-phone, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@AlJazeera /ends

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Aug 5
#ExtremeWeather #DesertRain update.

Six days later this Great Sahara Desert rain event is not weakening much yet it seems.

That said. The latest detailed forecast does show it weakening beyond the 13th of August though. By then the event would have run for two weeks. The… https://t.co/tnSHpLo8Wl https://t.co/6SnhemLCkytwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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That said the underlying cause - the high pressure circulation over west of Kerela India is still pumping.
And the atmospheric water vapour picture (Precipitable Water - i.e. atmospheric water vapour that could produce rain) remains spectacular.
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Jul 31
#ExtremeWeather #DesertRain update.

Ok.... so while looking at this more closely - i.e. a mystery of sorts in terms of predictive weather model functionality (the thread explains - but feel free to ask questions)

The new rainfall forecasts related to the intensity of the… https://t.co/xnvdJ1muKdtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is what happened...... the models show significant rain across all of Sudan. Which is unprecedented in the 3 years I have been focussed on the weather in the Horn. What the flooding impacts of this may be, I do not know. It depends how long the phenomena lasts for. But the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
^^ not sure why that tweet has a formatting error not showing the plot in the already tweeted data tweet. But OK.... here it is. Image
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Jul 29
This thread has been updated.....

The end of this spectacular low system in the North Atlantic is finally about to begin. Thr quoted thread tells the remarkable story of unusual subtropical storm #Don and its role in this remarkable weather assembly - the dramatic part of which… https://t.co/ZJBVxbqtSJtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
August 1 update on the North Atlantic Weather Assembly. Its remaining largely intact. Two Tropical disturbances are feeding it from the West and central Atlantic. Continued flows of water south over Canada Iceland are continuing to feed it. The low circulation over New Foundland… https://t.co/NXBqI1SdEAtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The low is forming around Scandinavia across the North sea and the Baltic. Flows of presumably cold air are coming south down the coast or Norway. Eventually it will close and become a huge low circulation covering all of Europe. Image
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Jul 28
Not sure weather assembly is a technical term. But I think it should be. As in "this #Don weather assembly in the North Atlantic is extraordinary visually. https://t.co/1ijtyIZdzb
Closeup from this evening.
And another one.... this time showing impact on Western Europe.
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Jul 20
"Meta announced Tuesday that its LLM LLaMA 2 will be accessible on Microsoft’s Azure platform."

"Apple is testing an AI chatbot but has no idea what to do with it" https://t.co/8dFVtbbqvs

The plethora of AI systems being deployed keeps growing which may… https://t.co/e0LOzF0rfrtheverge.com/2023/7/19/2380…
theverge.com/2023/7/19/2380…
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And this is problematic because IMO the financial threat to the news industry's viability is at least as great and quite likely significantly greater than platform (Yahoo FB and Google +++ ) and an entire ecocystem of programmatic AI powered advertising technology companies.

It… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Media companies even media giants will not have the resources to compete with Microsoft, Google, META et al.

A world without reliable news sources and flooded with AI generated and distributed misinformation is a nightmare. Government - especially democratic government is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jul 14
A media analysis thread containing a Q&A with BARD on the question of whether Ukraine and its allies should continue to seek to liberate Ukraine or seek a negotiated peace settlement.

1/Several . Is this article in BARD'S VIEW reliable or misleading about the Ukraine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2/ This is a test btw BARD... You say it is pro-ukrainian, how do you come to that conclusion?... pertinent to our earlier discussion about the problems inherent in online news content [accuracy] .... g.co/bard/share/23c…
3/ please compare perspectives of a) British b) US c) French d) German & e) Russian media

g.co/bard/share/20c…
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