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Next #SETILive: Finally! An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
TODAY, 5 September, 10:00 AM PDT

A new paper identifies the first-ever mid-size sedan in a universe of compact cars and SUVs. This black hole resides in the center of the Omega Centauri star cluster, which is thought to be the core of a galaxy that merged with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center Simon Steel chats with lead author Maximilian Häberle.

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Fuck you, Lauren Boebert. We will continue to pay "$600 billion," or however much it costs, to provide healthcare for veterans, for as long as the U.S. insists on continuing to send its soldiers into harm's way, and if you don't like that you can gfy.
"Boebert defends vote against veterans’ health benefits, saying she didn’t want to spend ‘$600 billion forever’"
Ref: thehill.com/homenews/house/486…
#healthcare #veterans #VA #politics #USPol


First doses of mpox vaccines arrive at the heart of Africa's outbreak. What took so long?


Congo has over 20,000 cases of mpox and hundreds of deaths mostly in children but until now, zero vaccines. A plane load of doses donated from the EU landed in Kinshasa Thursday.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Portland-area friends! This is Peanut. Peanut needs a new home.

Specifically, he needs a quiet home with no other cats. He is a teddy bear who will love his human fiercely, but doesn’t get long with feline roommates at all; dogs are an unknown, but unlikely to fit; and probably not children.

I don’t know Peanut personally, but I’m happy to pass on your information to Peanut’s people if you’d like to make him a part of your life.

Can you help me find him a home, by boosting this post?

The next post in this thread will have more details, as shared by one of his people with me.

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[auto] New on the ROR blog: "The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching (cross-post)" ror.org/blog/2024-08-28-the-my…

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Favorite ROR IDs of the week: National High Field Magnetic Laboratory (US) ror.org/03s53g630, High Magnetic Field Laboratory (China) ror.org/01gh88804, and European Magnetic Field Laboratory ror.org/040n2wh36


“We want to be good citizens of our publishing community and contribute as much correct metadata as possible to Crossref as an exchange mechanism among publishers.” Read more about Optica Publishing Group and ROR ror.org/blog/2024-08-23-case-s…

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📣 Job Alert! 📣

ORCID is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic professional for the position of fully remote Senior DevSecOps Engineer.

Apply by 23 August and help spread the word! ➡️ orcid.bamboohr.com/careers/43

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Our latest blog is a case study about how Stanford University integrated ORCID into its Centralized Identity Management System.

Read all about it here ➡️ info.orcid.org/case-study-stan…



We would like to give a warm welcome to the following organizations that joined ORCID in July! :orcid:

AccScience Publishing
Czech Geological Survey (Svět geologie)
Institute for Clinical and
Experimental Medicine (IKEM)
JVE International, UAB
Queen Mary University of London
Solent University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Universidad de Guadalajara
Universidad Técnica de Ambato
Universidad Técnica Nacional

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Anarchists, anti-war activists, and antifascists are being tortured and murdered by the Russian state.

Meanwhile, far-Right trolls are raking in the big bucks.

"A media start-up from reactionary luminaries such as Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and others secretly received funding from Russia, a new federal indictment alleges."

dailydot.com/debug/russia-tene…



Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk, who wrecked Twitter in the name of cost-cutting, to run a task force aimed at cutting federal overspending.

newrepublic.com/post/185650/do…



Ich glaube dieses Jahr krame ich noch ein paar Caspar David Fliegrich Werke aus dem Archiv.




Hunter Biden intends to plead guilty in federal tax case, NBC News reports (Jackie Luna/Reuters)

reuters.com/legal/hunter-biden…
memeorandum.com/240905/p82#a24…






" #Linus #Torvalds Speaks on the #Hype around #AI / #LLM and what the future of AI looks like on Linux. Will things like ChatGPT and other AI bots help the Linux Kernel get developed? We'll listen to the Creator of #Linux. youtu.be/7GIZi7nlIe0?si=1XM7Fc… ".