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Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders federal DEI workers on leave (Frances Vinall/Washington Post)
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Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders federal DEI workers on leave
By Frances Vinall / Washington Post. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Bank of America CEO Now Says The Banking Industry Will Embrace Crypto
Bank of America CEO Now Says The Banking Industry Will Embrace Cryptohttps://franknez.com/bank-of-america-ceo-now-says-the-banking-industry-will-embrace-crypto/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#ایگ که Microsoft Powershell و Microsoft Windows Powershell دو تا چیز کاملاً متفاوتن ((((:
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Differences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x - PowerShell
This article summarizes the differences and breaking changes from Windows PowerShell 5.1 and the current version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core.learn.microsoft.com
Surprised Kitten | Удивленный котенок
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#flamepointcat #colorpointcat #redpointcat #kitten #子猫 #котенок #cat #猫 #ねこ #кот #cats #kittensofpixelfed #catsofpixelfed #pixelfedcats #fedicats
Quad foreign ministers meet in Washington in signal of Trump’s China focus
Quad foreign ministers meet in Washington in signal of Trump's China focushttps://www.reuters.com/world/quad-foreign-ministers-meet-washington-signal-trumps-china-focus-2025-01-21/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Pour sauver son aéroport de Pau, le chantage de Bayrou aux dépens de la santé de milliers de Franciliens
À l’automne dernier, François Bayrou a fait pression sur Michel Barnier, alors premier ministre, pour qu’Air France maintienne la déficitaire liaison Pau-Orly.Mickaël Correia (Mediapart)
Dato che Threads non è (ancora? mai?) federato, faccio la stessa domanda anche qui, magari avete seguito meglio la vicenda. Mi piacerebbe anche conoscere la vostra opinione in merito.
Copio/incollo il mio post di 🧵:
A parte tutte le genuflessioni, gli omaggi e i favori al monarca, #Meta non aveva promesso la Federazione di Threads?
È possibile da mesi per Canada, UK, Stati Uniti e Giappone.
Che fine ha fatto la federazione per l'UE?
Harvard agrees to adopt a broad definition of antisemitism to settle two lawsuits
Several other schools have recently settled similar lawsuits, and suits are pending against others, including the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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From Project Gutenberg:
La "National Gallery"
by Armand Dayot
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/56859
La "National Gallery" by Armand Dayot
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
My employer wants 300 voluntary redundancies across the board, which will become less voluntary if enough people don't volunteer.
The union rep for my school has just sent an email out saying that for us that means 10 academics and 5 support staff will go.
My response:
Analysis revealed legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences -- known as "center-embedding." #Linguists have previously found that this #legalese structure can make text much more difficult to understand. "Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,"
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade pretended to be Russians and captured six prisoners
Soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade pretended to be Russians and captured six prisonershttps://mil.in.ua/en/news/soldiers-of-the-3rd-assault-brigade-pretended-to-be-russians-and-captured-six-prisoners/#google_vignetteBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Beyond #philosophy and #psychology, I'm interested in #feminism, radical politics and history, wonky public policy (esp. about #housing, #cities, and #education), #technology and #politics, and getting lost in Wikipedia. (Languages: EN/PT/ES)
Top 10 Risks of 2025 according to the World Economic Forum Survey
Top 10 Risks of 2025 according to the World Economic Forum Surveyhttps://i.redd.it/g1dyny6v2iee1.jpegBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
🇬🇧 Humboldt Prize awarded to Jacco Vink (UvA). He will use it to conduct research for six months at DESY, the German laboratory for high-energy physics.
🇳🇱 Jacco Vink (UvA) ontvangt Humboldt-prijs. Hij gaat daarmee zes maanden onderzoek doen bij DESY, het Duitse laboratorium voor hoge-energiefysica.
astronomie.nl/nieuws/jacco-vin… (Dutch)
There is an entomology article from 1987 titled
"An Apparent Lowering of Moral Standards in the Lepidoptera"
It's about same-sex activities among butteflies.
I think this one has a lot of potential mileage. Punk rock band names? Queer Regency romance novel titles? Fictional Victorian gang names?
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