@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-03 22:51:05
A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is "likely unconstitutional" (Kate Payne/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-soc
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-03 01:25:24
With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a humiliating federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives
—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government
—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which e…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-03-23 08:06:06
"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/
@arXiv_condmatother_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-02 07:29:23
Cryogenic scanning photocurrent spectroscopy for materials responses to structured optical fields
Duxing Hao, Chun-I Lu, Ziqi Sun, Yu-Chen Chang, Wen-Hao Chang, Ye-Ru Chen, Akiyoshi Park, Beining Rao, Siyuan Qiu, Yann-Wen Lan, Ting-Hua Lu, Nai-Chang Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24833
