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Wellington, New Zealand’s Mermaidens post-punk band on the legendary Flying Nun label 👀
“Foolish, foolish
My mind is miles away
Foolish, you wish
That I’d be back again"
https://mermaidens.bandcamp.com/album/mermaidens-2

In the 1980s as railroads abandoned thousands of miles of track following deregulation,
Congress provided for “#railbanking,” seeking to preserve rail corridors while allowing for interim use as trails.
Today, there are nearly 26,000 miles of rail-trails in the U.S., according to RTC.
• More than $830 million in U.S. Department of Transportation funds announced last week under the ⭐️R…

Communities build walking, biking trails along old railroad lines with federal grants
Active transportation projects represent over 25% of the $3.3 billion grant awards the DOT announced last week.

Hey WaPo, here is how you cover the news instead of regurgitating police reports.
It takes maybe 3 minutes of research.
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/02/21/just-in-man-arrested-for-allegedly-fleeing-crash-in-…

Man arrested for allegedly fleeing crash in Woodlawn that killed pedestrian | FFXnow

This is quite possibly my proudest accomplishment as a librarian to date: https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2024/02/15/milk-cure-spicy-feeling-mouth-eat-something-spicy-not-water/

Why does milk cure the spicy feeling in your mouth after you eat something spicy but water doesn’t? | Ask Dr. Universe | Washington State University
A protein in milk attracts capsaicin and makes it hop off the pain receptors. Then, the protein and fats in milk wash away the capsaicin.

“‘Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,’ he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, noting that his productions might not have to travel to locations or build sets with the assistance of the technology.
“As a business owner, Perry sees the opportunity in these developments, but as an employer, fellow actor and filmmaker, he also wants to raise in the alarm.”

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

An interview with studio owner Tyler Perry, who says he's putting an $800M studio expansion in Atlanta on hold after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI's Sora (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08143 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

New insights on the dynamics of satellite galaxies: effects of the figure rotation of a host galaxy
We investigate a mechanism to form and keep a planar spatial distribution of satellite galaxies in the Milky Way (MW), which is called the satellite plane. It has been pointed out that the ΛCDM cosmological model hardly explains the existence of such a satellite plane, so it is regarded as one of the serious problems in the current cosmology. We here focus on a rotation of the gravitational potential of a host galaxy, i.e., so-called a figure rotation, following the previous suggestion that th…

Multimodal operando microscopy reveals that interfacial chemistry and nanoscale performance disorder dictate perovskite solar cell stability
Kyle Frohna, Cullen Chosy, Amran Al-Ashouri, Florian Scheler, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Milos Dubajic, Julia E. Parker, Jessica M. Walker, Lea Zimmermann, Thomas A. Selby, Yang Lu, Bart Roose, Steve Albrecht, Miguel Anaya, Samuel D. Stranks

Multimodal operando microscopy reveals that interfacial chemistry and nanoscale performance disorder dictate perovskite solar cell stability
Next-generation low-cost semiconductors such as halide perovskites exhibit optoelectronic properties dominated by nanoscale variations in their structure, composition and photophysics. While microscopy provides a proxy for ultimate device function, past works have focused on neat thin-films on insulating substrates, missing crucial information about charge extraction losses and recombination losses introduced by transport layers. Here we use a multimodal operando microscopy toolkit to measure n…

Just sharing this very nice post about Jordan Morris and a young Philadelphia Union fan after Saturday’s rainout match.
#Sounders :sounders: #MLS :mls:

The Mechanical Licensing Collective sues Pandora for allegedly failing to adequately pay and report monthly royalties, including for its ad-supported tier (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/publish

The MLC Sues Pandora to Recover Unpaid Royalties, Late Fees
Pandora has been sued by the MLC (Mechanical Licensing Collective) over unpaid songwriter and publisher royalties and late fees.