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RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee
— handpicked by Donald Trump
— started firing dozens of employees days after taking over

About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.

One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications we…

RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge.

This is why self-driving cars are great. Imagine how terrible this would be if there’d been a person in the car. I look forward to streets full of empty drone vehicles that one doesn’t have to worry about accidentally torching. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/111913931741871780

Well, it’s that time again folks!
#warthunder

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06881 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Unmasking Deepfakes: Masked Autoencoding Spatiotemporal Transformers for Enhanced Video Forgery Detection
We present a novel approach for the detection of deepfake videos using a pair of vision transformers pre-trained by a self-supervised masked autoencoding setup. Our method consists of two distinct components, one of which focuses on learning spatial information from individual RGB frames of the video, while the other learns temporal consistency information from optical flow fields generated from consecutive frames. Unlike most approaches where pre-training is performed on a generic large corpus…

Langmuir turbulence in suspended kelp farms
Tong Bo, James C. McWilliams, Chao Yan, Marcelo Chamecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04947 https://

Langmuir turbulence in suspended kelp farms
This study investigates the influence of suspended kelp farms on ocean mixed layer hydrodynamics in the presence of currents and waves. We use the large eddy simulation method, where the wave effect is incorporated by solving the wave-averaged equations. Distinct Langmuir circulation patterns are generated within various suspended farm configurations, including horizontally uniform kelp blocks and spaced kelp rows. Intensified turbulence arises from the farm-generated Langmuir circulation, as o…

Ende des Liveblogs
Damit schließen wir den Liveblog für heute. Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-donnerstag-340.html?at_medium=m…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj entlässt Chef der Leibwache ++
Selenskyj trennt sich nach Aufdeckung russischer Attentatspläne von seinem obersten Personenschützer. Mehrere ukrainische und lettische Fernsehsender übertragen nach einer Hackerattacke ungewollt Teile der russischen Militärparade. Die Entwicklungen zum Nachlesen.

Dark progenitors and massive descendants: A first ALMA perspective on Radio-Selected NIRdark galaxies in the COSMOS field
Fabrizio Gentile, Margherita Talia, Emanuele Daddi, Marika Giulietti, Andrea Lapi, Marcella Massardi, Francesca Pozzi, Giovanni Zamorani, Meriem Behiri, Andrea Enia, Matthieu Bethermin, Daniele Dallacasa, Ivan Delvecchio, Andreas L. Faisst, Carlotta Gruppioni, Federica Loiacono, Alberto Traina, Mattia Vaccari, Livia Vallini, Cristian Vignali, Vernesa Smolcic, Andrea…

Dark progenitors and massive descendants: A first ALMA perspective on Radio-Selected NIRdark galaxies in the COSMOS field
We present the first spectroscopic ALMA follow-up for a pilot sample of nine Radio-Selected NIRdark galaxies in the COSMOS field. These sources were initially selected as radio-detected sources (S(3GHz)>12.65 uJy), lacking an optical/NIR counterpart in the COSMOS2015 catalog (Ks>24.7 mag). Several studies highlighted how this selection could provide a population of highly dust-obscured, massive, and star-bursting galaxies. With these new ALMA observations, we assess the spectroscopic redshifts …

The Israeli attack on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza in early April that killed seven aid workers with the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen has ignited a fierce global backlash against Israel’s policies of engagement in the territory.
The attack involved the successive firing of three missiles at three vehicles, driven by suspicions of a Hamas combatant’s presence within the convoy, according to reports.

How a Culture Shift in the Israeli Military Helps Explain Gaza's Death Toll
An execution, a prosecution, and then a backlash.

Nebular Analysis of PNe NGC 3242
Soubhik Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06270 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.06270

Nebular Analysis of PNe NGC 3242
The work presented forms a part of the IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship (SRFP) project on the physical & chemical properties of planetary nebulae. Spectral observations of NGC3242 recorded using the VBT Observatory (IIA), Kavalur (TN) for orthogonal slit positions are used for the study. The spectral data were reduced and analyzed using the IRAF data analysis package following the standard procedure to obtain the one dimensional spectrum. Nebular Analysis is performed on the same using…

H5N1 is at a bunch of dairy farms, and there’s documented cow-human transmission. But is there very limited or nonexistent human to human transmission? How is this virus not already everywhere?
Maybe it incapacitates cats too quickly to effectively spread via them? RIP cats.
I hope the lesson the CDC learned from Covid-19 doesn’t have a lot of “people will reject our guidance and we’ll get nastygrams from the chamber of commerce so we should be reticent to wade in”

H5N1 now confirmed in 11 US farms. Cats die within 48 hours.
This is serious. To find out more in detail I urge you to check out THIS LINK. Meanwhile here is a summary: Vets are being advised to wear full PPE (personal protection) if seeing a cat with neurological symptoms, after forty cats died on a dairy farm...