Everything you need to know about our latest filing with the FCC regarding FOX and WTXF is in our latest Substack.
"Media and Democracy Project Supports Pennsylvania Senators' Request for Swift Action on WTXF License Renewal"
Read it here 👉https://med…
warm take: "neutral element" is a much better name than "identity element" (for e in ∀x : x★e=x). any objections?
So there’s a new Crayola game on #AppleArcade and in Portuguese they translated every single instance of a singular gender neutral “they” to… a plural gendered pronoun
Like, really! This game makes NO SENSE in Portuguese! You can literally choose “Eles(as)” as a pronoun for your character, and every single time at the character creation screen they refer to the character as “eles” which is just plural
They could’ve used “elu” or “ile” for the pronouns choice which are gender neutral pronouns in Portuguese (even tho we don’t have a really mainstream gender neutral pronoun yet) or even just disabled the gender neutral option because of the lack of mainstream ones, but nope they chose to add something that makes absolutely no sense at all unless you have two headmates of different genders. And for the “choose their name”-like stuff they could’ve just used the male pronouns (thats often still used if u don’t know one’s gender) or even the gender neutral pronouns that do exist, but once again they used the plural
Hey friends! Greetings from a tiny walk to one of my afternoon-hills.
We even met friends there on the way up 😀
I'm currently thinking about making a short video about a hike in January. The problem is that the photos aren't epic vistas. So I fear the time is just not well invested - especially as I'd have to record extra audio (which I've never done before)
#nature
USA warnen China vor russischen Gebietsgewinnen
Die USA haben China gewarnt, das Land bei russischen Gebietsgewinnen in der Ukraine zur Verantwortung zu ziehen. US-Vizeaußenminister Kurt Campbell warnte, russische Gebietsgewinne könnten das Kräfteverhältnis in Europa "in einer Weise verändern, die offen gesagt inakzeptabel ist". Die USA werde das nicht nur als "russische Aktivitäten sehen, sondern a…
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"Earth had another record-warm month; it was also the second-wettest January on record
There is a 22% chance that 2024 will be the warmest year in #NOAA’s 175-year record and a 79% chance that #ElNiño will transition to neutral conditions by mid-year."
Electrification border in #Jesenice.
When my train coming from Ljubljana (3 kV) arrived it lowered the pantograph, coasted through the neutral section, and stopped at the far end of the platform under 15 kV. Only once the crew had changed did it then raise it again. Had not actually followed earlier how the system change happens combined with a station stop.
“help combat the rise of gender-neutral toilet spaces”
Yep, that’s the problem right there. Not climate change. Not Israel live streaming a fucking genocide with the support of the West. Not anything else. The rise of gender-neutral toilets is the real threat here, folks. Straight from a conservative’s mouth so you know it must be true.
Fuck these people.
#transRightsAreHumanRights
Towards comprehensive coverage of chemical space: Quantum mechanical properties of 836k constitutional and conformational closed shell neutral isomers consisting of HCNOFSiPSClBr
Danish Khan, Anouar Benali, Scott Y. H. Kim, Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05961
#SeniorFitness
Today I did 7 sets of neutral-grip pull-ups, knocking out 101 reps. I also worked from home. Yesterday I did four sets of 13 classic pull-ups before heading off to teach. I'm 68.
Your health comes before the rest of life. Reinvent yourself! A highlight of my day's #calisthenics
Kpc-Scale Neutral Iron K$\alpha$ Emission in the Starburst-AGN NGC 4945: a Relic AGN Outflow?
Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann, Lynne Valencic, Ryan W. Pfeifle, K. D. Kuntz, Joel F. Campbell, Kimberly Engle, Ryan Tanner, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Isabella Carlton, Miranda McCarthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03730
Straus Family Creamery’s groundbreaking practice-based incentive program —which is among the first of its kind from a dairy processor— supports its supplying organic dairy farms in achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
https://www.bu…
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
ZEN: She reports she is well and aboard a neutral cargo carrier in transit to the planet Morphenniel. She advises that her situation requires no priority treatment.
AVON: Cally?
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/302/312 📺 B7B5
Data is never "raw" or "unprocessed" or "neutral" or "objective". The decision to record a thing (and not others), the structures and data formats it's pressed into, the granularity and frequency of collection are already a curation and interpretation of the world.
A data set with unclear collectors, without a declaration of the original purpose and goals is basically unusable responsibly.
Testing out my Tiffen 18 stop neutral density filter before the eclipse next week.
(Never look at the sun without proper eye protection).
#sun #photo #photography
Strong electrostatic control of excitonic features in MoS$_2$ by a free-standing ultrahigh-$\kappa$ ferroelectric perovskite
Thomas Pucher, Sergio Puebla, Victor Zamora, Estrella S\'anchez Viso, Victor Rouco, Carlos Leon, Mar Garcia-Hernandez, Jacobo Santamaria, Carmen Munuera, Andres Castellanos-Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/…
"I’m not urging people to boycott the Times. I’m just urging the Times to come out for the preservation of a free country. And on Page 1, if possible." <-- yup! From: https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/is-the-new-york-times-neutral-on
The Polish in me wants to protest that only potato vodka is “real vodka”, and I definitely would not describe the flavor as neutral.
That being said, maybe I need to stop being a vodka snob and give Kirkland a try.
https://hachyderm.io/@lkanies/112213889008566332<…
Interesting that family-sequence emojis (e.g. 👨👩👦 👨👩👦👦) are recommended to display with a non-gender-indicative silhouette design.
"…providing full-scale skin tone support for all individual people featured within the existing recommended family sequences would have increased the number of emoji designs required to be supported within the vendor's emoji font files by almost twofold (3,782 emojis vs 11,012 emojis)."
Maybe snake oil actually is good though? Have you considered that snake oil could be useful to some people? Snake oil is helping a lot of people make a living. I know plenty of people who owe a depth of gratitude to snake oil.
Note: I’m totally neutral on snake oil and am definitely not pushing a snake oil agenda.
escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
The BBC loves to both-sides arguments you see. They are neutral.
Except when it's banning kids from the internet. Then they only represent one side of the argument, deny that any other side could possibly exist, and insist impossible things which can't work will protect kids while offering no evidence that internet access is even really more harmful than helpful.
#bbc #onlineSafetyBill #mediaBias
All journalists are activists.
It’s just that neutral journalists are activists for the status quo.
In summer 2020 when American workers (especially parents) failed to strike to demand #covidsafe schools and workplaces, that was NOT a neutral inaction. That wasn't just a failure to make things better. That was an unequivocal signal to the bourgeoisie to ramp up the exploitation to the max. That was the "fire at will" command to landlords, to CEOs, to the entire capitalist machine. That …
"I’m not urging people to boycott the Times. I’m just urging the Times to come out for the preservation of a free country. And on Page 1, if possible." <-- yup! From: https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/is-the-new-york-times-neutral-on
JADES: Primeval Lyman-$\mathrm{\alpha}$ emitting galaxies reveal early sites of reionisation out to redshift $z \sim 9$
Joris Witstok, Roberto Maiolino, Renske Smit, Gareth C. Jones, Andrew J. Bunker, Jakob M. Helton, Benjamin D. Johnson, Sandro Tacchella, Aayush Saxena, Santiago Arribas, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Kristan Boyett, Alex J. Cameron, Phillip A. Cargile, Stefano Carniani, St\'ephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Mirko Curti, Emma Curtis-Lake, Francesco D'Eugenio, Daniel J.…
"The gap between those with and without fast, secure and neutral #internetaccess has profound implications for their ability to participate in and contribute to society.
Our interpretation of internet access must be as a universal, equitable, and non-discriminatory right, intrinsic to societal participation and personal development, not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit.…
@… I like Harry Potter.
I don't have anything against lgbt people I'm neutral if comes to that topic.
but yeah, not everyone who is a fan of Harry Potter is a lgbtq hater.
China schickt Sondergesandten zur Vermittlung
"Seit der Eskalation der Ukraine-Krise sind zwei Jahre vergangen, die Kampfhandlungen ziehen sich immer noch hin", beschreibt die Sprecherin des Außenministeriums die chinesische Sicht der Lage. Das Dringlichste sei die Wiederherstellung des Friedens. "Je früher Gespräche beginnen, desto weniger Schaden wird angerichtet." In den zwei Jahren habe China "ni…
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I didn't manage to get out in time after work before I got dark and wet so that I really didn't want to go out. Yet my back is a bit too stiff to just lay on the couch so those friends came to Action.
#fitness #stayfit
escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
@… I like Harry Potter.
I don't have anything against lgbt people I'm neutral if comes to that topic.
but yeah, not everyone who is a fan of Harry Potter is a lgbtq hater.
escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
Giant Biconical Dust Filaments in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 1808
Rohan KaneUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Sylvain VeilleuxUniversity of Maryland, College Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02427 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02427
arXiv:2403.02427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present the results from an analysis of multi-wavelength archival data on the multi-phase outflow in the starburst galaxy NGC 1808. We report the detection at 70 and 100 um of dust filaments that extend up to ~ 13 kpc from the galactic mid-plane and trace an edge-brightened biconical structure along the minor axis of the galaxy. The inner filaments are roughly co-spatial with previously identified optical dust filaments, extraplanar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission, and neutral and ionized gaseous outflows. The 70/160 um flux ratio, a proxy for dust temperature, is elevated along the edges of the cones, indicating that the dusty medium has been driven out of the central regions of these cones and possibly shock-heated by an outflow. We establish lower limits on the extraplanar dust mass and mean height above the stellar disk of log(M_d/M_sun) = 6.48 and |z| ~ 5 kpc, respectively. The energy requirement of (5.1-9.6) x 10^{56} ergs needed to lift the dusty material, assuming Milky-Way like dust-to-gas ratio, can be supplied by the current starburst, with measured star formation rate of 3.5-5.4 M_sun yr^{-1}, over a timescale of (4-26) xi^{-1} Myr, where xi is the efficiency of energy transfer. We conclude that a starburst-driven outflow is the most likely mechanism by which the dust features were formed.
escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
Elemental abundances in the diffuse ISM from joint FUV and X-ray spectroscopy: iron, oxygen, carbon and sulfur
I. Psaradaki, L. Corrales, J. Werk, A. G. Jensen, E. Costantini, M. Mehdipour, R. Cilley, N. Schulz, J. Kaastra, J. A. Garc\'ia, L. Valencic, T. Kallman, F. Paerels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02664
arXiv:2403.02664v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this study, we investigate interstellar absorption lines along the line of sight toward the galactic low-mass X-ray binary Cygnus X-2. We combine absorption line data obtained from high-resolution X-ray spectra collected with Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites, along with Far-UV absorption lines observed by the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) Instrument. Our primary objective is to understand the abundance and depletion of oxygen, iron, sulfur, and carbon. To achieve this, we have developed an analysis pipeline that simultaneously fits both the UV and X-ray datasets. This novel approach takes into account the line spread function (LSF) of HST/COS, enhancing the precision of our results. We examine the absorption lines of FeII, SII, CII, and CI present in the FUV spectrum of Cygnus X-2, revealing the presence of at least two distinct absorbers characterized by different velocities. Additionally, we employ Cloudy simulations to compare our findings concerning the ionic ratios for the studied elements. We find that gaseous iron and sulfur exist in their singly ionized forms, Fe II and S II, respectively, while the abundances of CII and CI do not agree with the Cloudy simulations of the neutral ISM. Finally, we explore discrepancies in the X-ray atomic data of iron and discuss their impact on the overall abundance and depletion of iron.