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Biden administration rolls out international cybersecurity plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/06/biden-international-cybersecurity-plan-00156190#:~:text=The strategy calls for pushing,framework is already in progress.

Do you think NYC officials understand how stupid it sounds to, well, EVERYONE when we have to do things like physically move a bus lane because the NYPD refuses to stop parking in it? https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/03/05/to-combat-…

To Combat NYPD Lawlessness, DOT Will Move Second Ave. Bus Lane
The plan for an "offset" bus lane also calls for a wider bike lane on one of the city's busiest bike corridors.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #EarlyBreakfast
Chase & Status:
🎵 End Credits (feat. Plan B)
#BBCR1 #Chase #Status
https://open.spotify.com/track/64I0O6ZipYryKte1cHA2EY
https://tanyalee.bandcamp.com/track/end-credits-chase-n-status-ft-plan-b-cover

The BBC unveils its 2024/25 Annual Plan: a £492M deficit, up 40% YoY, £3.8B in license fee income, and an 8% increase in content spending to £3.2B (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-annual-plan-content-deficit-1235870541/

BBC Deficit Projected To Skyrocket To $620M Next Year
The BBC Annual Plan has revealed a £500M deficit and increased content spend.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
Megan Thee Stallion:
🎵 Plan B
#MeganTheeStallion
#Bandcamp

The Redditor is expressing burnout in the cybersecurity industry and considering leaving for a simpler job like bartending. They're asking others about their potential plan B. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ba500o/

Wow! So, um, what's the catch? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mayor-harrell-proposes-housing-density-in-every-seattle-neighborhood/
edit: nevermind, spelled out here:

How Harrell's new housing density plan could transform Seattle
The idea is to have 24 new “neighborhood centers” within 800 feet of transit and commercial areas where apartments as high as six stories could be allowed.

From Translink
#Vancouver #Transit
Public engagement begins on 2024 Investment Plan
TransLink is engaging on a new Investment Plan that will begin to address critical service gaps over the next year and respond to Metro Vancouver’s unprecedented population growth, while preparing to implement the…

The Access for Everyone Plan
B.C.'s Lower Mainland mayors are asking the federal government to renew its partnership with the Region and the Province, so we can implement the Access for Everyone plan without delay.

Author Jeff Pearlman noted, “I honestly feel like someone gave me Herpes. Dear @elonmusk — I didn’t ask for this blue check, and I don’t want it.
Anyone here on Masto know how to remove the involuntary blue "B"?
https://www.rollingstone.com…

Elon Musk Restores Blue Checks on Twitter for Popular Users, Much to Their Dismay
Elon Musk has implemented a plan to give free Premium accounts to popular X users.

#Project2025 an
‘Openly authoritarian campaign’:
Donald B. Ayer, the deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, said:
"Project 2025 seems to be full of a whole array of ideas that are designed to let Donald Trump function as a dictator, by completely eviscerating many of the restraints built into our system.
He really wants to destroy any notion of a rule of law in thi…

Saudis push for 'plan B' that excludes Israel from key deal with US (Julian Borger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/saudi-us-biden-deal-israel
http://www.memeorandum.com/240501/p67#a240501p67

Holy shit it is AMAZING what you can find by just adding "filetype:pdf" to a google search and seeing what's been left in web-accessible folders around the internet.

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Between now and TNC we’ll be interviewing session chairs, BoF and Side Meeting organisers and Partners to give you an early insight into all the events and activities happening this year.
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Pentagon sparks fresh AUKUS doubts on anniversary of Australia's nuclear-powered submarine plans
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/us-defence-announcement-raises-questions-on-aukus-anniversary/103578408

Pentagon sparks fresh AUKUS doubts on anniversary of Australia's nuclear-powered submarine plans
Defence Minister Richard Marles insists AUKUS partners are working "at pace" to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines after the United States revealed it would halve next year's planned production of Virginia-class boats.

Wind farm on the north coast of Vancouver Island. You don't hear much about wind power in BC. Interesting to read this article from 2014, in light of the fact that last year BC Hydro needed to import power from Alberta because of drought. #RenewableEnergy #BritishColumbia

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07999 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Impact of half-wave plate systematics on the measurement of CMB $B$-mode polarization
Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can help probe the fundamental physics behind cosmic inflation via the measurement of primordial $B$ modes. As this requires exquisite control over instrumental systematics, some next-generation CMB experiments plan to use a rotating half-wave plate (HWP) as polarization modulator. However, the HWP non-idealities, if not properly treated in the analysis, can result in additional systematics. In this paper, we present a simple, semi-analytica…

Illinois Gov.: Bears' stadium plan a 'nonstarter' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40066053/bears-new-stadium-proposal-nonstarter

Governor's office: Bears' new stadium proposal a 'nonstarter' - ESPN
The Chicago Bears' proposal to fund a new lakefront stadium remains a "non-starter," Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office said after top aides met with team officials on Wednesday.

Don't wring your hands. Slowing adoption of electric cars won't increase CO2 emissions. Lower VMT is the only way to cut transport emissions now.
As long as marginal supply of electricity is fossil-fueled, electric cars are still fossil-fueled. And we're years & years away from having spare non-fossil electric generation capacity. Yes, you need to build the industrial base for electric cars, but it's a long-term investment that starts to pay off 10 years from now.

Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
The change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.

Die Meldung das VMware seinen Kunden Produkte streicht und Preise erhöht ist ja schon was älter.
Wie ich gehört habe, ist einer der Kunden der Bundestag. Hat da schon jemand was gehört? Hat sich der Bundestag vorher einen Plan B gemacht? Oder zahlen die jetzt einfach, so wie es die Verwaltung bei 99,5% der Software Einkäufe macht ("Kann man ja nix machen").

Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3x03 "Shadows of Tantiss" ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ #StarWarsTheBadBatch

Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3x03 "Shadows of Tantiss"
Omega and Crosshair hatch a daring plan.

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.
Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704<…

Saudis push for ‘plan B’ that excludes Israel from key deal with US
In the absence of a ceasefire in Gaza
and in the face of adamant resistance from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government to the creation of a Palestinian state
– and its apparent determination to launch an offensive on Rafah
– the Saudis are pushing for a more modest plan B, which excludes the Israelis.
Under that option, the US and Saudi Arabia would sign agreements on a bilateral defence pact…

Biden gets behind Johnson's foreign aid plan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/biden-johnson-foreign-aid-plan-00152848
http://www.memeorandum.com/240417/p55#a240417p55

In B.C.'s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
Sunshine Coast logging plan highlights divide over best way to assess flooding risk
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-watersheds-disaste…

Simple $k$-crashing Plan with a Good Approximation Ratio
Ruixi Luo, Kai Jin, Zelin Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10514 https://arxiv.…

Simple $k$-crashing Plan with a Good Approximation Ratio
In project management, a project is typically described as an activity-on-edge network (AOE network), where each activity / job is represented as an edge of some network $N$ (which is a DAG). Some jobs must be finished before others can be started, as described by the topology structure of $N$. It is known that job $j_i$ in normal speed would require $b_i$ days to be finished after it is started. Given the network $N$ with the associated edge lengths $b_1,\ldots,b_m$, the duration of the projec…

Spectropolarimeter on a 2--4 m class telescope and proposed science cases
Archana Soam, Siddharth Maharana, B-G Andersson, A. N. Ramaprakash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18854

Spectropolarimeter on a 2--4 m class telescope and proposed science cases
We propose a spectropolarimeter a covering wavelength range of 3200--7000 Å [3200Å chosen as lower limit to go to the atmospheric cut-off. It's ``needed" for some Serkowski curves and would make the instrument even more unique] for a 2-4~m class telescope. In this article, we discuss the science cases which will be covered with this proposed instrument. The technical requirements and analysis plan for each science case is also discussed. This spectropolarimeter targeting exciting galactic and…

The status and challenges for prostate SBRT treatments in United States proton therapy centers: An NRG Oncology practice survey
Jiajian Shen, Paige A. Taylor, Carlos E. Vargas, Minglei Kang, Jatinder Saini, Jun Zhou, Peilong Wang, Wei Liu, Charles B. Simone II, Ying Xiao, Liyong Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17244

The status and challenges for prostate SBRT treatments in United States proton therapy centers: An NRG Oncology practice survey
A survey was designed to inquire about the practice of proton SBRT treatment for prostate cancer. The survey was distributed to all 30 proton therapy centers in the United States that participate in the National Clinical Trial Network in Feb. 2023. The survey focused on usage, patient selection criteria, prescriptions, target contours, dose constraints, treatment plan optimization and evaluation methods, patient-specific QA, and IGRT methods. Results: We received responses from 25 centers (83% …

E-ID-Gesetze im Nationalrat durchgewunken. Von "Es gibt keinen Plan B" (KKS) zum Konsensprojekt ging es nur drei Jahre. Eine wichtige Rolle spielten digital kompentente NR wie Gehard Andrey, die über die Parteigrenzen hinaus eine Lösung fanden.
https://inside-it.podigee.io/s1e132-in-rekordtempo-zur-neuen-e-id

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Radio110s
Plan B:
🎵 She Said
#BBCR1 #PlanB
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kVU4z9zL3M7w7EVhBBbEF
https://artistsprojectearth.bandcamp.com/track/plan-b-she-said