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Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Ruck ‘N Roll | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Ruck ‘N Roll Hosts: Brian Mannix, Kevin Hillier, and Mark Fine Category: Music Sub-Category: Music History, Sports News & Commentary First Episode: 2018 What do you get when World of Sport…

Reading a short story from 1950 and had to stop and look up what the hell someone might be eating if they had "coffee and a snail" for breakfast.
(It's a cinnamon roll.)
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/dhkqysi

Google rolls out Gemini to some Google Messages beta users with RCS enabled on select Pixel and Galaxy devices, letting users chat to Gemini over RCS (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/03/26/gemini-google-messages-beta/

Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some 
Following the announcement a month ago, Gemini is starting to roll out for some Google Messages beta users...

I’m craving a really good Italian sub so hard I’m almost tempted to drive up to L.A. #almost https://www.latimes.com/food/list/best-italian-sub-sandwiches-los-an…

A guide to the best Italian sub sandwiches in Los Angeles
A split roll stuffed with cured meats, cheeses and hot peppers, here’s where to find the best Italian sub sandwiches in Los Angeles, according to columnist Jenn Harris.

JD Buhl - “Do Ya Blame Me” (1981)
Simply fun, upbeat 80s power pop rock & roll from Berkeley, CA. This track was written while in his previous band, The Jars. Buhl and other artists played live on KALX once, but otherwise didn’t really do live shows.
This label put out a nice comp of 12 Buhl tracks from across his career, called “Little Victories 1978-1985”
For fans of the Paul Collins Beat, Go-Gos, and Joe "King" Carrasco.

It's interesting (but not surprising, given the homeopathic roll-out of smart meters in Germany) that these 120,000 home energy managers solar 🔋 in Germany didn't yet support dynamic pricing. Now they will, for all devices sold since 2012, for #EV charging with a supported home charger.

E3/DC bietet 120.000 Speicherkunden preisoptimiertes Laden von Elektroautos an
Alle Photovoltaik-Heimspeicher, die das Unternehmen seit 2012 verkauft hat, können per Software-Update zur Teilnahme am Strommarkt qualifiziert werden. Ein E3/DC-Algorithmus verbindet danach solares Laden mit dem Day-ahead-Preis unter einer individuellen Preisgrenze.

AC/DC – It’s a long way to the top…
…if you want to Rock’n’Roll
https://www.didiermary.fr/acdc-long-way-top-rocknroll/
AC/DC with Bon Scott blowing his bagpipe on "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" on the ba…

AC/DC - Long way to the top... - Didier J. MARY (blog)
"It’s A Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC has become an iconic and much-loved Australian song - the song contains bagpipes!

David Bowie - Rock n Roll Suicide #radiopouet

I am convinced we find a good portion of enemy agents by checking the no-votes in the roll-calls for the #Swedish and #Finnish #nato ratifications throughout its members.

When life doesn’t give you lemons, nor toiletpaper #meme #funny #humor

"Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the #EPA.
"The power plant rule marks the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants."

New EPA rules would force plants to capture emissions, shut down
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says new rules that would force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions or shut down are targeting pollution that's “pushing our planet to the brink.” The new limits unveiled Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-powered electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector. The rules are a key part of…

Biden administration to roll back the Betsy DeVos Title IX rules • Michigan Advance
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/19/biden-administration-to-roll-back-the-betsy-devos-title-ix-rules/

Biden administration to roll back the Betsy DeVos Title IX rules • Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced a final rule that will update Title IX regulations governing how schools respond to sexual misconduct, undoing changes made under the Trump administration and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive […]

America, 2024 https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112334691135374691

nullagent (@nullagent@partyon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image Police snipers made an appearance today atop the Indiana Memorial Union on Indiana University's campus. Students on IU's campus have setup a Liberation Zone protest and demand their university divest from Israel inline with BDS. They also make specific mention of a local miltary partnership with Crane Naval Base which has a key roll in supplying large munitions to Israel. 📸 TW: @BenSharpie64 https://linktr.ee/iudivestnow #IU #IUDivest #Indiana #Bloomington #FreePalest…

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Heads Will Roll
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WRFD9WczJ975X2K1Y9YVs
https://nancylive.bandcamp.com/track/yeah-yeah-yeahs-heads-will-roll-nancy-live-edit

Dank @… erfahren, was Coal Roll ist.
"[Raul Zelik:] In Teilen der Bevölkerung ist eine Sehnsucht zu beobachten, an dieser Zerstörung festzuhalten. Der absurdeste Ausdruck ist der Coal Roll, über den Sie im Buch schreiben.
[Simon Schaupp:] Das ist eine Protestpraxis aus den USA. Dabei werden Dieselmotoren so manipuliert, dass man gezielt große Rußwo…

»In der Arbeit handeln wir die Gestaltung der Gesellschaft aus«
Soziale und ökologische Probleme werden gewöhnlich getrennt voneinander betrachtet. Der marxsche Begriff des »Stoffwechsels« verweist auf den Zusammenhang von Arbeit und Ökologie.

🔬 Roll-to-roll, high-resolution 3D printing of shape-specific particles
#manufacturing

Roll-to-roll, high-resolution 3D printing of shape-specific particles - Nature
We introduce a scalable, high-resolution, 3D printing technique for the fabrication of shape-specific particles based on roll-to-roll continuous liquid interface production, enabling direct integration within biomedical, analytical and advanced materials applications.

Cannot. Roll. Out. Soon. Enough.
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-messages-might-let-you-disable-its-crazy-animations-soon

The Roosters - “Dan Dan” (1981)
Live performance of a song from their 3rd album, “Insane”.
The Roosters were a Japanese rock band formed in 1979. It’s mostly the one lead guy, who I believe has reconstituted the band since their initial run from ‘79 to ‘88.
Their music is a mix of rock and roll, punk, blues, ska, and new wave.
Found by way of a couple bands that mentioned The Roosters as an influence.

I have an application that uses a small amount of public key cryptography. It's not a high risk application, and I'm not doing anything so obviously foolish as trying to roll my own. Nevertheless, I'd happily pay for a couple of hours of consulting time from someone with relevant experience to confirm that I'm not doing anything howlingly stupid. If you're interested, let me know.

*sigh*
I'm guessing by the height of these that it was the #6yo. There's like 30 pairs of these around the house.

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 Rock and Roll
#LedZeppelin
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PRGxHpCpF2yoOHYKQIEwD
https://cerberusbass.bandcamp.com/track/led-zeppelin-rock-roll-cerberus-remix

Join us for another Slow Ride this Sunday, March 24th!
If you're taking Bay Wheels on the ride, use the code SLOWSTREETS32424 for $50 off
Meet at 1 at Civic Center Plaza, roll at 1:30.
Full details: https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/presidislow-remi…

Reminder: Presidi-SLOW Streets Ride this Sunday
Join us for another Slow Streets Slow Ride this Sunday, March 24th! Read on for important details.

“While I’m guessing, the timing of the March 2019 core update, along with the traffic increases to previously-suppressed sites, heavily suggests that Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results.”
👩‍🍳👌💋
https://www.wheresyour…

The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then

He's got the rock 'n' roll moves, he's got the rock 'n' roll voice, he's got the rock 'n' roll song.
He hasn't got the rock 'n' roll clothing.
#TOTP

Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24080999/spotify-hifi-lossless-high-r…

Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Spotify has still failed to match Apple, Amazon, and other music services in offering lossless audio streaming. And that’s a shame considering how good it is at everything else.

Rock Hall inductees are announced.
#np

ANNOUNCEMENT | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announces the Inductee class of 2024

It’s warm and sunny here in Copenhagen! Have to roll up my semi-winter coat and put it in the Freitag bag. A bit surprisingly, it turned out to be essential during this April.

People used to roll their eyes at individuals on the street carrying signs saying ”The end is near”.

Now when the billionaires are carrying those same signs, people just want to throw more money at them.

The gravitational pull of wealth attracting more wealth is so very strong.

Anyway, was just reading about Zuck’s new bunker on Hawaii.

Roll Call 151 Roll Call 151, Bill Number: H. R. 8035, 118th Congress, 2nd Session (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151
http://www.memeorandum.com/240420/p27#a240420p27

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03249 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Single field inflation in the light of Pulsar Timing Array Data: Quintessential interpretation of blue tilted tensor spectrum through Non-Bunch Davies initial condition
In this work, we present a quintessential interpretation of having a blue-tilted tensor power spectrum for canonical single-field slow-roll inflation to explain the recently observed Pulsar Timing Array (NANOGrav 15-year and EPTA) signal of Gravitational Waves (GW). We formulate the complete semi-classical description of cosmological perturbation theory in terms of scalar and tensor modes using the Non-Bunch Davies initial condition. We found that the existence of the blue tilt ($n_t$) within t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05007 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Visualizing Three-Dimensional Effects of Synthetic Jet Flow Control
This study investigates the three-dimensionality of synthetic jet flow control over a NACA 0025 profile wing using horizontal and vertical smoke wire visualization. The stalled flow in the baseline case is visualized, providing insights into the shear layer roll-up process, the transition to turbulence, and vortex shedding in the wake. In the controlled flow study, two actuation frequencies, $F^+=1.18$ and $F^+=11.76$, are investigated, with a focus on spanwise control authority and the role of…

#Republicans are the pro-crime party. #thugs
https://www.

South Carolina Republican primary live updates: Trump, Nikki Haley face off as early exit poll results roll in
Get live updates and the latest news coverage on the 2024 South Carolina primary, where Donald Trump and Nikki Haley go head-to-head as voters cast their ballots.

🇮🇪 Irland folkomröstar om kvinnans roll i hemmet #Irland #Kvinnorörelsen #8mars

Irland folkomröstar om kvinnans roll i hemmet
Irland folkomröstar om kvinnans roll i hemmet

Unpopular opinion: voor ik die video van Acid kon bekijken was er een advertentie pre-roll. Dat heeft me altijd slecht gezeten. Die video had niet gemonetizeerd mogen zijn. Verdient iemand daarom deze straf? Natuurlijk niet. Maar het is wel een detail dat ik mis.

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).
1) Carrollton
2) Central Business District
3) Bayou St. John
4) Lakeview
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA

Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24080999/spotify-hifi-lossless-high-r…

Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Spotify has still failed to match Apple, Amazon, and other music services in offering lossless audio streaming. And that’s a shame considering how good it is at everything else.

Looks (and was) delicious, but I was almost afraid to eat that blueberry the size of a cherry tomato. In the celestial system of blueberries, that's a Jupiter!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11706 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots
We prove that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot in $S^4$ is smoothly preserved when four twists are added, and that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot connected sum with a trivial projective plane is preserved after two twists are added. As a consequence, we conclude that a family of homotopy $\mathbb{CP}^2$s recently constructed by Miyazawa are each diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$.

The Cycbertruck in turn is very extra Incel. It’s today’s equivalent of a jacked-up pickup with smokestacks to roll coal. “Look at me. I don’ t care what you think! But, LOOK AT ME.”

"Just for a cost of coffee cup a [insert time period]" has become an overused sales copy. I roll my eyes whenever I see it now and immediately move on.

Rock n Roll loo.
#photography #rocknrollneverdies

Now contributed to five pull requests on #OpenSource projects in 24 hours (four new ones, one updated one). On a roll, here!

One option is to externalize these choices from the image generator. You can imagine adding a "race bit" to the input that says "if you have a character make it race X" and then roll some race dice on input. This is what it feels like Google has done.
Another option is to give the choice to a better equipped AI. Dall-E does this by having GPT rewrite prompts. This still isn't good at distribution, but can use the LLM's superior knowledge to catch things like…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 Rock And Roll
#LedZeppelin
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PRGxHpCpF2yoOHYKQIEwD
https://cerberusbass.bandcamp.com/track/led-zeppelin-rock-roll-cerberus-remix

OMFG this is so incredibly frustrating! My siblings and I got into a long conversation with our Mom last night about the Israel-Palestine war. Our incredibly intelligent Mom firmly falling on the "HAMAS started it, so what is Israel supposed to do? Roll over?" side, and my siblings and I trying to point out the flaws in her logic - most of which seem to stem from where you get your news and their choice of spin.

Fascinating ... Apple joins Signal to provide the most secure end-to-end encrypted messaging protocols. Note: Apple engineers created their own “Levels” and magically theirs is the highest. ;) But regardless, this is obviously strong encryption.
"Support for PQ3 will start to roll out with the public releases of iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4, and is already in the corresponding developer preview and beta releases.”

Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24080999/spotify-hifi-lossless-high-r…

Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Spotify has still failed to match Apple, Amazon, and other music services in offering lossless audio streaming. And that’s a shame considering how good it is at everything else.

New California bill, #AB2290: "Class III bikeways, which usually consist of sharrows with no protection for bike riders, can’t be included in projects funded by the Active Transportation Program (ATP) unless the street is designed to limit car speeds to 20 mph or less"

California Must Seize the Opportunity to Quickly Build Better Bikeways - CalBike
On April 8, 2024, the Assembly Transportation Committee will hold the first hearing on Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s Quicker and Better Bikeways Bill, AB 2290. CalBike is a sponsor of this critical legislation, which will make our streets safer for people who bike, walk, and roll. The bill includes three critical changes to how we design […]

Jordan Love tells Micah Parsons exactly how Packers were able to roll over Cowboys in playoffs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jordan-

Jordan Love tells Micah Parsons exactly how Packers were able to roll over Cowboys in playoffs
Parsons admitted how embarrassing a loss it was

Something's in the water in Australia that makes great rock and roll. PLEASANTS is the new solo effort of Al Uminium (Dennis Cometti, Aborted Tortoises, Ghoulies) and it's catchy, rough, raw, fun, and synthy.
If you're into catchy garage synth punk-ish stuff, you're gonna dig. Even has some kinda 60s garage feel or 70s punk feel to it sometimes.
Recommended, and might be a contender for my favorite albums of 2024.

"On a climate rollercoaster: how Australia’s environment fared in the world’s hottest year"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

On a climate rollercoaster: how Australia’s environment fared in the world’s hottest year
Conditions deteriorated in 2023 but were stlil relatively good for ecosystems and agriculture. Unfortunately, the alarming decline of threatened species continued.

Comments on the no boundary wavefunction and slow roll inflation
Juan Maldacena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10510 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Comments on the no boundary wavefunction and slow roll inflation
We review aspects of the Hartle-Hawking no boundary geometry in the context of slow roll inflation. We give an analytic approximation to the geometry and we explain the rationale for the proposal. We also explain why it gives a prediction for the curvature of the universe that is in disagreement with observations and give a quick review of proposed ways to resolve that disagreement.

Sunday March 24, Presidi-SLOW Slow Streets Ride!
We are hosting a Slow Streets ride through the Presidio. Should be a beautiful route!
Meet at 1 at Civic Center Plaza, roll at 1:30.
Details https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/presidi-slow/
Please …

Presidi-SLOW: March 24 Slow Streets Ride
Start: Civic Center Plaza across Polk from City Hall (Google Maps) Meet at: 1pm Roll at: 1:30pm Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45790120 This Slow Street Ride will start out in Civic Center Plaza in front of City Hall from which we'll go north on Polk to formerly slow

Intel unveils Hala Point, a large-scale neuromorphic system deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, with 1,152 Loihi 2 processors simulating 1M neurons each (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21355/intel

Intel and Sandia National Labs Roll Out 1.15B Neuron “Hala Point” Neuromorphic Research System
While neuromorphic computing remains under research for the time being, efforts into the field have continued to grow over the years, as have the...

New slow-roll approximations for inflation in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
E. O. Pozdeeva, M. A. Skugoreva, A. V. Toporensky, S. Yu. Vernov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06147

New slow-roll approximations for inflation in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
We propose new slow-roll approximations for inflationary models with the Gauss-Bonnet term. We find more accurate expressions of the standard slow-roll parameters as functions of the scalar field. To check the accuracy of approximations considered we construct inflationary models with quadratic and quartic monomial potentials and the Gauss-Bonnet term. Numerical analysis of these models indicates that the proposed inflationary scenarios do not contradict to the observation data. New slow-roll a…

AI Procurement Checklists: Revisiting Implementation in the Age of AI Governance
Tom Zick, Mason Kortz, David Eaves, Finale Doshi-Velez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14660

AI Procurement Checklists: Revisiting Implementation in the Age of AI Governance
Public sector use of AI has been quietly on the rise for the past decade, but only recently have efforts to regulate it entered the cultural zeitgeist. While simple to articulate, promoting ethical and effective roll outs of AI systems in government is a notoriously elusive task. On the one hand there are hard-to-address pitfalls associated with AI-based tools, including concerns about bias towards marginalized communities, safety, and gameability. On the other, there is pressure not to make it…

Unpopular opinion: voor ik die video van Acid kon bekijken was er een advertentie pre-roll. Dat heeft me altijd slecht gezeten. Die video had niet gemonetizeerd mogen zijn. Verdient iemand daarom deze straf? Natuurlijk niet. Maar het is wel een detail dat ik mis.

SF's Mayor Joins Effort to Roll Back Prop 47 (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/02/08/sfs-mayor-joins-effort-to-roll-back-prop-47-n3782585

SF's Mayor Joins Effort to Roll Back Prop 47
 

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CloudbustingWithLaurenLaverne
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club:
🎵 Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song)
#BlackRebelMotorcycleClub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wZurfElW3yOHscb38vBL8
https://djsoulmachine.bandcamp.com/track/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-whatever-happened-to-my-rockn-roll-soul-machine-remix

quite enjoyed this new interview with booker t. jones about producing #WillieNelson's "stardust" in emmylou harris's living room in beverly hills, using the same mobile studio that recorded "the last waltz" that same year. #podcast with transcript below.

Booker T. Jones on Why He Recorded Willie Nelson’s ‘Stardust’ in Emmylou Harris’s Living Room
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer discusses “Georgia on My Mind”—and the highly improbable pairing and production that gave birth to Willie’s quintuple-platinum masterpiece.

#OleMiss
Via Secretary Michael Watson @MichaelWatsonMS
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@BunkiePerkins, have you been made aware of the new EN President at Ole Miss? His name will make your honor roll.
Via Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins
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BECKETT ABINGTON
That’s right, I’ve got the Mississippi Secretary of State making sure I know about Sigma Nu name drops

Cruise To Re-Launch #Robotaxis ‘With Communities, Not At Them’
In a new email sent to Cruise employees, the company’s new president and CTO struck a new conciliatory tone, suggesting the company plans to dial strategically back an aggressive robotaxi roll out that inspired California regulators to ultimately shut the company’s vehicles down.
"We remain focused on commercializing a fully …

Cruise Will Re-Launch Robotaxis ‘With Communities, Not At Them’
In a new email sent to Cruise employees, the company’s new president and CTO struck a new conciliatory tone, suggesting the company plans to dial strategically back an...

Roll-on deodorant works better if you remove the cap before trying to apply it. This is true for many consumer products.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11706 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots
We prove that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot in $S^4$ is smoothly preserved when four twists are added, and that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot connected sum with a trivial projective plane is preserved after two twists are added. As a consequence, we conclude that a family of homotopy $\mathbb{CP}^2$s recently constructed by Miyazawa are each diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$.

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Odetta:
🎵 Roll On, Buddy
#Odetta
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TQkdeaB5tfJhL6VKHChzO
https://caligolarecords.bandcamp.com/track/medley-roll-on-buddy-lowlands-deep-blue-sea-michael-row-the-boat-ashore

Lost my roll against willpower 🤓

One of the reasons I like using Apple products is their relentless privacy focus. Good to see they're continuing to tighten privacy. https://mastodon.social/@fj/111969752716686597

I'm thinking about a storage backend (or a backend plus access pattern), opinions requested:
I want to store ad hoc/extensible data. Maybe my biggest desire is to be able to roll back updates in time, and if possible to be able to inspect/query that history.
I'd also like something relational, so I have a bunch of entities and then typed relations between those entities (is-a, is-contained-in, etc).
Is this a graph database kind of thing? Do they support history? …

Paramount plans to roll out its ad tier in Canada in April and Australia in June 2024, and to launch its Premium plan in Europe this month, starting in France (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/paramount-international-…

Paramount+ Rolls Out International Ad-Tier Plans For Canada & Australia
Paramount+'s Basic (with ads) tier will roll out in Canada in April and June in Australia, priced at C$6.99 and A$6.99 per month, respectively.

White House issues worker protections for pregnancy termination - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2024/04/15/white-house-issues-worker-protections-for-pregnancy-termination/

White House issues worker protections for pregnancy termination - Roll Call
The regulation implements a law that requires certain employers to offer reasonable accommodations to pregnant and postpartum employees.

Ateist och humanist?
Inom den vanligaste förekommande satanismen är satan ingen central gestalt till skillnad mot vad man skulle kunna tro. I själva verket är de flesta satanister ateister. De tror alltså inte på några gudomligheter och heller inte på att satan skulle existera som ondskan personifierad. Det handlar mer om ett filosofiskt förhållningssätt till livet och människans roll på jorden. Följ @…

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots
Mark Hughes, Seungwon Kim, Maggie Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11706 https://arxiv.org/…

Branched covers of twist-roll spun knots
We prove that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot in $S^4$ is smoothly preserved when four twists are added, and that the double branched cover of a twist-roll spun knot connected sum with a trivial projective plane is preserved after two twists are added. As a consequence, we conclude that a family of homotopy $\mathbb{CP}^2$s recently constructed by Miyazawa are each diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$.

Comments on the no boundary wavefunction and slow roll inflation
Juan Maldacena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10510 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Comments on the no boundary wavefunction and slow roll inflation
We review aspects of the Hartle-Hawking no boundary geometry in the context of slow roll inflation. We give an analytic approximation to the geometry and we explain the rationale for the proposal. We also explain why it gives a prediction for the curvature of the universe that is in disagreement with observations and give a quick review of proposed ways to resolve that disagreement.

I’ve shot some film

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

#UKPol
Via @elisled2 #FBPE #HopeDiesLast @elisled2
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Guardian letter writers are on a roll at the moment!👇🏻
👏👏

Roll-on deodorant works better if you remove the cap before trying to apply it. This is true for many consumer products.

Climbing over the potential barrier during inflation via null energy condition violation
Shi Pan, Yong Cai, Yun-Song Piao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12655 …

Climbing over the potential barrier during inflation via null energy condition violation
The violation of the null energy condition (NEC) may play a crucial role in enabling a scalar field to climb over high potential barriers, potentially significant in the very early universe. We propose a single-field model where the universe sequentially undergoes a first stage of slow-roll inflation, NEC violation, and a second stage of slow-roll inflation. Through the NEC violation, the scalar field climbs over high potential barriers, leaving unique characteristics on the primordial gravitat…

THIS SUNDAY!
Feb 11th Slow Ride — Slow Is Where the Heart Is!
Sunday Feb 11th
Meet at 1, roll at 1:30
Balboa Park at the lawn by San Jose & Santa Ynez
Details: https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/feb-11th-slow-is-where…

Feb 11th Slow Ride — Slow Is Where the Heart Is
Start: Balboa Park at the lawn by San Jose & Santa Ynez (Google Maps) Meet at: 1pm Roll at: 1:30pm Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45344532 We'll start at Balboa Park and go through Slow Cayuga, Somerset, and Minnesota streets as well as the Bayview Multimodal Corridor and the 17th

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🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts:
🎵 I Love Rock ’n’ Roll
#JoanJettandtheBlackhearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cdvbe2G4hZsnhNMKyGrie
https://remixclub.bandcamp.com/track/joan-jett-the-blackhearts-i-love-rockn-roll-remix

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https://9to5google.com/2024/03/20/youtube-tv-multiview-iphone-…

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🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts:
🎵 I Love Rock ’n’ Roll
#JoanJettandtheBlackhearts
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133457/twitch-tiktok-style-feed-rollout…

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