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Sep 26

#múm - Our #Love is #Distorting | #History of #Silence | #MiscMusic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocFKSzyG-DQ

múm - Our Love is Distorting

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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS Aug 20, 2025

#Authors & #editors of #research #papers for #science #journals who use US #federal #health #datasets: Changes were made across datasets. Reason wasn't documented there, but changes came after Jan. 20 presidential order to use "sex" instead of "gender," #distorting research. https://tinyurl.com/mtws46yj

Study: Government health datasets altered without documentation

The study finds that nearly half of the examined federal health datasets were altered. In most, the term "gender" was replaced with "sex."

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eicker.news ᳇ tech news Dec 30, 2024

»#AIdatacenters could be ‘#distorting’ the #US #powergrid: could eventually destroy plugged-in appliances, increase vulnerability to electrical fires, and even lead to brownouts and blackouts.« https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/29/ai-data-centers-could-be-distorting-the-us-power-grid/?eicker.news #tech #media

AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid | TechCrunch

The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the U.S. power grid, according to a new report in

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Spaceflight 🚀Jul 3, 2023

#ESA 📆 2011 The #European 🇪🇺 #SpaceMarket arguably lacks essential ingredients of a free, #competition-driven, #commercial market and thus also some #innovation-stimulating effects of these: activities of the monopsonist are highly regulated by free-market #distorting rules.
“#Innovation is the renewal and enlargement of the range of products and services and the associated markets; the establishment of #new methods of production, supply and distribution; the introduction of #changes in #management, work #organisation, and the working conditions and skills of the workforce.
The #SpaceSector as a whole as well as its #major actors experience difficulties preparing for #disruptive or #radical innovation, partly due to the successes enabled by incremental, sustaining innovation. However, based on analysis methods of free market, #signs 👀 of potentially #disruptive #innovation in the space sector are appearing." https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/CMS/pub/ACT-RPR-1011%20Early%20Signs%20of%20Potentially%20Disruptive%20Innovation%20in%20the%20Space%20Sector%20summerer.pdf