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The State Department fired the remaining staff in the Office of Global Change, responsible for international climate policy, as part of a larger downsizing of nearly 3,000 employees. This leaves the State Department with no staff knowledgeable about global climate negotiations. 🤷‍♂️

https://wapo.st/4lPbq6Y

The State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change

The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.

The Washington Post

Alan Sill 2d ago

LIGO 2d ago

We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun

https://ligo.org/ligo-virgo-kagra-detect-most-massive-black-hole-merger-to-date/

#O4IsHere #Astrodon #GravitationalWaves

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Alan Sill 2d ago

@davidho I always add "PM" to the front of the message so that people will know it is a PM, but these should have just turned up in your normal feed I think!

Alan Sill 3d ago

Tucson Sentinel 3d ago

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts & chaos https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/071225_cancer_cuts/worlds-premier-cancer-institute-faces-crippling-cuts-chaos/
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.
#Tucson #Arizona

Alan Sill 3d ago

Max Leibman 3d ago

Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.

Alan Sill 3d ago

The Autistic Innovator 3d ago

The battery on my new Lenovo M11 tablet was draining fast and it didn't make any sense because the tablet and battery is brand new. It's supposed to last all day. Turns out it was the Facebook app running in the background nonstop spying on everything I'm doing on the tablet and using all the battery power. Deleted the app. Problem is fixed.

Alan Sill 3d ago

Bill Kimler 3d ago

This is so goddamn depressing.
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Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administration.

#Science

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/things-well-never-know-science-fair-highlights-us-canceled-research/

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

Congressional Democrats host scientists whose grants have been canceled.

Ars Technica

Alan Sill 3d ago

Andrew Jones (hpcnotes)3d ago

Some #HPC fun for the week ahead:

a quiz on HPC leadership topics

https://forms.office.com/r/vCcEX690h2

(and no mention of #ai or #quantum

Microsoft Forms

Alan Sill 3d ago

Simon Tatham 3d ago

General reminder:

The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.

Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.

You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.

Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.

PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client

Alan Sill 4d ago

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Daniel Swain 4d ago

I appear in the film, and also served a scientific advisor to the production team, so I sincerely hope you find it worthwhile. The full versions is freely available on YouTube--so please share widely! #ClimateChange #Weather

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