Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Germany's eROSITA X-ray instrument released a new all-sky survey, revealing the location of about 900,000 individual soft X-ray sources. Unfortunately, eROSITA is an experiment flying on the Russian Spectrum-RG satellite, so controllers decided to shut down the experiment when Russia invited Ukraine. In just six months, the instrument detected more X-ray sources than had been discovered in all astronomy, including black holes, stars, galaxies, and exotic objects.

https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7989698/news20240131

#ThrowbackThursday

#Dunvegan woods are full of colour and pattern in the #winter. They are also very atmospheric and an absolute pleasure to walk through. I rarely meet another soul there; even in the high tourist season. I have taken #photographs there at every season. I have no particular favourite. It’s the quality of the light and the place that makes it special anytime.

Universal Music Group Removes Songs from TikTok Amidst Contract Dispute https://jambands.com/news/2024/02/01/universal-music-group-removes-songs-from-tiktok-amidst-contract-dispute/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #music #jamband

Today I received a $7.70 check as my share of the settlement in the In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation case 🤑 I thank the plaintiffs' class action lawyers for ensuring that I am so richly compensated for my harms

As California begins to dry out from its latest atmospheric river event, residents are preparing for a likely much stronger storm beginning Sunday, lasting into Wednesday. https://t.co/5iUA4yQHyV

Something interesting that came up several times today in the Zoom for Palestine was that #India’s government is closely watching what happens in #Palestine so they may start developing the same sort of settlements in #Kashmir, and activists speaking out in India for #Gaza are being severely punished.

Permission for genocide will spread quickly and we have our own governments to blame.

It’s either a little early for caturday, or really late. Ha

“We believe the coalition model is the answer towards getting major projects developed…”

The National Coalition of Chiefs is holding its Clean Energy Summit, which is expected to bring together more than 90 chiefs. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is a headliner, with other First Nations representatives discussing such opportunities as LNG and nuclear..

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/summit-bring-pro-development-chiefs-together-pursue-clean-energy-initiatives

#Indigenous #cleanenergy #industry #economy

"A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/genocide-gaza-israel-california-court

#NASA to 'wiggle' broken #Ingenuity #Mars #helicopter's blades to analyze damage.
Mission managers revealed all four of Ingenuity's blades were damaged during a rough landing on Red Planet.
The helicopter was initially designed to make just five flights — its mission ended after number 72. The fact that Ingenuity was able to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere and carry out as many sorties as it did is true testament to JPL's expertise and could foreshadow future missions. https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-tribute

First atomic-scale 'movie' of microtubules under construction, a key process for cell division https://phys.org/news/2024-02-atomic-scale-movie-microtubules-key.html #science

TIL A couple bought a home in an Edmonton suburb in 1974 after hearing talk about a potential train line from their realtor. The 13km light rail connecting their community to downtown in 30 minutes finally opened in 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/valley-line-southeast-open-to-passengers-1.7018586
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1agmjyi/til_a_couple_bought_a_home_in_an_edmonton_suburb/

Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/zoom-layoffs-company-cuts-150-employees-2percent-of-workforce.html

Oh no! Washington DC is turning into shoplifting desert!

Pressley slams Walgreens closures: ‘Racial and economic discrimination’

Pressley said on the House floor this week. “These closures are not arbitrary, and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4442318-pressley-slams-walgreens-closures/

Tether Reports Record $2.85B Profit as Biggest Stablecoin Nears $100B Market Cap
L: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/01/31/tether-reports-record-285b-profit-as-biggest-stablecoin-nears-100b-market-cap/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39222062
posted on 2024.02.01 at 17:00:34 (c=0, p=3)

FREE E-BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America

By Lawrence B. Glickman

"Glickman reminds us that consumer activism ‘has been a consistent and long-standing element of American political culture,’ extending back to the 18th Century. . . . [Buying Power is] a rich, provocative, and—given the explosion of consumer activist campaigns in recent years—timely study whose insights into the successes, failures and meanings of consumer activism its practitioners would do well to consider."—Chicago Tribune

I'm not sure if the link will work (you'll have to enter your e-mail for the download link), but--

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DOWNLOAD&utm_campaign=Free_e-book_February_2024

Continuing the tradition of all the best thinkers and artists and activists being 'cancelled' in Germany.

"Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/01/laurie-anderson-ends-german-professorship-pro-palestine-letter

9/9 "In the end, the person who bears full responsibility for killing Michael Mohn is his son. But the people who stood behind Justin Mohn whispering all kinds of nonsense — for clicks or votes or whatever they need to prop up their own mediocrity — are splattered with the blood."

Please read the entire column.