Becky Springmeyer

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

The High Performance Software Foundation

An overview of the High Performance Software Foundation #fosdem #hpc. Very interesting!

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

Mouse study links glyphosate to Alzheimer's-like brain changes and anxiety Glyphosate exposure in mice exacerbates Alzheimer's-like neuropathologies, increases neuroinflammation, and leaves lasting effects, even after prolonged recovery.

#PlanetaryHealth and #Brain and #Mentalhealth

Exposure to #glyphosate, an ingredient widely used in agriculture, forestry, and lawn and garden care, causes #neuroinflammation and increases the risk of neurodegenerative disease, a study in mice shows. #NeuroSky
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El Capitan: NNSA’s First Exascale Computer is Here YouTube video by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Fastest supercomputer in our center so far.

Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)

Quantum bits, or “qubits,” behave very differently from normal bits. Two qubits can hold four values at once. And as the number of qubits grows, a quantum computer becomes exponentially more powerful.

We are pleased to announce an #IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) Special Issue on Converged Computing! ☁️

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Discussion of the best of both worlds, #cloud and #HPC, on the level of technology and culture, is of utmost importance.

Flux Tutorial Series - "Flux on AWS" (Dinosaur Tutorials) YouTube video by vsoch

Welcome back from #SC24! If you are wondering what workload manager is running as the system scheduler on the newly appointed 🥇 in the #top500 El Capitan - it's Flux Framework! And guess what? Today we are releasing another Dinosaur Tutorial series to deploy flux on #AWS! youtu.be/LJh-ab6fAqE

After some formatting tweaks, our automated jobs bot is now posting the hpc.social #HPC community jobs here to BlueSky!

Young journalists will reimagine a better press "The newest generation of journalists will not give in to pessimism about whether their profession still matters in an age of cynicism about the press."

Younger journalists "understand how journalism has failed our society, they also know that people who are committed to producing journalism in the public interest have the power to help to repair it." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/youn...

Elon Musk Bankrolled the Pro-Trump Troll Campaign RBG PAC The Super PAC spent $20 million claiming Trump won’t support a national abortion ban. Now we know Musk funded it

RBC PAC’s $20 million last-minute spending spree boosting Trump on abortion was one of the most brazen stunt campaigns in recent memory, designed to evade basic transparency rules.

Turns out it was 100% funded by Elon Musk. @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Title: "Participatory Disinformation The “Big Lie” during the 2020 Election and the January 6, 2021 Attack on the U.S. Capitol" This is a visual graphic explaining the dynamics between “political elites” and “audiences” in this phenomenon. Political elites are at the top of the graph, audiences at the bottom, with several arcing arrows from elites to audiences on the right, and from audiences to elites on the left, in a kind of clockwise motion, showing a cyclical process. The arcing arrows have labels, explained below. Political elites repeatedly spread the message of a rigged election, which set an expectation of voter fraud among their audiences. This became a “frame” through which events around the election were interpreted. Online “crowds” generated false/misleading stories of voter fraud, reinforcing the frame. Sometimes these stories were produced intentionally (with knowledge that they were false). But often they were generated sincerely, through misinterpretation. Activists and social media influencers helped amplify these stories, passing the content up to the political elites. Political elites echoed the false/misleading stories back to their audiences, reinforcing the frame, building a sense of collective grievance. As audiences echoed and reiterated this growing sense of grievance, violent language and calls to action increased. Political elites then began to mobilize and organize the audiences… into a series of rallies and protests. And one of these led to the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6.

Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

“Notably, Isaacman also has a financial stake in SpaceX. His company, Shift4 — in which he personally owns a 30% stake — purchased $27.5 million worth of SpaceX shares in February 2021, according to financial documents. As of June, Shift4 reported $10.8 million in gains from the investment.“

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6 hours under martial law in Seoul On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.