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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: The United States Army Has a “Chief Diversity Officer”
Extremism can tear apart cohesive teams.
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) March 13, 2021
Col. Timothy Holman is the Army’s chief diversity officer and his aim is clear: do what he can to help open a path for future Army leaders and make the force as diverse as the nation it defends.#PeopleFirst ➡️ https://t.co/wfjpbFGaEO pic.twitter.com/eMlFrcUAi3
“We'll have to postpone the amphibious assault. The troops are not sufficiently diverse, and some are suspected of extremism!”
Here is more, if you can take it, from the official army.mil Web site: “Army aggressively working to eliminate extremism, says chief diversity officer”. A quote:
According to the Office of the Provost Marshal General, suspicious behavior or actions of a person, or group of people, should be reported. There are numerous means of reporting: the chain of command, local law enforcement, iSALUTE, and the Insider Threat Hub, among others. If the actions of the person or group are life threatening, call emergency responders and/or 911.
Are there awards for particularly prolific informers?
As I've said before, “Superpower, shmuperpower: one little tap and the whole thing collapses.”
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: A Jet-Powered Go-Kart
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CONTINUITY: “Principles of Gas Filled Tubes”: 1945 Training Film
One of the rooms at my engineering school had fluorescent lighting with a dimmer that used a bank of thyratron tubes to chop the AC waveform into slices delivering the desired input power. When you turned the dimmer way down, you'd get weird dancing plasma effects in the fluorescent tubes. I ought to try that some time with a triac and oscillator drive.
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: How Radio Hobbyists Decoded SpaceX’s Telemetry and Engineering Video
Here is information on the data format by the people who figured it out and background on software-defined radio.
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