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#firing — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. David Ross returns to ESPN two years after Cubs firing

    misryoum.com/us/us/david-ross-

    David Ross is headed back to the Worldwide Leader.  ESPN announced Tuesday that the longtime MLB catcher and ex-Cubs manager is coming back to the network on a multiyear deal after having previously been on its airwaves from 2017-19. ...

    #David #Ross #returns #ESPN #two #years #after #Cubs #firing #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  2. "
    SpaceX Hit with 2 New Lawsuits Alleging Retaliation Over Safety Concerns
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    "..facility in Texas recorded an injury rate of 4.27 per 100 workers last year—nearly triple the aerospace manufact. av. of 1.6. .. group tied to the west coast rocket fairing recovery ops, which have an even higher injury rate of 7.6 per 100 workers."

    newsbreak.com/dmr-news-3215225
    2.8.2025

    #Arbeitssicherheit #Arbeitsschutz #EmployeeWellBeing #fairing #firing #OccupationalSafety #OSHA #Raumfahrt #safety #SpaceFlight #SpaceX

  3. The Environmental *Protection* Agency said Friday that it would eliminate its #scientific #research arm & begin #firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists & other #scientists, after denying for months that it would do so.

    The move underscores how #Trump is forging ahead w/efforts to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies after #SCOTUS allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Govt scientists have been particular targets of the admin’s #MassLayoffs.

  4. As #Trump accelerates his #authoritarianism, #USPol could lose #democracy status, says global watchdog.

    It refers to ongoing events in the U.S. as unprecedented, mentioning Trump #pardoning 1,500 #criminals who supported him; #firing independent agency #watchdogs without process; #purging apolitical #police and #military brass; #ignoring #laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress

    #auspol #RussianAsset

    cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democr

  5. #NLRB #NationalLaborRelationsBoard issued its 1st complaint against #Musk’s #X Corp. Board accused X of #illegally #firing Yao Yue, widely respected #engineer at the compan for pushing back on Musk’s #returntooffice #policy, according to a copy of the #complaint obtained by Platformer. Specifically, it accused X of violating #federallaw that prevents #employers from #retaliating against #workers for discussing their #workingconditions and #organizing with colleagues. platformer.news/p/how-one-form

  6. @darioringach This preprint is an excellent read on the #adaptation of the #firing rate of primary #visual #cortex neurons - showing a #powerlaw scaling between the ratio of #probabilities and the ratio of observed firing rates, and also relative invariance of directional scatter (though I am puzzled by the use of cosine similarity instead of more standard distances between distributions...).

    An interesting result is that the log firing rate is linearly proportional to the negative surprise of a stimulus, which will certainly bring a smile to proponents of #probabilistic representations in the brain or #predictive processing...

    The study extends these observations to more ecological distributions, but - as far as I understand it - still samples individual orientations. One can predict that this would extend to showing textures with different levels of anisotropy (as defined by the tuple $(n_x, n_y)$ in the Ringach, 2002 paper, for example), creating a stimulus set ${ s_i }$ that better covers the space of visual features.

    #computationalneuroscience

  7. Firing at Athabasca U suggests there are now two classes of public board members in Alberta – those appointed by the UCP and those not - Alberta Politics bit.ly/3I0rwKa #ableg #UCP #AthabascaU #Firing #Alberta #PeterScott #BestPractics #BoardOFGovernors #abpoli @cdnpoli