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The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite, Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto.

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The most common route of infection is recreational waters. Crypto oocysts are extremely tolerant to chlorine. In properly chlorinated pool water, Crypto can live for more than a full week. When an infected or recently sick swimmer takes a dip, oocysts can enter the pool. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bluntly puts it: germs can enter the water "from small amounts of poop rinsing off swimmers’ butts."

“If the Chinese Communist party regime were to say, ‘If you don’t listen to me, I’ll confiscate your assets from Foxconn’, I would say: ‘Yes, please do it!’ I cannot follow their orders, I won’t be threatened,” Gou said, insisting his business interests would not make him beholden to China.
Now, Beijing has called his bluff on that boast. Tax inspectors have descended on Foxconn subsidiaries in two Chinese provinces and are investigating land use by group companies in two others, in a co-ordinated large-scale probe that Taiwanese executives and government officials say smacks of a politically motivated crackdown.

Led by Joop Schaye (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands), the international Flamingo team simulated the evolution within an expanding volume of space — a cube with sides 10 billion light-years long. In this volume, they traced the gravitational clumping of no less than 300 billion particles, each with the mass of some 130 million solar masses, equivalent to an average dwarf galaxy.

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The simulations required a total of more than 50 million hours of computer time, distributed over the 30,000 processors that make up the DiRAC-COSMA8 supercomputer at Durham University in the UK. The results are published today in three papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

A senior Bandcamp manager, J. Edward Keyes, the company’s editorial director, publicly opposed his coworkers’ decision to unionize in May, saying that they are “privileged tech workers cosplaying as Amazon warehouse workers," according to Keyes’ Instagram posts viewed by 404 Media.

"There is a strong piece in white-collar tech workers who make north of 70k a year appropriating the language of the legitimately oppressed for anyone with the guts to write it," Keyes wrote in an Instagram stories post in May, shortly after Bandcamp workers voted 31 - 7, overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union. "TL;DR: Fuuuuuck Bandcamp United."