As the Office of Personnel Management makes progress toward a long-pursued goal to move the government’s paper-based retirement system into the 21st century, its director said a “fully automated” process is about six months away. OPM Director Scott Kupor said in an interview with FedScoop: “That’s not going to happen overnight.” But, Kupor said he believes the agency can get there within six months “for sure.” The human capital agency hit a milestone in May with the launch of its Online Retirement Application, operationalizing a yearslong development effort and marking the end of paper file submissions. Yet behind the scenes at OPM, there’s still much work to do to bring about a truly automated process. Though the application submissions are now online, humans still currently check the information coming in to make sure they’ve been completed properly and manually key in information into a calculator in “a significant number of cases,” Kupor said. That introduces “a huge amount of delay in the system” and is something the agency is working to fix. The aim is to ultimately have a system where the retiree, human resources, and the payroll provider all submit their information online and route that package electronically — not to a person in the agency’s retirement services division, but to a Digital File System that can fill in the application and do the calculations, Kupor said. Under that future process, he said, all individuals at OPM will be doing is reviewing and spot checking. The simple target of what OPM is trying to do with retirement services, Kupor said, is to go paperless “as quickly as possible.”

The Department of Energy is refreshing its investment in five research centers focused on quantum information science after five years of operation. In a Tuesday announcement, DOE said it’s putting up $625 million to keep all of the existing National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (QIS) going for up to five more years, matching the same investment that launched those centers in 2020. Darío Gil, DOE undersecretary for science, said in a written statement: “President Trump positioned America to lead the world in quantum science and technology and today, a new frontier of scientific discovery lies before us. Breakthroughs in QIS have the potential to revolutionize the ways we sense, communicate, and compute, sparking entirely new technologies and industries.” The centers were authorized by Congress and signed into law in 2018 during the first Trump administration as part of the National Quantum Initiative Act. Since the first January 2020 investment from DOE — which envisioned “two to five multidisciplinary Quantum Initiatives” — centers led by its Brookhaven, Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and Fermi National Laboratories have been established. According to a DOE press release, the work of each center includes supporting science that has “disruptive potential across quantum computing, simulation, networking, and sensing,” as well as establishing “community resources, workforce opportunities, and industry partnerships.”

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tell me if its okay if im fine
i know im not gonna be alright
another day another problem i wanna die
hold my head until i fuckn drown

mozesz mowic mi co chcesz ja i tak cie poslucham
chociaz czasem nie rozumiem co mi szepczesz do ucha
w mojej glowie czesto burza
i nie wiem czy to nie przez to ze wszystko na siebie zrzucam

i dont wanna die alone
i just wanna fight for your love
tell me what the fuck is wrong
seein you cry is like watching gore

everything will be fine believe me
even if i cant believe myself
tell me if u still wanna be here
i know its time you wanna see me dead

tell me if its okay if im fine
i know im not gonna be alright
another day another problem i wanna die
hold my head until i fuckn drown

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I’ve woken up.
(again)
When’s enough, enough?
(enough)

If it starts with no intention, what’s the reason for the end?
There’s no brakes, no intervention, there’s no point to try again.
Can’t defend all my actions.
Can’t pretend that these distractions came and went because they’re still here.
Now the goals near and my head’s clear, now there’s no need for all these tears.
Pain outweighs fear, rust decays gears so the silence is all I hear.
woken up.
Self-destruct.
When’s enough, enough?
It’s an obstacle no, this isn’t love.
Feel so defeated and crushed.
Is this our future we turned to dust?

(You and I have woken up again)
Woken up.
(Open your eyes)
When’s enough?
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Call it love.

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¿Tus datos te ocultan algo? 3 visualizaciones que revelan lo que las tablas no dicen
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