Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts search for homeless dur. Yellowknife wildfire evacuation 🔥 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-w-t-premier-caroline-cochrane-recounts-search-for-homeless-during-yellowknife-evacuation-1.6527425 * Caroline Cochrane: social worker before entering politics * when NWT ordered everyone to leave due to wildfires, she made sure homeless people weren't forgotten 👍️ * "My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years" 🙏 Caroline Cochrane:

Caroline Cochrane - Wikipedia

#Canada #NWT #CarolineCochrane #homelessness #WildFires #SocialWork

Canada has ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right/authoritarian shift

The Globe and Mail

Canada mulling ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift, Joly says

Ottawa’s close political and economic ties to the U.S. means ‘we must certainly prepare several scenarios’ if it takes a far-right shift, Jol...

* Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly:

Mélanie Joly - Wikipedia

* Canada has “game plan” on how to respond if U.S. takes far-right/authoritarian shift in 2024-11 presidential elections * “We are certainly working on scenarios” * our close political, economic ties to U.S. mean “we must certainly prepare several scenarios” * suggested Canada has game plan, wouldn’t get into details #CanadaUSrelations

Voters Agree: U.S. Failing as a Nation Some Democrats, most Republicans share sense of doom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/upshot/poll-republicans-democrats-pessimism.html

Cross-Tabs: July 2023 Times/Siena Poll of the 2024 Race and National Issues (Published 2023)

President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump are tied in a 2024 rematch among all registered voters, according to a poll conducted by The N...

* 37% of registered voters say U.S. in danger of failing as a nation * 56% of GOP & GOP-leaning independents said U.S. in danger of such failure * this outlook more common among voters whose party is out of power * fatalists span political spectrum * 20% of Democrats & Democratic-leaning independents feel the same way #USpolitics #polling #GOP #Democrats

A 4% income tax on millionaires will make lunch free for Massachusetts K-12 students https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194424563/free-school-lunch-massachusetts * Massachusetts' new budget will provide free school lunches for K-12 students, thanks to 4% income tax on state residents' incomes above $1 million * Fair Share Amendment approved by voters 2022-11 * generating $1 billion for MA; $224 million will go to K-12 programs: free lunch; implementing "clean energy" in schools #WealthInequality #TaxWealth #DefundBillionaires #Massachusetts

1 Person (Tina McKinnor) Stopped California’s Divestment f. Fossil Fuels

One Person Stopped California’s Divestment From Fossil Fuels — Again

Assemblymember Tina McKinnor refused to take up the bill in a committee, for the second year in a row, as divestment movement grows.

* SB 252:

Bill Text - SB-252 Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.

SB 252 Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.

* divestment bill re: California public pension, teacher retirement funds * $14.8 billion invested in 200 largest oil, gas & coal companies Tina McKinnor (D-CA):

Tina McKinnor - Wikipedia

* member of the California State Assembly #TinaMcKinnor #FossilFuels #California #SB252 #divestment #CalPERS #CalSTRS #neoliberalism #capitalism #ClimateChange #PensionFunds

🎵 Morning ☮-in The Blues Brothers - Soul Man (Live Version) (Official Audio) From 'Briefcase Full Of Blues' (1978) Classic! 😀 Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL 😎 * Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) perform “Soul Man.” [Season 4, 1978] Soul Man · Sam and Dave Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #BluesBrothers #JohnBelushi #DanAykroyd #BluesBrothersBand #Sam_and_Dave

Texas counties don’t have power to ban solar farms, attorney general finds Opinion comes as communities across the U.S. fight solar & wind development, which play important role in slowing climate change but use a lot of land

The Texas Tribune

Texas counties can’t ban solar farms, attorney general says

The opinion comes as communities across the country fight solar and wind development, which play an important role in slowing climate change but us...

Koch-Funded Group Undermining US Clean Energy Goals

Mastodon

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)

Addendae 3 cont'd Relevant (U.S. side): https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110537921134755512 Koch-Funded Group Undermining US Clean Energy Goals ...

Natural Language is All a Graph Needs

arXiv.org

Language is All a Graph Needs

The emergence of large-scale pre-trained language models has revolutionized various AI research domains. Transformers-based Large Language Models (...

* Transformer-based LLM replacing CNN/RNN to unify computer vision, NLP * limited work incorporating graph learning into generative language modeling * explores whether LLM can replace GNN as foundational model for graphs * method exceeds competitive GNN baselines on ogbn-arxiv, Cora, PubMed * sheds light on generative LM replacing GNN as foundation model for graph ML #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #GraphTheory #InstructGLM #NLP #GNN

Woman shaken after EV charging feature stopped her from driving away from potential danger

CTVNews

Woman shaken after EV charging feature stopped her from driving away from potential danger

An electric vehicle driver in Vancouver is sounding the alarm after a troubling confrontation in a parking garage on the city’s Downtown Eastside.

* electric vehicle driver in Vancouver sounding alarm after troubling confrontation in parking garage * inside locked vehicle trying to pay when man approached, tried to break in * unable to escape: EV can’t be operated while they’re being charged #Canada #Vancouver #crime #EV #ElectricVehicles #PublicSafety

Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html * recycling company owner Cory Tomczyk called 13-yo boy “fag” * Republican state senator:

Cory Tomczyk - Wikipedia

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* lawsuit to censor, intimidate, silence critics by burdening them w. cost of legal defense until they abandon their opposition #CoryTomczyk #GOP #SLAPP #homophobia #censorship #hate #lgbt