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Vancouver, BC ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ โ˜ฎ Truth network โ€ข YES! Universal social justice, human rights | environmentalism | unions | democratic socialism โ€ข NO! Capitalism | billionaires | inequality | oligarchy | authoritarianism | theocracy โ€ข https://Persagen.org/wpi/ โ€ข Transgenocide: https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf โ€ข About: https://persagen.org/html/about.html โ€ข Me: https://persagen.org/about/victoria/victoria-bio-mastodon.html #NoBots
๐ŸŽต Morning โ˜ฎ-in Kraftwerk Autobahn [full; audio; 22:42] Autobahn (2009 Remaster; 22:47) Shorter live version ๐Ÿ™‚ Kraftwerk - Autobahn (live; 8:52) [HD] Kraftwerk: * German electronic band formed 1970 Autobahn (album): * 4th studio album 1974 * transition f. experim. krautrock to electronic pop Namaste ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ•Š #MorningPeaceIn #Kraftwerk #Autobahn #Electronica #SynthPop #krautrock
Trump County in Iowa Ousts Conspiracy Theorist, Elects Democrat * small Iowa county voted out election auditor who shared conspiracy theories incl. QAnon, 2020 election * David Whipple (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66589065) replaced w. Democrat * Warren County voted 57.3% Trump in 2020 Warren County Appoints Conspiracy Theorist As New Auditor He spread conspiracies about elections. Now oversees them #Iowa #GOP #Trumpists #Democrats
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect f. Illicit Behavior of NVIDIA Proprietary Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Illicit-NVIDIA-Change Discussion: * kernel community/developers strongly dislike proprietary kernel modules * cannot be debugged/fixed other than by creator Better article Making life even harder for proprietary modules Mentioned: modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules #Linux # #NVIDIA #LinuxDrivers
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech, No Matter How Awful Discussion: * Tier 1 ISP Hurricane Electric interfering w. traffic * EFF mission/history requires us to look at bigger picture, sound alarm about risks even when the facts horrific Electronic Frontier Foundation: * internat. non-profit digital rights group #EFF #internet #ISP #censorship #FreeSpeech #OnlineSpeech #HumanRights #HurricaneElectric #DigitalRights
[thread] Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy Used Dark Money Connections to Enrich Investment Firm * possibly ethics rules violations around lobbying * GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy * leveraged right-wing dark money relationships to win lucrative public pension investments & consulting business from state financial officers * Vivek Ramaswamy, โ€œanti-wokeโ€ asset manager Strive Enterprises #StriveEnterprises #SFOF #DarkMoney #LeonardLeo #Ramaswamy
Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data Discussion: * GNN essentially deep NN black-box models * IGNNet: Interpretable Graph Neural Network for tab data * notable HN comment, resp. to critique: " Right, the significance of orig. article & related research is ChatGPT-like models don't handle tabular data well & there's need for things that do" #DataProcessing #GraphNeuralNetworks #GNN #TabularData #GPT #LLM #IGNNet image
Deep Neural Nets: 33 yrs ago & 33 yrs f. now Disc'n: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268610 * Interesting retrospective / perspective / prospective f. phenom Andrej Karpathy: * founding member, OpenAI: | ChatGPT, GPT-4, ...) * "most important trend ... training NN f. scratch ... quickly becoming outdated due to finetuning esp. w. emergence of foundation models like GPT ..." #MachineLearning #GPT #NeuralNetworks #AndrejKarpathy #YannLeCun
๐ŸŽต Morning โ˜ฎ-in Legendary 3-person Canadian rock group Rush! ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Tom Sawyer - Rush Rush - Tom Sawyer HD (may need to VPN): Rotterdam, Netherlands, Oct 16/17, 2007 Neil Peart drum cam! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ ๐Ÿ™ Reaction videos Daily Doug Analyzes Tom Sawyer (Rush) studio/live versions @npub1z8us...zyvz LFR Jojo: Namaste ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ•Š #MorningPeaceIn #Rush #TomSawyer #guitar #drums
Queer Teacher Picked a Fight He Couldnโ€™t Win * notoriously transphobic Chaya Raichik / Libs of TikTok * San Antonio suspended Michael Gonzales after he tweeted pic of himself in classroom with Pride flag * โ€œHey somebody tell @Libsoftiktok I put up a progress pride flag in my classroom. Whatโ€™re they going to do about it? Cry? Lmfao,โ€ Gonzales wrote #LibsOfTiktok #ChayaRaichik #CultureWars #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #Learn4Life
โ€˜Jesus Wasnโ€™t a Pacifistโ€™: Training Christian Minutemen to Remove โ€˜Domestic Enemiesโ€™ From Office * โ€œElijah Streamsโ€ program increasingly focused on promoting far-right conspiracy theorists, self-proclaimed โ€œprophetsโ€ who resolutely insist Trump still president #Trumpism #neofascism #ElectoralFraud #ChristianRight #extremism #ConspiracyTheorists #QAnon #DominionTheology #theocracy : #MikePence #LeonardLeo
"Always About Oil." Coup 70 yrs Ago Destroyed Democracy in Iran * 1953-08-19: U.S./U.K backed coup in Iran * 2 yrs after Iranโ€™s democratically elected Prime Minister nationalized oil industry * had been controlled by [now] British Petroleum Ervand Abrahamian: * Iranian historian; author of Oil Crisis in Iran >> search: "British Petroleum" #neocolonialism #Iran #FossilFuels #CIA #BritishPetroleum
2 lawyers involved in judge surveillance case fined, barred from Manitoba courts Lawyers represented churches fighting COVID-19 pandemic orders barring in-person gatherings https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/judge-lawyers-joyal-surveil-1.6942524 * Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyers Jay Cameron & president John Carpay represented churches seeking to overturn Manitoba's pandemic public health orders barring in-person religious services #Canada #COVID19 #Manitoba #FarRight #ChristianRight #JCCF #neofascism
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights f. Science of Consciousness * argues for rigorous, empirically grounded approach to AI consciousness * surveys scientific theories of consciousness * analysis suggests that current AI systems not conscious * no obvious barriers to building conscious AI systems See also: [Yoshua Bengio] FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks #consciousness #ArificialConsciousness #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #YoshuaBengio
905 library strike block party in Bradford ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ * Striking library workers f. CUPE Local 905 visited their local councilor's block party to talk turkey with local residents Canadian Union of Public Employees: * Canadian trade union serving the public sector * largest union in Canada CUPE Local 905: Campaigns: #CUPE #WorkersRights #unions #solidarity #CUPE905 #Canada #libraries #PublicEmployees
Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts search for homeless dur. Yellowknife wildfire evacuation ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ * "My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years" ๐Ÿ™ Caroline Cochrane: #Canada #NWT #CarolineCochrane #homelessness #WildFires #SocialWork
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