🎵 Morning ☮-in Kraftwerk Autobahn [full; audio; 22:42] Autobahn (2009 Remaster; 22:47) Shorter live version 🙂 Kraftwerk - Autobahn (live; 8:52) [HD] Kraftwerk:

Kraftwerk - Wikipedia

* German electronic band formed 1970 Autobahn (album):

Autobahn (album) - Wikipedia

* 4th studio album 1974 * transition f. experim. krautrock to electronic pop Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #Kraftwerk #Autobahn #Electronica #SynthPop #krautrock

Trump County in Iowa Ousts Conspiracy Theorist, Elects Democrat

Trump County in Iowa Ousts Conspiracy Theorist, Elects Democrat Instead | The New Republic

* 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

Iowa Starting Line

Warren County Appoints Conspiracy Theorist As New Auditor

Warren County residents want a special election to vote for a new county auditor after it came to light that newly appointed auditor David Whipple ...

He spread conspiracies about elections. Now oversees them

He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them

Iowa voters will decide if David Whipple. who spread false election fraud rumours, should be in charge of elections.

#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:

Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules | Hacker News

* 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

LWN.net

Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

The kernel community has never had a smooth relationship with the purveyors of proprietary kern [...]

LWN.net - Wikipedia

Mentioned: modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

Making sure you're not a bot!

#Linux # #NVIDIA #LinuxDrivers

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech, No Matter How Awful

Electronic Frontier Foundation

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.

Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our onlin...

Discussion:

ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is | Hacker News

* 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:

Electronic Frontier Foundation - Wikipedia

* 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

Vivek Ramaswamy Used Dark Money Connections to Enrich His Investment Firm

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has leveraged relationships in the right-wing dark money world to win lucrative public pension investmen...

* 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, “anti-woke” asset manager Strive Enterprises #StriveEnterprises #SFOF #DarkMoney #LeonardLeo #Ramaswamy

🎵 Morning ☮-in Lazy Sunday 😴 Classic!! 😀 👍️ Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short Awesome bluesy guitar work 🎸 ; fr. classic album Machine Head Lazy - Deep Purple Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #SNL #LazySunday #DeepPurple #Lazy #ClassicRock

Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data

arXiv.org

Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data

Data in tabular format is frequently occurring in real-world applications. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been extended to effectively ...

Discussion:

Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data | Hacker News

* 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

Deep Neural Nets: 33 yrs ago & 33 yrs f. now

Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

Musings of a Computer Scientist.

Disc'n: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268610 * Interesting retrospective / perspective / prospective f. phenom Andrej Karpathy:

Andrej Karpathy - Wikipedia

* founding member, OpenAI:

OpenAI - Wikipedia

| 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

🎵 Morning ☮-in * The late great SRV - my favorite guitarist; likely my favorite musician 😀 * Jimi Hendrix classic Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #StevieRayVaughan #SRV #VoodooChile

🎵 Morning ☮-in Legendary 3-person Canadian rock group Rush! 🥳 🇨🇦 Tom Sawyer - Rush Rush - Tom Sawyer HD (may need to VPN): Rotterdam, Netherlands, Oct 16/17, 2007 Neil Peart drum cam! 😯 🙏 Reaction videos Daily Doug Analyzes Tom Sawyer (Rush) studio/live versions @npub1z8us...zyvz LFR Jojo: Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #Rush #TomSawyer #guitar #drums

Queer Teacher Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win

The Texas Observer

A Queer Teacher in Edgewood Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win

Learn4Life of San Antonio suspended Michael Gonzales after he tweeted a picture of himself in his classroom beside a pride flag.

* notoriously transphobic Chaya Raichik / Libs of TikTok * San Antonio suspended Michael Gonzales after he tweeted pic of himself in classroom with Pride flag * “Hey somebody tell @Libsoftiktok I put up a progress pride flag in my classroom. What’re they going to do about it? Cry? Lmfao,” Gonzales wrote #LibsOfTiktok #ChayaRaichik #CultureWars #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #Learn4Life

‘Jesus Wasn’t a Pacifist’: Training Christian Minutemen to Remove ‘Domestic Enemies’ From Office

People For

'Jesus Wasn't a Pacifist': Training Christian Minutemen to Remove 'Domestic Enemies' From Office

* “Elijah Streams” program increasingly focused on promoting far-right conspiracy theorists, self-proclaimed “prophets” 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

Democracy Now!

How CIA & MI6 Overthrew Mossadegh 70 Years Ago, Crushing Democracy in Iran

We look at the 70th anniversary of the August 19, 1953, U.S.- and U.K-backed coup in Iran, which took place two years after Iran’s democratically...

* 1953-08-19: U.S./U.K backed coup in Iran * 2 yrs after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister nationalized oil industry * had been controlled by [now] British Petroleum Ervand Abrahamian:

Ervand Abrahamian - Wikipedia

* Iranian historian; author of Oil Crisis in Iran

Cambridge Core

Oil Crisis in Iran

Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Oil Crisis in Iran

Persagen.org

>> 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

arXiv.org

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness

Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for,...

* 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

Mastodon

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

[thread] AI risks [2023-06-24, Yoshua Bengio] FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-risks/ * AI...

#consciousness #ArificialConsciousness #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #YoshuaBengio

905 library strike block party in Bradford 👍️ * 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 Union of Public Employees - Wikipedia

* Canadian trade union serving the public sector * largest union in Canada CUPE Local 905:

CUPE 905

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About CUPE 905 CUPE 905 proudly represents over 3,000 members serving our communities in the Municipal, Library & Long Term Care Sectors across...

Campaigns:

CUPE 905

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Support Markham Workers NO 12-Hour Shifts in LTC Work From Home Works

#CUPE #WorkersRights #unions #solidarity #CUPE905 #Canada #libraries #PublicEmployees

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