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So farewell, Hong Kong. The vibrant, pulsating city-state that grew, under British rule, into one of the world’s great financial, business, cultural and tourism hubs has finally been brought to heel. Browbeaten, abused, silenced.
//Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate - The Guardian https://

Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate — Guardian US
The former British territory was a flawed success. Xi Jinping has ended that with the punitive and hastily passed article 23

It's good to work again. I was never a champion. Let alone 4 times. But I tore a rotator cuff re-building my fence four years ago, and I'm still re-habbing every day. Be good to yourself. (Saber fencing looks incredibly hard!) https://mindly.social/@deliaturner/11217389775…

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
Suppakit Waiwitlikhit, Ion Stoica, Yi Sun, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Daniel Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04500

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
There is an increasing conflict between business incentives to hide models and data as trade secrets, and the societal need for algorithmic transparency. For example, a rightsholder wishing to know whether their copyrighted works have been used during training must convince the model provider to allow a third party to audit the model and data. Finding a mutually agreeable third party is difficult, and the associated costs often make this approach impractical. In this work, we show that it is …