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In Florida, an exodus of people fleeing rising anti-immigrant sentiment (Jasmine Garsd/NPR)
https://npr.org/2024/04/24/1236631178/in-florida-an-exodus-of-people-fleeing-rising-anti-immigrant-sentiment
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p93#a240424p93

If you remember how my insurance company would not replace my 12 year old failing CPAP machine, here's the exciting conclusion...
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/03/24/cpap-2024/

CPAP 2024
Insurance is (sometimes) terrible...

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#Google #AI

Socratic Planner: Inquiry-Based Zero-Shot Planning for Embodied Instruction Following
Suyeon Shin, Sujin jeon, Junghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15190

Socratic Planner: Inquiry-Based Zero-Shot Planning for Embodied Instruction Following
Embodied Instruction Following (EIF) is the task of executing natural language instructions by navigating and interacting with objects in 3D environments. One of the primary challenges in EIF is compositional task planning, which is often addressed with supervised or in-context learning with labeled data. To this end, we introduce the Socratic Planner, the first zero-shot planning method that infers without the need for any training data. Socratic Planner first decomposes the instructions into …

The Israeli endgame is death to the Palestinians plain and simple: How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in #Gaza, #Israel faces only bad options

How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options
Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Hamas after a devastating aerial bombardment paved the way for its ground troops. But those early gains have given way to a grinding struggle against an adaptable insurgency — and a growing feeling among many Israelis that their military faces onl…

"Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities"
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-end-insurgency…

How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options
Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Hamas after a devastating aerial bombardment paved the way for its ground troops. But those early gains have given way to a grinding struggle against an adaptable insurgency — and a growing feeling among many Israelis that their military faces onl…

Just posted the following on #nextdoor Very curious about the responses if there are any.
"Why doesn't Highway Unit 1 enforce the 50mph speed limit on the West Side Highway? There are so many collisions there caused by drivers obviously going way more than 50mph. So many sirens. So much cost. I would assume all that expense raises car insurance rates. People are always complaining …

#TIL: #macOS has a background process named MessagesBlastDoorService, and if you run Messages long enough you might get a few of these, all sleeping and masking SIGTERM. It might correlate to Messages failing to launch. Also maybe related to increasing Messages delays and weirdness. And an absurdly large Messages…

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#Google #AI

🏖️ Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money
https://lithub.com/contemporary-literary-novels-are-haunted-by-the-absence-of-money/

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money
The following is the second of a six-part collaboration with Dirt about “The Myth of the Middle Class” writer. Check back here throughout the week for more on the increasingly difficult prospect of…