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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs person who worked at the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Corporation.
https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-…

STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory firings of workers:
This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant…

Memo: The New York Times told journalists covering the Israel-Hamas war to restrict the use of "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", and "occupied territory" (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaz…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

#TodayILearned that the #Cantonese phrase for “getting scapegoated” is 食死貓 (sik6 sei2 maau1), literally “eating a dead cat”.
When someone has to eat a dead cat, it means they have to take the blame for a problem.
🙀

Note, this truck-eating bridge is the Storrow Drive passage under Massachusetts Avenue (at the MIT campus)
It's a low bridge which is frequently impacted by oblivious box truck drivers
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/05/17/maximizing-those-mark…

Maximizing Those Marketing Dollars
What would the bottom-line cost be on wrecking a truck this way?

Had this cute little guy show up last night to eat the fries that @… threw out in the backyard just outside our back door.
He ate all the fries, and then afterwards grabbed the only porkchop bone that was left and toted it off to wherever he was staying in the woods I guess.
Kumquat, our 4 year old male cat, sat at the back sliding door and watche…

once again, some nice shots from #stubai #glacier top of #insbruck 🇦🇹🏔️🚠🏂

“ The memo—written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan…”
Wessling reports either to Joe Kahn, top editor, or Carolyn Ryan/Marc Lacey, seconds-in-command.
This doesn’t get done w/out approval by Kahn and Sulzberger.
https://theinte…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

@… I was (of course) aware that there are differences in cutlery use across Europe and between Europe and North America, but I ha no idea to what extent the styles were codified… Wow! htt…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
The Growlers:
🎵 Going gets tough
#TheGrowlers
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Et9MYUuK2OkYE3ce2F0oK
https://thegrowlers.bandcamp.com/track/going-gets-tough

Ten years ago, Yann LeCun gave an astonishing keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit,
in which he demonstrated the power and practicality of deep neural networks (DNNs) for computer vision. 
As I left his talk, I recall thinking to myself, “If what he says about deep neural networks is true, that changes everything about computer vision.”
DNNs have indeed revolutionized both how we do computer vision and what we can do with computer vision.
-- Jeff Bier

Navigating the Shift to Generative AI and Multimodal LLMs - EE Times
The 2024 Embedded Vision Summit is set to explore the transformative potential of multimodal language models and generative AI at the edge.