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This summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19.
Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Dem…

Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection. Already, more than 65 organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Protesters preparing for the convention hope to channel the anger on many …

“Unlike Google which took years to make its search really shitty, OpenAI plans to have outright false search results and dangerous answers to health questions from day one.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-…

OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

29.000 ukrainische Haushalte nach Angriff ohne Strom
Nach einem nächtlichen russischen Drohnenangriff ist ukrainischen Behördenangaben zufolge die Stromversorgung in und um die Stadt Pawlohrad im Süden des Landes unterbrochen. Betroffen seien fast 29.000 Haushalte, teilte Serhij Lysak, Verwaltungschef des Gebietes Dnipropetrowsk, am Morgen auf Telegram mit. In der Nachbarstadt Terniwka seien 10.000 Haushalte ohne Wasser. Seine…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100 Millionen Euro für die Ukraine von Japan ++
Japan will den Wiederaufbau der Ukraine mit umgerechnet knapp 100 Millionen Euro unterstützen, das melden lokale Medien. Auch in der Nacht hat Russland wieder Ziele in der Ukraine mit Drohnen und Raketen angegriffen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Russian Offensive Attempts on Kharkiv Will Be Answered – Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/11/russian-offensive-attempts.html

Technosolutionism on steroids
Oh my, how politicians love AI! It really is the answer to all their prayers.
Tricky decisions can be taken off the balance sheet like so many bad debts, shunted into the never-never and left to machines of loving grace.
https://www.com…

IT Essentials: Technosolutionism on steroids
Oh my, how politicians love AI! It really is the answer to all their prayers.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18235 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Davidsonian Scene Graph: Improving Reliability in Fine-grained Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
Evaluating text-to-image models is notoriously difficult. A strong recent approach for assessing text-image faithfulness is based on QG/A (question generation and answering), which uses pre-trained foundational models to automatically generate a set of questions and answers from the prompt, and output images are scored based on whether these answers extracted with a visual question answering model are consistent with the prompt-based answers. This kind of evaluation is naturally dependent on th…

Nahaufnahme 2024: Die Lage der #Pressefreiheit in #Deutschland - Reporter ohne Grenzen RSF
"Besonders auf Versammlungen ist das Niveau der Aggression sehr hoch, mit der Personen aus der rechtsextremen Szene und dem Querdenker-Milieu gegenüber Journalistinnen und Journalisten auf…

Nahaufnahme 2024: Die Lage der Pressefreiheit in Deutschland
2023 hat RSF insgesamt 41 Angriffe geprüft. Damit ist die Zahl der Übergriffe im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren deutlich gesunken, ist jedoch noch nicht auf Vor-Pandemie-Niveau. Unsere Analyse zu diesen Zahlen steht in der jetzt veröffentlichten Nahaufnahme. Diese beschäftigt sich auch mit weiteren presserelevanten Neuigkeiten – zum Beispiel zu den Themen Gesetzgebung und Überwachung. Die gesamte Nahaufnahme 2024 gibt es auf: https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/nahaufnahme/2024

Ukraine weist Papst-Aussagen scharf zurück
Die Regierung in Kiew hat die Äußerungen von Papst Franziskus zum Hissen einer "weißen Fahne" angesichts des russischen Angriffskriegs scharf zurückgewiesen. "Unsere Flagge ist gelb und blau. Das ist die Flagge, für die wir leben, sterben und triumphieren. Wir werden niemals andere Fahnen hissen", erklärte Außenminister Dmytro Kuleba im Online-Dienst X. Fran…
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Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) on X
The strongest is the one who, in the battle between good and evil, stands on the side of good rather than attempting to put them on the same footing and call it “negotiations”. At the same time, when it comes to the white flag, we know this Vatican's strategy from the first half…

Fact Check: White House Press Secretary Did NOT Answer Question On 'Ukrainian Manifestations Of Nazism' -- Altered Video: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/fact-check-white.html