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Defacing my answers and comments.
You should do this too.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112407655150856135

Defacing my answers and comments.
You should do this too.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112407655150856135

Disney reports Disney Core, which excludes Disney Hotstar in India and other Southeast Asian countries, subscribers up 6% QoQ to 117.6M in Q2, above forecasts (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/disney-q2-2024-earnings-s…

Disney Reports First Streaming Profit, Disney+ Tops 117 Million Subs
Disney's entertainment streaming division, anchored by Disney+, scored its first profitable quarter for the first three months of 2024.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08616 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

A Generalized Neural Diffusion Framework on Graphs
Recent studies reveal the connection between GNNs and the diffusion process, which motivates many diffusion-based GNNs to be proposed. However, since these two mechanisms are closely related, one fundamental question naturally arises: Is there a general diffusion framework that can formally unify these GNNs? The answer to this question can not only deepen our understanding of the learning process of GNNs, but also may open a new door to design a broad new class of GNNs. In this paper, we propos…

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

Generating, Reconstructing, and Representing Discrete and Continuous Data: Generalized Diffusion with Learnable Encoding-Decoding
Guangyi Liu, Yu Wang, Zeyu Feng, Qiyu Wu, Liping Tang, Yuan Gao, Zhen Li, Shuguang Cui, Julian McAuley, Eric P. Xing, Zichao Yang, Zhiting Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19009

Generating, Reconstructing, and Representing Discrete and Continuous Data: Generalized Diffusion with Learnable Encoding-Decoding
The vast applications of deep generative models are anchored in three core capabilities -- generating new instances, reconstructing inputs, and learning compact representations -- across various data types, such as discrete text/protein sequences and continuous images. Existing model families, like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoregressive models, and diffusion models, generally excel in specific capabilities and data types but fall short in others.…

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

Automated Construction of Theme-specific Knowledge Graphs
Linyi Ding, Sizhe Zhou, Jinfeng Xiao, Jiawei Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19146 https://…

Automated Construction of Theme-specific Knowledge Graphs
Despite widespread applications of knowledge graphs (KGs) in various tasks such as question answering and intelligent conversational systems, existing KGs face two major challenges: information granularity and deficiency in timeliness. These hinder considerably the retrieval and analysis of in-context, fine-grained, and up-to-date knowledge from KGs, particularly in highly specialized themes (e.g., specialized scientific research) and rapidly evolving contexts (e.g., breaking news or disaster t…

On NBC's Meet the Press, veteran anchor Chuck Todd criticized NBC News' decision to hire former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, saying she "has credibility issues" (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/busines

Chuck Todd Questions His Network, NBC News, Over Hiring of Former R.N.C. Chair
The extraordinary comments on “Meet the Press” revealed tensions in NBC’s news divisions over Ronna McDaniel, who recently stepped down as head of the Republican National Committee.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08616 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

A Generalized Neural Diffusion Framework on Graphs
Recent studies reveal the connection between GNNs and the diffusion process, which motivates many diffusion-based GNNs to be proposed. However, since these two mechanisms are closely related, one fundamental question naturally arises: Is there a general diffusion framework that can formally unify these GNNs? The answer to this question can not only deepen our understanding of the learning process of GNNs, but also may open a new door to design a broad new class of GNNs. In this paper, we propos…