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Well, this is creepy: #LawFedi

The FBI Is Investigating Strange Texts Sent To Women Law Professors
‘Law school isn’t fair for us men anymore, women always outperform us nowadays,’ the anonymous texter said.

@… on using aliases and/or real names for #FOSS contributors:
Skin in the Game
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"Klimaphänomen schlägt zügig um
Das #Klimaphänomen #ElNiño im #Pazifik streicht allmählich die Segel und wird bis zum Sommer höchstwahrscheinlich in ein schwaches bis moderates…

Nach El Niño kommt La Niña: Klimaphänomen schlägt zügig um
Das Klimaphänomen El Niño im Pazifik streicht allmählich die Segel und wird bis zum Sommer höchstwahrscheinlich in ein schwaches bis moderates La Niña umschlagen. Die Folgen für das weltweite Wetter sind weitreichend. Insbesondere dem Atlantikraum stehen wohl stürmische Zeiten bevor.

"... nicht ohne die Erwähnung des besten DJ-Sets auskommen, das Krems an diesen sechs Festivalabenden erleben durfte ... von der französisch-ghanaischen DJ und Producerin PÖ ... stilistischer Ritt über Wellen aus Rave, Dancehall, Drum’n’Bass oder sauschnellen Footwork ... Kategorien wie „Geschwindigkeit“ (bpm) oder „Genre“ jegliche Bedeutung verlieren, wenn sie auf derart sinnstiftende Weise mit der mitreißendsten Energie des ganzen Festivals aneinander gefügt werden."

Blackest ever black: Der Abschluss des Donaufestivals 2024 - fm4.ORF.at
Nackte Körper, faszinierende Substanzen, nachtschwarze Denkerelektronik, dröhnende Marmorwände: Autechre, Maya Shenfeld und Joshua Serafins Performance „Void“ am zweiten Wochenende des Donaufestivals.

"Like most people, I initially did not notice that my hometown was saturated with murals and pieces, as well as hastily executed stencils, tags and throw-ups. But just like a gestalt image, once you shift your gaze towards the street, you start seeing them, and then there is no turning back."
How to love #graffiti — learning from

How to love graffiti — learning from Bogotá - Nature Cities
Most of what I know of street art and graffiti, I learned by walking the streets of Bogotá, Colombia. Like most people, I initially did not notice that my hometown was saturated with murals and pieces, as well as hastily executed stencils, tags and throw-ups. But just like a gestalt image, once you shift your gaze towards the street, you start seeing them, and then there is no turning back. My fascination with these strange letters and images, done mostly by anonymous artists, led me to start …

So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

Robust Semi-supervised Learning via $f$-Divergence and $\alpha$-R\'enyi Divergence
Gholamali Aminian, Amirhossien Bagheri, Mahyar JafariNodeh, Radmehr Karimian, Mohammad-Hossein Yassaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00454

Robust Semi-supervised Learning via $f$-Divergence and $α$-Rényi Divergence
This paper investigates a range of empirical risk functions and regularization methods suitable for self-training methods in semi-supervised learning. These approaches draw inspiration from various divergence measures, such as $f$-divergences and $α$-Rényi divergences. Inspired by the theoretical foundations rooted in divergences, i.e., $f$-divergences and $α$-Rényi divergence, we also provide valuable insights to enhance the understanding of our empirical risk functions and regularization …

"Klimaphänomen schlägt zügig um
Das #Klimaphänomen #ElNiño im #Pazifik streicht allmählich die Segel und wird bis zum Sommer höchstwahrscheinlich in ein schwaches bis moderates…

Nach El Niño kommt La Niña: Klimaphänomen schlägt zügig um
Das Klimaphänomen El Niño im Pazifik streicht allmählich die Segel und wird bis zum Sommer höchstwahrscheinlich in ein schwaches bis moderates La Niña umschlagen. Die Folgen für das weltweite Wetter sind weitreichend. Insbesondere dem Atlantikraum stehen wohl stürmische Zeiten bevor.

[Apropos Tanzen früher am Abend: https://flucc.at/events/M7WMA8-technoage-ab-sechs-uhr-clubbing/]

[Apropos Tanzen früher am Abend: https://flucc.at/events/M7WMA8-technoage-ab-sechs-uhr-clubbing/]