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Anonymous, Baptiste Trotignon, Baptiste Trotignon & Reginald Mobley:
🎵 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
#Anonymous #BaptisteTrotignon #ReginaldMobley
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Almost everyone is sure that the Kremlin chief will continue waging war. However, their assessments of what goals he is currently setting for his “special military operation” differ.
One “faction” of interlocutors suggests that following the setbacks Ukraine has recently been suffering in the front line, Putin perceives Ukraine’s weakness and is prepared to escalate efforts towards a “decisive triumph” – taking Kyiv, for example.
Such a move would likely entail further mobilization…

Take Kharkiv or Push to Kyiv: Russian Elite Believe Putin Considering Two Options to End War
Recent anonymous insights from sources close to the Kremlin suggest that Russian political elites believe that Vladimir Putin is weighing two potential strategies to conclude the war in Ukraine.

The Negative Participation Paradox in Three-Candidate Instant Runoff Elections
David McCune, Jennifer Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18857 https://

The Negative Participation Paradox in Three-Candidate Instant Runoff Elections
In this paper, we provide theoretical and empirical estimates for the likelihood of a negative participation paradox under instant runoff voting in three-candidate elections. We determine the probability of the paradox and related conditional probabilities based on the impartial anonymous culture and impartial culture models for both complete and partial ballots. We compare these results to the empirical likelihood of a negative participation paradox occurring under instant runoff voting in a l…

Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity
Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17599 https://

Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity
Voice assistants (VAs) are becoming a feature of our everyday life. Yet, the user experience (UX) is often limited, leading to underuse, disengagement, and abandonment. Co-designing interactions for VAs with potential end-users can be useful. Crowdsourcing this process online and anonymously may add value. However, most work has been done in the English-speaking West on dialogue data sets. We must be sensitive to cultural differences in language, social interactions, and attitudes towards techn…

Insider says to expect more trades for star WRs between now and the draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/insider_says_to_expect_more_trades_for_star_wrs_between_now_and_the_draft/s1_13132_402406…

Insider says to expect more trades for star WRs between now and the draft
When the Buffalo Bills shipped disgruntled receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans nearly two weeks ago, they may have unknowingly started a trend. According to a report from Jason La Canfora of the Washington Post, several anonymous general managers and front-office executives indicated there could be multiple trades involving star wide receivers before the conclusion of the 2024 NFL Draft. “More of them will go,” one GM told La Canfora. “…Would you rather do what [Texans GM Nick C…

Large Language Models are Advanced Anonymizers
Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunovi\'c, Martin Vechev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13846 https://

Large Language Models are Advanced Anonymizers
Recent work in privacy research on large language models has shown that they achieve near human-level performance at inferring personal data from real-world online texts. With consistently increasing model capabilities, existing text anonymization methods are currently lacking behind regulatory requirements and adversarial threats. This raises the question of how individuals can effectively protect their personal data in sharing online texts. In this work, we take two steps to answer this quest…

Click-trackers in email "need" to rewrite rewritten links in order to properly determine who clicked it. In longer threads, this gets a bit hilarious.
Here's the final payload at the end of an 18,660-character re-re-re-…-rewrite:
http%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525253A%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252F%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252Fwww.example.com%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252F
(anonymized)
URI percent encoding uses percents, so : is : and / is /. All of those 25s are from escaped percents; % is %, so unescape(unescape(unescape("%253A"))) gives you :.
That's three layers. The above example has 34 layers.

@… https://erickbradshaw.substack.com

Anonymous Cave | Erick Bradshaw | Substack
Interviews w/ musicians & artists. Writing about new & old music, leaning towards the obscure. Sneak peeks at the in-process 'We're Not Crazy' — an oral history of the late 20th century NYC underground. "Picking thru the wreckage with a shtick.". Click to read Anonymous Cave, by Erick Bradshaw, a Substack publication.

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Anonymous, Baptiste Trotignon, Patrick Dupré Quigley & Reginald Mobley:
🎵 Steal Away (arr. for countertenor and piano)
#Anonymous #BaptisteTrotignon #PatrickDupréQuigley #ReginaldMobley

Middle East crisis live: air defences activated in Iran after explosions reported near Isfahan
Air defence systems in the Iranian city of Isfahan were activated against “an object suspected to be a drone”,
sources told the semi-official Fars news agency on Friday, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, US media is reporting that Israel has launched a strike against Iran in retaliation for its weekend attack.
The Israeli military has not immediately responded to a request for…