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People are STILL failing for lame ass April Fools gags. 🤦🏼‍♂️
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112197321896597891

What Ukraine needs for this to be the last year of the war The international community’s unwavering support is crucial for Ukraine, including continued economic sanctions on Russia until it fully resp Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-579

Title: Ur-Fascism
Author: Umberto Eco
Topics: anti-fascism, fascism, not-anarchist
Date: June 22, 1995
Source: The New York Review of Books
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In May we heard that the war was over. Peace gave me a curious sensation. I had been told that permanent warfare was the normal condition for a young Italian. In the following months I discovered that the Resistance was not only a local phenomenon but a European one. I learned new, exciting words like réseau, maquis, a…

Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Coffee County shut down access to state voter registration system following cyberattack
--Okta warns of unprecedented spike in credential stuffing attacks,
---Spy.pet crumbles after Discord ban,
--Ukraine hacking group claims attack on Russian telecom provider,
--Belarus hacktivists claim attack on country's security agency,
--UK bans devices that come with weak passwords,
--Canada's London Drugs temporarily shutters 79 stores following cyber incident,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/coffee-county-shut-access-state-voter-registration-system-following-cyberattack

Announcement: #socialcoop member Nathan Schneider has a book that recently went open access!
[[Governable Spaces]]: Democratic Design for Online Life
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.

Selenskyj: Brauchen "Patriots" und Granaten
Trotz einer Belebung westlicher Rüstungshilfen nach monatelanger Pause benötigt die von Russland angegriffene Ukraine eigenen Angaben zufolge weiter Waffen und Munition. Die täglichen russischen Raketenangriffe, die täglichen Angriffe an der Front könnten gestoppt werden, sagte Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj in seiner abendlichen Videobotschaft. "Aber dazu …
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
I have just received reports on the situation in Odesa following a Russian missile strike and in Kharkiv following a Russian guided aerial bomb strike. Unfortunately, a number of people have been killed in Odesa. My condolences to their close ones. Many people have been injured,…

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
“One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver. “

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
Florida has seen a population boom, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing.

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Sam EstepCarnegie Mellon University, Raven RothkopfBarnard College, Columbia University, Wode NiCarnegie Mellon University, Joshua SunshineCarnegie Mellon University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17743

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Automatic differentiation (AD) has become the backbone for a new wave of optimization-driven domains such as computer graphics and machine learning over the past decade. However, existing AD systems face limitations, either lacking support for in-browser development or failing to harness more recent, compilerbased approaches to achieve both expressiveness and size-preserving differentiation. This work introduces Rose, a portable, extensible AD library that runs on the web. Rose allows users to …

Local Fourier uniformity of higher divisor functions on average
Mengdi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

Local Fourier uniformity of higher divisor functions on average
Let $τ_k$ be the $k$-fold divisor function. By constructing an approximant of $τ_k$, denoted as $τ_k^*$, which is a normalized truncation of the $k$-fold divisor function, we prove that when $\exp\left(C\log^{1/2}X(\log\log X)^{1/2}\right)\leq H\leq X$ and $C>0$ is sufficiently large, the following estimate holds for almost all $x\in[X,2X]$: \[ \Big|\sum_{x

Well…it finally happened…
after teaching beginning photography for over 15 years, I finally did it.
I taught a SHIT class tonight. 😢
I was all out of sorts, my computer didn't want to show the slides properly, I couldn't keep my thoughts straight, it felt like I was unprepared…
Ugh...what an awful feeling…