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How Russian cinema serves as a tool to justify Russian aggression. Ukraine in Flames #606: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/how-russian-cinema.html

I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @… quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other a…

Republicans, following Trump's initiative, have deliberately incited anger at national “elites,” heightened fears of foreign immigrant invasions (and “deviant” gender identities), and induced non-urban communities to become obsessed with the odious "swamp" of Washington politics.
What, exactly, is getting overlooked here?
The “rural rage” discourse that’s so often wheeled out but rarely unpacked should not be seen as the simple offshoot of political and economic ch…

Manufacturing discontent
How Dems can fight back against Republican resentment politics.

Opaque algorithms are a funny thing.
Over on #Threads, my "Following" feed does consistently have more things in it that are interesting to me than my "For you" feed.
I've been observing this for a few weeks now, and it's consistent.
Seem the cost function might be optimizing for something other than what I like? Or is the signal not good enough because …

I've always thought that the "Route du Rhum" yacht race from St Malo (in a region I often visit) via West Africa to the Antilles had unfortunate overtones. Explicitly following the route of the triangular trade, for instance ("l'itinéraire de la traite négrière", the slave-trade route, in the article).
So it's interesting to see talk of a "Route du Pardon". Only it turns out the apology is not for slavery, but for having being caught cheating …

Voile : la première édition de la "Route du Pardon", entre Saint Malo, Dakar et les Antilles, se termine avec
Un skippeur, suspendu pour tricherie dans la dernière Solitaire du Figaro, a entrepris "une course du pardon" sur l'itinéraire de la traite négrière. Il tente ainsi de réparer sa faute et de se reconstruire pendant ce parcours initiatique. Lancé depuis le 22 mars, son retour est prévu ce week-end.

@… I feel like this is how it will be. We will all have multiple accounts and the only ones using it cross-platform will be us, following each other on each account multiple times...because it's opt-in and nobody knows what it is their opting into....🤦‍♂️

Leveraging Stack Traces for Spectrum-based Fault Localization in the Absence of Failing Tests
Lorena Barreto Simedo Pacheco (Peter), An Ran Chen (Peter), Jinqiu Yang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00565

Leveraging Stack Traces for Spectrum-based Fault Localization in the Absence of Failing Tests
Bug fixing is a crucial task in software maintenance to hold user trust. Although various automated fault localization techniques exist, they often require specific conditions to be effective. For example, Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) techniques need at least one failing test to identify bugs, which may not always be available. Bug reports, particularly those with stack traces, provide detailed information on system execution failures and are invaluable for developers. This study fo…

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

How Russian cinema serves as a tool to justify Russian aggression. Ukraine in Flames #606: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/how-russian-cinema.html

the capitialist paperclip maximizer recruitment funnel:
It isn't weird that it happens. It's weird how consistently it happens and how consistent the replies are despite coming from unrelated friends. None of them take my actual context into consideration. It's like we've all internalized an Amway recruitment script without realizing it.
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