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'Authoritarian propaganda campaigns' around the world' have one major goal: analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-autocrats-applebaum/

'Authoritarian propaganda campaigns' around the world' have one major goal: analysis
Although presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has often been critical of the United States' European allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), he has been quick to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin and other far-right authoritarian figures. President Joe Biden,...

India busts trafficking racket duping people to fight for Russia in Ukraine
#DefendDemocracyAidUkraine
#AidUkraineNotPutin

India busts trafficking racket duping people to fight for Russia in Ukraine
India said it had busted a “major human trafficking network” which lured young men to Russia with the promise of jobs only to force them to fight in the war in Ukraine.

"THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAR
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world."
Another superb piece by Anne Applebaum, in The Atlantic

Russia and China Are Winning the Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.

Hmm… doing a bit of log diving. The continuous onslaught from attackers probing for WordPress vulnerabilities is getting to the point where it’s noticeably stressing my server a bit, and the attack pressure is increasing all the time.
There might be a place for a service that provides an IP address blocklist based on observed behavior…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02939 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Modelling large mass removal in adsorption columns
A mathematical model is developed to describe column adsorption when the contaminant constitutes a significant amount of the fluid. This requires modelling the variation of pressure and velocity, in addition to the usual advection-diffusion-adsorption and kinetic equations describing concentration and adsorption rates. The model builds on previous work based on a linear kinetic equation, to include both physical and chemical adsorption. A semi-analytical solution is developed and validated agai…

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft Autocorrect?

Und dann ist da noch der arme Spiegelfechter-Spatz, der sich selbst unermüdlich oben am spiegelnden Metallschornstein attackiert, weil er meint, einen Rivalen zu erkennen. (hab extra die Wartungsklappe geöffnet um auszuschließen, dass ein weiteres Tier reingefallen sein könnte.)

Caps Lock

Hackers expose how Russia skirts sanctions for its weapons #DefendDemocracyAidUkraine #AidUkraineNotPutin
https://ww…