New Orleans NOs - Bar signs edition.
1)Vaughn's, Bywater
2)Maison, Frenchmen Street
3)Sista Sista, Pigeontown
4)Friendly Bar, Marigny
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans
#NOLA #NewOrleans
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Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of April 20 halving; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)
https://t.co/UcBkQ7cJTB
A brief, weird history of brainwashing: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/12/1090726/brainwashing-mind-control-history-operation-midnight-climax/
A fascinating look at the real-life history of attem…
SPTW
"At The Foot Of The Ladder"
#abstract
"
1. The speed with which the climate is now changing is faster than (almost) all scientists thought possible.
2. There is now zero prospect of holding the average temperature increase this century to below 1.5°C; even 2°C is beginning to slip out of reach. The vast majority of climate scientists know this, but rarely if ever give voice to this critically important reality.
3. At the same time, the vast majority of people still haven’t a clue about what’s going on – and what this means for them and everything they hold dear.
4. The current backlash against existing (already wholly inadequate) climate measures is also accelerating – and will cause considerable political damage in 2024. Those driving this backlash represent the same old climate denial that has been so damaging over so many years.
5. The science-based institutions on which we depend to address this crisis have comprehensively failed us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is incapable of telling the whole truth about accelerating climate change; the Conference of the Parties (under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) has been co-opted by the fossil fuel lobby to the point of total corruption.
6. By not calling out these incontrovertible realities, mainstream scientists are at risk of becoming the new climate deniers."
#ClimateCrisis
Curious about NLP beyond the startup hype? Join Emanuele Lapponi and Murhaf Fares at this year's #bbuzz and explore NLP in a 'traditional' setting. Tackle challenges such as data scarcity and domain specificity using e.g. data augmentation and zero-shot classification, and learn some tips and tricks to tackle concrete and relatable NLP problems.
Moldova disputes claim of drone strike in Transnistria, says it is attempt at 'provocation': https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/18/moldova-disputes-claim.html
New Orleans NOs - Bar signs edition.
1)Vaughn's, Bywater
2)Maison, Frenchmen Street
3)Sista Sista, Pigeontown
4)Friendly Bar, Marigny
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans
#NOLA #NewOrleans
A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-sell…