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As The Economist has noted, “the arsenal of deceit is highly effective at keeping malign leaders in power, which is perhaps why global democracy has been in retreat for the past decade.” That’s why the media needs to call a lie a lie, and not worry if doing so appears partisan, while making clear that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would mark a radical break from America as we know it. This isn’t just another normal presidential race.

None of This Is Normal
Donald Trump’s 2024 bid is an antidemocratic revenge fantasy being treated like a conventional political campaign.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Hey, guess what: that shithole #Apple calls “Apple Notes” deleted my annotations from today’s class. AGAIN.
I really need to just migrate to a good app already… Why do other apps lack so many features?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03668 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

GoLLIE: Annotation Guidelines improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction
Large Language Models (LLMs) combined with instruction tuning have made significant progress when generalizing to unseen tasks. However, they have been less successful in Information Extraction (IE), lagging behind task-specific models. Typically, IE tasks are characterized by complex annotation guidelines which describe the task and give examples to humans. Previous attempts to leverage such information have failed, even with the largest models, as they are not able to follow the guidelines ou…

Congrats Tennessee, you just passed a bill that bans parasols.
https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/112213694817677936

... and the internet returned to normal. And there was much rejoicing. `yaay`
Does... anyone else see... any drawbacks to having so much of the internet's critical infrastructure in the control of and gatekept by so few tech conglomerates?
I don't think this is what the DARPA, CERN, W3C etc. folks had in mind.

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Honestly, the worst effect of the xz/sshd exploit is the evaporation of trust in #OpenSource.
There's this new prolific contributor. I haven't looked in great detail, but they're seemingly doing great work. All pull requests are nicely annotated as to ease review. Really, everything you could wish for. But what if it's a bad actor trying to quickly build trust?
Then this contributor kindly pings assignee a week after filing the PR. Well, nothing wrong with that. It makes sense. But then, what if it's a bad actor trying to pressure maintainers?
Or perhaps it's just a great, well-organized #Gentoo contributor.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18061 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

On the use of Silver Standard Data for Zero-shot Classification Tasks in Information Extraction
The superior performance of supervised classification methods in the information extraction (IE) area heavily relies on a large amount of gold standard data. Recent zero-shot classification methods converted the task to other NLP tasks (e.g., textual entailment) and used off-the-shelf models of these NLP tasks to directly perform inference on the test data without using a large amount of IE annotation data. A potentially valuable by-product of these methods is the large-scale silver standard da…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…