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Major veterans organization weighs in on upside-down American flags (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/american-legion-weighs-upside-american-flags-rcna157086
http://www.memeorandum.com/240613/p70#a240613p70

Biden reiterates he won’t pardon son Hunter after gun conviction | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/biden-hunter-pardon-conviction-b2562389.html

Biden reiterates he won’t pardon son Hunter after gun conviction
President appeared to say that he would not commute Hunter Biden’s sentence either

Filing: Clearview AI proposes to settle a class action suit by collectively giving a 23% company stake worth ~$52M to Americans whose faces are in its database (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.

Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.

When ABC-Ipsos reported this month that “65% of Americans who view both Trump and Biden unfavorably think the Trump verdict this week was correct,
with 67% believing Trump should end his presidential campaign,”
can we really call these voters “double haters”?

(Kudos to the pollsters who correctly stated the category does not measure hate but the sentiment of being “unfavorably” disposed toward both candidates.)

After all, a two-thirds majority of this cohort of…

The ‘double haters’ misnomer: Biden’s secret weapon
A two-thirds majority of this cohort of voters thinks a felon has no place running for president.

Reformed Church in America is holding the General Synod Opening Worship in 5 minutes.
#RCASynod #RCA #GS2024

General Synod annual meeting

The language we use reflects but also shapes the way we think.
In the 1980s "young adult" was just another term for "teenager"
today everyone says, and believes that young adulthood starts AFTER you stop being a teenager.
In the minds of the American public teens stopped being young adults and started being old children.
It is much easier to justify the infantilization of, or putting legal restrictions on 16 year old children than on 16 year old ad…

SySTeC: A Symmetric Sparse Tensor Compiler
Radha Patel, Willow Ahrens, Saman Amarasinghe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09266 https://arx…

SySTeC: A Symmetric Sparse Tensor Compiler
Symmetric and sparse tensors arise naturally in many domains including linear algebra, statistics, physics, chemistry, and graph theory. Symmetric tensors are equal to their transposes, so in the $n$-dimensional case we can save up to a factor of $n!$ by avoiding redundant operations. Sparse tensors, on the other hand, are mostly zero, and we can save asymptotically by processing only nonzeros. Unfortunately, specializing for both symmetry and sparsity at the same time is uniquely challenging. …

Conservatives are pushing people to drink raw milk despite fatal flu threat
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/13/2246332/-Conservatives-are-pushing-people-to-drink-raw-milk-despite-fatal-flu-thre…

Conservatives are pushing people to drink raw milk despite fatal flu threat
A conservative advocacy group headed by scam artist Charlie Kirk is pushing Americans to drink raw milk at a time when a widespread flu outbreak makes this potentially fatal. This is just one of ...

The language we use reflects but also shapes the way we think.
In the 1980s "young adult" was just another term for "teenager"
today everyone says, and believes that young adulthood starts AFTER you stop being a teenager.
In the minds of the American public teens stopped being young adults and started being old children.
It is much easier to justify the infantilization of, or putting legal restrictions on 16 year old children than on 16 year old ad…

SySTeC: A Symmetric Sparse Tensor Compiler
Radha Patel, Willow Ahrens, Saman Amarasinghe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09266 https://arx…

SySTeC: A Symmetric Sparse Tensor Compiler
Symmetric and sparse tensors arise naturally in many domains including linear algebra, statistics, physics, chemistry, and graph theory. Symmetric tensors are equal to their transposes, so in the $n$-dimensional case we can save up to a factor of $n!$ by avoiding redundant operations. Sparse tensors, on the other hand, are mostly zero, and we can save asymptotically by processing only nonzeros. Unfortunately, specializing for both symmetry and sparsity at the same time is uniquely challenging. …