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She knows she can't win, so she's decided to tell the truth?
Haley: Congress has become ‘most privileged nursing home’ in US | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4434722-haley-congress-has-become…

Haley: Congress has become ‘most privileged nursing home’ in US
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday mocked Congress as the “most privileged nursing home” in the United States in her repeated call for term limits and mental competency tests for elected officials over a certain age. “Don’t you think it’s finally time we had term limits in Washington, D.C.?” Haley said during a rally…

Be the grease, not the grit. #FutureOffWork
How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/…

How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions
Every noticed how some people are good at creating friction while others help smooth it over? Here's how leaders and employees can help build harmonious workplaces for everyone.

Ukraine Military Chief: Kharkiv offensive could become a fatal trap for Russian forces: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/ukraine-military-chief.html

Chiefs, Travis Kelce agree to two-year extension: Four-time All-Pro reportedly to become NFL's highest-paid TE

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

Chiefs, Travis Kelce agree to two-year extension: Four-time All-Pro reportedly to become NFL's highest-paid TE
Travis Kelce will be fighting for the right to party in K.C. a little longer

Oh the Martin Mars. ❤️ With gov. money dedicated, finally Hawaii will find a museum home in BC. Phillipine will hopefully retire in the USA.
It's all a shame though. These planes are still airworthy and can still fight massive fires like nothing else.
It's politics and corruption, not performance, that ended their careers. I'm glad I played a part in trying to keep them fighting.
There is a good video in the article but I’ll post my favourite.

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
02/2021
https://africasacountry.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-blessings
<…

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.

#Flux #MatthewSheffield
"The Republican party has become an authoritarian cult and mainstream journalism should stop pretending otherwise"
Ronna McDaniel and the twilight of fictitious Republicans

🎈 ‘It’s a net zero cargo solution’: could Victoria become home to an airship renaissance?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/flying-whales-airships-helium-object-transport-cargo

Be the grease, not the grit. #FutureOffWork
How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/…

How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions
Every noticed how some people are good at creating friction while others help smooth it over? Here's how leaders and employees can help build harmonious workplaces for everyone.

A look at Saudi Arabia's spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI (New York Times)
https://www.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

I am only slightly exaggerating when I say this represents the core audience of the New York Times and the Atlantic.
The NYTimes has many, many subscribers who are rich families trying to get their kids into Harvard, people who went to Harvard, or people envious of them.

Cowboys not intending to let Dak Prescott become free agent, contradicting latest insider report https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_not_intending_to_let_dak_prescott_be…

Cowboys not intending to let Dak Prescott become free agent, contradicting latest insider report
An insider report from Ian Rapoport on Tuesday sent Cowboys nation and all its critics into a frenzy as he shared that Dallas isn’t currently negotiating with Dak Prescott on a long-term extension. The report suggested that the Cowboys would be fine letting Prescott enter free agency next March when his current deal expires. However, NFL reporter Josina Anderson shared a report from her own sourcing on Wednesday, which contradicts Rapoport who said they’re “clearing a path” for the star…

There’s So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/flood-of-personal-data-makes-life-tough-for-nsa-cia

Flood of Personal Data Makes Life Tough for NSA, CIA
Scouring open-source intelligence may not have the same cachet as undercover work, but it’s become a new priority for the US intelligence agencies.

Rosenthal: Mookie Betts’ latest goal? Become ‘a legend in the game’
#Baseball #Dodgers #TheAthletic

"When we view ourselves and our world as machines, we become deluded by the notion that if we just pick things apart--including ourselves--and understand how it all works, we will know . . . we will have wisdom." - Anne Wilson Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds, Jan. 15th.
#quote

How A.I. Chatbots Become Political (Zvi Mowshowitz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/28/opinion/ai-political-bias.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240328/p32#a240328p32

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00838 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models
Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have become closed off, gated behind proprietary interfaces, with important details of their training data, architectures, and development undisclosed. Given the importance of these details in scientifically studying these models, including their biases and potential risks, we believe it is essential for the research community…

Sobering observations:
“ these US-made fighter jets will not be a ‘silver bullet’, primarily because it will take Ukrainian pilots hundreds of hours of flight time to become proficient in combat. Much like the downgraded Abrams tanks, the Ukrainians will receive older F-16 variants (last upgraded between 2003 and 2005) which lack advanced avionics, software and sensors, and the most advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles will not be supplied until 2026. “

Weathering the Storm: Western Security Assistance on the Defensive in Ukraine
Evolving Russian tactics and sustained pressure along the frontline have pushed Ukrainian forces onto the defensive in 2024. If the West wants to keep Ukraine in the fight, it must adapt its security assistance accordingly.

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thisisaaronland (@thisisaaronland@orthis.social)
Attached: 1 image I never imagined that I would become a person with strong feelings / about the design of webkit’s colour picker / but that is what working on the https://github.com/aaronland/fingerprint project has done

Expect thousands of #Linux #kernel #CVE entries for issues already fixed in the past few years, as filing those according to Greg was a requirement to become a CNA:

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
02/2021
https://africasacountry.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-blessings
<…

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.

finished running Fistful of Feathers - really fun adventure, and pretty easy to run!
Everyone managed to survive, and become rich through collecting massive numbers of feathers, though mostly by avoiding combat
#Cairn #aFistfulOfFeathers

Arizona Dem says state is bluer 'not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state,' but from distaste for GOP 'extremism'
https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-extreme-gop-abortion-ban-trump-biden-2024-4

Arizona has become bluer due to rejection of 'extreme' GOP: lawmaker
Arizona, a key target for both Biden and Trump this fall, has become ground-zero for major issues like immigration and reproductive rights.

For USA and other places in the world that are only now starting to unionize, I hope y’all unions never become what Brazilian unions became

Recurring nova set to become visible this year. Explanation of its cause (white dwarf orbiting a red giant) with animation at NASA:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-explosion-new-star-in-northern-crown/…

Kant’s essay on perpetual peace is often cited as an inspiration for the European Union: a project born out of the ashes of the second world war that saw former mortal enemies come together in a shared commitment to peaceful institutions.
For all its limitations, it has been crucial not just to steer western European politics away from fratricidal nationalism but also for disillusioned states struggling to reconcile with their communist past. 
Europe has recently become a place …

@… you missed your calling! 😆😏🙄😁
https://www.threads.net/@pbump/post/C5Cu1ziNh6K/?xmt=AQGz2h9PhNMaJ83qz3gRd…

Philip Bump (@pbump) on Threads
How to become a multi-billionaire: 1. Set up a Mastodon instance. 2. Build a modest audience. 3. Leverage your cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/trump-truth-stock-billions/

I don't care if UNWRA employees did moonlight as Hamas fighters. What do people think the options are for jobs, in Gaza? Either you work for the UN, which is a highly paid and prestigious gig, so it's unlikely that people who got to earn those positions would risk them by going too far into the resistance movement, but that's it. There are no other jobs. We WANT Hamas fighters to try to work for UNWRA and to deradicalize and put down arms. They aren't going to become cobblers…

“Basically, we are in pain, we are suffering. Sometimes we become accustomed to our suffering, and sometimes we miss our suffering, so we deliberately invite more suffering. That is the samsaric way to exist.“ Chögyam Trungpa

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
KATE: Without it, we become like the Hommiks. We need nutrients for our food process.
TARRANT: Now let's just be clear about this. The Scorpio is our ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/402/461 📺 B7B7

The game I'm working on #WeAreFootball has a free demo available now on #Steam! (Works on #SteamDeck too!)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/29/from-crater-crescent-to-canberra-mr-squiggle-gets-a-new-home-at-the-national-museum-of-australia

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12011 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Architecting Data-Intensive Applications : From Data Architecture Design to Its Quality Assurance
Context - The exponential growth of data is becoming a significant concern. Managing this data has become incredibly challenging, especially when dealing with various sources in different formats and speeds. Moreover, Ensuring data quality has become increasingly crucial for effective decision-making and operational processes. Data Architecture is crucial in describing, collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing data to meet business needs. Providing an abstract view of data-intensive appli…

Richard Lewis and Larry David together at the Playboy Club.
RIchard was a wonderful talent and he suffered, but shared, a long goodbye.
First image is the original.
Second image is fixed with AI.
The past become more real today.
#AI #AIphoto

"#ActivityPub is at an interesting place. Since its intial adoption by #Mastodon in 2017, the standard has become all but ubiquitous across the #Fediverse. In less than seven years, it has become the mo…

The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub
ActivityPub has fostered a social web for millions of people. To grow, some developers believe it needs improvement. These are their efforts.

The Dead Season 4: Home - Finale 🧟‍♀️😭❤️
Dramatized zombie horror stories | Total listening time: 9h 00m
In a world plagued by the undead, the stories of survivors are well-known. Over time, they become fables, legends passed down from survivor to survivor. But those are the stories of the few, not the many who continue to walk the ear...
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The Dead Season 4: Home - Finale 🧟‍♀️😭❤️
Dramatized zombie horror stories | Total listening time: 9h 00m In a world plagued by the undead, the stories of survivors are well-known. Over time, they become fables, legends passed down from survivor to survivor. But those are the stories of the few, not the many who continue to walk the earth as shells of their former selves. Created to support emerging writers by holding a competition, and fully producing their work. This is the writer’s first professional writing opportunity. 4 se…

Causal-StoNet: Causal Inference for High-Dimensional Complex Data
Yaxin Fang, Faming Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18994 https://a…

Causal-StoNet: Causal Inference for High-Dimensional Complex Data
With the advancement of data science, the collection of increasingly complex datasets has become commonplace. In such datasets, the data dimension can be extremely high, and the underlying data generation process can be unknown and highly nonlinear. As a result, the task of making causal inference with high-dimensional complex data has become a fundamental problem in many disciplines, such as medicine, econometrics, and social science. However, the existing methods for causal inference are freq…

Yet another unsolicited txt from a recruiter, so I asked "how did you get my number?" - they said Canada Job Bank, only my acct is inactve and does not include my mobile number. So searched on my name, maybe there's some other leek?
Didn't find any, although Google blocks PII hits, but I did find a book I am said to have written! What? Really?
it's ok, it wasn't really a book, although we did hope it might become one.
The Linux Kernel: Blueprints f…

Missing - the analysis of how much this stakeholder capitalism actually invested in communities vs tax at various rates vs the stakeholder community needs.
Something about being sold a bill of goods comes to mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/

Missing - the analysis of how much this stakeholder capitalism actually invested in communities vs tax at various rates vs the stakeholder community needs.
Something about being sold a bill of goods comes to mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/

Wow, @… recommended Taylor Tomlinson to me - and she's GREAT. After only just having watched her first [of three!!!] Netflix shows she has become one of my #rebcommendations in stand-up, I shall say. W-O-W.

It didn’t take Burke’s indictment for this to become troubling.
From: @…
https://newsie.social/@freedomofpress/112015676507…

Another post on reddit in trading sub where someone says they are "good at math" and are "competitive person" and are surprised and dejected that they failed at trading after giving it a shot for a year. There are countless like that on there.
Guys, I am pretty good at slicing chicken for dinner before cooking, I should try to become a surgeon.
This is how one sounds when they think that them being good at math and being competitive should make them a good da…

I'm surprised to see a computer science topic become the talk of the Whitehouse, but here we are.
The memory safety features of #Python are one of the many things I like about it.
What are the memory safe features of Python? A few that spring to mind: automatic bounds-checking, can't use undefined object references, & no memory pointer arithmetic. IMHO, those features don'…

With changes in the upcoming 0.9 version of the #XDG Thumbnail spec (commonly used by #Linux file managers and image viewers), it has become more useful for more exotic file storage – for example, pre-generating and distributing shared thumbnails through

Allow MTime and URI to be missing in shared thumbnails (!51) · Merge requests · xdg / xdg-specs · GitLab
Closes: #53...

Scientists certainly can be good managers but many, probably most, seriously underrate the skills and knowledge needed to be a good manager.
Ask managing scientists (or lawyer BTW), the last few course they went on most will skip the management course or list them with some snide comment about how their workplace forced them to attend.
Any manager I had who was great worked hard to become that way. If you think you are naturally a good manager, that's probably just your ego shining through.

And now the Book Gallery snippet has become an #Obsidian plugin. :D

Just had a preliminary consultation to get some support for this breakup with therapy. We only talked about how I was coping, but I feel a little comforted.
Maybe this time I can get myself sorted and become a better person. #MentalHealth is never an easy journey, but it's a worthwhile one.

Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…

Kris (@isotopp@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image In https://ddinstagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO/?img_index=1 heißt es: "Warning to all writers who use Google Docs. In a Discord with other indie authors last night, one romance author explained that all her work was suspended by Google for violating their rules of sharing explicit content with her beta/alpha readers. She has no acces to these files or her other works. Please read the following screenshots and go back up your workj now on a different plattfor…

Antonio Pierce: Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell needs to become 'more vocal' when running the offense https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/26/antonio-pierce-raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-nee…

Antonio Pierce: Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell needs to become 'more vocal' when running the offense
Antonio Pierce: Raiders QB Aidan O’Connell needs to be ‘more vocal’

You are separate from the things that surround you, and clearing them out gives you space to become who you should be https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/p…

The US ODNI appointed cyber expert Jason Barrett in October 2023 to help the intel community harness open-source intel, an area US agencies have struggled with (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/flo…

Flood of Personal Data Makes Life Tough for NSA, CIA
Scouring open-source intelligence may not have the same cachet as undercover work, but it’s become a new priority for the US intelligence agencies.

Ukraine commemorates decisive 1918 Battle of Kruty: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/29/ukraine-commemorates-decisive.html

Certified MaxSAT Preprocessing
Hannes Ihalainen, Andy Oertel, Yong Kiam Tan, Jeremias Berg, Matti J\"arvisalo, Jakob Nordstr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17316

Certified MaxSAT Preprocessing
Building on the progress in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving over the last decades, maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) has become a viable approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, but ensuring correctness of MaxSAT solvers has remained an important concern. For SAT, this is largely a solved problem thanks to the use of proof logging, meaning that solvers emit machine-verifiable proofs of (un)satisfiability to certify correctness. However, for MaxSAT, proof logging solvers have start…

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Sam EstepCarnegie Mellon University, Raven RothkopfBarnard College, Columbia University, Wode NiCarnegie Mellon University, Joshua SunshineCarnegie Mellon University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17743

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Automatic differentiation (AD) has become the backbone for a new wave of optimization-driven domains such as computer graphics and machine learning over the past decade. However, existing AD systems face limitations, either lacking support for in-browser development or failing to harness more recent, compilerbased approaches to achieve both expressiveness and size-preserving differentiation. This work introduces Rose, a portable, extensible AD library that runs on the web. Rose allows users to …

Not only has the United lounge in Denver airport become outstanding in many other respects, they also have a fantastic collection of local hot sauces on offer! Makes it the best UA lounge in the US. This should become standard *A policy.

Understanding the Learning Dynamics of Alignment with Human Feedback
Shawn Im, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18742 https://arx…

Understanding the Learning Dynamics of Alignment with Human Feedback
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human intentions has become a critical task for safely deploying models in real-world systems. While existing alignment approaches have seen empirical success, theoretically understanding how these methods affect model behavior remains an open question. Our work provides an initial attempt to theoretically analyze the learning dynamics of human preference alignment. We formally show how the distribution of preference datasets influences the rate of mod…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12559 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Attraction by pairwise coherence explains the emergence of ideological sorting
Political polarization has become a growing concern in democratic societies, as it drives tribal alignments and erodes civic deliberation among citizens. Given its prevalence across different countries, previous research has sought to understand the conditions under which people tend to endorse extreme opinions. However, in polarized contexts, citizens not only adopt more extreme views but also become correlated across issues which are, a priori, seemingly unrelated. This phenomenon, known as '…

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

Rosenthal: Mookie Betts’ latest goal? Become ‘a legend in the game’
#Baseball #Dodgers #TheAthletic

Analysis: 16 of the White House's 31 press secretaries since 2000 have gone on to become paid contributors, commentators, or hosts on TV news programs (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-rnc-chair-explained

Ronna McDaniel outrage renews scrutiny of politics-to-pundit pipeline
The politics-to-pundit pipeline is deeply ingrained in both conservative and liberal media.

This has become “red scare” levels of grotesque https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/antisemitism-monitor-colleges-columbia-israel

Bipartisan bill would create "antisemitism monitors" at colleges
The COLUMBIA Act is the first bill introduced in direct response to recent campus protests.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Shabaka:
🎵 Managing my breath, what fear had become
#Shabaka
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lpVKWaSCwMi3WHZt3MPr7

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thisisaaronland (@thisisaaronland@orthis.social)
Attached: 1 image I never imagined that I would become a person with strong feelings / about the design of webkit’s colour picker / but that is what working on the https://github.com/aaronland/fingerprint project has done

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12011 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Architecting Data-Intensive Applications : From Data Architecture Design to Its Quality Assurance
Context - The exponential growth of data is becoming a significant concern. Managing this data has become incredibly challenging, especially when dealing with various sources in different formats and speeds. Moreover, Ensuring data quality has become increasingly crucial for effective decision-making and operational processes. Data Architecture is crucial in describing, collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing data to meet business needs. Providing an abstract view of data-intensive appli…

👎🏿 First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Is Reddit about to become rubbish too? | Hussein Kesvani
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/facebook-twitter-reddit-rubbish-ipo

Blue Yonder, a provider of supply chain planning software, plans to acquire rival One Network Enterprises for approximately $839M (Steve Banker/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2024/03/29/blue-yonder-shake…

Blue Yonder Shakes Up The Supply Chain Software Market
The acquisition of One Network by Blue Yonder will shake up the supply chain software market. Since COVID, the need for agile planning solutions has become obvious.

"Friends… say #Bluesky has a “weirdness” they like and is less “scoldy” than #Mastodon, where long-time users tended to school incoming ex-Twitter users. That makes sense, when you consider that Mastodon has had time since its 2016 founding to develop an existing culture that newcomers are joining, wh…

The bridge - net.wars
Seven months ago, Mastodon was fretting about Meta’s newly-launched Threads. The issue: Threads, which was built on top of Instagram’s user database, had said it complied with the Activity Pub protocol, which allows Mastodon servers (“instances”) to federate with any other service that also uses that protocol. The potential threat that Threads would become interoperable … Continue reading "The bridge"

Morgan State University in Maryland is Set To Become The First HBCU To Open A Medical School In 45 Years
https://www.morgan.edu/news/first-hbcu-to-open-a-medical-school

Morgan State University Set To Become The First HBCU To Open A Medical School In 45 Years
Morgan State University (MSU) is about to make history. The Maryland-based educational institution will become the first HBCU to open a new medical school in 45 years.

Parliament's website reportedly hit by cyberattack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/parliaments-website-reportedly.html

From the vault - 2013
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men
"What it takes to get the job is not just different from, but also the reverse of, what it takes to do the job well."<…

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. Confidence – a trait more associated with men – is often misinterpreted as competence. As a result, charismatic, but incompetent men have fewer barriers to re…

What happens if the Cowboys don't extend Dak Prescott's contract in 2024? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39821175/what-happens-cowboys-dak-prescott-contract-extension

What happens if Cowboys don't extend Dak Prescott's contract? - ESPN
Prescott is entering the final year of his Cowboys contract and can become an unrestricted free agent in 2025.

Not only has the United lounge in Denver airport become outstanding in many other respects, they also have a fantastic collection of local hot sauces on offer! Makes it the best UA lounge in the US. This should become standard *A policy.

👎🏿 First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Is Reddit about to become rubbish too? | Hussein Kesvani
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/facebook-twitter-reddit-rubbish-ipo

“With any practice on the path, how are you relate with it makes an enormous difference.lf you become dogmatic and snobbish about a practice, thinking it is the higher way, it may become a problem.“ Chögyam Trungpa

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

T\"urk\c{c}e Dil Modellerinin Performans Kar\c{s}{\i}la\c{s}t{\i}rmas{\i} Performance Comparison of Turkish Language Models
Eren Dogan, M. Egemen Uzun, Atahan Uz, H. Emre Seyrek, Ahmed Zeer, Ezgi Sevi, H. Toprak Kesgin, M. Kaan Yuce, M. Fatih Amasyali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17010

Türkçe Dil Modellerinin Performans Karşılaştırması Performance Comparison of Turkish Language Models
The developments that language models have provided in fulfilling almost all kinds of tasks have attracted the attention of not only researchers but also the society and have enabled them to become products. There are commercially successful language models available. However, users may prefer open-source language models due to cost, data privacy, or regulations. Yet, despite the increasing number of these models, there is no comprehensive comparison of their performance for Turkish. This study…

Mailbag: Is too much made of the NFL combine? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-too-much-made-of-the-nfl-combine

Mailbag: Is too much made of the NFL combine?
I enjoy the NFL Scouting Combine and am amazed at how big it has become. But for teams around the league, is it as big a deal as the media and fans have made it out to be? 

From the vault - 2013
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men
"What it takes to get the job is not just different from, but also the reverse of, what it takes to do the job well."<…

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. Confidence – a trait more associated with men – is often misinterpreted as competence. As a result, charismatic, but incompetent men have fewer barriers to re…

Like, with cinny Matrix could actually become a feasible discord alternative for most part…

Latvia to become first EU country to ban imports of grain from Russia, Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/latvia-to-become.html

"Senegal's president-elect says he will drop the much-criticised CFA franc currency, which is pegged to the euro and backed by former colonial power France.
Mr Faye wants to replace it with a new Senegalese, or regional West African, currency, although this will not be easy."
https://www.bbc.…

Senegal election result: Bassirou Diomaye Faye to become Africa's youngest president
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become the African continent's youngest democratically elected leader.

Dolphins to meet with Tua Tagovailoa's agent during NFL Combine to discuss long-term extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin

Dolphins to meet with Tua Tagovailoa's agent during NFL Combine to discuss long-term extension
Tua is slated to become the next quarterback to receive a big payday

🍡 Texan newcomer helps dispel the myth that sumo is a closed world
#japan …

Texan newcomer helps dispel the myth that sumo is a closed world
While pathways into sumo have become more streamlined in recent years, stables are still remarkably willing to let amateurs show up and train superstars.

Latvia to become first EU country to ban imports of grain from Russia, Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/latvia-to-become.html

Cause and Effect: Can Large Language Models Truly Understand Causality?
Swagata Ashwani, Kshiteesh Hegde, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Mayank Jindal, Dushyant Singh Sengar, Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala, Dishant Banga, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18139

Cause and Effect: Can Large Language Models Truly Understand Causality?
With the rise of Large Language Models(LLMs), it has become crucial to understand their capabilities and limitations in deciphering and explaining the complex web of causal relationships that language entails. Current methods use either explicit or implicit causal reasoning, yet there is a strong need for a unified approach combining both to tackle a wide array of causal relationships more effectively. This research proposes a novel architecture called Context Aware Reasoning Enhancement with C…

Cowboys already have replacement in mind if DC Dan Quinn leaves https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_already_have_replacement_in_mind_if_dc_dan_quinn_leaves/s1_13132_39886208

Cowboys already have replacement in mind if DC Dan Quinn leaves
Dallas defensive coordinator Dan Quinn could become a head coach again, but the Cowboys already have a potential replacement in mind. NFL Media's Ian Rapoport reported the Cowboys could target former Carolina Panthers and Washington Commanders HC Ron Rivera if the 53-year-old DC leaves. Quinn, meanwhile, has a second interview with the Commanders on Tuesday, per Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post. He reportedly met with the Seattle Seahawks for a second time last week. He helped Seattle win …

Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests
Last Wednesday, as NYPD officers began arresting student protestors and the daughter of US representative Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi, was suspended by the university,
WKCR reported live from the encampment, patching in student reporters across campus.
The unpolished dispatch
– with audio gaps as reporters’ phone connections failed and the hosts trying to stay abreast of all the moving parts
– conveyed the …

UVL Sentinel: a tool for parsing and syntactic correction of UVL datasets
David Romero-Organvidez, Jose A. Galindo, David Benavides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18482

UVL Sentinel: a tool for parsing and syntactic correction of UVL datasets
Feature models have become a de facto standard for representing variability in software product lines. UVL (Universal Variability Language) is a language which expresses the features, dependencies, and constraints between them. This language is written in plain text and follows a syntactic structure that needs to be processed by a parser. This parser is software with specific syntactic rules that the language must comply with to be processed correctly. Researchers have datasets with numerous fe…

"Senegal's president-elect says he will drop the much-criticised CFA franc currency, which is pegged to the euro and backed by former colonial power France.
Mr Faye wants to replace it with a new Senegalese, or regional West African, currency, although this will not be easy."
https://www.bbc.…

Senegal election result: Bassirou Diomaye Faye to become Africa's youngest president
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become the African continent's youngest democratically elected leader.

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/zero-day-exploits-jumped-in-2023-spyware…

Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable, have become more common as nation-state hackers and cybercriminals find sophisticated ways to carry out their attacks.

Robbie Gould becomes Illinois high school football coach https://www.nfl.com/news/robbie-gould-becomes-illinois-high-school-football-coach

Robbie Gould becomes Illinois high school football coach 
Robbie Gould, who recently retired from the NFL after 18 years split between the Bears, Giants and 49ers, has now become head football coach at Rolling Meadows High (Illinois), the school officially announced on Tuesday.

🥵 California in a jam after borrowing billions to pay unemployment benefits
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-04-18/california-borrowed-billions-to-pay-jobless-benefits-but-now-its-come…

State faces mounting pressure to shore up unstable jobless aid fund
California’s massive budget deficit, coupled with the state’s relatively high level of joblessness, has become a major barrier to reducing the billions of dollars of debt it has incurred to pay unemployment benefits.

AC/DC – It’s a long way to the top…
…if you want to Rock’n’Roll
https://www.didiermary.fr/acdc-long-way-top-rocknroll/
AC/DC with Bon Scott blowing his bagpipe on "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" on the ba…

AC/DC - Long way to the top... - Didier J. MARY (blog)
"It’s A Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC has become an iconic and much-loved Australian song - the song contains bagpipes!

MIKO: Multimodal Intention Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Social-Media Commonsense Discovery
Feihong Lu, Weiqi Wang, Yangyifei Luo, Ziqin Zhu, Qingyun Sun, Baixuan Xu, Haochen Shi, Shiqi Gao, Qian Li, Yangqiu Song, Jianxin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18169

MIKO: Multimodal Intention Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Social-Media Commonsense Discovery
Social media has become a ubiquitous tool for connecting with others, staying updated with news, expressing opinions, and finding entertainment. However, understanding the intention behind social media posts remains challenging due to the implicitness of intentions in social media posts, the need for cross-modality understanding of both text and images, and the presence of noisy information such as hashtags, misspelled words, and complicated abbreviations. To address these challenges, we presen…

Tee Higgins receives franchise tag: Bengals explain 'simple' decision to make move well before tag deadline

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

Tee Higgins receives franchise tag: Bengals explain 'simple' decision to make move well before tag deadline
The Bengals become the first NFL team to use the tag this offseason, while Higgins becomes the earliest-tagged player in six years

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02472 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

OffLanDat: A Community Based Implicit Offensive Language Dataset Generated by Large Language Model Through Prompt Engineering
The widespread presence of offensive languages on social media has resulted in adverse effects on societal well-being. As a result, it has become very important to address this issue with high priority. Offensive languages exist in both explicit and implicit forms, with the latter being more challenging to detect. Current research in this domain encounters several challenges. Firstly, the existing datasets primarily rely on the collection of texts containing explicit offensive keywords, making …

From the vault...
The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first and only known* dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically.

The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made
Current auto-industry wisdom holds that no car without cup holders will sell in America. Though this also seems to have become increasingly true across the rest of the world, I like to imagine there still exists a country or two whose driving public holds fast against that particular design vulgarism.