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Audit Finds No Issues, Concerns with Finances at Center for Antiracist Research | BU Today | Boston University
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/audit-finds-no-issues-at-center-for-antiracist-research/
Audit Finds No Issues, Concerns with Finances at Center for Antiracist Research | BU Today | Boston University
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/audit-finds-no-issues-at-center-for-antiracist-research/
Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/mistral-launc…
In loving memory.
#photography
Human rights groups call on ICC to investigate five prominent Russian propagandists: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/human-rights-groups.html
Galactic center GeV excess and classification of Fermi-LAT sources with machine learning
Dmitry V. Malyshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03990 https://
And then there were 4. Dual Senses with Hall Effect joysticks, that is. Got the second one I bought off eBay today. Was pretty trashed. Shell was broken in a couple places, stick cap got pulled through the shell.. found out once I opened it up why it was sold "as is". It had obviously been opened up and they noticed the headphone jack was broken off the board. Took most of the pads with it. I don't have good enough gear to fix that.. but I did test it before doing the stick swa…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Two women from Samos, Bitto and Nanion, do not like to meet #Aphrodite by her own rules. They desert to the other side, which is not good. Queen Aphrodite, hate these fugitives from your kind of sex."
Greek Anthology 5.207
🏛 Mirror case, women bathing before a statue of Aphrodite o…
Grateful Dead Live at Deer Creek Music Center on 1991-06-06 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic
That's super lazy xD
TL;DR: Send e-mails/documents to users and tell them "copy this command, then open the execute command dialog, paste the command and press OK!!1!".
https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/66300/
The Joint ALMA Observatory is hiring a Systems Engineer! If you're the successful applicant, you will be collaborating with both operational and development system engineering tasks.
The alt-text of the image cointains more detail, but the full details of the application, including how to apply, can be found at
Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel
https://www.juancole.com/2024/06/pegasus-threat-democracy.html
“Right-wing power-mongers have long expounded the theory of a ‘unitary executive’ as the most…efficient way to achieve a policy agenda that remains deeply unpopular with the American electorate…Vought seeks to transform that theory into a comic book plot arc…
The president becomes…a master accruer of power devoted at the same time to its wide dispersion among the satellite communities of superheroes practicing an elevated
An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-80d32089-441b833a2367732c
An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo [sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format,
one of my favorite things to do right now is treating the Seattle Center Monorail as a serious means of public transit and using it to get to/from the office
The user is asking if Penetration Testing is more technical than a Security Operations Center analyst or Incident Response/Digital Forensics roles. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1daaka6/
Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/mistral-launc…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Two women from Samos, Bitto and Nanion, do not like to meet #Aphrodite by her own rules. They desert to the other side, which is not good. Queen Aphrodite, hate these fugitives from your kind of sex."
Greek Anthology 5.207
🏛 Mirror case, women bathing before a statue of Aphrodite o…
Cowboys' projected starter should start worrying about his job because of rising teammate https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_projected_starter_should_start_worrying_about_…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01729 has been replaced.
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The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-06-06/criminalization-solidarity-stop-cop-city-prosecutions
Crypto miners are trying to ride the AI boom by converting data centers to rent out to AI companies or by selling computing power directly to AI clients (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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Multiplicity dependence of (multi-)strange hadrons in oxygen-oxygen collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}~=~7$ TeV using EPOS4 and AMPT
M. U. Ashraf, A. M. Khan, J. Singh, N. Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04096
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I continue to progress and enjoy the Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky. I have acquired a couple more starships to go along with the basic ass hauler I started with. The Solar Ship came by way of the Phase 2 "find a crashed ship and repair it" milestone. Oddly enough, I could swear I got one with the same name in the last Expedition I played through. I've been carrying around some odd thing in my inventory almost since I started, and finally used it and had a Sentinel ship …
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Event-horizon-scale Imaging of M87* under Different Assumptions via Deep Generative Image Priors
Berthy T. Feng, Katherine L. Bouman, William T. Freeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02785
Optical read and write of spin states in organic diradicals
Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, Naitik A. Panjwani, Yan Sun, Pratyush Ghosh, Yorrick Boeije, Vadim Derkach, Seung-Je Woo, Oliver Millington, Daniel G. Congrave, Yao Fu, Tarig B. E. Mustafa, Miguel Monteverde, Jes\'us Cerd\'a, Jan Behrends, Akshay Rao, David Beljonne, Alexei Chepelianskii, Hugo Bronstein, Richard H. Friend
“Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.””
John 20:29 NRSV
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.20.29.NRSV
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Bengals sign starting center Karras to extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40342022/bengals-sign-starting-center-ted-karras-1-year-extension
‘AI Call Center Software’ Is Powering a Scam Call Center https://www.404media.co/ai-call-center-software-is-powering-a-scam-call-center/
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Superstep wavefield propagation
Tamas Nemeth (Chevron Technical Center), Kurt Nihei (Chevron Technical Center), Alex Loddoch (Chevron Technical Center), Anusha Sekar (Chevron Technical Center), Ken Bube (University of Washington), John Washbourne (Chevron Technical Center), Luke Decker (Chevron Technical Center), Sam Kaplan (Chevron Technical Center), Chunling Wu (Chevron Technical Center), Andrey Shabelansky (Chevron Technical Center), Milad Bader (Chevron Technical Center), Ovidiu Cr…
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at lincoln center in #nyc, sam green's "love song of r. buckminster fuller" live #documentary with yo la tengo performing their #soundtrack along with green's narration. saw the (longer?) it…
'The center is holding,' von der Leyen declares amid Europe's far-right surge: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/the-center-is.html
Is anyone familiar with this source of data center floor area and capacity? It seems to be one of the sources driving the narrative about explosive IT electricity use but there are issues, the first one being that the implied power density from their national numbers is about 150W/sf of IT load, which is implausibly high. https://
#AustinTX is about to become the center of the #Objectivist universe: https://YouTube.com/live/u2bd15PxBl8?t
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TechInsights: Nvidia shipped ~3.76M data center GPUs in 2023, up from 2.64M in 2022; the total data center GPU market was 3.85M in 2023, up from ~2.67M in 2022 (Agam Shah/HPCwire)
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/06/10/nvidia-
Carbon accounting in the Cloud: a methodology for allocating emissions across data center users
Ian Schneider, Taylor Mattia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09645
The one-eyed squirrel that I occasionally feed in response to its screen-climbing demands has left us a thank-you gift.
The is the table on the front porch where it typically waits after it believes I have seen it.
A couple weeks back I had dropped and abandoned a pretzel while snacking out there and the squirrel later placed it on the chair.
This is all speculation — it could have been done by one of the handful of cats that visits. But cats aren’t that courteous.
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Limit cycles of piecewise smooth differential systems of the type nonlinear center and saddle
Nanasaheb Phatangare, Krishnat Masalkar, Subhash Kendre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08138
Montana GOP Candidate Failed To Disclose Post At Right-Wing Think Tank (Chris D'Angelo/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-sheehy-disclosure-property-and-environmental-research-center_n_6669b060e4b076909e1cc443
http://www.memeorandum.com/240612/p53#a240612p53
Toy Dolls – “A Far Out Disc” (1983)
UK release on Volume Records
My best friend at the time got the “Dig That Groove” album the year prior and we would listen to that thing non-stop. I recorded it, then got it on cassette, and eventually on CD.
To this day, that’s one of my top 5 all time favorite albums. I’m grateful I had the luck of being exposed to this band early on.
So I of course got their next album asap. It’s a close second, with standout tunes like “She Goes…
#Volkswagen plant ab 2025 den Einsatz von #Ökostromspeichern aus gebrauchten E-Auto-Batterien in #Norddeutschland. Diese "Power Center" sollen das
Hamiltonian Structure of the Guiding-center Vlasov-Maxwell Equations with Polarization and Magnetization
Alain J. Brizard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05932 …
AFC North chosen for HBO's in-season 'Hard Knocks' series; Steelers, Ravens, Bengals, Browns take center stage
https://www.cbssports.c…
Observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03976
at lincoln center in #nyc, sam green's "love song of r. buckminster fuller" live #documentary with yo la tengo performing their #soundtrack along with green's narration. saw the (longer?) it…
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo del Giappone
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-c4564aa3-08a9a688b153ee66
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo d…
Should FEMA recognize extreme heat and wildfire smoke as ‘major disasters’?
In a rule-making petition filed Monday, the Center for Biological Diversity and more than 30 other environmental organizations, healthcare groups and trade unions
are requesting that the Stafford Act
— FEMA’s animating statute
— be amended to include extreme heat and wildfire smoke in its regulations.
Doing so, they say, would unlock crucial disaster relief funding
that would all…
“Stochasticity is the center of creativity in organisms”
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/753643100546777088/evolution-may-be-purposeful-and-its-freaking?source=share
Observation of $\gamma\gamma\to\tau\tau$ in proton-proton collisions and limits on the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the $\tau$ lepton
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03975
“As of 2022, there are 1,225 hate groups in the US, according to the non-profit legal group Southern Poverty Law Center. While specific views vary between these & other groups, they are generally all galvanized by curtailing government power or hatred toward individuals of certain races, religions, ethnicities, or sexual orientations. These groups are active in all 50 states, but in some parts of the country, they are far more common than in others.”
European elections: Far-right gains, center holds, Ukraine-skeptics flounder: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/european-elections-farright.html
Über 20 NATO-Länder erreichen das Zwei-Prozent-Ziel
Mehr als 20 NATO-Länder werden nach Angaben von Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg in diesem Jahr mindestens zwei Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts für Verteidigung ausgeben. In einer Rede in der Denkfabrik Wilson Center sagte Stoltenberg, dass die Zahl der NATO-Mitglieder, die das Ausgabenziel von zwei Prozent des BIP erfüllten, heute höher sei als vor fünf Jahren. Damals err…
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Potato 🥔 varieties grown in Peru.
"More than 4,000 varieties of native potatoes grow in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador." https://cipotato.org/potato/native-potato-varieties/
I'd like to taste them all...
On the one dimensional polynomial, regular and regulous images of closed balls and spheres
Jos\'e F. Fernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09943 https://…
Customer service automation startup Cognigy, whose AI agents can talk to tens of thousands of users at once, raised a $100M Series C and reports ~175 clients (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/cognigy-la…
A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/202
A global map of gullied hillslopes on Mars: #Mars ever has flowing water: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/what-martian-gullies-mean-for-water-on-mars/ - now, a comprehensive study examines the question.
The new control center is nice #wwdc
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo del Giappone
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-c4564aa3-08a9a688b153ee66
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo d…
It’s great that this is hapening but….DUH…
“Colorado’s growing approach to solving chronic homelessness: Permanent housing”
https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/05/housing-homelessness-mental-health/
Ravens' Derrick Henry on playing with Lamar Jackson: 'Breath of fresh air not being the center of attention'
https://www.cbssports.co…
New 'Christian Supremacist' Movement Poses Biggest Threat to Democracy According to Southern Poverty Law Center - MeidasTouch News
https://meidasnews.com/news/new-christian-supremacis…
T.J. Bass on ‘process’ of center before camp battle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/t-j-bass-on-process-of-center-before-camp-battle
Spy agencies’ foreign influence hub says it is issuing more private warnings https://therecord.media/intelligence-agencies-foreign-malign-influence-center-more-warnings-issued
The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design
T. K. Sridharan (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), R. Lehmensiek (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), D. Marrone (University of Arizona), M. Johnson (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), J. Houston (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), M. Freeman (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), P. Cheimets (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), M. Silver (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Apple's iOS 18 lets users lock apps behind Face ID, adds redesigned Tapbacks in Messages, updates the Journal app, adds topographic support in Maps, and more (Kris Holt/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ios-18-gets-a-rev
CBRE: India is on track to add up to 850 MW of data center capacity by the end of 2026, outpacing South Korea at 495 MW and Japan at 407 MW over the same period (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/MFkIgCBmPn
Dickless – “I'm A Man” b/w “Saddle Tramp” (1990)
7” 45RPM
First edition of 4000 copies on green vinyl
The appeal for me at the time was their bass heavy, grungy sound. Never saw them live, but heard they were pretty bad. Maybe that’s why they were so short lived 🤷♂️
I prefer the b-side on this one. It’s got a melody.
#VinylRecords
Ok. Let's do this. LEGO British phone box we got today at the Discovery Center.
#LEGO
#HappyFathersDay
The new control center is nice #wwdc
Survey: 88% of Black Americans say they sometimes come across news about Black people they think is inaccurate; 72% say the inaccuracies were created on purpose (Kiana Cox/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth…
Turkey thwarts major terrorist plot in Moscow after Crocus City mall attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/turkey-thwarts-major.html
¡Anarchy 6! – “Hardcore Lives!” (1988)
LP on Gasatanka Records
It was about time someone made fun of the more ridiculous and toxic aspects of punk rock.
And who better than Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and a couple dudes from the band Sin 34?
And what better label than Bill Bartel's "Gasatanka Records" (a reference to Kiss label, Casablanca Records)?
It’s a great parody of the scene at the time. They even poke fun at their own bands. As a young pun…
The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview
Daniel P. Marrone (University of Arizona), Janice Houston (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Kazunori Akiyama (MIT Haystack Observatory, Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, BHI), Bryan Bilyeu (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Don Boroson (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Paul Grimes (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Kari Haworth (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Robert Lehmensiek (National Radio Astronomy Observator…
Apple unveils iOS 18, adding more Home Screen customization, a Dark Mode for app icons, an updated Control Center, scheduled send for Messages, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/10/ios-18-new-features-launch-release-date/…
Ukraine hits 15 Russian air defense systems in occupied Crimea over past 2 months, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/17/ukraine-hits-russian.html
Mike Johnson-Linked Ex-Southern Baptist Convention Leader Who Settled Molestation Lawsuit Dies At Age 92 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/06/mike-johnson-linked-ex-southern-baptist-co…
Sparks – “Angst In My Pants” (1982)
Not sure what year I got this, but it was definitely after seeing Valley Girl 😎
Along with “Whomp That Sucker” and “In Outer Space”, this was a big part of the soundtrack to my early teen years. I remember seeing them play at Magic Mountain in 1983. I just happened to be there at that time. Total coincidence.
#VinylRecords
Structure Research: tech companies' data center plans in India will push the nation from the sixth place to the top spot in Asia Pacific for self-built capacity (Financial Times)
https://t.co/gKW34k8wSk
War, combat fatigue, and uncertainty about the terms of service: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/war-combat-fatigue.html
This BlackRock left-wing conspiracy theory has more to it than meets the eye | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/13/2024/this-blackrock-left-wing-conspiracy-theory-has-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye
Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-ta…
Russia targets 103 settlements in past day, civilians killed and injured: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/09/russia-targets-settlements.html
Leaked documents reveal life-threatening issues at Amazon's primary-care service One Medical, raising concerns about Amazon's frugal approach to health care (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/202