@akalanka@masto.es2025-02-04 13:52:34
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-04-01 13:45:58
"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying
@akalanka@masto.es2025-02-04 00:22:56
đźš‹ El medio-tranvĂa de Trieste, 🇮🇹 Italia, recuperarš su servicio este 2025
🤌 El tren circula en modo tranviario por la calle, y se acopla a un funicular cerca de Villa Opicina para remontar la pendiente
🤓 Se recuperarš el servicio progresivamente, hasta 29 trenes/dia en #Marzo
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2025-02-26 15:20:23
One thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-03-24 15:56:58
L'Ă©conomie russe va mal, et tant mieux
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/03/24/economie-russe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-2025-le-petro…
@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-15 06:24:23
"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577
@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-13 17:44:02
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.
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Suno was trained on heaps of copyrighted music it fed into its training dataset without consent, a practice Suno is currently being sued for by the recording industry.
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https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2025-03-13 14:42:34
Can the ai components (NPU) of new processors be used for non-ai work?
What I'm thinking is along the lines that the vector-processing components of GPUs have also been used to speed up non-graphic mathematics on large arrays.
#NPUs #AIProcessor
@erc_bk@fosstodon.org2025-02-12 13:01:29
Shout out to Calvo's GPT for R, https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iedyANQtM-r-and-r-studio-tutor. It really came through yesterday. Handled the tedious tasks of function input checks and roxygen docs and helped me out of mental rut. I was convinced walk2 could add attributes…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-03-22 07:17:34
Ça commence Španiquer :
'Musk demande aux employés de Tesla de conserver leurs actions dans un contexte de protestations"
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-21/musk-reassures-tesla-employees-stock-e…