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It's hard to know who to be sorrier for. The 9,000 who are losing their jobs, or the rest who are going to have to take on not only the additional work of clearing up the mess the AI makes, but also the work of their dismissed colleagues.
#Microsoft
#StochasticParrots
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Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI
The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

Na mijn lichte hartinfarct, of eigenlijk al daarvoor, ben ik begonnen aan hartrevalidatie. Het probleem daarbij is dat ik slechte benen heb, dus is (uiteindelijk stevig) wandelen niet echt een optie. Ik ben wel begonnen met slap wandelen, puur om wat minder krakende spieren te krijgen, maar dat zijn minieme stukjes, zeg 2000 stappen.
Ik wil wel meer fietsen. Ik heb een hometrainer, maar daar word ik niet blij van. Mijn fiets is OK, maar ik voel me er kwetsbaar op, in het door fatbikes…

Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech (David Reber Jr/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/no-backdoors-no-kill-switches-no-spyware/

No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware.
To mitigate the risk of misuse, some pundits and policymakers propose requiring hardware “kill switches” or built-in controls that can remotely disable GPUs without user knowledge and consent. Some suspect they might already exist. NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.

For all the other passengers and crews of #Dreamliner‎s around the globe, I hope that #AirIndia flight 171 indeed didn't crash due to general issues with the aircraft type. 🧐 #Boeing
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Air India crash investigation focuses on movement of engine fuel control switches
Data-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.

Raiders Veteran Details Career-Altering Position Switch https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jamal-adams-switch-to-linebacker/?adt_ei=[email]

A flexible, GPU-accelerated approach for the joint characterization of LISA instrumental noise and Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
Alessandro Santini, Martina Muratore, Jonathan Gair, Olaf Hartwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06300

A flexible, GPU-accelerated approach for the joint characterization of LISA instrumental noise and Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
LISA data analysis represents one of the most challenging tasks ahead for the future of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Characterizing the instrument's noise properties while fitting for all the other detectable sources is a key requirement of any robust inference pipeline. Noise estimation will also play a crucial role in searches and parameter estimation of cosmological and astrophysical stochastic signals. Previous studies have tackled this topic by assuming perfect knowledge of the spect…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07352 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Polarization Measurements as a Probe of Axion-Photon Coupling: a Study of GRB 221009A
Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of GRB 221009A, performing a full calculation of the Stokes parameters, as it is typically done in the astrophysics community. Within astrophysical uncertainties, our limits on the axion-photon coupling are competitive with complementary probes in the axion mass…

Na mijn lichte hartinfarct, of eigenlijk al daarvoor, ben ik begonnen aan hartrevalidatie. Het probleem daarbij is dat ik slechte benen heb, dus is (uiteindelijk stevig) wandelen niet echt een optie. Ik ben wel begonnen met slap wandelen, puur om wat minder krakende spieren te krijgen, maar dat zijn minieme stukjes, zeg 2000 stappen.
Ik wil wel meer fietsen. Ik heb een hometrainer, maar daar word ik niet blij van. Mijn fiets is OK, maar ik voel me er kwetsbaar op, in het door fatbikes…

Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let riders in Atlanta request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, first in a seven square-mile area (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775074/lyft-may-mobility-robotaxi-atlanta…

Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta
Lyft is launching its first commercial robotaxi service with May Mobility in Atlanta. The vehicles will have safety monitors in the driver seat who may manually operate the vehicle in the initial stages.