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Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chinta…

A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.

I should probably take a break as the holidays approach. As they say "All work and no play make jack a dull boy"
Okay Hallmark channel - I'm listening.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

:linux: Yes, I use #Secureblue #Linux

5 - I went to Brooklyn’s #Book Festival last month and it was FULL.
So many people even at the very end of the day - people buying books, people walking around and sitting down in any spot they could find in the park to start reading what they got.
I heard multiple vendors talking to each other about how they didn’t bring enough stock to meet demand that day - in fact I couldn’t buy anything from multiple vendors I wanted to support because they had so few books left, and sold out of the ones I was interested in.
#NYC #reading

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold | AP News #hunger

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts. In one case, the father of a 2-year-old boy says his son died in May of malnutrition after the family's food rations stopped arriving as a result of the aid cuts. In more than 60 interviews, the AP documented widespread suffering across M…

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 11:
Lisa Moore
I discovered this Canadian author via the Edinburgh Book Festival - what a find. I loved her novel "Alligator" - it's on my shelf for favourite books.
#FemmeÉcrivain

Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people.
But those suffering the most are women and girls
— and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off.
Sometimes the cuts don’t directly target girls,
but when families are stressed it is girls who pay the highest price.
In a Congolese refugee settlement I visited in southwestern Uganda, Rwamwanja,
aid cuts led to reduced food assistance
and to the layoffs of …

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
In Uganda, desperation has eroded the social fabric and left women particularly vulnerable.

Barely three hours later, I found myself back on my #secureblue desktop.
⭐ #FedoraAtomic

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 7:
Lauren Beukes ("rhymes with mucus" as she likes to say)
SciFi novellist, filmmaker, journalist and LGBTQ-ally from S.Africa.
I loved Zoo City, Moxyland and The Shining Girls and I need to catch up on her newer ones. It was fun to meet her at the Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival a few years ago.