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Supreme Court accepts new Louisiana map; liberal justices dissent | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/4666772-supreme-court-accepts-new-louisiana-map-liberal-justices-dissent/

Supreme Court accepts new Louisiana map; liberal justices dissent
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a new congressional map that includes a second Black majority House district in Louisiana can be used in November after a lower court rejected that map earlier this month.   The high court issued a stay on a federal judge panel’s decision two weeks ago that halted the…

digressionsimpressions’s Substack || On Defeat in Ukraine, and Liberal International Politics
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-defeat-in-ukraine-and-liberal

I, too, have a computer science degree from a liberal arts college, and this is a fantastic breakdown of why it prepared me to deal with the unknown.
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
[edit, adding a link to the original thread:

World's most microscopic violin 🎻 😂 Bruce Lehrmann faces crippling legal costs after rape finding
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-verdict-now-facing-legal-c…

I’m experimenting with Federating replies from Mastodon directly into my blog post page itself, displayed as old-school comments underneath the post, and…I kind of like it?
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

As you may have heard,mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis.
Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating.
But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites.
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry;
it’s utterly collapsing.

Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing.

They quit liberal public schools. Now they teach kids to be anti-'woke.' (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/15/kali-joshua-fontanilla-exodus-institute/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240415/p67#a240415p67

This is how it’s done, folks. Pressure Dems to rein in Netanyahu. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/15/schumer-biden-democrats-shift-gaza/

Schumer’s sharp Israel criticism highlights shift in Democratic Party
Amid vocal pressure from liberal protesters, activists and others in the party, top elected Democrats have adopted an increasingly hostile tone toward the Israeli government.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03958 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models
Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views once a user reveals that they are liberal). In this paper, we study the prevalence of sycophancy in language models and propose a simple synthetic-data intervention to reduce this behavior. First, on a set of three sycophancy tasks (Perez et al., 2022) where models are asked for an opinion on statements with no cor…

They quit liberal public schools. Now they teach kids to be anti-'woke.' (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/15/kali-joshua-fontanilla-exodus-institute/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240415/p67#a240415p67