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Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna:
🎵 LOYALTY.
#KendrickLamar #Rihanna
https://uprootandy.bandcamp.com/track/kendrick-lamar-x-rihanna-loyalty-uproot-andy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6SwRhMLwNqEi6alNPVG00n

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00436 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Learning from Double Positive and Unlabeled Data for Potential-Customer Identification
In this study, we propose a method for identifying potential customers in targeted marketing by applying learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning). We consider a scenario in which a company sells a product and can observe only the customers who purchased it. Decision-makers seek to market products effectively based on whether people have loyalty to the company. Individuals with loyalty are those who are likely to remain interested in the company even without additional advertising…

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

When it’s no longer about right or wrong but only about loyalty, it’s fascism.
#usa #europe #eu #israel

Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-loyalty-white-house-maga-vetting-jobs-768fa5cbcf175652655c86203222f47c

i would love to see the statistics and the shitlist of J Lenaers:
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-peoples-party-whip-manfred-weber-jeroen-lenaers/

Today I’m looking at loyalty program terms and becoming dissatisfied. If you spend $100 with a certain program you earn one (1) free item … as long as it costs below a key price point. But plenty of the GOOD stuff (full-size bottles of body fragrance, for example) are ABOVE that price point. 🧵

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…