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I've seen talk on here suggesting @… does not actually care about LGBTQ issues, largely citing her interview with Chaya Raichik from Libs of TikTok - but that interview was in fact largely praised for being an exposé of sorts. Back in my early days of documentary, I interviewed public figures, politicians, and yes even fascists with the intention o…

Border Guard: Polish protesters end blockade at Ukrainian border: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/border-guard-polish.html

The 1968 protests at Columbia were aimed against the university's plan for a gym in Morningside Park as much as, or more than, the Vietnam War. This was part of a nation-wide SDS campaign against university expansion, from which today's left-nimbyism largely originated.
https://en.wikiped…

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

"After the 7 October attack, 24,000 acres of olives were left unharvested in the West Bank after #Israel largely prevented farmers from accessing their orchards, resulting in the loss of 1,200 metric tons or $10m of olive oil – a key #Palestinian export and powerful symbol for Palestinian identi…

Certified MaxSAT Preprocessing
Hannes Ihalainen, Andy Oertel, Yong Kiam Tan, Jeremias Berg, Matti J\"arvisalo, Jakob Nordstr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17316

Certified MaxSAT Preprocessing
Building on the progress in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving over the last decades, maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) has become a viable approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, but ensuring correctness of MaxSAT solvers has remained an important concern. For SAT, this is largely a solved problem thanks to the use of proof logging, meaning that solvers emit machine-verifiable proofs of (un)satisfiability to certify correctness. However, for MaxSAT, proof logging solvers have start…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19871 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Towards Stable Machine Learning Model Retraining via Slowly Varying Sequences
Retraining machine learning models (ML) when new batches of data become available is an important task in real-world pipelines. Existing methods focus largely on greedy approaches to find the best-performing model for each batch, without considering the stability of the model's structure across retraining iterations. In this study, we propose a methodology for finding sequences of ML models that are stable across retraining iterations. We develop a mixed-integer optimization algorithm that is g…

The Supreme Court’s conservatives often accuse liberals of inventing provisions nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Now, the fingers are pointed in the other direction.
At the attention-grabbing arguments this week over Donald Trump’s claim of sweeping presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, the six-member conservative bloc seemed largely unconcerned by a key flaw in Trump’s theory:
Nothing in the Constitution explicitly mentions the concept of presidential immunit…

The 1968 protests at Columbia were aimed against the university's plan for a gym in Morningside Park as much as, or more than, the Vietnam War. This was part of a nation-wide SDS campaign against university expansion, from which today's left-nimbyism largely originated.
https://en.wikiped…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08995 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Beyond Known Clusters: Probe New Prototypes for Efficient Generalized Class Discovery
Generalized Class Discovery (GCD) aims to dynamically assign labels to unlabelled data partially based on knowledge learned from labelled data, where the unlabelled data may come from known or novel classes. The prevailing approach generally involves clustering across all data and learning conceptions by prototypical contrastive learning. However, existing methods largely hinge on the performance of clustering algorithms and are thus subject to their inherent limitations. Firstly, the estimated…