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Majority of workers at Alabama Mercedes plant sign union cards in major breakthrough for UAW
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/28/2226152/-Majority-of-workers-at-Alabama-Mercedes…

Majority of workers at Alabama Mercedes plant sign union cards in major breakthrough for UAW
A serious milestone was reached Tuesday when a� majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in�Vance, Alabama, signed union cards. It was the result of a�recently launched organizing drive�by the ...

Reliance and Disney merge their media businesses in India, creating the country's largest media conglomerate; Reliance values it at $8.5B and will invest $1.4B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/reliance-buys-ma…

Reliance and Disney to merge media assets in India | TechCrunch
Reliance, its media asset Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media conglomerate in the South Asian

Democrat Tom Suozzi sworn into the House, shrinking the GOP's fragile majority (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrat-tom-suozzi-sworn-shrinking-house-gops-fragile-majority-rcna140563
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p99#a240228p99

UMG buys a majority stake in Nigeria-based record label Mavin Global in a deal expected to close by Q3; Mavin was reportedly valued at north of $125M in October (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/record-

Universal Music Group Buys Majority Stake in Nigerian Label Mavin Global
Mavin Global confirmed that UMG has acquired a majority stake in the Rema and Ayra Starr Afrobeats label.

This conference suggests there’s a simple way around ⭐️the problem of majority rule: ⭐️
breeding a new majority
— one that looks and sounds just like them.
Though relatively small, as conferences go, #NatalCon has attracted attendees who are almost intensely dedicated to
the cause of raising the U.S. birth rate.
The broader natalist movement has been gaining momentum lately i…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

UMG buys a majority stake in Nigeria-based record label Mavin Global in a deal expected to close by Q3; Mavin was reportedly valued at north of $125M in October (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/record-

Universal Music Group Buys Majority Stake in Nigerian Label Mavin Global
Mavin Global confirmed that UMG has acquired a majority stake in the Rema and Ayra Starr Afrobeats label.

Tell me, my Christian friends: Is a Bible more valuable or trustworthy when it is “endorsed” by an adulterer, fraud, and rapist? https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112167841678937984

Indivisible (@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The leader of the GOP is selling a $60 Bible that will help pay his lawyers. According to the website, it is "the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!" Let's end this con artist's political career in November: https://act.indivisible.org/survey/majority_over_maga_signup?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

"The vast majority of the demands for productivity made within the economy are intended to reduce the level of labour input into the production of goods and services, whilst at the same time increasing the return to the rentier who has exploited the natural resources of the world to deliver the material component" -- @…

The stories we tell each other about the economy in which we live are more important than the data we collect about it
With politicians, taking an Easter break, inspiration has to come from elsewhere this morning. I am returning, in that case, to the article by economics Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton on the IMF website, which was entitled

Historians point out that it was only in the 1930s that Canada became predominantly urban. What we don't underline nearly as much, is that by 1960 the majority of Canada's urban population actually lived in suburbs. Due to several factors, not least of which is our shared disdain for suburbia, we have whole bodies of literature on single cities and next to nothing on the suburbs. How can we understand 20th-c history while ignoring the places so many people lived?

It's quite annoying to see a new amazing tool be released and the vast majority using it in the most incorrect way possible, then going "tool is dumb, don't work, broken"....
Well, if you'd start using it in a way that actually makes fucking sense then it wouldn't be "dumb" because it can do the things it's meant to do, fairly well...

Equal Rights Amendment Achieves Huge Win for Reproductive Rights in Nevada - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/equal-rights-amendment-achieves-huge-win-for-reproductive-rights-in-nevada/

“I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. Microsoft and Google keep shoving AI features into their software, and I absolutely should not have to worry about this garbage from Firefox of all places. Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant.…

Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath
There's no need for an AI device

“65% South Carolina GOP Primary voters said they would consider Donald Trump fit to be president if he was convicted of a crime”
Well, there it is. He’s not losing any of his base when he’s convicted. https://www.

NBC News exit poll: Majority of S.C. GOP primary voters say Trump would be fit to be president if convicted
65% of South Carolina Republican primary voters said they would consider Donald Trump fit to be president if he was convicted of a crime, according to early NBC News exit poll results. MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O'Donnell and other hosts discuss.

Poll: Majority of Ukrainians want Zelensky to remain president for duration of martial law: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/poll-majority-of.html

Reliance and Disney merge their media businesses in India, creating the country's largest media conglomerate; Reliance values it at $8.5B and will invest $1.4B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/reliance-buys-ma…

Reliance and Disney to merge media assets in India | TechCrunch
Reliance, its media asset Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media conglomerate in the South Asian

anytime I see a liberal breathlessly cry about the "end of democracy", I see someone who doesn't care about the majority of Americans who have never had any say in their government.... who doesn't even see them as people
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

If you don’t know me, my name is #Ty #Pinkins.
I am a Bronze Star Veteran, an attorney, and a community organizer.
I’m also the only Democrat running to represent our great state of Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.
Growing up in the Delta, I knew that I wanted to be of service to my community.
The fir…

I just gave to Ty Pinkins for U.S. Senate! Please donate today to help increase our Senate majority.
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Trump allies face criminal trials in majority of key 2024 swing states (Justin Green/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/28/trump-swing-states-fake-electors-indictments
http://www.memeorandum.com/240428/p16#a240428p16

Cowboys exec Stephen Jones discusses team’s top needs in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_exec_stephen_jones_discusses_teams_top_needs_in_2024_nfl_draft/s1_17236_40166673

Cowboys exec Stephen Jones discusses team’s top needs in 2024 NFL Draft
The Dallas Cowboys let the vast majority of their free agents walk when the league new year hit on March 13, which means they have an uphill battle to re-stock before training camp. The upcoming 2024 NFL Draft gives Jerry Jones and his front office plenty of opportunities to bring in new talent or even leverage picks for more selections or to make trades. Discussing the team’s needs, which now include a starting left tackle, a starting center, and a starting defensive tackle, executive vice p…

getting a little weepy at seeing some of these kids getting drafted into the NFL; most of them have spent the majority of their young lives towards this goal.
#NFLDraft #NFL

"EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support"
#Europe #EuropeanUnion #Environment

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11815 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

HU at SemEval-2024 Task 8A: Can Contrastive Learning Learn Embeddings to Detect Machine-Generated Text?
This paper describes our system developed for SemEval-2024 Task 8, ``Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection'' Machine-generated texts have been one of the main concerns due to the use of large language models (LLM) in fake text generation, phishing, cheating in exams, or even plagiarizing copyright materials. A lot of systems have been developed to detect machine-generated text. Nonetheless, the majority of these systems rely on the text-generat…

Minneapolis reactionaries, including the mayor and a majority of voters who bought into his lies, claim we don't have enough of these wastes-of-city-money.

The Case for Co-Designing Model Architectures with Hardware
Quentin Anthony, Jacob Hatef, Deepak Narayanan, Stella Biderman, Stas Bekman, Junqi Yin, Aamir Shafi, Hari Subramoni, Dhabaleswar Panda
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.14489

The Case for Co-Designing Model Architectures with Hardware
While GPUs are responsible for training the vast majority of state-of-the-art deep learning models, the implications of their architecture are often overlooked when designing new deep learning (DL) models. As a consequence, modifying a DL model to be more amenable to the target hardware can significantly improve the runtime performance of DL training and inference. In this paper, we provide a set of guidelines for users to maximize the runtime performance of their transformer models. These guid…

PromptSet: A Programmer's Prompting Dataset
Kaiser Pister, Dhruba Jyoti Paul, Patrick Brophy, Ishan Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16932 https://

PromptSet: A Programmer's Prompting Dataset
The rise of capabilities expressed by large language models has been quickly followed by the integration of the same complex systems into application level logic. Algorithms, programs, systems, and companies are built around structured prompting to black box models where the majority of the design and implementation lies in capturing and quantifying the `agent mode'. The standard way to shape a closed language model is to prime it for a specific task with a tailored prompt, often initially hand…

Report: Pre-Majority Unionism at Alphabet Workers Union #AWU https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/case-studies/alphabet-workers-union/

A Novel Behavior-Based Recommendation System for E-commerce
Reza Barzegar Nozari, Mahdi Divsalar, Sepehr Akbarzadeh Abkenar, Mohammadreza Fadavi Amiri, Ali Divsalar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18536

A Novel Behavior-Based Recommendation System for E-commerce
The majority of existing recommender systems rely on user ratings, which are limited by the lack of user collaboration and the sparsity problem. To address these issues, this study proposes a behavior-based recommender system that leverages customers' natural behaviors, such as browsing and clicking, on e-commerce platforms. The proposed recommendation system involves clustering active customers, determining neighborhoods, collecting similar users, calculating product reputation based on simila…

A Supreme Court majority decided by a corrupt president is the definition of a banana republic.

#Mathematics #Math #Maths teacher getting downvoted for pointing out actual rules of Maths - what a time to be alive!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06373 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Partial Information Decomposition for Continuous Variables based on Shared Exclusions: Analytical Formulation and Estimation
Describing statistical dependencies is foundational to empirical scientific research. For uncovering intricate and possibly non-linear dependencies between a single target variable and several source variables within a system, a principled and versatile framework can be found in the theory of Partial Information Decomposition (PID). Nevertheless, the majority of existing PID measures are restricted to categorical variables, while many systems of interest in science are continuous. In this paper…

If you don’t know me, my name is #Ty #Pinkins.
I am a Bronze Star Veteran, an attorney, and a community organizer.
I’m also the only Democrat running to represent our great state of Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.
Growing up in the Delta, I knew that I wanted to be of service to my community.
The fir…

I just gave to Ty Pinkins for U.S. Senate! Please donate today to help increase our Senate majority.
Show your support with a contribution.

Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/byte…

ByteDance Exploring Scenarios for Selling TikTok Without Algorithm
ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to companies outside the tech industry, and without the algorithm that recommends videos to TikTok users, said three people with knowledge ofthe deliberations. ByteDance’s internal ...

Example of Trump's racism: when he accused majority-black cities of stealing the 2020 election

Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza (Jeffrey M. Jones/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/240327/p27#a240327p27

I’m reminded of a very old Slashdot comment that I return to which I will share in its entirety. Not the article, not the source, but this single insightful comment from Shannon Love that still rings true:
“I can relate to Zawinski's frustration and many others do as well. I notice that it seems to effect those with more experience than those newer to computing.
When one first acquires a new tool, whether it is hardware, software or a woodworking plane, the very act of learning how use the tool itself works is highly engaging. Just futzing about figuring out how the new tool works is an end in itself.
However, after one has spent 20 years learning the ends and out of each season's new tools the joy fades. One becomes progressively less interested in the tools itself and more interested in product you want to use the tool to make. The time spent futzing with the tool is not engaging but frustrating and wasteful. You want to get the primary work done not spend all your time adjusting your tools.
How many times over the years has Zawinski wrestled with a problem similar to his Linux sound issue? The thrill of solving such a problem is long gone, baby.
The Linux community is dominated by people who enjoy the process of learning and using the tool itself. They are the kind of people who take the toaster apart to see how it works. The vast majority of desktop users, however, just want to make toast.
People like Zawinski, who have taken apart their fair share of toasters, also now just want to make toast. At present, Linux doesn't let him do that.”
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/05/06/12/1315235/jamie-zawinski-switches-to-mac-os-x#

On the Joint Effect of Culture and Discussion Topics on X (Twitter) Signed Ego Networks
Jack Tacchi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18235

On the Joint Effect of Culture and Discussion Topics on X (Twitter) Signed Ego Networks
Humans are known to structure social relationships according to certain patterns, such as the Ego Network Model (ENM). These patterns result from our innate cognitive limits and can therefore be observed in the vast majority of large human social groups. Until recently, the main focus of research was the structural characteristics of this model. The main aim of this paper is to complement previous findings with systematic and data-driven analyses on the positive and negative sentiments of socia…

As I'm alone for the next 2 weeks in the office, I'm playing music to drown out the boredom and his of generators.
I tend to bung a YouTube playlist on. It's odd how many of the comments at the top of the list are "people" saying "I wish you well, and hope you have a wonderful life" or whatever.
I say "people", because I suspect the vast majority are bots designed to boost the video in YouTube's algorithm.
At least they'r…

Dean Phillips gives up without actually quitting, Binkley quits - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/02/27/dean-phillips-gives-up-without-actually-ending-campaign/

All Caleb Williams has to do in Chicago is be himself … and win a lot of games for Bears https://theathletic.com/5450366/2024/04/26/chicago-bears-caleb-williams-nfl-draft/

All Caleb Williams has to do in Chicago is be himself … and win a lot of games for Bears
"I'm always going to have scrutiny," Williams said. "If you win a bunch of games here, you'll make a lot of people, the majority, happy."

Evidence for axion miniclusters with an increased central density
Benedikt Eggemeier, Ananthu Krishnan Anilkumar, Klaus Dolag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18221

Evidence for axion miniclusters with an increased central density
We identify axion miniclusters collapsing in the radiation-dominated era and follow them to redshift $z=99$ with N-body simulations. We find that the majority of the densest miniclusters end up in the center of larger minicluster halos at late times. Soon after their formation, the miniclusters exhibit NFW profiles but they subsequently develop a steeper inner slope approaching $ρ\sim r^{-2}$ on small scales. Using the so far most highly resolved axion structure formation simulation with $2048…

EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/eu-nature-restoration-laws-in-balance-as-member-states-with…

Since i was about 15yo i realized that the majority of wars and suffering in this world is caused by Religions.
Doesn’t matter witch ones.
Some are worse than others.
I believe there is a skydaddy but i‘m not willing to give it a name.
Nature is proof enough for me to know, that there is a higher power architect who created it.
And then their is some evil shit in most religions who work against nature.
What i hate is, this pretentious „Christ is King“ trendin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13434 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Phase transition and universality of the majority-rule model on complex networks
We investigate the phenomena of order-disorder phase transition and the universality of the majority rule model defined on three complex networks, namely the Barabasi-Albert, Watts-Strogatz, and Erdos-Renyi networks. Assume each agent holds two possible opinions distributed randomly across the networks' nodes. Agents adopt anticonformity and independence behaviors, represented by the probability (p), where with a probability (p), agents adopt anticonformity or independence behavior. Based on ou…

We're still pretending that we have a legitimate SCOTUS, eh?
https://journa.host/@lolgop/112327017714474371
(Also, John Roberts is a fucking idiot.)

Our VP today told us that we should all be using ChatGPT, Copilot, and AI in general more in our work because some engineer at Tesla used it to write the majority of their code 😑

Every war is a war on children — framing either glorifies or justifies that fact. The majority of deaths in this war are civilians.

🏃‍♀️ Team sports help vast majority of young girls feel more confident, says report
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/07/team-sports-help-vast-majority-of-young-girls-feel-more-confident-say…

An analysis of educational backgrounds of 460 NYT newsroom staff members shows the Ivy League is over-represented; about 75% of staffers are not Ivy Leaguers (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/is-the-n

Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)
They're not a majority, based on a new look at education data, but they are wildly overrepresented.

PepGB: Facilitating peptide drug discovery via graph neural networks
Yipin Lei, Xu Wang, Meng Fang, Han Li, Xiang Li, Jianyang Zeng
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.14665

PepGB: Facilitating peptide drug discovery via graph neural networks
Peptides offer great biomedical potential and serve as promising drug candidates. Currently, the majority of approved peptide drugs are directly derived from well-explored natural human peptides. It is quite necessary to utilize advanced deep learning techniques to identify novel peptide drugs in the vast, unexplored biochemical space. Despite various in silico methods having been developed to accelerate peptide early drug discovery, existing models face challenges of overfitting and lacking ge…

In a dissenting opinion to the state of New York court of appeals 4-3 decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction by a jury for sexual crimes against 3 named complainants, Judge Madeline Singas accused the ruling majority of participating in a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
“The majority’s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability.”

Six California House races that could help determine control of Congress
The battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2025 is being waged in farmland along Highway 99, fast-growing commuter communities north and east of Los Angeles and Orange County beach towns and inland suburbs.
While Republicans currently have a razor-thin majority in the House, partisan makeup of next year’s Congress will almost certainly be decided this November
— at least in part
…

Six California House races that could determine control of Congress
From the farm towns of the Central Valley to the beaches of Orange County, California is a battleground for control of the House of Representatives.

House Majority Leader: 'No agreement reached' on Ukraine aid funding as negotiations with White House continue: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/12/house-majority-leader.html

Dems have this dumb idea that if Dems do something tough that the GOP will then also do it, but of course the GOP will say and do whatever they want, they don’t care one whit about what Dems do. It’s the “West Wing’ Syndrome.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics…

In the wake of 2022 losses, Suzan DelBene eyes a comeback for House Democrats
Suzan DelBene’s success will be defined by whether she and a new generation of Democratic leaders can win back the House majority without the previous generation’s leadership.

It's great to see how generative AI has shot into society's consciousness. At the same time, it is frightening to see how ignorant and risk-averse the majority of people are when using the services. Although the hype is probably over, many people still seem to be using the AI tools of large platforms.
#chatgpt

Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/byte…

ByteDance Exploring Scenarios for Selling TikTok Without Algorithm
ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to companies outside the tech industry, and without the algorithm that recommends videos to TikTok users, said three people with knowledge ofthe deliberations. ByteDance’s internal ...

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

After only one day of fun, this elfeed issues makes it completely
unusable for me #Emacs elfeed db gets corrupted afte…

elfeed-db-load: Wrong type argument: avl-tree-, nil with Emacs 29.3 and no upgrade · Issue #509 · skeeto/elfeed
By searching old issues, I have found similar issues (listed below). The majority of these are not marked as solved and they refer to upgrading Emacs versions. The latter condition does not apply i...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02320 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Spin: An Efficient Secure Computation Framework with GPU Acceleration
Accuracy and efficiency remain challenges for multi-party computation (MPC) frameworks. Spin is a GPU-accelerated MPC framework that supports multiple computation parties and a dishonest majority adversarial setup. We propose optimized protocols for non-linear functions that are critical for machine learning, as well as several novel optimizations specific to attention that is the fundamental unit of Transformer models, allowing Spin to perform non-trivial CNNs training and Transformer inferenc…

The need to build housing bumps up against NIMBYism and growth concerns in my community. We're a rural area on the edge of Toronto so there's tremendous pressure to start paving farmland (HWY 413 will cut through the southern portion of Caledon) and increase the population. I worry about sprawl, because that's the majority of approved projects, and not creating walkable, livable towns with GO connections.
#Caledon #HousingCrisis
https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/council/mzo-on-crack-caledon-residents-ask-mayor-to-slow-down-fast-tracked-housing-for-35/article_b81727a7-fed4-5459-a74d-885acc4d87b3.html

An insightful report published today by T&E UK on the 'early majority', the next phase of EV buyers, and what's holding them back - and what would convince them (see attached image from the full report).
Research for the UK, but equally applicable elsewhere, I think.

The “early majority”: the next phase of the EV transition in the UK
E UK lays out what the barriers are for the next segment of battery electric vehicle adopters and what can be done to help them make the transition…

A Novel Behavior-Based Recommendation System for E-commerce
Reza Barzegar Nozari, Mahdi Divsalar, Sepehr Akbarzadeh Abkenar, Mohammadreza Fadavi Amiri, Ali Divsalar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18536

A Novel Behavior-Based Recommendation System for E-commerce
The majority of existing recommender systems rely on user ratings, which are limited by the lack of user collaboration and the sparsity problem. To address these issues, this study proposes a behavior-based recommender system that leverages customers' natural behaviors, such as browsing and clicking, on e-commerce platforms. The proposed recommendation system involves clustering active customers, determining neighborhoods, collecting similar users, calculating product reputation based on simila…

“But I think a big majority Senate would want to come and stand in support of Netanyahu and Israel,” Johnson said.
Mike Johnson is doing things to support "Netanyahu and Israel."
It's clear what side Netanyahu and Johnson are on.
https://www.

Senator Schumer's comments on Israel & Gaza were spot on, in my opinion. And I've just signed the #JStreet letter/petition thNking the Majority Leader for his clear statement calling out both the #NetanyahuAdministration & Hamas for their abhorrent actions.
I encourage…

Thank You, Majority Leader Schumer
None

Senator Schumer's comments on Israel & Gaza were spot on, in my opinion. And I've just signed the #JStreet letter/petition thNking the Majority Leader for his clear statement calling out both the #NetanyahuAdministration & Hamas for their abhorrent actions.
I encourage…

Thank You, Majority Leader Schumer
None

Senate Republicans are trying to wave their House GOP counterparts away from blundering into a partial government shutdown at week’s end, something that looks increasingly likely given Speaker Mike #Johnson’s (R-La.) #unstable grip on power over a narrow majority.
GOP senators warn a

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/will-san-jose-city-council-lose-its-labor-majority-election-2024/

Will San Jose council lose its labor majority? - San José Spotlight
Progressive and labor friendly politicians have enjoyed a majority on the San Jose City Council for the past two years, but the November elections may flip the balance.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01731 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Phase transition and universality in the majority-rule model with social noises on various network topologies
This paper explores the impact of social noise, characterized by either independence or anticonformity, on order-disorder phase transitions within the majority-rule model framework. The study spans diverse network topologies, including the complete graph, two-dimensional (2-D) square lattice, three-dimensional (3-D) square lattice, and heterogeneous networks such as Watts-Strogatz, Barabási-Albert, and Erdős-Renyi networks. The social noise is represented by the fundamental parameter $p$, den…

Poll: Vast majority of Ukrainians against Russian as official or state language: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/12/poll-vast-majority.html

🏃‍♀️ Team sports help vast majority of young girls feel more confident, says report
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/07/team-sports-help-vast-majority-of-young-girls-feel-more-confident-say…

Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over for threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline. 
“We are mere days away from a partial government shutdown on March 1.
Unless Republicans get serious, the extreme Republican shutdown will endanger our economy, raise costs…

Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over the threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline.  “We are mere days away from a partial government shutdown on March 1. Unless Republicans get serious,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02473 has been replaced.
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A Robust Cybersecurity Topic Classification Tool
In this research, we use user defined labels from three internet text sources (Reddit, Stackexchange, Arxiv) to train 21 different machine learning models for the topic classification task of detecting cybersecurity discussions in natural text. We analyze the false positive and false negative rates of each of the 21 model's in a cross validation experiment. Then we present a Cybersecurity Topic Classification (CTC) tool, which takes the majority vote of the 21 trained machine learning models as…

Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/byte…

ByteDance Exploring Scenarios for Selling TikTok Without Algorithm
ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to companies outside the tech industry, and without the algorithm that recommends videos to TikTok users, said three people with knowledge ofthe deliberations. ByteDance’s internal ...

After only one day of fun, this elfeed issues makes it completely
unusable for me #Emacs elfeed db gets corrupted afte…

elfeed-db-load: Wrong type argument: avl-tree-, nil with Emacs 29.3 and no upgrade · Issue #509 · skeeto/elfeed
By searching old issues, I have found similar issues (listed below). The majority of these are not marked as solved and they refer to upgrading Emacs versions. The latter condition does not apply i...

The need to build housing bumps up against NIMBYism and growth concerns in my community. We're a rural area on the edge of Toronto so there's tremendous pressure to start paving farmland (HWY 413 will cut through the southern portion of Caledon) and increase the population. I worry about sprawl, because that's the majority of approved projects, and not creating walkable, livable towns with GO connections.
#Caledon #HousingCrisis
https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/council/mzo-on-crack-caledon-residents-ask-mayor-to-slow-down-fast-tracked-housing-for-35/article_b81727a7-fed4-5459-a74d-885acc4d87b3.html

“But I think a big majority Senate would want to come and stand in support of Netanyahu and Israel,” Johnson said.
Mike Johnson is doing things to support "Netanyahu and Israel."
It's clear what side Netanyahu and Johnson are on.
https://www.

First-rate analysis of what the Supreme Court just did:
“A five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The ‘oathbreaking insurrectionist’ Trump—a designation unchallenged by the Supreme Court majority or even his attorneys—will never be disqualified from the presidency.”
“The Court severely weakened an essential barrier to violent despotism that had been erected in the aftermath of the Civil War.”

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The Constitution Turned Upside Down | Sean Wilentz
In one of the Supreme Court’s most sweeping rulings in modern times, a five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.

Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non-tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/byte…

ByteDance Exploring Scenarios for Selling TikTok Without Algorithm
ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to companies outside the tech industry, and without the algorithm that recommends videos to TikTok users, said three people with knowledge ofthe deliberations. ByteDance’s internal ...

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical on Tuesday over efforts to curtail access to a widely used abortion pill, calling into question whether a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations had a right to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication.
Describing the case as an effort by “a handful of individuals,” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch raised whether it would stand as “a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nat…

The secret operation to hold elections in occupied Mariupol: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/the-secret-operation.html

Majority in U.S. Say Israel Has Valid Reasons for Fighting; Fewer Say the Same About Hamas (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/majority-in-u-s-say-israel-has-valid-reasons-for-fighting-fewer-say-the-same-about-hamas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240321/p78#a240321p78

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

• Senate Republican leaders are prepared to buck Donald Trump if the party’s presumptive nominee urges them to end the filibuster, Axios reportedThursday.
Republican leaders such as Sens. John Thune, John Cornyn, John Barasso, and Steve Daines, have said they believe the filibuster should remain in place, either because of its institutional status in the Senate or for fear of what Democrats might do in the majority without it.
During his presidency, Trump made unsuccessful overtu…

After RNC Shakeup, Trump Ground Game Could Be Compromised
Plus: A look at the Washington GOP’s unconventional gubernatorial endorsement.

Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk #Ukraine and government funding | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/biden-johns

Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk Ukraine and government funding
President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month. That's according to a White House official, who spoke anonymously to discuss a meeting not yet publicly confirmed. The top four leaders include House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch …

US Senator Schumer in Lviv: 'Without aid, Ukraine will lose war, with aid it will win': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/us-senator-schumer.html

Whatever happened to 'majority rules'? This is tyranny by the minority...yeah, US too...
Russia Vetoes UN Resolution Calling to Prevent Nuclear Arms Race in Space | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nuclear-

Democrats on track to maintain majority in Pennsylvania state House (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4466050-democrats-on-track-to-maintain-majority-in-pennsylvania-state-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240213/p88#a240213p88

Ten years ago, on April 25th, the City of Flint, Michigan,
under the thumb of state-appointed emergency operators,
switched their municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
to the Flint River.
Governor Rick Snyder’s Republican administration had imposed a brutal austerity paradigm on both Flint and Detroit,
where the vast majority of Michigan’s Black population was concentrated.
Because the Flint River water was improperly trea…

The Flint Water Crisis, Ten Years Later
A Conversation with Dayne Walling, Flint Mayor 2009-2015

'This man admires Hitler': CNN's Begala buries Trump for attack on U.S. Jews - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-anti-semitism-2667547842/

'This man admires Hitler': CNN's Begala buries Trump for attack on US Jews
CNN political analyst Paul Begala was unsparing when asked about former President Donald Trump's latest attack on the majority of American Jews.Trump said this week that the majority of American Jews should feel "ashamed" because they don't vote for Republicans, while also claiming that American Jew...

Poll: Majority of Floridians think 6-week abortion ban is too strict | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4588782-poll-floridians-six-week-abortion-ban/

Poll: Majority of Floridians think six-week abortion ban is too strict
A majority of Floridians in a new poll said they think a six-week abortion ban is too strict, but so far only 42 percent said they will vote in favor of a ballot amendment to enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution.  The Emerson College poll of Florida voters released Thursday found 57 percent think…

Opinion by George F. Will

Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering
— the nihilism of a febrile minority in their party
— a majority of House Republicans voted last Saturday to endanger civilization.
Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats,
and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness
(insulting a mostly fictitious “establishment”),
they voted to assure Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a Eur…

So, 112 ignoble, infantile Republicans voted to endanger civilization
For the satisfaction of committing populist naughtiness, dozens of House GOP members voted to assure Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a European nation.

If Debbie wins in Florida, Democrats will likely maintain our Senate majority.
If we lose, our Senate majority is all but doomed.
Polls show that this race is already neck and neck, but #Rick #Scott is already shelling out millions to retake the lead.
Debbie can’t pull ahead without you:
Please, will …

DONATE NOW TO DEFEAT RICK SCOTT IN FLORIDA
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is running to defeat Rick Scott – and election analysts are saying this is one of Democrats’ top pickup opportunities in the Senate.