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“This sort of move—rewriting history to suggest she has always been critical of various firms or trends in Silicon Valley—is employed consistently throughout the book as part of a desperate effort to catch up with the critical consensus.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-mise

The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr.
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!

California lawmaker looks toward removing Native American terms from school mascots, team names | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-lawmaker-looks-toward-removing-native-…

California lawmaker looks toward removing Native American terms from school mascots, team names
The bill now proceeds to the California General Assembly's Higher Education Committee.

#Verpasstodon
Zahlen, bitte! Der Wilhelmsschrei – Meistgehörter Todeslaut der Popkultur
Der zweisekündige Wilhelmsschrei war zunächst nur ein Laut einer Filmtonsammlung, entwickelte sich später zum Kult. Star Wars hat einen großen Anteil daran.

Cowboys need to avoid major NFL Draft mistake everyone expects them to make https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_need_to_avoid_major_nfl_draft_mistake_everyone_expects_them_to_make/s1_17313_…

Cowboys need to avoid major NFL Draft mistake everyone expects them to make
The Dallas Cowboys have a type when it comes to the second round of the NFL Draft. It is something we have discussed before, and this year there is another player that fits the Cowboys' established criteria that they look for; but there is another problem with him. He is a running back. When you look at Texas running back, Jonathon Brooks and his draft profile, a number of analysts give him to the Cowboys in the second round. And when you go into the specifics it does make some sense.  Brooks …

Steelers decline Najee Harris' fifth-year option: Three reasons why Pittsburgh's making mistake with RB

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/st…

Steelers decline Najee Harris' fifth-year option: Three reasons why Pittsburgh's making mistake with RB
Harris, who will be an unrestricted free agent in 2025, has more than proven his worth

Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday announced the start of a
☀️dog lovers caucus ☀️on Capitol Hill
in the wake of a story about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.)
shooting and killing a family dog.
“In light of recent events, we’re launching the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus today!” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said in a post on the social platform X.
“This group dedicated to man’s best friend aims to foster bipartisan cooperation and will help put paws over…

Lawmakers announce dog lovers caucus in wake of Noem news
Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday announced the start of a dog lovers’ caucus on Capitol Hill in the wake of a story about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) shooting and killing a family dog. “In light of recent events, we’re launching the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus today!” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said in a post…

🦟 Hate mosquitoes? Who doesn't? But maybe we shouldn't
#mosquito

Hate mosquitoes? Who doesn't? But maybe we shouldn't
A blood-sucking nuisance, mosquitoes are responsible for spreading diseases to hundreds of millions of people every year. True?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14961 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Reinforcement Learning with Elastic Time Steps
Traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms are usually applied in robotics to learn controllers that act with a fixed control rate. Given the discrete nature of RL algorithms, they are oblivious to the effects of the choice of control rate: finding the correct control rate can be difficult and mistakes often result in excessive use of computing resources or even lack of convergence. We propose Soft Elastic Actor-Critic (SEAC), a novel off-policy actor-critic algorithm to address this is…

California lawmaker looks toward removing Native American terms from school mascots, team names | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-lawmaker-looks-toward-removing-native-…

California lawmaker looks toward removing Native American terms from school mascots, team names
The bill now proceeds to the California General Assembly's Higher Education Committee.

🦟 Hate mosquitoes? Who doesn't? But maybe we shouldn't
#mosquito

Hate mosquitoes? Who doesn't? But maybe we shouldn't
A blood-sucking nuisance, mosquitoes are responsible for spreading diseases to hundreds of millions of people every year. True?