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Time was, this would have been a big issue. Much ink would have been spilled. Political hacks chagrined.
“Reporter Sandra Fish was escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy after being told the Colorado GOP chairman doesn’t like her reporting”
https://coloradosun.com…

Colorado Sun politics reporter kicked out of GOP state assembly, angering some Republican leaders 
Reporter Sandra Fish was escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy after being told the GOP chairman doesn’t like her reporting

“Senate Democratic leaders… shirking oversight obligations”
You should read this whole interview. It has a lot of very smart insights into what’s happening in our politics right now. 1/3
https://www.offmessage.net/p/aoc-oversight-senate-democrats

"I Don't Know If Most People Even Know What Party Is In The Senate Majority"
AOC explains the value of accountability, excoriates Senate Democratic leaders for shirking oversight obligations, and lays out a vision for a more fearless, effective party

Because spouse is out of town, I decided it was time to upgrade the (Tomato) router. What a clusterfuck. At every turn, you are exhorted to "clear the NVRAM settings!" without a clear description of what that will entail when you do it. Fortunately, my expectations were almost set low enough, and because I had access to the internet over my phone I could find out what the default router password would be when it woke up completely wiped. Seems like a really important thing to ment…

Dave McCarty, one of the people at the center of the Hugos scandal in Chengdu, was refused access to the Levitation (Eastercon 2024) because organizers deemed his presence would cause "significant interference". It sounds like he didn't go quietly.
The best comment on the linked post, by Jim Janney: "Put it down to regional cultural preferences. These are the rules that we must follow…"

I don't usually post videos here, but the mental gymnastics going on among the magats in this clip are just astonishing.
#SouthCarolina #Trump voters were asked to react to various things "Joe Biden did," like dodging the Vietnam draft with a flimsy bone-spurs excuse. Then, t…

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

Great science story.
The story doesn't mention particle size.
We have LOTS of particulates from wildfires and chimneys, here in GREAT air quality Colorado, USA. Very tiny particles from burning, cause many kinds of cancer through molecular magnetic action. Luckily, almost all human cancers are (CONTINUOUSLY) killed by our excellent immune systems and then excreted. And our airways are full of sticky stuff, and cilia to help move them up out of contact with our blood.

Adapting Learned Image Codecs to Screen Content via Adjustable Transformations
H. Burak Dogaroglu, A. Burakhan Koyuncu, Atanas Boev, Elena Alshina, Eckehard Steinbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17544

Adapting Learned Image Codecs to Screen Content via Adjustable Transformations
As learned image codecs (LICs) become more prevalent, their low coding efficiency for out-of-distribution data becomes a bottleneck for some applications. To improve the performance of LICs for screen content (SC) images without breaking backwards compatibility, we propose to introduce parameterized and invertible linear transformations into the coding pipeline without changing the underlying baseline codec's operation flow. We design two neural networks to act as prefilters and postfilters in …

Kanye West denies former NFL star's claim that Taylor Swift had him escorted out of 2024 Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kanye-w

Kanye West denies former NFL star's claim that Taylor Swift had him escorted out of 2024 Super Bowl
Celebrity drama

Kanye West denies former NFL star's claim that Taylor Swift had him escorted out of 2024 Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kanye-w

Kanye West denies former NFL star's claim that Taylor Swift had him escorted out of 2024 Super Bowl
Celebrity drama