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US Sen. Ted Cruz pushes back against reports that iHeartMedia, which hosts his podcast, gave $630K in 2023 to a PAC that exists solely to ensure his reelection (Shannon Ryan/ABC13)
https://abc13.com/ted-cruz-podcast-iheartmedia-fundraising-pac-money…

Ted Cruz pushes back on questions about his podcast's fundraising arrangement with iHeartMedia
Eyewitness News pressed Sen. Ted Cruz with questions over a tangled web of political contributions involving the company that airs his podcast.

It is _NOT_ misguided. I am tired of price increases that are in excess of inflation, I am tired of products that have shrunk in size and not price, I am tired of products where they substitute cheaper ingredients and prices stays the same or goes up. I am fortunate in that I make a good income, but lower incomes _do_ have problems affording food.

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for "priority access" customers from March to "mid-April" (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/humane-pushes-ai-pin-ship-date-to-mid-april/

Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April | TechCrunch
Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine signs long-term security agreement with Netherlands: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/ukraine-war-latest.html

AI Voice Cloning Pushes 91% of Banks to Rethink Verification
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-voice-cloning-pushes-91-banks-to-rethink-verification-a-24932

‘We are behind’: On composting, NYC’s new sanitation chair pushes for funding, transparency
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Ik heb op dit moment geen hoofd voor cijfers en Amerikaanse triljoenen zijn volgens mij anders dan de onze en het wordt me niet duidelijk of dit de wereldwijde kosten zijn of alleen die van de USA, maar het is wel duidelijk dat het klimaatbeleid van kabinet WieWordtHet I heel erg duur gaat worden: Climate Inaction Could Cost $1,266 Trn, As US Pushes Back On Reporting

Climate Inaction Could Cost $1,266 Trn, As US Pushes Back On Reporting
There is growing pushback against the use of ESG as a risk-adjusted investment lens despite growing certainty on climate risk and associated costs.

FDA head pushes for mandated lead testing by food manufacturers | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4589376-fda-head-pushes-mandated-lead-testing-food-manufacturers/

FDA head pushes for mandated lead testing by food manufacturers
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, pushed lawmakers on Thursday to pass a bill that would mandate that food manufacturers perform testing for lead in their products that are getting imported into the country from overseas.  Califf’s call to action came while he was answering questions from Rep.…

Some background on SB448, the Woodsville-related bill that my committee voted to kill yesterday:
#NHPolitics

As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid, he wants voters to understand that nearly two-thirds — or nearly $40 billion — of the money for Ukraine would actually go to U.S. factories spread out across the country including plants in Lima, Ohio and Scranton, Pennsylvania as well as Mesquite Texas

Ukraine aid will be spent on American manufacturing, Biden says
As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid for Ukraine, he wants voters to understand that nearly two-thirds would actually be going to U.S. factories, like a munitions plant set to open this summer in a gleaming new industrial park in suburban Dallas. Administration officials combed through the foreign aid in the $95 billion bipartisan supplemental funding bill passed by the Senate. Of the $61 billion for Ukraine, nearly $40 billion would go to U.S. factories that make …

I hesitated sharing this because the alt text is pants, the random  (yes, obj) in the middle suggests missing stuff, it targets WCAG 2.1, has “here” link text, may not grok 1.4.11 & states, maybe thinks they invented shifting left, uses “a11y” in the copy, suggests 1.4.1 is too prescriptive, uses animated GIFs, pushes Material Design, _but_ it is a nice color-blind chart design primer.
“How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design”

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually useful. This article focuses on techniques for creating useful and accessible visualizations that extend well beyond compliance.

Oh Canada 😔
https://www.readthemaple.com/canada-pushes-for-more-mining-in-ecuador-despite-resistance/

@… right on! Would love to hear more about the API-based pushes, I think a strong case can be made that Jamstack matches up much nicer with git-based things (Netlify did maintain a git-based CMS for many years)

Senate pushes Ukraine funding forward despite conservative delay tactics (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4463682-senate-pushes-ukraine-funding-forward-despite-conservative-delay-tactics/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240213/p1#a240213p1

The US pushes for global AI regulations at UN, with a draft resolution calling for "effective safeguards"; the push contrasts with the lack of US regulations (Augusta Saraiva/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI Regulation: US Pushes for Global Rules at UN
The US has introduced a resolution at the United Nations promoting “safe, secure and trustworthy” artificial intelligence systems, an effort to align global regulations intended to address legal, national security and human rights concerns over the technology’s rapid expansion.

You want to see Justin Trudeau and/or Jagmeet Singh take some air out of the sails of Poillievre in his run for a Majority Conservative Government?
Introduce legislation like this that would measurably (massively?) improve people's quality of life and watch Pierre Sqquiiirrm.
""Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea.””
#Bernie …

Kyle Shanahan pushes back on notion his 49ers can't win a big game: It's 'an extremely inaccurate statement'

https://www.cbssports…

Kyle Shanahan pushes back on notion his 49ers can't win a big game: It's 'an extremely inaccurate statement'
The HC is fending off detractors: 'We've won a lot of big games' to reach the Super Bowl

"Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record"
#Coral #CoralReefs #Climate

Ik heb op dit moment geen hoofd voor cijfers en Amerikaanse triljoenen zijn volgens mij anders dan de onze en het wordt me niet duidelijk of dit de wereldwijde kosten zijn of alleen die van de USA, maar het is wel duidelijk dat het klimaatbeleid van kabinet WieWordtHet I heel erg duur gaat worden: Climate Inaction Could Cost $1,266 Trn, As US Pushes Back On Reporting

Climate Inaction Could Cost $1,266 Trn, As US Pushes Back On Reporting
There is growing pushback against the use of ESG as a risk-adjusted investment lens despite growing certainty on climate risk and associated costs.

Nigeria pushes Binance for user data in stand-off over naira speculation
Authorities hold senior company executives for two weeks after crackdown on cryptocurrency websites
Country asks Exchange to submit list of Top 100 users and all transaction history spanning the past six months from Binance.
https://www.

Computational Offloading in Semantic-Aware Cloud-Edge-End Collaborative Networks
Zelin Ji, Zhijin Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18183 https://

Computational Offloading in Semantic-Aware Cloud-Edge-End Collaborative Networks
The trend of massive connectivity pushes forward the explosive growth of end devices. The emergence of various applications has prompted a demand for pervasive connectivity and more efficient computing paradigms. On the other hand, the lack of computational capacity of the end devices restricts the implementation of the intelligent applications, and becomes a bottleneck of the multiple access for supporting massive connectivity. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) and mobile edge computing (MEC) techn…

fucking cops, man
#OfficerAdams #FuckEricAdams
https://www.nytimes.c…

Mayor Adams Pushes Out Chairwoman of Police Oversight Board
Arva Rice was asked to resign after she criticized police handling of a fatal shooting investigation and requested more money and power to investigate misconduct.

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Temporal relaxation of disordered many-body quantum systems under driving and dissipation
Strong disorder inhibits thermalization in isolated quantum systems and may lead to many-body localization (MBL). In realistic situations, however, the observation of MBL is hindered by residual couplings of the system to an environment, which acts as a bath and pushes the system to thermal equilibrium. This paper is concerned with the transient dynamics prior to thermalization and studies how the relaxation of a disordered system is altered under the influence of external driving and dissipati…

"An ombudsman's report said more than 200,000 minors had been sexually abused in Spain by Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, numbers the church disputes."
Spain pushes Catholic Church to compensate abuse victims | Courthouse News Service
https://www.co…

Sometimes life pushes you to entrepreneurship. Sometimes it’s my taxes and my garbage representation in congress:

Mastodon Pro:
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Mike Johnson Pushes Ahead on Foreign Aid Bill, Teeing Up a Weekend Vote
The embattled Republican speaker said he expected Saturday votes on the long-stalled package of
aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies,
as well as fresh sanctions on Iran.

Johnson Pushes Ahead on Bill for Israel and Ukraine Aid, Teeing Up Weekend Vote
The embattled Republican speaker said he expected Saturday votes on the long-stalled package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, as well as fresh sanctions on Iran.

Chinese firm behind ‘news’ websites pushes pro-Beijing content globally, researchers find
https://www.reuters.com/world/chinese-firm-behind-news-websites-pushes-pro-beijing-content-globally-2024-02-07/

FDA head pushes for mandated lead testing by food manufacturers (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4589376-fda-head-pushes-mandated-lead-testing-food-manufacturers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240411/p80#a240411p80

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

CBS 60 Minutes - well, actually 13 minutes - about the challenges the #Artemis program is facing ... and how #BlueOrigin might save the day in case #SpaceX doesn't deliver: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-mission-faces-delays-space-agency-pushes-ahead-60-minutes/ with a transcript in https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-working-with-spacex-and-blue-origin-to-land-us-astronauts-back-on-the-moon-60-minutes-transcript/ and a Chinese reaction via a cartoon to the Nelson statement in https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/176452436693370493

I keep my browser's base font size a little larger by default, for my own readability's sake, and it's a great way to discover which sites assumed pixel-perfect layouts with no font size increases or reflow.
(Check the bottom right to see what I'm talking about)

The pain has gotten so bad, that i can't seem to sleep without pain relief medicine. Both shoulders hurt so much that i can't turn onto them and i cannot sleep on my back. This is so frustrating. I really do not want to get addicted to pain medication, or anything else really. Fought too damn hard to kick my heroin habit and stay clean and sober for all these years. And now fucking #LongCOVID pushes back me into addiction. I bloody hate it.

"With rare bipartisan momentum, the [US] House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support.. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94. Final House approval could come this weekend, when the package would be sent to the Senate."

Ukraine, Israel aid bill on track as House pushes toward votes
The House has pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage. A key procedural vote gained approval Friday to move ahead with the bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson has been making the rounds on conservative media working to salvage the wartime funding, particularly for Ukraine as it faces a critical moment battling Russia. His own job is also under threat as the restless right flank threatens to oust him from office. President Joe B…

Good work UK, something that #aotearoaNz just relinquished. #nzpol
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/11…

Marquez Valdes-Scantling pushes back against 'diva' narrative surrounding QB Aaron Rodgers https://www.nfl.com/news/marquez-valdes-scantling-pushes-back-against-diva-narrative-surrounding-qb-aaron-rodgers…

Marquez Valdes-Scantling pushes back against 'diva' narrative surrounding QB Aaron Rodgers
Free-agent WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling defended his former teammate Aaron Rodgers this week, explaining how the four-time MVP "cares more about his teammates than about the game of football" despite drawing criticism.

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
AVON: [Pushes each of them] No.
[Cally's cabin. She is holding the alien's ring in her cupped hands, looking at it. There is a vision of the chamber in the alien ship. The figure with the smoking bowl appears, but now its face is revealed to be Cally's.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/309/174 B7B9

Google Pushes Unpopular Chrome Update
"After an update in June this year, a feature called the WebRequest API will be removed, and the adblockers and tracker blockers that depend on this feature will stop working. Since the business model of Google is to track your online activity and then show you personalised ads, it is not difficult to see why this feature is removed.
(...) they are forcing the same update on all Chromium browsers as well."

Chinese state media: President Xi criticized "technological barriers" during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's visit to Beijing, as the US curbs ASML exports (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Xi Slams ‘Technological Barriers’ During Dutch Premier’s Visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized “technological barriers” during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s visit to Beijing as the US pushes to tighten controls on ASML Holding NV’s chipmaking-equipment sales to the Asian country.

I use #lognormal density with my students next week. To give some intuition on how this density emerges, I show the def and some plots. Here is one.
It intuits that a logarithmic transformation of the x-axis pushes (compresses) the left half of #probability mass to the (0,1) interval, creating a bulge on the left of the log-normal, taller than the normal bell.
The right tail is only moderately affected because it is long, so it has space to accommodate the mass originally in (0,1).
#stats

So, the Govt will require the support of the Opposition in general to get this Tobacco and Vaping Bill across the line.
This might be the straw that rather than clinging on till October pushes Sutekh to go for the GE in May.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11521 has been replaced.
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The Brownian transport map
Contraction properties of transport maps between probability measures play an important role in the theory of functional inequalities. The actual construction of such maps, however, is a non-trivial task and, so far, relies mostly on the theory of optimal transport. In this work, we take advantage of the infinite-dimensional nature of the Gaussian measure and construct a new transport map, based on the Föllmer process, which pushes forward the Wiener measure onto probability measures on Euclid…

oohhh gawd. Shut up #KevinOleary
#tiktok
https://eicker.news/@technews/11206996

Plateau Sigma
"Feed It EP"
#CreativeCommons

Mil2: Efficient Cloth Simulation Using Non-distance Barriers and Subspace Reuse
Lei Lan, Zixuan Lu, Jingyi Long, Chun Yuan, Xuan Li, Xiaowei He, Huamin Wang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19272

Mil2: Efficient Cloth Simulation Using Non-distance Barriers and Subspace Reuse
Mil2 pushes the performance of high-resolution cloth simulation, making the simulation interactive (in milliseconds) for models with one million degrees of freedom (DOFs) while keeping every triangle untangled. The guarantee of being penetration-free is inspired by the interior-point method, which converts the inequality constraints to barrier potentials. Nevertheless, we propose a major overhaul of this modality by defining a novel and simple barrier formulation which does not depend on the di…

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

Dallas mayor pushes for second NFL team, says ‘serious opportunity’ for Chiefs to relocate https://theathletic.com/5394745/2024/04/06/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-chiefs-relocation/

Dallas mayor pushes for second NFL team, says ‘serious opportunity’ for Chiefs to relocate
“Welcome home Dallas Texans,” Johnson said on X, alluding to the original name of the Chiefs franchise.

Trump has reportedly filed a lawsuit directly against judge Merchan, though the exact claims remain under seal with the court.
Trump’s attacks on Merchan and his daughter are just the latest in his long effort to undermine the rule of law.
The attacks demonstrate his efforts to appear to play by the rules, but in reality to violate the norm of respect for the judiciary that previous presidents have followed, even when they disagreed with court decisions.
In addition to putti…

This legislation seems misplaced, hysterical, and possibly racist.
I mean, Facebook constantly pushes right-wing content, and seems to have enabled an actual genocide. Twitter is owned by a guy who regularly boosts Neo-Nazis and seems to have zero loyalty to any nation (e.g. StarLink). And YouTube regularly suggests right wing videos to me.
This bill seems to depend on a very obtuse definition of "adversary controlled"

House panel unanimously advances bipartisan bill that could ban TikTok  
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously advanced a bill Thursday that would require TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest the app or face a U.S. ban. The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” advanced out of committee with overwhelming bipartisan support just two days after it was introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.)…

5 days of eating sh*t plus very little exercise = major depressive mood crash. Totally sucks. I feel on edge with chunky fear of abandonment. It makes me resent my sweetheart and pushes me into self sabotaging avoidance. I keep telling myself that I’m awesome and why on earth would she leave me, but I still feel inadequate at my core. Of course, this morning I felt like the champion of the world, ready to take on every challenge simultaneously.

Mastodon Pro:
large set of established features with a vocal minority of community that pushes back against expansion/changes to these features.
Mastodon Con:
large set of established features with a vocal minority of community that pushes back against expansion/changes to these features.

Such a ((((douchebag))))
https://nationalfile.com/ben-shapiro-has-a-meltdown-against-the-truth-movement-as-his-zionist-warmongering-catalyzes-his-political-downfall/

Ben Shapiro Has A MELTDOWN Against The Truth Movement As His Zionist Warmongering Catalyzes His Political Downfall
Neocon pundit Ben Shapiro had a straight-up meltdown when railing against so-called conspiracy theorists, as Shapiro’s own punditry career slides into the abyss of public hatred. Shapiro has been thoroughly exposed as a shameless Zionist grifter who pushes an Israel First agenda. Candace Owens recently parted ways with The Daily Wire after she took a […]

Podcast: The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-the-humane-ai-pin-is-a-disaster/

Podcast: The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster
Why we can, we must, dunk on the Humane Ai Pin; how Instagram is running ads for nudify apps; and a tool that pushes AI-generated product placements into Reddit threads.

Kamala Harris Pushes Abortion Rights in Michigan, With Gaza Anger as Backdrop (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-abortion-rights-michigan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240222/p86#a240222p86

Demon's Tilt
Turbo charged pinball returns! Now with bigger sprites, more baddies, more secrets & more bullets! Demon's Tilt pushes the limits of the Video Pinball genre with Shump & Hack N' Slash elements.
https:…

Mike Pence pushes a post-Trump path for conservatives and GOP - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/13/mike-pence-trump-conservative-movement/

Mike Pence pushes a post-Trump path for conservatives and GOP
The former vice president, who won’t vote for his old running mate, believes many in the conservative movement have lost their way to populism.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00693 has been replaced.
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Deep Recurrent Learning Through Long Short Term Memory and TOPSIS
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software brings resources, data together to keep software-flow within business processes in a company. However, cloud computing's cheap, easy and quick management promise pushes business-owners for a transition from monolithic to a data-center/cloud based ERP. Since cloud-ERP development involves a cyclic process, namely planning, implementing, testing and upgrading, its adoption is realized as a deep recurrent neural network problem. Eventually, a classificat…

Student Teach Thyself: My Dubbed Podcast in Italian
Navigating the difficult task of teaching oneself Italian through the marvels of AI voice dubbing is a 21st-century twist on the ancient wisdom of "Physician, heal thyself." That age-old saying, ripped from the heart of biblical narratives, pushes us towards self-reflection and repair before we set out to fix or guide others. When we apply this idea to the adventure of self-learning Italian -- or any foreign language!
…

Multitier Service Migration Framework Based on Mobility Prediction in Mobile Edge Computing
Run Yang, Hui He, Weizhe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13529

Multitier Service Migration Framework Based on Mobility Prediction in Mobile Edge Computing
Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul load simultaneously. However, new challenges incurred by user mobility and limited coverage of MEC server service arise. Services should be dynamically migrated between multiple MEC servers to maintain service performance due to user movement. Tackling this p…

Human Factors in Space Exploration: Opportunities for International and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Wies{\l}aw Kope\'c, Grzegorz Pochwatko, Monika Kornacka, Wiktor Stawski, Maciej Grzeszczuk, Kinga Skorupska, Barbara Karpowicz, Rafa{\l} Mas{\l}yk, Pavlo Zinevych, Stanis{\l}aw Knapi\'nski, Steven Barnes, Cezary Biele
https://

Human Factors in Space Exploration: Opportunities for International and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
As humanity pushes the boundaries of space exploration, human factors research becomes more important. Human factors encompass a broad spectrum of psychological, physiological, and ergonomic factors that affect human performance, well-being, and safety in the unique and challenging space environment. This panel explores the multifaceted field of human factors in space exploration and highlights the opportunities that lie in fostering international and interdisciplinary cooperation. This explora…

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Fewer is More: Boosting LLM Reasoning with Reinforced Context Pruning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities, yet they still struggle with math reasoning. In this work, we propose CoT-Influx, a novel approach that pushes the boundary of few-shot Chain-of-Thoughts (CoT) learning to improve LLM mathematical reasoning. Motivated by the observation that adding more concise CoT examples in the prompt can improve LLM reasoning performance, CoT-Influx employs a coarse-to-fine pruner to maximize the input of effective and concise CoT examples. Th…

ForzaETH Race Stack - Scaled Autonomous Head-to-Head Racing on Fully Commercial off-the-Shelf Hardware
Nicolas Baumann, Edoardo Ghignone, Jonas K\"uhne, Niklas Bastuck, Jonathan Becker, Nadine Imholz, Tobias Kr\"anzlin, Tian Yi Lim, Michael L\"otscher, Luca Schwarzenbach, Luca Tognoni, Christian Vogt, Andrea Carron, Michele Magno
https…

ForzaETH Race Stack - Scaled Autonomous Head-to-Head Racing on Fully Commercial off-the-Shelf Hardware
Autonomous racing in robotics combines high-speed dynamics with the necessity for reliability and real-time decision-making. While such racing pushes software and hardware to their limits, many existing full-system solutions necessitate complex, custom hardware and software, and usually focus on Time-Trials rather than full unrestricted Head-to-Head racing, due to financial and safety constraints. This limits their reproducibility, making advancements and replication feasible mostly for well-re…

Kamala Harris Pushes Abortion Rights in Michigan, With Gaza Anger as Backdrop (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-abortion-rights-michigan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240222/p86#a240222p86

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00052 has been replaced.
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Euclid preparation. XXXIV. The effect of linear redshift-space distortions in photometric galaxy clustering and its cross-correlation with cosmic shear
The cosmological surveys that are planned for the current decade will provide us with unparalleled observations of the distribution of galaxies on cosmic scales, by means of which we can probe the underlying large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe. This will allow us to test the concordance cosmological model and its extensions. However, precision pushes us to high levels of accuracy in the theoretical modelling of the LSS observables, so that no biases are introduced into the estimation of…

Argentina's far-right government claims to have found a $4M deficit in the INCAA film body's budget and pushes through controversial plans to cut state funding (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/incaa-argentina-javier-milei-v…

Argentina’s Far-Right Government Cuts State Funding To National Film Body INCAA
Javier Milei's government said it discovered a $4 million deficit partly funded by the Treasury.

Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather, have set out to bridge the gap between AI tech and poetry with their captivating brainchild
— the Poetry Camera.
The open source device combines cutting-edge technology with artistic vision, resulting in a creation that pushes the boundaries of both fields.
Instead of merely capturing images, the Poetry Camera takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating thought-provoking poetry
(or, well, as thought-provoking as AI…

This camera trades pictures for AI poetry | TechCrunch
The Poetry Camera takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating poetry based on the visuals it encounters.

Bob Iger hat irgendwas falsch verstanden, wenn er die Superhelden-Müdigkeit mit dem Erfolg von #Oppenheimer klein redet. https://flip.it/gsEcAv

Bob Iger Pushes Back on Marvel Fatigue, but Says Disney Quietly Canceled Movies
The Disney CEO was interviewed at a Morgan Stanley conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, where he called the Nelson Peltz-led proxy fight a "distraction" for the company.

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: At least think about it. [pushes Vila] Think about it.
VILA: All right. [pauses] I've thought about it. No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/306/4 📺 B7B9

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

'Disinformation': Greene pushes pro-Putin propaganda in 'war on Christianity' rant - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/disinformation-greene-putin/

'Disinformation': Greene pushes pro-Putin propaganda in 'war on Christianity' rant
After two top Republican House committee chairmen said Russian propaganda has made its way into Congress and “infected” some in the GOP base, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spread demonstrably false pro-Russia talking points about a “war on Christianity” while defending and promoting Presid...

5 days of eating sh*t plus very little exercise = major depressive mood crash. Totally sucks. I feel on edge with chunky fear of abandonment. It makes me resent my sweetheart and pushes me into self sabotaging avoidance. I keep telling myself that I’m awesome and why on earth would she leave me, but I still feel inadequate at my core. Of course, this morning I felt like the champion of the world, ready to take on every challenge simultaneously.

Scoop: NRSC pushes Senate GOP candidates on Mayorkas impeachment (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/21/nrsc-senate-republicans-mayorkas-impeachment
http://www.memeorandum.com/240221/p92#a240221p92

Docs: Nigeria, which has held two Binance execs since February amid a crypto exchange crackdown, is pushing Binance for info on its top 100 local users and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9c1394de-0492-4597-b075-cbf19e0b6e83

Dallas mayor pushes for second NFL team, says ‘serious opportunity’ for Chiefs to relocate https://theathletic.com/5394745/2024/04/06/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-chiefs-relocation/

Dallas mayor pushes for second NFL team, says ‘serious opportunity’ for Chiefs to relocate
“Welcome home Dallas Texans,” Johnson said on X, alluding to the original name of the Chiefs franchise.

Giuliani pushes back on rape accuser's credibility
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/extremely-ironic-coming-from-someone-with-his-track-record-giuliani-ro…

Giuliani roasted for plan to attack rape accuser over her credibility
"Ms. Dunphy's history of this sort of behavior is well documented and available through public records," a Giuliani spokesperson told Law&Crime.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03986 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Linear stability analysis on the onset of viscous fingering due to a non monotonic viscosity profile for immiscible fluids
The onset of viscous fingering in the presence of a non monotonic viscosity profile is investigated theoretically for two immiscible fluids. Classical fluid dynamics predicts that no unstable behavior may be observed when a viscous fluid pushes a less viscous one in a Hele-Shaw cell. Here, we show that the presence of a viscosity gradient at the interface between both fluids destabilize the interface facilitating the spread of the perturbation. The influence of the viscosity gradient on the dis…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00693 has been replaced.
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Deep Recurrent Learning Through Long Short Term Memory and TOPSIS
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software brings resources, data together to keep software-flow within business processes in a company. However, cloud computing's cheap, easy and quick management promise pushes business-owners for a transition from monolithic to a data-center/cloud based ERP. Since cloud-ERP development involves a cyclic process, namely planning, implementing, testing and upgrading, its adoption is realized as a deep recurrent neural network problem. Eventually, a classificat…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09997 has been replaced.
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dS JT Gravity and Double-Scaled SYK
This paper pushes forward a conjecture made in [1] that a high-temperature double-scaled limit of the SYK model ($\mathrm{DSSYK}_{\infty}$) describes a de Sitter-like space. We identify a specific bulk theory which we conjecture to be dual to $\mathrm{DSSYK}_{\infty}$, namely JT gravity with positive cosmological constant (dS-JT). We focus our attention on a specific solution of dS-JT in which spacetime is a particular bounded submanifold of dS$_2$ and the profile of the dilaton coincides with …

Docs: Nigeria, which has held two Binance execs since February amid a crypto exchange crackdown, is pushing Binance for info on its top 100 local users and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9c1394de-0492-4597-b075-cbf19e0b6e83

ForzaETH Race Stack - Scaled Autonomous Head-to-Head Racing on Fully Commercial off-the-Shelf Hardware
Nicolas Baumann, Edoardo Ghignone, Jonas K\"uhne, Niklas Bastuck, Jonathan Becker, Nadine Imholz, Tobias Kr\"anzlin, Tian Yi Lim, Michael L\"otscher, Luca Schwarzenbach, Luca Tognoni, Christian Vogt, Andrea Carron, Michele Magno
https…

ForzaETH Race Stack - Scaled Autonomous Head-to-Head Racing on Fully Commercial off-the-Shelf Hardware
Autonomous racing in robotics combines high-speed dynamics with the necessity for reliability and real-time decision-making. While such racing pushes software and hardware to their limits, many existing full-system solutions necessitate complex, custom hardware and software, and usually focus on Time-Trials rather than full unrestricted Head-to-Head racing, due to financial and safety constraints. This limits their reproducibility, making advancements and replication feasible mostly for well-re…

EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-helps-news-organizations-resist-legal-bullying-cyber-mercenary-group

EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group
Cyber mercenaries present a grave threat to human rights and freedom of expression. They have been implicated in surveillance, torture, and even murder of human rights defenders, political candidates, and journalists. One of the most effective ways that the human rights community pushes back...

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
KATE: Pella, quickly, you must hurry. The others are at the main entrance. [All three hurry off.]
[At main hatch. Tarrant and Dayna run up. Tarrant pushes some buttons on the lock.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/402/174 📺 B7B5

Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/02/12/b…

Trump Pushes Immigration Conspiracy Theories and Mass Deportations (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/04/us/politics/trump-fox-interview.html

Trump Pushes Immigration Conspiracy Theories and Mass Deportations
Former President Donald J. Trump suggested to Fox News that China was orchestrating illegal immigration and that Latin American governments were picking criminals to send to the United States.

“While this bill sends military equipment to Ukraine,” #Biden said Tuesday, “it spends the money right here in the United States of America in places like Arizona, where the Patriot missiles are built; and Alabama, where the Javelin missiles are built; and Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas, where artillery shells are made.”
Ukraine aid will be spent on American manufacturing, Biden says | AP News<…

Ukraine aid will be spent on American manufacturing, Biden says
As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid for Ukraine, he wants voters to understand that nearly two-thirds would actually be going to U.S. factories, like a munitions plant set to open this summer in a gleaming new industrial park in suburban Dallas. Administration officials combed through the foreign aid in the $95 billion bipartisan supplemental funding bill passed by the Senate. Of the $61 billion for Ukraine, nearly $40 billion would go to U.S. factories that make …

“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” #Mike #Pence said at his first appearance with Trump in New York in 2016, driving home the gravity of his judgment.

Eight years later, Pence is asking the conservatives who followed his lead to turn away from Trump’s policy prescriptions
— becoming…

Mike Pence pushes a post-Trump path for conservatives and GOP
The former vice president, who won’t vote for his old running mate, believes many in the conservative movement have lost their way to populism.

House Republicans unveil aid bills for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan as Johnson pushes forward (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-ukraine-israel-taiwan-aid-package/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240418/p65#a240418p65

House Republicans unveil aid bills for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan as Johnson pushes forward (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-ukraine-israel-taiwan-aid-package/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240418/p65#a240418p65

Trump campaign tells GOP candidates he's taking a cut of their cash if they use his name - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fundraising-2667802464/

Trump campaign tells GOP candidates he's taking a cut of their cash if they use his name
The campaign for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid has come up with a new way to raise cash — which involves calling on down-ballot candidates who use his name and likeness in fundraising pushes to give him a cut of the money they raise. “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committ...

Trump campaign tells GOP candidates he's taking a cut of their cash if they use his name - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fundraising-2667802464/

Trump campaign tells GOP candidates he's taking a cut of their cash if they use his name
The campaign for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid has come up with a new way to raise cash — which involves calling on down-ballot candidates who use his name and likeness in fundraising pushes to give him a cut of the money they raise. “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committ...

Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Pushes Back on FTC Bid to Amend Privacy Accord Over Kids Chat App
Meta Platforms Inc. pushed back on the US Federal Trade Commission’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying that the company voluntarily disclosed two flaws in its kids chat app to the agency and received no complaints from parents.

Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/04/coinbase-secures-restri…

Mike Pence pushes a post-Trump path for conservatives and GOP (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/13/mike-pence-trump-conservative-movement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240413/p12#a240413p12

Sen. #Bernie #Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. #workweek to #four @days without loss of pay.…

Bernie Sanders pushes bill for four-day workweek without loss of pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders holds a hearing on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without a loss in pay.