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Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-2f2fae60-8a44bc7f47e51195
Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics There are probably very few people on th…

Remembering H.R. Giger
https://www.didiermary.fr/remembering-h-r-giger/
H.R. Giger (Hans Ruedi Giger – 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) is the artist who designed the “Alien” monster for Ridley Scott’s movie.

Remembering ESPN's Chris Mortensen, who changed how the NFL is covered https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5480419/2024/05/13/chris-mortensen-espn-nfl/

Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/remembering-my-friend-and-agent-richard-parks/

Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks
Over the past few years, I’ve received many handwritten letters from my former literary agent, Richard Parks, who retired in 2015 and moved from upstate New York to South Carolina to be near his si…

Remembering ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who changed how the NFL is covered https://theathletic.com/5480419/2024/05/13/chris-mortensen-espn-nfl/

A lot of good stuff in here. I often am discouraged after seeing unbelievable playing on social media, but the trick is remembering that it's not just about the playing; in the real world it's also about building a career that puts you in a position where you're going to get paid to play that thing.

“I know some guitarists that will work on a 30-second soundbite for days before filming it in a way that looks off the cuff”: How social media is affecting our perception of guitar playing
Be inspired but don't be intimidated by social media virtuosity, says respected guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe. Remember, these influencers are pros and you're only seeing them at their best

Remembering Don Cornelius
https://www.didiermary.fr/remembering-don-cornelius-soul-train/
Watch the documentary below, as it’s really worth the time you’ll spend on the Soul Train phenomenon and the story of this “Godfather” of black music, Donald …

Don Cornelius and Soul Train - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Soul Train was an American musical TV show, primarily featuring performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, created by Don Cornelius

"March 13th through April 7th commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called an intentional, racially-based mass murder of American citizens, planned and executed by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media."
Remembering Trump and Kushner's deadly, evil plan - Alternet.org

Remembering Trump and Kushner's deadly, evil plan
March 13th through April 7th commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called an intentional, racially-based mass murder of American citizens, planned and executed by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media.If that ...

Remembering Don Cornelius
https://www.didiermary.fr/remembering-don-cornelius-soul-train/
Watch the documentary below, as it’s really worth the time you’ll spend on the Soul Train phenomenon and the story of this “Godfather” of black music, Donald …

Don Cornelius and Soul Train - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Soul Train was an American musical TV show, primarily featuring performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, created by Don Cornelius

Remembering Dick Rutan and His Non-Stop Flight Around the World
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-57c9378f-2cd22e697882cf5f
Remembering Dick Rutan and His Non-Stop Flight Around the World On December 23, 1986, an airplane landed at Edwards AFB.…

Happy Appomattox Day! Frederick Douglass has some strong words for remembering what the victory over the Confederacy meant.
We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it, those who fought for slavery and those who fought for liberty and justice.
I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant; but may my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.
...But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause. We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the Republic."

Remembering Raiders Cornerback Terry McDaniel https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/remembering_raiders_cornerback_terry_mcdaniel/s1_17391_40183660

Remembering Raiders Cornerback Terry McDaniel
Terry McDaniel played for the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders for ten out of eleven NFL seasons. The Raiders drafted McDaniel with the ninth pick in the first round of the 1988 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee, where he was All-SEC in 1987. McDaniel also ran track at Tennessee and set school records in 300-meter and 300-yard dashes. McDaniel came to Tennessee as a receiver and did not switch to cornerback until 1985. Although, as a senior, McDaniel had 57 tackles, two interception…

A lot of good stuff in here. I often am discouraged after seeing unbelievable playing on social media, but the trick is remembering that it's not just about the playing; in the real world it's also about building a career that puts you in a position where you're going to get paid to play that thing.

“I know some guitarists that will work on a 30-second soundbite for days before filming it in a way that looks off the cuff”: How social media is affecting our perception of guitar playing
Be inspired but don't be intimidated by social media virtuosity, says respected guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe. Remember, these influencers are pros and you're only seeing them at their best

Marty Goodman, revolutionary #socialist worker Bolshevik, militant trade unionist, anti-imperialist/antiwar leader, civil libertarian, anti-racist fighter and jazz enthusiast, died in late March, 2024 of a heart attack. He was 74.
Marty’s friends, comrades and trade union activists will celebrate his extraordinary life
Friday, June 7, 6-9 pm at Marty’s Transport Workers Union (TWU…

Remembering Marty Goodman: Working Class Fighter and Revolutionary Socialist
By Jeff Mackler [Photo and caption above published in Haiti Liberté newspaper] Marty Goodman, revolutionary socialist, worker Bolshevik, militant trade unionist, anti-imperialist/antiwar leader, civil libertarian, anti-racist fighter and jazz enthusiast, died in late March, 2024 of a heart attack. He was 74. Marty’s friends, comrades and trade union activists will celebrate his extraordinary life on Friday, June 7, 6-9 pm at Marty’s Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 headqua…

This IWD I am remembering Nellie McClung, a feminist, political activist, and writer. (Coincidentally, she is also the great-aunt of my mom's childhood best friend.)
Nellie started out working for temperance (although later in life she said that prohibition had not been the right way to deal with the alcohol problem). But soon she was fighting for women to be recognized as persons under the law, and for women to get the vote.
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Rosenthal: Remembering Larry Lucchino, a baseball visionary
#MLB #Baseball #KenRosenthal

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07518 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Remembering Transformer for Continual Learning
Neural networks encounter the challenge of Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) in continual learning, where new task knowledge interferes with previously learned knowledge. We propose Remembering Transformer, inspired by the brain's Complementary Learning Systems (CLS), to tackle this issue. Remembering Transformer employs a mixture-of-adapters and a generative model-based routing mechanism to alleviate CF by dynamically routing task data to relevant adapters. Our approach demonstrated a new SOTA perf…

“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”

Wages Not Warrants
Protest photos, remembering Rana Plaza and resisting the crackdown in Bangladesh.

Since I'm talented at remembering wrong things, I distinctly remember someone (perhaps @…) mentioning this idea out loud and I even started working on it. But I eventually gave up halfway because I thought nobody would care anyway.
But I definitely wouldn't invent such an excellent domain name.
@…

#Movies #TheLadykillers
Via Neville F Chamberlain @NevilleFChambe1
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Remembering Sir #AlecGuinness born

I think a big part of being in a long term relationship is the remembering and sharing of anecdotes.
All those little tales of sex and tragedy and transitions and laughter that give a partnership its identity.
What happens to those when a spouse dies?
Does it matter?
Perhaps not.
Or perhaps very much.
Maybe the next thing I should do is to write it all out, the story of us, so it doesn’t just exist in my head.
Because to me, the story of our love is…

The first year without Kevin
One big difference is that I no longer feel strong. I used to think of my body as sturdy, trustworthy, capable of rising above the niggling health issues most people my age face. But since my husband died, that has changed. I get breathless for no reason. I tire easily. I tremble a lot, I ache. Occasionally, I have a panic attack. I’m embarrassed, because grief has aged me so much.

Oh no, PostgreSQL developer Simon Riggs passed away a few days ago.
He came in to my workplace in 2008 to do some postgres training which I really enjoyed, and I caught up with him a couple of times since then at various conferences, always a good chat.
https://www.…

The user shares their experience of bombing their final interview with a company after two successful rounds. Despite no expectation of technical questions, they froze when asked, only remembering the answers post-interview. They seek others' experiences and coping strategies. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cjoyj4/

Remembering the unstoppable Leonard Nimoy and the "Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation" #StarTrek #Spock #LeonardNimoy (courtesy: Internet Archive)

Remembering John Lewis today and his legacy of fighting for voting rights. Let's keep pushing for progress and change.
The fight for voting rights continues today.
#GoodTrouble4VotingRights

“Do you remember all of your players?”, a man I don’t recognize asks me in the grocery store checkout line.
“Yes, but it’s hard remembering names out of context. And they’re constantly growing, which makes it tricky!” I don’t add that I know the kids far better than I know their parents.
He then tells me his daughter made varsity as a freshman, which I’m proud to have been a part of her development. I just wish I knew who we were talking about. 🙃😇

«You don't help men by telling them that they need to be strong, or clean, or perfect, or that women won't date them if they're not manly enough. You help men by working towards policies that actually help men—and by remembering that there are lots of different ways of being a man. Men can have messy rooms. They can be nurses. They can wear dresses. They can date other men. They can live with their parents.
When we write think piece after think piece on the crisis of mascul…

There Isn't a Crisis of Masculinity
Masculinity is the crisis.

It's that special, second frustration of having discovered you have lost something, remembering it is not something on your D drive or the internet but, rather, a physical object in the real world.

current mood: oscillating between remembering Ross Anderson and doomscrolling xzyber pearl harbor.

Nice; first walk out in nearly 2 weeks; my legs are just about remembering the idea. Bonus, 2 chatty cats.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
— Bernard Meltzer
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Democrats who attack inequality do better in elections. The party should take notice
(… something to think about while we’re remembering Joe Lieberman)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/democrats-inequality-…

Science shows storing memories is brain damage caused by emotional responses. Remembering is coping and fixing damage in place. Deep sleep washes the broken brain cell bits away. Dreaming is an attempt to understand new damage and integrate it with old damage. So is story-telling and superstitious behavior. Logical thinking is attempts to fit imperfectly pictured pieces together to see if they hold water better.
We deal with it. It's all we've got.

Well, I guess I should feel better about how I look at 59. I am older than the first Doctor was when he regenerated, and he looked much older. https://mastodon.world/@paulbowler/112321856954665711

Paul Bowler (@paulbowler@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image Remembering William Hartnell, who passed away (aged 67), on 23rd April 1975. The actor appeared in over 75 British films, but is probably best remembered as the First Doctor in Doctor Who, a role he played from 1963 to 1966. #DoctorWho

Pro tip, kids: keep a record of your partition tables and whatnots just in case Linux decides it can't be arsed remembering them and you're suddenly left with a 4TB disk that had 4 partitions on but nothing seems able to figure out where they were and now you're going to have run file recovery and sob.

I am discovering that determining the cause of a fair number of problems with the services I run involve equal amounts of reading about fascinating statistical modeling algorithms and remembering my horrifically bad grades in every stats course i ever took.

The user shares their experience of bombing their final interview with a company after two successful rounds. Despite no expectation of technical questions, they froze when asked, only remembering the answers post-interview. They seek others' experiences and coping strategies. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cjoyj4/

Remembering the unstoppable Leonard Nimoy and the "Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation" #StarTrek #Spock #LeonardNimoy (courtesy: Internet Archive)

Via Neville F Chamberlain @NevilleFChambe1
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Remembering today the late 🇺🇸American actor, film director, author & musician #LeonardNimoy #BOTD in 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, seen here with co-stars

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
— Bernard Meltzer
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Democrats who attack inequality do better in elections. The party should take notice
(… something to think about while we’re remembering Joe Lieberman)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/democrats-inequality-…

Remembering Carl Erskine: An appreciation of a legendary Brooklyn Dodger
#Baseball #Dodgers #TheAthletic

Remembering is hard, okay?🤦‍♂️😩
#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse

John Ross' record 40-yard dash, Byron Jones' broad jump: How viral NFL combine stars panned out https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39592073/nfl-combine-viral-stars-40-yard-dash-bench-press-long-jump

Remembering NFL combine viral stars, how their careers panned out - ESPN
Remember that guy with the ridiculous long jump? How about the one with the speedy 40-yard dash time? Let's look back, and update where they are now.

Remembering Moebius (Jean Giraud - 8 May 1938 - 10 March 2012), one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century.
"Giraud's penname Moebius first popped up in 1963, in a series of short stories published in Hara-Kiri. In later years, Moebius would become world famous for his science-fiction, artistic and erotic art. He is admired for his many collaborations with Alejandro Jodorowsky."
Profile:

Jean Giraud
French comic artist Jean Giraud had one of the most interesting double lives in comic history. Under his own name (sometimes also the pseudonym "Gir"), he co-created the legendary western comic 'Blueberry' (1963-2012) with writer Jean-Michel Charlier. 'Blueberry'...