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On 28 March 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewaa addressed the remnants of the Ashanti government in Kumasi, in modern-day Ghana.
I must say this: if you, the men of Asante will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight! We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields.
Her words galvanised the Ashanti Confederacy, starting their final war against British colonialism on the Gold Coast. The Ashanti leaders chose Yaa Asantewaa…

@… There’s multiple distinct ways in which I miss the “good old days”:
1. The feeling of the web not being “serious”, in the sense that nothing in the world seemed to truly *depend* on the web. You could hang out with friends, turn in homework, do banking (Although I wasn’t old enough that it mattered to me yet), all without the web. The web was an *addi…

The EU reinstates funding to UNRWA starting next week:
The @… will ' allocate an additional EUR 68 million to support the Palestinian population across the region to be implemented through international partners like the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. This comes in addition to the foreseen EUR 82 million of aid to be implemented th…

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Highlights, press releases and speeches

re: Cops on campus
I don't really understand why the colleges don't just divest their investments in the arms manufacturing companies and whatnot.
Surely other investments are equally profitable?
Instead they send in jackbooted thugs in riot gear to oppress their own students suggesting that divestment.
I guess they don't have to pay for the oppression and violence against their students themselves, the state will pay for it.
But surely the images are causing more damage to the universities than selling shares in Raytheon or whatever would?

For Black History Month*, I'm finally reading Warmth of Other Suns, about the Great Migration. It's good! Mainly, it traces the lives of 3 people who moved from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s, Florida to NYC in the 40s, and Louisiana to Los Angeles in the 50s.
*ok I started in January. close enough

The movie about the fall of Boeing will be so dark

StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
Anton Lozhkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, Federico Cassano, Joel Lamy-Poirier, Nouamane Tazi, Ao Tang, Dmytro Pykhtar, Jiawei Liu, Yuxiang Wei, Tianyang Liu, Max Tian, Denis Kocetkov, Arthur Zucker, Younes Belkada, Zijian Wang, Qian Liu, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Indraneil Paul, Zhuang Li, Wen-Ding Li, Megan Risdal, Jia Li, Jian Zhu, Terry Yue Zhuo, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Nii Osae Osae Dade, Wenhao Yu, Lucas Krau{\ss}, Naman Jain, Yixuan S…

StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
The BigCode project, an open-scientific collaboration focused on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder2. In partnership with Software Heritage (SWH), we build The Stack v2 on top of the digital commons of their source code archive. Alongside the SWH repositories spanning 619 programming languages, we carefully select other high-quality data sources, such as GitHub pull requests, Kaggle notebooks, and code documentation. This results in a…

re: Cops on campus
I don't really understand why the colleges don't just divest their investments in the arms manufacturing companies and whatnot.
Surely other investments are equally profitable?
Instead they send in jackbooted thugs in riot gear to oppress their own students suggesting that divestment.
I guess they don't have to pay for the oppression and violence against their students themselves, the state will pay for it.
But surely the images are causing more damage to the universities than selling shares in Raytheon or whatever would?

I’m pretty accustomed to large swaths of the population having brainworms but the the last few days have been pretty extreme

Imagine how much pain and suffering we could avoid if we’d shortcut to the inevitable burst and deflation of the AI bubble.
Plus new opportunities to invest in the next tech grift!
Win-win!