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It is probably hard to distinguish some of the images you’re seeing here from, say, a WTO protest that turned violent.
There is an overwhelming sense of “everyone” right now — everyone is in danger, everyone is helping.

(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@eprint/115894813350411669
it's under embargo, but i can disclose sphinx is not affected :)

Want to see a LLM become real self-aware, real fast?
Ask it to pretend it’s giving you advice that would have been current based on everything it could have known in 2005, and if it had been built by one of the big technology companies of the time.
Then ask it if everyone followed that advice, would it—the LLM—exist today?
(Then, for yourself, think about what the result of everyone vibe coding their way to 20 years into the future from today looks like.)

Good news everyone, Scott Adams died

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign
Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign from Israel lobby groups that she believes aimed to silence her. Despite this, she remains unbowed.

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Rumors of another person shot by ICE in Minneapolis. I have nothing solid. Hoping the rumors are false. Hoping everyone is OK. Hoping a lot.

What @… said, I basically want to yell at everyone and everything within 1000m of somebody saying “KPI” in basically every business everywhere.
quantification ≠ objectivity
quantification ≠ empiricism
quantification ≠ methodological soundness
quantification = mapping non-numerical things to numbers, and that’s it. The rest is up to you. https://infosec.exchange/@saraislet/115544576545095979

There is, however, a lot for society to gain from the people who want subjugation and slavery and murder knowing that they will be pariahs if they let those thoughts out of their mouth. There’s a lot to gain from everyone around them seeing them greeted with revulsion and shunned.
That, too, is part of free speech. It is the •foundation• of free speech.