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• The Paris Review – Blog Archive The Corporate Feminism of NXIVM
• Twitter
  RT @kissane: Student reporters at my old high school just landed a hell of a story about the KY State Police
• Radhika Jones on December Cover Star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Vanity Fair
• Life Isn't all Hard Luck and Trouble – An Irritable Métis
• The Real Hunter Biden Story Everyone is Missing – Insight
• Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed

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• Untitled (https://www.protocol.com/kelsey-hightower-google-cloud)
  RT @kelseyhightower: I never fully understood how far I’ve come until I read someone else tell my story.

  "From McDonald’s to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing" by @tomkrazit

• Twitter
  such a 2020 headline
• Twitter
  RT @charles_gaba: FOR GOD’S SAKE, EITHER DROP YOUR BALLOT OFF IN PERSON *NOW* OR VOTE IN PERSON.

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• Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air | Society | EL PAÍS in English
  RT @AstroKatie: This article has some fantastic illustrations of the major risks for coronavirus transmission.

  Makes clear why I hesitate to even briefly enter any closed spaces with other people, always pay attention to ventilation, & stay out if everyone isn’t masked.

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)
  RT @maddow: "Trailing in the polls, Trump’s campaign is pursuing a strategy to effectively suppress the vote in Pennsylvania, moving to limit the counting of absentee votes, to limit when ballots can be accepted, and intimidating Pennsylvanians trying to vote early."
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html?referringSource=articleShare)
  RT @EricLiptonNYT: Trump’s campaign in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania is pursuing multi pronged strategy: suppress mail-in votes, stop counting of absentee votes before Election Day and intimidating Pennsylvanians trying to vote early @NYTnickc @dannyhakim
• Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air | Society | EL PAÍS in English
• Twitter
  RT @PADems: 🚨 BREAKING: Please share this information widely with voters in BUTLER COUNTY. 🚨

  Please call 1-833-PA-VOTES for additional support.

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/climate/trump-election-climate-noaa.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @JaneLubchenco: Sad, sad day for @NOAA, the U.S. and the world: As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science @LFFriedman @nytimes #ClimateChange
• Untitled (https://votesaveamerica.com/)
  RT @jonfavs: Friendly reminder: the Supreme Court can’t invalidate your late-arriving ballot if you drop it off in person before Election Day!

  to find out where your nearest location is

• This Is the Coronavirus Election – The Atlantic
  RT @edyong209: 🚨I wrote about the upcoming election, and what the stakes are in terms of the pandemic.

  The piece is short, and its gist is simple: Next week, Americans will choose whether to try and bring COVID-19 under control.

• Twitter
  RT @lizthegrey: It’s not just Senators doing this, the US DoD also is going after its critics inside Silicon Valley, using its existing contracts as leverage to get individual engineers, by name, fired for their political speech.
• Twitter
  RT @AaronRHanlon: Solid and astonishing roundup in the @nytimes morning briefing of the many GOP efforts underway explicitly to make it harder for people to vote in this election. Not the GOP campaigning for its issues and candidates, but trying to stop people from voting altogether.
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  RT @soledadobrien: Come on, guys. A win for voters.
• Twitter
  RT @JamesGleick: Burning everything on the way out.
• I Know Where I'm Going!, (1945) – Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Twitter
  RT @jacobsoboroff: This is the way Miles Taylor talked about family separation LAST WEEK ("It’s horrible. But…") when news broke parents of 545 separated kids still cannot be located. He later deleted the tweet.
• NXIVM sex cult leader to serve 120 years, and how he conned thousands
• Untitled (https://www.change.org/p/university-of-pennsylvania-penn-administration-make-classes-optional-on-election-day?redirect=false)
  RT @ASlavitt: Action: ⁦@Penn⁩ in Philadelphia has 40,000 employees and has not closed operations or given employees Election Day off.

  4000 votes makes the difference. This is 40,000 people. Sign the petition to get that to change. RT if willing.

• A Timeline of the Nxivm Sex Cult Case – The New York Times
• A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials
  RT @SchoofsFeed: Google execs misled their own employees when they said a former Trump official — now revealed as Anonymous — who joined the company was “not involved in the family separation policy,” emails obtained under FOIA reveal.

  @RMac18 @JasonLeopold @BuzzFeedNEws

• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/28/trump-tongass-national-forest-alaska/
  RT @brady_dennis: BREAKING: Trump is exempting Alaska’s entire Tongass National Forest from the roadless rule, making more than 9.3 million acres eligible for logging and other development. It is one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of his presidency. By @eilperin
• Escaping NXIVM | CBC News
• ‘Seduced’ Will Make You Pissed Off At How ‘The Vow’ Underplayed Keith Raniere’s Menace | Decider
• More than The Vow, Seduced offers a damning look at the NXIVM cult
• Twitter
  RT @GreatDismal: Straight up evil.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/women-voters-biden-pennsylvania.html)
  RT @joshchafetz: How do you write a story accompanied by this photo and not mention that sign?
• Twitter
  RT @joshchafetz: How do you write a story accompanied by this photo and not mention that sign?
• Twitter
  RT @AppleNews: Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it. (via @Nikki_Lew and @avivash for @MarshallProj)
• Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it.
  RT @AppleNews: Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it. (via @Nikki_Lew and @avivash for @MarshallProj)
• Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself | The New Yorker
• Willie Nelson & Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O Cover "Under Pressure": Listen – Stereogum

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• Twitter
  RT @kumailn: Very important. If you haven’t already mailed in your ballot, DO NOT mail it in. It will not get there in time & your vote will likely not count. Drop it off at a drop box or go vote in person.
• Twitter
  RT @goldengateblond: ‼️ DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOT ‼️ It’s too late to be sure it arrives on time. Vote in person or use a drop box. They’re trying to steal your vote. Don’t let them.
• Twitter
  RT @AngryBlackLady: SEVEN days to go.
• 30 female engineers from India ask Silicon Valley to do better on caste discrimination – The Washington Post
• A statement on caste bias in Silicon Valley from 30 Dalit women engineers – The Washington Post
• Nxivm Cult: Leader Keith Raniere Sentenced to 120 Years – The New York Times
• Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus – The New York Times

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• [P] Dataset of 196,640 books in plain text for training large language models such as GPT : MachineLearning
  RT @hardmaru: Dataset of 196,640 books in plain text for training large language models such as GPT
• Twitter
  RT @thegarance: This is where the postal slowdowns are really going to matter
• Twitter
  RT @GreatDismal: Mood
• Keras Tuner KFP example, part II— creating a lightweight component for metrics evaluation | Amy on GCP
  I wrote a follow-on post that extends this example with a Kubeflow Pipelines “lightweight component” that checks model quality before deploying.
• Twitter
  RT @WalterIsaacson: After 100 years, the advice in the New York Herald Tribune still holds…
• Twitter
  RT @sbg1: It does seem pretty simple, from a Trump point of view: just make sure the Postal Service does not deliver the mail in time.
• Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It. – The New York Times
• Render Unto “Hail, Caesar!” – Los Angeles Review of Books
• AppleInsider: Why the iPhone 12 Pro is worth the upgrade cost
• Supreme Court rejects request to extend Wisconsin’s deadline for counting mail-in ballots
• Twitter
  ‘I believe what political scientist Thomas Schaller told Bloomberg columnist Francis Wilkinson in 2018: “I think we’re at the beginning of a soft civil war.”’
• [P] Dataset of 196,640 books in plain text for training large language models such as GPT : MachineLearning

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• No, Mouthwash Will Not Save You From the Coronavirus – The New York Times
• Opinion | How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Conspiracy Theories – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @COVID19Tracking: Today, the U.S. set a new record for new cases averaged over a 7-day period: 68,954. The previous high was 66,844, set on July 23.
• Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs – The Salt Lake Tribune
  RT @maddow: This is horrifying.

  “Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs”

• Twitter
  RT @pkedrosky: "49 percent of COVID cases among nursing home
  residents are attributable to staff movement between facilities"
• Twitter
  RT @W7VOA: A fire was set inside an #Election2020 ballot dropbox outside Boston Public Library early Sunday morning, according to officials.
• Solar Is Cheapest Energy: Renewable Energy vs. Fossil Fuels Cost
  RT @crampell: It’s Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
• Twitter
  RT @debcha: A year ago today.
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/10/25/923bb382-16d5-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
  RT @maddow: "… an extraordinary admission Sunday from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the administration had effectively given up on trying to slow the virus’s spread."
• Twitter
  RT @RansomDracalis: You know what democracy looks like in Canada?

  A card is sent to my house to tell me I’ve been automatically registered to vote, and that the poll is within walking distance. I forget to bring the card but can vote anyway. It takes 3 minutes.

  You’re looking at voter suppression.

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/books/best-agatha-christie-books-murder-mystery.html?0p19G=6214)
  RT @TinaJordanNYT: Recently, on a night when I couldn’t sleep (seriously, who sleeps any more?), I picked up "Cat Among the Pigeons" again.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-party.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @michikokakutani: NYT Editorial Board: “RIP, GOP”:
  Trump has accelerated his party’s demise “leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals”
• Mary Trump: Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle. Let them tell voters. – The Washington Post
• Opinion | The Republican Party After Trump – The New York Times
• The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google's Bug-Hunting Badass | WIRED
• There's No Turning Back on AI in the Military | WIRED
• Wellington water advocates are demanding Nestlé give back its wells – OBSERVER

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• Doomsday prepping for less crazy folk
• Twitter
  RT @OliviaMesser: Sometimes when I interview COVID experts, they stick to the numbers and then the call ends with professional send-offs. Today, it’s been—much like it was in the beginning—infused with these humane asides like, "You should be prepared for how bad it’s going to get."
• Twitter
  RT @alexisgoldstein: Trump supporters in PA drove Jeeps and Semis (with Trump flags) around an early voting location, honking so loudly the officials couldn’t given instructions to the voters in line:
• Twitter
  RT @zaibatsu: Little known fact

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• Twitter
  RT @DrLeanaWen: We’ve officially surpassed the previous high for total number of daily new #covid19 infections. Hospitalizations are up 40% in the last month. There are virus hotspots all over the country. This is NOT “rounding the corner”—unless it’s into a firestorm of viral spread.
• Twitter
  RT @Laura_R_Prieto: Why are 80% of those who lost jobs in Aug/Sept women? Because women still assume the individual responsibility for child care.
  Tiny 🧵 1/3
• Twitter
  RT @drmistercody:
• Twitter
  RT @drmistercody:
• Detention Facilities For Immigrants Fast-Tracked For Deportation Were Rife With Problems
  RT @Haleaziz: NEW: Two controversial border programs were rife with issues, including families forced to remain in custody longer than appropriate, girls stuck in the same detention space w/ unrelated men, & toilets that had limited privacy, per leaked draft IG report.
• Twitter
  RT @CharlesMBlow: Wow…
• Twitter
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: Arendt (cont.)
  once in office & confronting reality, the Leader often finds that
  “propaganda and organization no longer suffice to assert that the impossible is possible, that the incredible is true, that an insane consistency rules the world…”
• Twitter
  RT @Amy_Siskind: Whatever happened to McConnell, happened recently. In photos on 10/15, his hands look normal. On 10/20 he tried to hide his hands in his pockets for most photos, and the photos that show his hands show bandages on both and deep bruising of some kind.
• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: On this date in 2016, @FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary Clinton an 86% chance of victory (compare to 87% for Biden now). The key lesson is that everything is highly correlated across states, and that anyone can predict the weather if they can change the forecast when the rain starts
• Twitter
  RT @BeschlossDC: About twenty thousand women marched for voting rights today 1915 on Fifth Avenue, New York: #AP
• Twitter
  RT @JeremyKonyndyk: “There won’t be any new national policy action” is undeniably true (til January, at least), and is also the scariest part of this tweet.
• Twitter
  RT @textfiles: Did you know the Internet Archive is watching every second of television news, tracking word clouds, and producing reports? Now you do.
• Twitter
  RT @bibliogrrl: Jesus fucking CHRIST
• Twitter
  RT @moodvintage: Anton Chekhov photographed by his brother Alexander in 1891.
• Twitter
  RT @annehelen: I really recommend following this account. Every post is deeply sad, but it’s a sadness that matters — and will help steel your resolve in continuing to make hard, lonely decisions
• Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting – WSJ
  RT @ProfessorShaw: Such an outrageous move by Facebook, even in a climate where our threshhold for outrage is getting to be pretty high
• Twitter
  RT @marginoferror: Thread. Voter registration is a strategy to stop people from voting.
• Twitter
  RT @LibyaLiberty: *stares*
• Why Won't My Friend Text Me Back?

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• Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-campaign-pizzagate-hunter-biden-n1244331)
  RT @BrandyZadrozny: Inside the campaign to ‘Pizzagate’ Hunter Biden.

  New from @oneunderscore__ and me.

• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html?tid=ss_tw
  RT @anneapplebaum: Nothing said at the debate matters more than this: If Trump politicizes the civil service, American government is finished. Someone’s unqualified second cousin will be making important decisions about water quality or food safety instead of a scientist.
• Twitter
  RT @timoreilly: And those closed locations are not evenly distributed…
• [2010.08895] Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations
  The classical development of neural networks has primarily focused on learning mappings between finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Recently, this has been generalized to neural operators that learn mappings between function spaces. For partial differential equations (PDEs), neural operators directly learn the mapping from any functional parametric dependence to the solution. Thus, they learn an entire family of PDEs, in contrast to classical methods which solve one instance of the equation. In this work, we formulate a new neural operator by parameterizing the integral kernel directly in Fourier space, allowing for an expressive and efficient architecture. We perform experiments on Burgers’ equation, Darcy flow, and the Navier-Stokes equation (including the turbulent regime). Our Fourier neural operator shows state-of-the-art performance compared to existing neural network methodologies and it is up to three orders of magnitude faster compared to traditional PDE solvers.
• Twitter
  RT @DickKingSmith: An innocent pumpkin couple look on in horror, mouths agape and transfixed, as their only son is devoured in front of them.
• Twitter
  RT @DarwinBondGraha: Current situation with the fire in Oakland on the 580 shoulder at 35th Ave. High winds are making it very hard for firefighters to put out. Lots of homes nearby.
• Untitled (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/why-optimism-bias-could-be-unhelpful-in-a-pandemic-say-psychologists.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar)
  RT @_karengilchrist: "Optimism bias" could be putting ourselves and others at risk, experts say
• Twitter
  RT @downsanddirty: Best leggings review I’ve ever seen
• Why optimism bias could be unhelpful in a pandemic, say psychologists
• UCSF-led researchers dig deep into coronavirus structure, identify drugs that could diminish COVID effects – SFChronicle.com
• ‘Ham on Rye’ Review: Coming of Age, With Existential Unease – The New York Times
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html)
  RT @robertjdenault: BREAKING: Trump Tax Records show a secretly held bank account in China. The account did not show up on Trump’s public financial disclosures, where he must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names.
• Twitter
  RT @glennkirschner2: This was unconstitutional. McConnell rewrote Article II, Section 2’s advice & consent clause, thereby waiving the Senate’s opportunity to advise/consent. Garland should have joined the Supreme Court, forcing McConnell to sue/prove he has the authority to rewrite the Constitution.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesbits)
  RT @nytimestech: Law enforcement agencies have used facial recognition to identify criminals. But now activists are turning the process around and developing tools that can unmask officers in cases of misconduct.
• Twitter
  RT @kweinmeister: The parameters you choose for your ML model make a difference. This blog post shows how to include searching for those parameters in your ML pipeline.
• Machine Learning Design Patterns [Book]
  RT @lak_gcp: DMs indicate folks are starting to receive the book! Tag me, @SRobTweets if you (a) post selfie with the book? (b) write a review of the book. Be the first!!! Also, you can buy directly from @OReillyMedia and it’s a bit less expensive than Amazon.
• Rules of Machine Learning:  |  ML Universal Guides  |  Google Developers
• Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record | World news | The Guardian
• Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows
• Twitter
  RT @jbouie: people really don’t appreciate what a radical revision of the structure of government mcconnell’s “confirmation only when the same party controls the presidency and the senate” rule is!

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• Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account | De Volkskrant
• Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password
• ‘Synchronic’ Review: Twisted, Trippy Trips Through Time – The New York Times
• How The Vow’s directors went past the “sex cult” headlines to tell NXIVM’s deeper story
• Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say – Mother Jones
• Twitter
  RT @NASA: TAG! We’re it!

  Just released: new @OSIRISREx views from yesterday as our spacecraft touched the surface of asteroid Bennu for about six seconds, and used its robotic arm to attempt to collect a sample of rocks & dust:

  #ToBennuAndBack

• OSIRIS-REx TAGs Surface of Asteroid Bennu | NASA
  RT @NASA: TAG! We’re it!

  Just released: new @OSIRISREx views from yesterday as our spacecraft touched the surface of asteroid Bennu for about six seconds, and used its robotic arm to attempt to collect a sample of rocks & dust:

  #ToBennuAndBack

• How to put machine learning models into production – Stack Overflow Blog
• Feds say Russia and Iran have interfered with the presidential election
• Hannah Gadsby takes aim at 'good men' who try to commandeer #MeToo | Stage | The Guardian
• Revenge of the Wine Moms

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