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February 22nd, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/KurtKohlstedt/status/1363637966795661312/video/1
RT @KurtKohlstedt: Parkour trash panda: even better with the Mission Impossible soundtrack 🦝
- (400) https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1363399374898933766
RT @exitthelemming: Magnificent thread on Roman London
- How OpenX Trains and Serves for a Million Queries per Second in under 15 Milliseconds — The TensorFlow Blog
- ucaip/01-training_pipeline_custom_job_image_dataset.ipynb at main · jarokaz/ucaip
AI Platform (Unified) SDK: Training a custom image classification model using a training pipeline with a managed dataset input
Jarek’s example
- Remove bird feeders in Washington to prevent spread of disease, officials say | king5.com
- (400) https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1363622654142414849/photo/1
RT @rabihalameddine: John F. Peto – Take your choice, 1885
- Gordon Parks Photographed Hate While Creating Beauty | The Village Voice
- (400) https://twitter.com/AriaAber/status/1363633156557971458/photo/1
RT @AriaAber: Linda Gregg
- Roxane Gay on How to Write About Trauma | Vanity Fair
In a candid interview, the novelist, essayist, and professor talks to Monica Lewinsky about finding a way to write about terrible things, doing double duty on therapy, and handling all forms of criticism.
- “Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
NEW w/ @RMac18: Mark Zuckerberg intervened to reduce penalties for Alex Jones and Infowars. His decision weakened FB’s policies and prevented it from acting earlier against right wing groups like the Oath Keepers that stormed the Capitol, sources say: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
- The New Yorker Radio Hour – Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again
- (400) https://twitter.com/AP/status/1363603164679790592
RT @jameshamblin: It feels strange to note these milestones because we also know the actual number is significantly greater.
- Brandi Carlile on Indigo Girls: 'They've Never Asked for Credit, But They Deserve It'
- Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
- Tedeschi Trucks Band Kick Off 'Fireside Sessions' with a Quartet Performance
Tedeschi Trucks Band’s first Fireside Sessions performance occurred earlier this week on Feb. 18. The band had announced that “each episode features a
- (400) https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1363292392107823111/photo/1
RT @rabihalameddine: Vincent Desiderio, Cockaigne, 1993-2003 Oil on canvas 112 1/8 x 153 3/8
- Robert J. DeNault on Twitter
RT @robertjdenault: Quick look at the three people holding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein accountable after their predecessors in federal and state government failed to do so. Letitia James, N.Y. Attorney General Denise George, USVI Attorney General Fani Willis, Fulton County DA
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February 21st, 2021 — Uncategorized
- The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All — WIRED
By digging out signals hidden within the brain’s electrical chatter, scientists are getting new insights into sleep, aging, and more.
- (400) https://twitter.com/FranklyHart/status/1362795444083056641/video/1
RT @JennyJohnsonHi5: Happy Saturday! Here’s a bird playing peek-a-boo!
- Opinion | The Life and Death of a Woman-Hater
Rush Limbaugh made the G.O.P. the party of misogyny.
- “It’s Terrifying, It’s Almost Crippling": Texas Jails and Prisons Are Freezing Over
RT @msjpauly: Some interviews just stay with you for a long time. I think this one, with a mom whose husband has been freezing inside a Texas prison this week, will be one of them for me.
- (400) https://twitter.com/msjpauly/status/1362888879116746753/photo/1
RT @msjpauly: Some interviews just stay with you for a long time. I think this one, with a mom whose husband has been freezing inside a Texas prison this week, will be one of them for me.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Lucent508/status/1363203974434816000/photo/1
RT @Lucent508: Beautiful mature Great Blue Heron is at The Loch in Central Park now. 😍
- (400) https://twitter.com/abenanav/status/1359619276576022531/photo/1
RT @abenanav: When asked about fears of automation in 1969, Arthur C. Clarke famously said that we shouldn’t worry about automation: "the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." I have never seen his answer quoted in full.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1363034891173027844/photo/1
RT @Noahpinion: An American story.
(via @originalspin)
- 'I can't keep doing this': gig workers say pay has fallen after California's Prop 22 | California | The Guardian
RT @adamconover: Prop 22’s ad blitz claimed that it would raise driver wages. Now that it passed, drivers report that wages and tips have fallen well below minimum wage (BEFORE expenses), and that Uber and others are denying them the health care benefits they promised.
- (400) https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1362896059433840644/photo/1
RT @mjg59: This is infuriating. This is not what security policies exist to protect against. Using them as an excuse to fire someone who believed they were doing the right thing just encourages people to view security as an adversary.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1362955203641802756/photo/1
RT @Reuters: ‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
- Untitled (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-mars-idUSKBN2AJ2L5?taid=603076917bfe410001227b66&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter)
RT @Reuters: ‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
- (400) https://twitter.com/RetroNewsNow/status/1363236054208290818/photo/1
RT @RetroNewsNow: 📺DEBUT: ‘Columbo’ starring Peter Falk premiered as a TV movie 53 years ago, February 20, 1968, on NBC
- (400) https://twitter.com/karlitaliliana/status/1362957677203087363
RT @_danilo: Preview the climate crisis if we don’t get proactive. Infrastructure fails in a cascade:
First we lose power, so no heat.
Then water systems can’t stay running, so they freeze and burst.
Without water, we don’t have the tools to fight fires when they erupt.
Things fall apart.
- New Orleans paramedics called to possible cardiac arrest, find life-sized Bernie Sanders figure | Entertainment/Life | nola.com
- Early Stopping in HuggingFace – Examples | huggingface – Weights & Biases
- (400) https://twitter.com/fi_lor/status/1363035873026138116/photo/1
RT @fi_lor: Daily Mail (5th December 2000)
- Acting NASA chief says 2024 Moon landing no longer a “realistic” target | Ars Technica
RT @DannySkarka: Before you blame Biden for cancelling Moon missions: "The 2024 lunar landing goal may no longer be a realistic target due to the last TWO YEARS of appropriations, which did not provide enough funding to make 2024 achievable,"
- (400) https://twitter.com/dmetaxak/status/1362856231212212224/photo/1
RT @dmetaxak: Google recently added a feature allowing users to search for "Black-owned businesses near you". They’re advertising it all over the place (see below).
I’ve also already started hearing from Black-owned businesses I follow that they’re seeing an influx of racist fake reviews…
- Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
RT @DavidLKeating: Excellent story by @ashleevance with spot on quote from @jeremyphoward. Some of the heroes of the pandemic are those with no formal training. Others busted silos. via @BW
- (400) https://twitter.com/mrpatto/status/1362844477157560320
RT @fchollet: Interesting analysis by @mhmazur. Human work is driven by clear goals and is informed by task-specific context. A model that is optimized for generating plausible-sounding text, ignoring goals and context, virtually never produces any useful answer (unless by random chance).
- (400) https://twitter.com/themeredith/status/1362804963382976518/photo/1
RT @themeredith: Boy have I got news for both of these people
- Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
- I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
I wasn’t proud of it, and neither were my coworkers. But that’s life in today’s China. During livestreaming, each audio clip would be automatically transcribed, compared with a long list of sensitive words, dates, names, as well as NLP models. Algorithms would then analyze whether the content was risky enough to require individual monitoring.https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine
- A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google | WIRED
RT @WIRED: For the second time in three months, Google has fired a prominent woman researcher on ethics in artificial intelligence. Following Timnit Gebru’s departure in December, Margaret Mitchell says she has been fired from the company’s AI lab, Google Brain
- Interview with Ryan Dahl, Node.js & Deno creator by Evrone
In an interview with Evrone, Ryan Dahl speaks about the main challenges in Deno, the future of JavaScript and TypeScript, and tells how he would have changed his approach to Node.js if he could travel back in time.
- Covid-19 Mutual Aid – Seattle: Community Report, January 2021 – COVID-19 Mutual Aid Seattle
- Fundraiser for M Mork by Rosario Lopez : COVID-19 Survival Fund for the People
Seattle
- COVID-19 projections for Washington state
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February 20th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- The cron schedule expression editor
- Silver Sparrow macOS malware with M1 compatibility
- Carnivore Spotter
Seattle
- NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on Twitter
RT @Astro_Cady: So. A spacecraft orbiting Mars at thousands of miles per hour took a picture of #Percy — our newest Mars #Rover –as it was landing. This isn’t just a photo of a little dot. @NASAJPL has actually captured #Percy parachuting down to the surface of #Mars!! I have no words!
- ActBlue
RT @AOC: We’ve now raised $2 MILLION in relief for Texans & are adding more orgs.🙏🏽
I’ll be flying to Texas today ✈️ to visit with Houston rep Sylvia Garcia (@LaCongresista) to distribute supplies and help amplify needs & solutions.
Let’s see how far we can go:
- Nivia’s superpower is uplifting BLK Women 🖤🤎 on Twitter
💯
- Dapr · GitHub
Distributed Application Runtime. An event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge.
- Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite
- (400) https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1361804273793699840
RT @emilymbender: At. Every. Step.
Firing @timnitGebru, locking @mmitchell_ai out for five weeks, stranding their team, gaslighting to no end, and now firing @mmitchell_ai
To what end?
- This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
Corey Quinn has made it his business to understand Amazonâs cloud-computing charges and have some fun at the companyâs expense.
- (400) https://twitter.com/aweiss/status/1362900717183201282/photo/1
RT @aweiss: In the annals of tone-deaf HR and PR moves, @JeffDean promising to do better after firing @timnitGebru then turning around and firing @mmitchell_ai THE VERY SAME DAY has got to set some sort of record.
- Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
RT @aweiss: In the annals of tone-deaf HR and PR moves, @JeffDean promising to do better after firing @timnitGebru then turning around and firing @mmitchell_ai THE VERY SAME DAY has got to set some sort of record.
- Academia, Love Me Back – TIFFANY MARTÍNEZ
- MoCADA — Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James…
- Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity
There is a variation on ‘Not All Men.’ It is called ‘I Feel Bad When You Say That.’ My godson Kyle is six. He is fairly emotionally perceptive for his age, as his grownups have been working with hi…
- (400) https://twitter.com/mccurley/status/1362948075765997570/photo/1
RT @mccurley: In 1997 I published this photo and (falsely) claimed that digicrime had taken over control of a mars rover and written our logo on the rock. I was later informed by someone at JPL that it actually would have been possible because the only security was having the biggest antenna.
- Gather: A New Way To Clean Notebooks | Python
- (400) https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1362885356127801345
RT @math_rachel: Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Gebru built THE most diverse team in Google AI, and their team’s research wins awards & is published at top peer-reviewed confs
Dr. Mitchell is being fired the same day Jeff Dean announces Google is *supposedly* going to focus more on D&I and retention
- Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2021 Release | Python
- Working with Jupyter code cells in the Python Interactive window
- (400) https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1362886704361791488
RT @DiverseInAI: This is really unconscionable.
- Google Fires Researcher Meg Mitchell, Escalating AI Saga – Bloomberg
- (400) https://twitter.com/L_badikho/status/1362892301979312128
RT @alexhanna: Google did an end-run around Samy Bengio, Meg’s manager, despite saying that they would inform him.
Google Research comms smeared Meg shortly after this process began.
- Home – America Is All In
In all fifty states, at every level of government and across every sector of the economy, we must go all in to solve the climate crisis.
- Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
For many women, feeling like an outsider isn’t an illusion — it’s the result of systemic bias and exclusion.
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1362782906104487936/photo/1
- (400) https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1362423467144978432
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February 19th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- emojitracker: realtime emoji use on twitter
- Donate – Genesis Women's Shelter & Support
RT @GenesisShelter: For the first time in 35+ yrs, our emergency shelter & transitional housing have been completely shut down due to burst pipes & power loss. If you are currently in a position to help, we ask that you make a donation; our needs are critical and immediate:
- (400) https://twitter.com/GenesisShelter/status/1362205939672047618/photo/1
RT @GenesisShelter: For the first time in 35+ yrs, our emergency shelter & transitional housing have been completely shut down due to burst pipes & power loss. If you are currently in a position to help, we ask that you make a donation; our needs are critical and immediate:
- Crown Resorts: Australian casino firm 'not suitable' for Sydney gaming licence
- (400) https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/1362509237075668993/photo/1
RT @tweetsoutloud: YOUR PACKAGE WAS SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED AT 12:55 PM. PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A SECURE LOCATION IN JEZERO CRATER.
- Georgia Senate panel approves absentee ID among several election bills
RT @RonBrownstein: Every day, red state Rs show Congressional Ds exactly what they can expect in new suppression for 2022 if they don’t end the filibuster to establish national safeguards around the right to vote: "Absentee voting ID bill clears Georgia Senate committee"
- Why Lent and Other Sacrifices Make Us Happy – The Atlantic
- BBC – Travel – Danger: Saint-Malo and the highest tides in Europe
- Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover – NASA Mars
- (400) https://twitter.com/JustinHGillis/status/1362570286550290435
RT @climatebrad: The specifics of how and why "Texas said, ‘Nah, we’re good’" are a story worth telling.
(hint – follow the money)
- (400) https://twitter.com/tiffani/status/1362494494847823872/photo/1
RT @tiffani: Yesterday I tweeted a list of things people should know about their utility services.
It’s pretty important stuff, and often, the powers-that-be depend on us all just paying our utility bills without knowing the details behind how these entities work.
- Coffee Drinking Tied to Lower Risk of Heart Failure
- Activate Google Fi on an iPhone with an eSIM – Google Fi Help
- (400) https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1362058117593366535/photo/1
RT @rahmstorf: Two competing effects influence our northern winters:
#1 Global warming.
#2 Increasing polar air outbreaks due to stratospheric polar vortex disturbances.
In the long run #1 wins – our winters are getting warmer. 1/🧵
- Untitled (https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-primates-die-texas-animal-sanctuary-frigid-weather/story?id=75967192)
RT @JaneMayerNYer: Violet, a chimpanzee, was 58: 12 primates die at Texas animal sanctuary after frigid weather causes power failure – ABC News
- A $15 Minimum Wage Under Biden Is Crucial to Racial Justice | Time
RT @RevDrBarber: Just as Selma became a symbol of the need for legislation to expand voting rights, the $15/hr minimum wage proposal in Biden’s American Rescue Plan represents the possibility that our government can take decisive action to make racial justice real today.
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