Entries from August 2021 ↓

• Big business pledged nearly $50 billion for racial justice after George Floyd’s death. Where did the money go?
  George Floyd’s murder prompted unprecedented corporate giving towards racial justice causes. Most of the money went towards reducing the racial wealth gap, with only a fraction targeting police reform, the cause that sent millions of Americans into the streets last summer
• The Yale Review | Melissa Febos: "The Wild, Sublime Body"
• There’s One Thing We Can Learn From the Villages’ Success
• Thirteen Thoughts on Reparations, Afropessimism, and White Supremacy, by Loren Laomina – The Audacity.
• The Audacious Book Club Conversation with Ashley C. Ford – YouTube
• Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting? | The New Yorker
• How to be lucky | Psyche Guides
• Structural racism: what it is and how it works
  After ongoing claims that the UK is devoid of this form of discrimination, what does the term actually mean?
• Cajun Navy Relief
• A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro
• Untitled (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqyxb/how-the-economy-has-to-radically-transform-to-end-fossil-fuels-in-20-years)
  RT @dwallacewells: “If the world recognizes this shift and ends protection for incumbent industries, as well as invests strategically in the most optimal sectors and technologies, the report suggests, humanity will be able to eliminate 90% of emissions within the 15 years…”
• Release Release 0.4.5 · DataBiosphere/dsub
• Why Tea Addicts Go Crazy for Pu-Erh
• Classify Flowers with Transfer Learning  |  TensorFlow Hub
• Transfer Learning Guide: A Practical Tutorial With Examples for Images and Text in Keras – neptune.ai

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• vertex-ai-samples/community-content/pytorch_text_classification_using_vertex_sdk_and_gcloud at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples
  In the PyTorch on Google Cloud series of blog posts, we aim to share how to build, train and deploy PyTorch models at scale and how to create reproducible machine learning pipelines on Google Cloud with Vertex AI.

  This tutorial on text classification shows how to train a PyTorch based text classification model by fine tuning a pre-trained Huggingface Transformers model and deploy the model on Vertex AI using Vertex SDK and gcloud ai.

• Just Ida Recovery – Another Gulf Is Possible/Otro GOLFO ES POSIBLE
• Home | Gulf South 4 GND
  Gulf South for a
  Green New Deal
• Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Ruins Storm Preparation – The Atlantic
  RT @alexandraphelan: Please read this piece from @yayitsrob

  As climate change worsens, cities simply might not have time to get people to safety in a major storm, even before we add in any additional complexities like ICUs full of COVID19 patients.

• Untitled (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-afghan-families-start-over-in-the-us)
  RT @emilylhauser: Mr Rogers told us to look for the helpers. Sometimes that’s us.

  My friend is one of the ppl behind this effort to aid 4 Afghan families, folks who worked closely w US troops. They got out but w nearly nothing to their names. I’ve given & hope you will too:

• Google AI Introduces Prediction Private Endpoints for Fast and Secure Serving on Vertex AI (Google's Machine Learning Platform) | MarkTechPost
• As Washington Stews, State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics
  From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders.
• TPG $5.4bn climate fund backs long-duration battery start-up

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• Fructose in the diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/opinion/sunday/colon-cancer-bucket-list.html)
  RT @mkonnikova: "There is nothing like the tally of a life. All of our accomplishments, ridiculous. All of our striving, unnecessary. Our lives are unfinished and unfinishable. We do too much, never enough and are done before we’ve even started." Beautiful, @KatecBowler:
• (400) https://twitter.com/rseroter/status/1430578680951017474
  RT @spf13: This 💯
• (400) https://twitter.com/AndyBCampbell/status/1431249166651564033/photo/1
  RT @AndyBCampbell: You see, the poor kids may become addicted to food if we feed them
• (400) https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1431244339011854337
  RT @AndyBCampbell: You see, the poor kids may become addicted to food if we feed them
• Opinion | Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me (Published 2016)
  Some Christians believe God rewards the faithful. So why did I get Stage 4 cancer?
• Opinion | One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List
  Until my cancer diagnosis, I did not understand that one future comes at the exclusion of all others.
• Hospital Utilization
  This page displays visualizations on the utilization and capacity status of hospitals in the United States.
• Why 2020 felt like a time warp, according to science
• Antibodies Waning? The Immune System Has a Backup Plan For That — Bloomberg
  Antibodies against the coronavirus wane over time, but the immune system has a backup plan that doesn’t rely on boosters, according to a study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, where technology for mRNA vaccines was developed.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/cfishman/status/1430858213235306504
  RT @usmantm: Absolutely riveting read
• Anomaly detection with TensorFlow Probability and Vertex AI | Google Cloud Blog
• ‘Very worried’: S.F. study finds virus mutations behind many breakthrough cases — San Francisco Chronicle
  A study of nearly 1,400 San Francisco COVID-19 cases between February and June found that people with breakthrough cases were more likely to be infected with a variant containing mutations that are resistant to the neutralizing antibodies that vaccines can induce.

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• Atlas of Design
• (400) https://twitter.com/wsferries/status/1430613847887388672
  RT @darth: bryan

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• Google Cloud AutoML Vision for Medical Image Classification | by Ekaba Bisong | Towards Data Science
• Untitled (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/25/lebanons-critical-water-crisis-interactive)
  RT @harikunzru: Afghanistan dominates the news, and I’m only just catching up with how bad things are in Lebanon. As the economy collapses, 70% of population now face critical water shortages
• SPCA of Texas | Dallas, TX | Chewy
  Wish list
• Cerebras Shifts Architecture to Meet Massive AI/ML Models
• The impact of evolutionary processes in shaping the genetics of complex traits in East Asia and Europe: a specific contribution from Denisovan and Neanderthal introgression

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• Google dismantles Health unit in favor of tried-and-tested ‘throw everything at the wall’ strategy – The Verge
• Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames | Financial Times
  What does it feel like to live on the brink of a vast historical change? It feels like now.
• California builds 'Noah's Ark' as extinction looms – Los Angeles Times
• Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time
• How to move beyond recycling (part 1) – by Emily Atkin – HEATED
• Disasterology
• Join Us – red wolves | Wolf Conservation Center
  RT @nywolforg: With only 9 red wolves known to remain in the wild, he could be the last one you see.

  Join us in our mission to #SaveRedWolves âž¡

• (400) https://twitter.com/nywolforg/status/1429979533923471362/video/1
  RT @nywolforg: With only 9 red wolves known to remain in the wild, he could be the last one you see.

  Join us in our mission to #SaveRedWolves âž¡

• Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s the Secret? | The New Yorker
  RT @rajshah: Costa Rica has made public health central to the delivery of medical care – a plan that is “at once breathtaking in scope and beautifully simple,” writes @atulgawande. Fascinating story on what happens when countries prioritize public health.
• Ultra-Vaxxed Israel’s Crisis Is a Dire Warning to America
  “I don’t want to frighten you,” Israel’s COVID czar Dr. Salman Zarka told parliament this week. “But… unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.”
• Charlie Watts Dead: Rolling Stones Drummer Was 80 – Variety
• Opinion | What to Do With Our Covid Rage
  We can start by being honest about our anger and where it comes from.
• The Coronavirus Could Get Worse — The Atlantic
  Delta is far from the last variant. But what shape the virus takes next depends on us.
• Untitled (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfire-smoke-is-transforming-clouds-making-rainfall-less-likely)
  RT @ClimateComms: #Wildfire #smoke over US West makes clouds less likely to produce rain, creating a "very scary" feedback, a vicious cycle that feeds more fire. The West is seeing less rain during fire season than it used to. @NatGeo @sejorg
• Using Emacs on a Chromebook: An Installation Guide
• Unvaccinated deaths overwhelm health workers in Covid hot zones
  RT @larrybrilliant: One of the most poignant characteristics of this pandemic is that if it is not happening near you, in your face right now, human nature is to forget or diminish it. For doctors nurses and health workers that’s not an option. This is what it is like…..
• (400) https://twitter.com/BillMartinKTVU/status/1429853767923474446/photo/1
  RT @BillMartinKTVU: Mt Shasta with zero snow. First time in modern history. I would call that hand writing on the wall.
• What are Office Hours? – by Andrew Ishak on Vimeo
• Eunice Newton Foote’s nearly forgotten discovery
  The scientist, inventor, and women’s rights activist demonstrated the heat-absorbing properties of carbon dioxide and their potential effect on climate three years before John Tyndall.
• The Cotton Tote Crisis
  You can get cotton bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental solution become part of the problem?
• Evrnu
  Seattle
• Project MONAI
• (400) https://twitter.com/cryptoterra/status/1429837529457455110
  RT @mountain_goats: I know Pfizer is super stoked that all the people who, in strictly the best of faith, were making “the vaccine isn’t approved yet!” arguments will, without hesitation, surely now embrace scientific consensus and support the goal of getting as many people as possible vaccinated

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• I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
  It’s been almost 20 years since my diagnosis, and I’ve learned quite a bit.
• ESA – A-74 iceberg near collision with Brunt Ice Shelf
  RT @coreyspowell: Huge grazing collision between the 30-mile-long A-74 iceberg & the Antarctic ice sheet, captured by satellite radar. Cracking ice sheets could force a relocation of the nearby Halley VI Research Station.
• (400) https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/1429925376722014220/photo/1
  RT @coreyspowell: Huge grazing collision between the 30-mile-long A-74 iceberg & the Antarctic ice sheet, captured by satellite radar. Cracking ice sheets could force a relocation of the nearby Halley VI Research Station.
• WTF are the “fboys” in “FBOY Island”? – Strong Language
• Can Cads Be Redeemed? A Raunchy Dating Show Investigates.
  “FBoy Island” is in on its own joke as it helps women separate the good guys from the louts. “Why not admit on the air that it is dumb and ridiculous?” said the host, Nikki Glaser.
• Biden Exposed the Ugly Reality of the Afghanistan War
• (400) https://twitter.com/p_historians/status/1429702558927310852/photo/1
  RT @p_historians: This gorgeous piece is our pick for #MosaicMonday.

  Depicting a youth and a rather shy donkey, this piece dates to the C5th CE and comes from Roman Byzantium

  🏛 Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul

• Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming For Distributed Production
• MONAI MICCAI Bootcamp 2021 | GPU Hackathon
  MONAI is a freely available, community-supported, open-source PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in medical imaging. It provides domain-optimized foundational capabilities for developing medical imaging training workflows in a native PyTorch paradigm.

  With the growth of MONAI over the last year, we’re going to cover both beginner and advanced, including new projects released through the Project MONAI.

• Google AI Blog: Rethinking Attention with Performers

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• Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it absorbed over past 10 years | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
  RT @PaulEDawson: The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more CO2 into the atmosphere over the past decade than it absorbed.

  “it is the first time that we have figures showing that the Brazilian Amazon has flipped, and is now a net emitter,” @INRAE_Intl

• Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to be alive?
• Opinion | Work Is a False Idol
  From Diogenes the Cynic to Audre Lorde to a former factory worker in China, the "lying flat" movement is gathering steam.
• (400) https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1428762453916147713/video/1
  RT @buitengebieden_: Bird playing ball 🏀
• Roasted Garlic and Fennel Olive Oil Ciabatta » the practical kitchen

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• (400) https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1429155950842187778/photo/1
  RT @christapeterso: Problematic

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