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Libcom: **A Discussion Paper on Local Councils in Syria**

" Syrian Anarchist Omar Aziz's short text on the formations of councils in Syria during the uprising against Assad's regime. Author Omar Aziz Submitted by Reddebrek on December 8, 2024 Copied to clipboard Introduction: The Period of Power and the Period of Revolution A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. A revolu…"

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A Discussion Paper on Local Councils in Syria

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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.
France 24 (FRANCE 24)

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Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images

Link: news.utexas.edu/2024/11/27/res…
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Researchers Use AI To Turn Sound Recordings Into Accurate Street Images - UT News

AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio
Adrienne Lee (The University of Texas at Austin)

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The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction

Link: justinmath.com/the-necessity-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

The Necessity of Grinding Through Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction

If you go directly to the most abstract ideas then you’re basically like a kid who reads a book of famous quotes about life and thinks they understand everything about life by way of those quotes.
Justin Skycak

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UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care

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Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
ProPublica

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Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair

Link: hackaday.com/2024/12/07/the-25…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair And A Copyright Strike

We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video as well as …
Hackaday

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Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

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Syrian insurgents enter Damascus, President Assad flees Syria 

The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
BASSEM MROUE (AP News)

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Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study

Link: news.mit.edu/2024/study-browsi…
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Study: Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse

People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle - Arm " is worth almost $150 billion," writes the Verge, "which is now considerably ... - hardware.slashdot.org/story/24… #intel

What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle - Slashdot

Arm " is worth almost $150 billion," writes the Verge, "which is now considerably more than Intel." "With the news earlier this week that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger 'retired' and Intel is evaluating its options for a possible spinoff or outright sale…
hardware.slashdot.org

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MIT largest open-source car design dataset, incl aerodynamics, to speed design

Link: news.mit.edu/2024/design-futur…
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Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.

DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset for car aerodynamics developed to date, can be used to quickly train an AI model to generate novel car designs.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mathics 7.0 – Open-source alternative to Mathematica

Link: github.com/Mathics3/mathics-co…
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Release 7.0.0 · Mathics3/mathics-core

Some work was done here in support of planned future improvements like lazy loading of builtin functions. A bit of effort was also spent to modernize Python code and style, add more type annotation...
GitHub

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The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such language models to the general public.
arXiv.org

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I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source

Link: kvinogradov.com/algo-sponsors/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


How I algorithmically donated $5000+ to Open Source via GitHub Sponsors and PyPI data

My experiment on algorithmic donating $5000 to 800+ authors of the most downloaded Python packages, leveraging data from GitHub Sponsors, PyPI, and OpenSSF.
Konstantin Vinogradov

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Audible Anarchism: **No God, No boss, No husband: The world’s first Anarcha-feminist group**

"For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.comThis text can be read at libcom.org/article/no-god-no-b… An account of the first anarchist-feminist group in Argentina during the 1890s. Read for us by Sara S-CW of the Whizbanger Show thewhizbangershow.com/"

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No God, No boss, No husband: The world’s first Anarcha-feminist group | Audible Anarchism

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.comThis text can be read at https://libcom.
audibleanarchism.podbean.com

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Allwinner A733 octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AI SoC supports up to 16GB RAM for Android 15 tablets and laptops

Allwinner A733 is an octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor with an optional 3 TOPS NPU and support for up to 16GB RAM designed for Android 15 tablets and laptops such as the Teclast P50Ai with a 10.92-inch touchscreen display. With two Cortex-A76 …
cnx-software.com/2024/12/06/al…

Allwinner A733 octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AI SoC supports up to 16GB RAM for Android 15 tablets and laptops - CNX Software

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) (CNX Software Limited)

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This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!

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This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!

I promised new features soon, and here they are! There are plenty of positive UI changes too. Hopefully what this week's post lacks in quantity will be made up by depth, because these are some nice changes that have been in development for quite some…
This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!

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Rechtspopulistische Parteien betten die Klimaanpassung in eine nationalistische Erzählung ein – zulasten von Solidarität und wissenschaftlichen Lösungen.#Dossier:AnpassungDeutschland #Klimaanpassung #AfD,Rechtspopulismus,Rechtsextremismus #Bundestagswahl2025
Wie die populistische Rechte die Klimaanpassung bedroht

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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau

Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
www.joshwcomeau.com

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RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that noncoding RNAs are not 'junk'

Link: phys.org/news/2024-11-rna-cris…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that hundreds of noncoding RNAs are essential—not 'junk'

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins.
New York University (Phys.org)

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Mistakes as a new manager

Link: terriblesoftware.org/2024/12/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager

Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager is tough but rewarding. The key is to delegate, find new sources of fulfillment, focus on quality over quantity, maintain proper engagement…
Terrible Software

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Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing

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Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing / Moment devlog

In early 2024, I began investigating
Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing / Moment devlog

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LIVE BLOG: Kamal Adwan Hospital Stormed, again | Protesters Demand Gallants’ Arrest – Day 427 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: 20 Killed in Nuseirat Massacre - Kamal Adwan under Attack -Day 427 - Palestine Chronicle

Israeli occupation forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip again and forced patients and the wounded to leave it.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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10:12 Sullivan promised Kiev new weapons by mid-January – The Guardian en.news-front.su/2024/12/06/su…

Sullivan promised Kiev new weapons by mid-January - The Guardian

During a meeting with the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Andriy Yermak, the US president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, promised to provide Kiev with hundreds of thousands of shells, thousands of missiles and hundreds of armoured …
newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)

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Plenary Meeting of DPRK SPA Standing Committee Held #DPRK kfauk.com/plenary-meeting-of-d…

Plenary Meeting of DPRK SPA Standing Committee Held - KFAUK.com

  Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The 34th Plenary Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday.
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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Official Notice on Convening SPA Session of DPRK Issued #DPRK kfauk.com/official-notice-on-c…

Official Notice on Convening SPA Session of DPRK Issued - KFAUK.com

Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is to be convened in Pyongyang on January 22, 2025.
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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Decision on Convening SPA Session of DPRK #DPRK kfauk.com/decision-on-convenin…

Decision on Convening SPA Session of DPRK - KFAUK.com

Decision on Convening SPA Session of DPRK Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be convened in Pyongyang on January 22, 2025.
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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US economy: an exceptional boom or a bubble to burst? thenextrecession.wordpress.com…

US economy: an exceptional boom or a bubble to burst?

Recently, there has been a spate of articles and commentary about ‘US exceptionalism’, namely that the US economy is bounding forward in terms of economic growth, hi-tech investment and productivit…
Michael Roberts Blog

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Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth

Link: source.washu.edu/2024/12/resea…
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Research reveals how fructose in diet enhances tumor growth - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis

Fructose is a sweetener added to ultra-processed foods, typically in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. WashU research shows that the liver turns fructose into lipids that many types of cancers crave.
Talia Ogliore (The Source)

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Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israel-…

Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

Amnesty International joined a growing chorus of human rights experts who say Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The group called on states and arms suppliers of Israel to “bring Israel’s atrocities…to an immediate end.”
Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)

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Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork

Link: github.com/orgs/organicmaps/di…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Disclosure of the Metaserver CDN Source Code · organicmaps · Discussion #9837

Today I am announcing the public disclose of the source code of so-called "metaserver", that previously was available only to few people of the team. At Organic Maps, we prioritize transparency and...
GitHub

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What is the purpose of the law on the apology of terrorism? en.reseauinternational.net/a-q…

What is the purpose of the law on the apology of terrorism? - Réseau International

by Leon Camus. These are not simple questions of the national budget or retirement age, but of imminent danger, namely war, the kind that is rumbling in Eastern Europe and into which a neuropathic ruling class wants to drag us with no return.
Réseau International
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