America's small towns are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes. It's not all bad


Press coverage of such things is an open invitation to crooks.

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Burning Man revelers begin exodus after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert


#AcceleratingGlobalClimateCataclysm

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What about stars? They got no brains. Universe is moving, changing. Once it stops it is happy. Philip Mainlander said Theo (god) killed himself and universe is HIM dying. Penrose claims (hypothesis) it will be born itself again. Lawrence Kraussanswers :A Universe from Nothing similarly to Hawking. It seems there is no other option like misery. haha Only some humans can see it thanks to the brains.

Has the world gone mad, or have fascist fools like Trump enabled the "expression of madness"?


Judging from MAGAites, and other rank (and, boy they are rank) and file GOPers, I'd say both.

US Open: Fan ejected from match after Germany's Zverev said the man used language from Hitler's regime


A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.umpire James Keothavongfan was identified by spectators seated near him, and he was removed by security.


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#quebec #soviet

NATHALIE ELGRABLY

Monsieur Fitzgibbon, vous aimeriez réduire de moitié le nombre d’autos en circulation. C’est donc plus de trois millions d’individus que vous voulez condamner à prendre les transports en commun. Quant aux véhicules que vous aurez l’infinie bonté de tolérer, ils devront tous être électriques. Et qu’importe si le prix de ces véhicules est prohibitif ou qu’Hydro-Québec est incapable de répondre à pareille demande d’électricité, n’est-ce pas?

Simple Joe: Biden's Biggest Fear Is Being Perceived As 'Stupid' According To Biographer

Well….. he has managed to put a lie to that. You need to only to see the hand picked lunatics he has injected into his corrupt criminal regime.🤡🤪

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#AlanRusbridger #Guardian #Meta

Alan Rusbridger, once director of the Guardian, used to say that "information is meant to be free", as if information possessed a soul.

By 2022, the Guardian had lost £21 million. Today, it begs its readers for donations with every click they make on its website.

Not so stupid, Rusbridger is now paid to dispense his wise recommendations to Facebook's "supervisory board", and has been doing so since 2021.

Do we think about vector storage completely wrong?

For search, we care about increasing the initial recall set. Which often can be 100s or 1000s.

Then we want to improve the precision over that with a smarter model that can use many things (BM25, numeric features of the data, cos similarity, etc)

Why do we obsess over perfect accuracy in top 10 for vector dbs? Building to those benchmarks have externalities making data structures that are hard to update and manage?

#twitter

Selon le propriétaire de Twitter (rebaptisé X), une association de lutte contre l'antisémitisme ferait pression sur les entreprises afin qu'elles n'achètent pas d'espace publicitaire sur la plateforme.

Elon Musk pourrait attaquer en justice la Ligue anti-diffamation (ADL) pour diffamation. C'est du moins ce qu'a annoncé l'entrepreneur sur Twitter (rebaptisé X). Lundi 4 septembre, le propriétaire du réseau social s'en est pris à l'association américaine de lutte contre l'antisémitisme.

#our #animal #shelter #store #canada #usa

Store of our Animal Shelter

Link to our store : https://leshoshin.company.site/en/​

Profits generated go to help fund our animal shelter

In these times of inflation, we also strive to offer low cost products when we can.

We also collect used, open box and other products in our area to give them a second chance.

Free shipping by Canada Post anywhere in Canada, USA and Saint Pierre et Miquelon
Sold as is / return not accepted

Accepted Payment Methods

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White Rose Mucho Grande - #SolutionsWatch

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On #DayAgainstDRM 2022, we asked passersby what they think about digital sharing. In our interview with Muhammad, we asked "Would you feel wrong if you shared your music with someone else?" Read and watch the first video of the series: u.fsf.org/3vt #EndDRM #FreedomToShare

#autrefois

Jean-François Lisee

La pornographie. Les Z ne connaissent pas leur chance de pouvoir, dès qu’ils savent se servir d’un portable, donc à quatre ans et demi, trouver en ligne plus de positions sexuelles explicites que dans le Kamasutra.

Les ados des années 1960 et 1970 n’avaient pas cette chance. Il nous fallait étudier attentivement le TV Hebdo pour y repérer les films diffusés parfois les soirs de fin de semaine.

#past #time

Jean-François Lisee

Your parents, dear Z, loved you, pampered you, treated you like royalty. Ours actively wished us dead. How else can you explain the fact that they dumped us in the back seat of the car - or even in front, for that matter - without a proper seat, without even a seatbelt? I often had to lie in the space just in front of the rear window, with only a pillow and a blanket for protection, on long journeys, at the mercy of the first collision that came along.

#autrefois

Jean-François Lisee

Vos parents à vous, chers Z, vous ont aimés, dorlotés, traités comme des rois. Les nôtres souhaitaient activement notre mort. Comment expliquer autrement qu’ils nous aient largués sur le siège arrière de la voiture — ou même devant, d’ailleurs — sans siège adapté, sans même de ceinture de sécurité ? On m’a souvent couché sur l’espace existant juste devant la vitre arrière, avec un oreiller et une couverture pour seule protection, sur de longs trajets, à la merci de la première collision venue.

If you're hosting a virtual or hybrid #SoftwareFreedomDay2023 event, please let me know. I want to pass the info on to people who can't attend a local one. I need time, time zone, how to join and language of choice (human not programming). If anyone in North America wants to get together to attend, volunteer or organize an event, please write me. If you're having trouble finding an event, post to the mailing list: softwarefreedomday.org/mailing… list. #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedomDay

#help #our #animal #shelter

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Any financial help from you will be directed to our small animal shelter in Quebec City. The shelter provides an occupation for my husband (the Shoshin) who has suffered various setbacks due to a serious mental illness. We thank you all on behalf of us (Nancy and Shoshin) and our animals.

A federal court throws out Alabama's congressional map again


A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama's latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act.

In an order released Tuesday, the judges said they are "deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires."

"We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring that its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded with a plan that the state concedes does not provide that district," said U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco and U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer. "The law requires the creation of an additional district that affords Black Alabamians, like everyone else, a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The 2023 Plan plainly fails to do so."


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