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[2023-08-03] B.C. COVID-19 data: Just 76 people in hospital Thursday, lowest total in 2 years
The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in B.C. hit another new low in the latest monthly data update from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
There were 76 people in hospital with COVID-19 as of Thursday, down from 96 when the BCCDC released its last update on 2023-07-06.
#COVID19 #Canada #BritishColumbia
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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110741245846598653
DeSantis states repeatedly that Florida is "No. 1 in"
*economic freedom
* education freedom
* parental involvement in education
* public higher education
DeSantis’ miserable record of governance:
* FL close to bottom of state rankings for health care, school funding, teachers salaries, employment benefits
* 1 of 10 states that refused to expand Medicaid; 12% FL have no medical insurance
* refused to raise minimum wage
* lowered taxes on the rich & corporations
Addendae
Criminalizing Poverty: America’s War Against the Poor
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/criminalizing-poverty-americas-war-against-the-poor
* poverty affects 37.9 million Americans incl. 11 million children
* tendency in U.S. to treat poverty as if it were leprosy, a contagious disease to be avoided by good & healthy people
* seeing rise of a “war on poverty” - e.g. laws by both conservative/liberal local governments criminalize panhandling
#poverty #homelessness #WealthInequality #capitalism #discrimination #PovertyIndustrialComplex #debt
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Public discourse in U.S. is of a relatively stable political system, h/e
* only country w/o universal health coverage
* lowest life expectancy @ birth
* highest death rates for avoidable/treatable cond.
* highest maternal infant mortal.
* among highest suicide rates
* highest multiple chronic cond.
* obesity rate 2x OECD avg
* see physicians less than people in most countries
* among lowest rate of practicing physicians, hospital beds/1,000 persons
* COVID-19 vacc. trails many nations
Fascism is Western Answer to Class Struggle
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle
* FBI, CIA active participants in 2016 & 2020 U.S. national elections
* melding state w. commercial interests the American political ‘system’ fits the Marxist-Leninist concept of capitalist state
* U.S. has largest military budget in world by a factor of 10
* recent shift f. the soft power of trade agreements (NAFTA, TPP) to hard power of military imperialism
#USA #neofascism #GOP #capitalism #MIC #neocolonialism #EndlessWar
Addendae
Criminalizing Poverty: America’s War Against the Poor
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/criminalizing-poverty-americas-war-against-the-poor
* poverty affects 37.9 million Americans incl. 11 million children
* tendency in U.S. to treat poverty as if it were leprosy, a contagious disease to be avoided by good & healthy people
* seeing rise of a “war on poverty” - e.g. laws by both conservative/liberal local governments criminalize panhandling
#poverty #homelessness #WealthInequality #capitalism #discrimination #PovertyIndustrialComplex #debt
Addendae 2023-08-04
Some remarks on possible superconductivity of composition Pb9CuP6O25
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994122
"I think the important part is that AFAIK the superconductivity only happens within the crystalline structure. ..."
#LK99 #superconductivity
nostr:npub1c9ee8wcja0tpa45gy4l9zqwfhvfpvyc848xusfcxdy2rnx44t9gq93zhes Cornelius Bumpus on sax. Gone way too soon. He toured with Steely Dan as well.
nostr:npub1uzgucyd5hwpdjzhj73gtvm3kv70pn3dyeesehx9vxvsg665cgs3s0jx9jt Like musicians, musicologists who understand music theory more thoroughly appreciate a song (e.g. Daily Doug, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhoWG3znb10), I feel historians of music more fully appreciate the songs when they have some additional knowledge of the piece. 🙂 It's neat. 😀 Thank you for sharing that! 👍️ Victoria 🙏
ToasterMuseum.com: world largest Online Toaster Exhibition 🍞
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36992802
That (above4) popped up today; using it to introduce this very interesting article.
Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
https://www.theverge.com/22801890/sunbeam-radiant-control-toaster-t20-t35-vista
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29342936
#ToasterMuseum #toasters #history #appliances #HouseholdAppliances
Earliest glass workshop north of Alps discovered
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-earliest-glass-workshop-north-alps.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36995466
Němčice: research at a key La Tène site in Moravia
* c. 250–150 BC
* central agglomeration of Němčice in Moravia was one of most important archaeological sites of La Tène period in Central Europe
* article presents current interdisciplinary research, incl. discovery of earliest glass workshop in Transalpine Europe
#EuropeanHistory #anthropology #GlassWorkshop #history
Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires positioned to suck our libraries dry
https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643
* U.S. libraries under threat: politicians banning 1000s of books & making it illegal for minors to access library materials
* looming threat: capitalist enshittification
Enshittification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow#Enshittification
* Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (2023-01-21)
* nostr:npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33
#libraries #neoliberalism #capitalism #greed #PrivateEquity
nostr:npub1c9ee8wcja0tpa45gy4l9zqwfhvfpvyc848xusfcxdy2rnx44t9gq93zhes There are no absolutes in science. The author doesn't know this for a fact. If it happens, they'll just say "oops." But the damage will be irreversible.
nostr:npub16r2mgatey0cc7wv4f72fyqt4wyt3gckh0zs62uskxdp635z2xn4s2vq222 That's very true! I.e.: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110829100253051458
Victoria 🌞 🙏
Causal-learn: Causal Discovery in Python
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16405
* Causal discovery aims at revealing causal relations f. observational data, a fundamental task in science & engineering
* causal-learn: open-source fully developed in Python library for causal discovery
Visualization: PyDot >> GraphViz
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apy-why%2Fcausal-learn+pydot&type=code
#causality #Python #PyDot #CausalLearn #ConditionalIndependence, #ndependence #ML #MachineLearning
🎵 Morning ☮-in
Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To the Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_umKOTXIs
Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets (Live at the Greek Theater, 1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YinCMceTPuM
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #DoobieBrothers #ClassicRock
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Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about the latest indictment against Trump
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191359088/special-counsel-jack-smith-trump-indictment-livestream
#Trump #TrumpIndictment3
Addendae 2023-08-02
Republican Candidates Stances on Trump Indictments
They cast charges against him as politically motivated/legally meritless
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/republican-candidates-trump-indictments.html
Trump’s Legal Team Just Big Hole in 3rd Indictment Defense
Lawyer John Lauro admitted the crimes
https://newrepublic.com/post/174783/trumps-legal-team-just-blew-big-hole-third-indictment-defense
Team Trump Was Prepared to Use the Military to Stay in Power
Trump’s considered using Insurrection Act to quash protests after a stolen election
https://newrepublic.com/post/174780/team-trump-prepared-use-military-stay-power
#Trump TrumpIndictment3 #neofascism
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965993
* practical patterns for integrating large language models nto systems/products
* draws f. academic research, industry resources, practitioner know-how
* distills to key ideas/practices
* HN comment: " I've been working on getting LLM-based features out in a production environment for the past few months. This article is absolute gold. ..."
#LLM #LargeLanguageModels
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Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about the latest indictment against Trump
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191359088/special-counsel-jack-smith-trump-indictment-livestream
#Trump #TrumpIndictment3
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Trump Michigan Allies Charged w. Voting Machine Tampering in 2020
https://newrepublic.com/post/174769/oops-trump-michigan-allies-charged-voting-machines-2020
* Matthew DePerno, former state Representative Daire Rendon charged
* People under investigation include Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, Doug Logan
* Logan is former head of Cyber Ninjas, pro-Trump data security firm that oversaw controversial 2020 AZ election review
https://persagen.com >> search: Cyber Ninjas"
#CyberNinjas #ElectoralFraud #ElectionDenial #DougLogan #MatthewDePerno #GOP
🎵 Morning ☮-in
Love love this song ( /album: Rumours)! 😀
Audio: Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ul-cZyuYq4
Live: Fleetwood Mac (1997) Go Your Own Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Ojjn35kP8
Great drumming / guitar! 👍️
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #FleetwoodMac #Rumours #ClassicRock
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White Nationalists Big Fans of Musk’s “White Genocide” Tweets
“Things moving in the right direction,” said prominent neo-Nazi
Musk made brazen overture to white nationalist tweeting about “hite genocide conspiracy theory in South Africa: “They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory
#ElonMusk #DefundBillionaires #extremism #CultureWars #Twitter #FarRight #neofascism #whiteSupremacism #ConspiracyTheorists
Trump Crushing DeSantis & GOP Rivals
Leads across nearly every category/region, as primary voters wave off concerns about Trump'd escalating legal jeopardy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/2024-poll-nyt-siena-trump-republicans.html
Trump is dominating his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, leading his nearest challenger DeSantis (R-FL) by 37%
Addendae
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110730800214220790
Which Presidential Candidates Are Leading the 2024 Money Race?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/16/us/politics/campaign-finance-july-2023.html
#Trump #DeSantis #2024PresidentialCandidates
