Postgres Language Server

A Language Server for Postgres. Not SQL with flavors, just Postgres

https://github.com/supabase/postgres_lsp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020610

* active development; only ready for collaborators

* making this public so we can develop it in the open w. input f. community 👍️

Language Server Protocol

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol

* adds features like auto complete, go to definition, documentation on hover for a programming language

#PostgreSWL #SQL #LanguageServer #RDMS #postgres #LSP #Microsoft

Addendae 1

Key-Locked Rank One Editing for Text-to-Image Personalization

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/par/Perfusion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020620

* [NVIDIA] Perfusion: text-to-image method.

* 100KB model size/concept (excl. pretrained model: several GB), trained for ~4 min

* creatively portray personalized objects using novel mechanism: “Key-Locking”

Key-Locked Rank One Editing for Text-to-Image Personalization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01644

#NVIDIA #TextToImage #LLM #T2I #LargeLanguageModels

Try the Last Internet Kermit Server

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10555-try-the-last-internet-kermit-server

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009329

I used this back in the day ... 🌞

Kermit (protocol): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)

* computer file transfer, management protocol, communications software tools primarily used in 1980s

* file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, character set conversion across computer h/w, OS

#KermitProtocol #InternetHistory

nostr:npub1hqvgcnfhxu7g5susswyd27vuzmasepvxfkpv70sl93zmzakjh7ssj8ude4 Hi Badger! You likely saw this (as an aficionado of badgers)?

🎵 Morning ☮-in #MorningPeaceIn

Jackson Browne - The Load Out/Stay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukvfk9a6rY

Jackson Browne: The Load Out & Stay - 1977 (Live) (My "Stereo Sound" Re-Edit) R.I.P. David Lindley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4O-TWzGgU0

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #JacksonBrowne @ClassicRock

Addendae 1 cont'd

Teenager Is Charged in Killing of Dancer O’Shae Sibley at Brooklyn Gas Station

Faces a charge of 2nd-degree murder, which has been charged as a hate crime, in the fatal stabbing of Mr. Sibley, a gay man, last week

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/nyregion/oshae-sibley-stabbing-charges.html

#OShaeSibley #lgbt #HateCrime #NYC

Sexual Assault in School Bathroom Became Political Weapon

Virginia school district hid crime to protect transgender rights. Was it true? 🤨

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/magazine/loudoun-county-bathroom-sexual-assault.html

* Loudoun County school district: forefront of anti-LGBT, anti-trans, culture wars movements

https://persagen.com >> search: "Loudoun County"

"Loudoun County" AND trans

Transphobia

https://persagen.com/docs/transphobia.html

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth

https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html

*transphobia #TransLivesMatter #disinformation

Addendae 3

Texas Judge Says Doctors Can Use ‘Good Faith Judgment’ in Providing Abortions

The ruling sought to clarify the medical exceptions in the state’s bans, and was in a response to a lawsuit from women who were denied abortions despite medical emergencies

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/texas-abortion-ban-lawsuit-ruling.html

* Judge Jessica Mangrum, elected as a Democrat in 2020

#Texas #abortion

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 luxury RV & Anthony Welters

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html

* Prevost Marathon: $267,230

* Thomas told how he scrimped, saved to afford it

* partly underwritten by friend Anthony Welters

* Welters founded AmeriChoice: Medicaid services provider sold to UnitedHealthcare for $530 million in 2002

* Welters: https://www.law.nyu.edu/financialaid/jdscholarships/anbryce

Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110753142566473319

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110580597018243738

#ClarenceThomas #AnthonyWelters #JudicialMisconduct #SCOTUS #ethics

Nancy Fraser on capitalism, gender oppression, Marxism, post-left populist moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNeAvN5eZ0A

* groundbreaking contributions to Marxism, feminism

* interview: gender oppression, race & capitalism; intersectionality; New Left ...

* book inspired by W.E.B Du Bois

Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2867-capitalism

Nancy Fraser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Fraser

Judith Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler

W. E. B. Du Bois: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois

#NancyFraser #CriticalTheory

Addendae 1/

2 motorcycle convoys headed for Ottawa

Organizers of the Rolling Barrage (PTSD) worry they may be confused with Rolling Thunder (extremists)

* last 7 years Rolling Barrage x-country motorcycle ride to Ottawa raised awareness about PTSD among military veterans

* concerned may be mistaken for Rolling Thunder motorcycle convoy, whose origin traces to 2022 "Freedom Convoy" that occupied Ottawa

* https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110691116929107964

#FreedomConvoy #Ottawa #PTSD #FarRight #extremism #CultureWars

Joseph Rotblat left Manhattan project; began Nobel Prize-winning disarmament work in Pugwash Nova Scotia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/oppenheimer-rotblat-pugwash-conferences-1.6927180

* Physicist Joseph Rotblat was only scientist to leave Manhattan Project on moral grounds

* founded Pugwash Conferences: nuclear disarmament organization named for N.S. village where 1st meeting held 1957

Joseph Rotblat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat

Pugwash Conferences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs

#PugwashConferences #JosephRotblat #NovaScotia #history #ManhattanProject

Addendae cont'd

Addendae 2/

NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause

UPDATE, Aug. 4, 2023: NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008724

#NASA #Voyager2 #spacecraft

Squeeze - Tempted (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZic9ZHU_40

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #Squeeze #ClassicRock

Addendae 2023-08-04 cont'd

DOJ asks judge to issue protective order after Trump posts apparent threat of revenge

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192336975/doj-asks-judge-issue-protective-order-after-trump-post

* Trump appeared to promise revenge on those who go after him

* protective orders common in criminal cases

* prosecutors said it's "particularly important in this case" because Trump has posted on social media about "witnesses, judges, attorneys, & others associated with legal matters pending against him."

#TrumpIndictment3 #Trump #neofascism #insurrection

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Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to ‘Save the Children’.

Already Spinning Out of Control 🤨🤬

https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-far-right-is-planning-a-convoy-to-toronto-to-save-the-children-its-already-spinning-out-of-control

* already struggling as organizers accuse one another of being ‘undercover cops’ or planning ‘violence’ & ‘terrorism’ 🤣

* goal: "save the children ” 🤨

* metastasis of anti-2SLGBTQ+ protests targeting schools/drag queen story hour

* loosely inspired by controversial film Sound of Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film)

#Canada #ProtestConvoy #FarRight #FreedomMovement #extremism

cont'd 2/2

https://persagen.com >> search: Jeffrey Clark"

Jeffrey Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Clark

Patrick F. Philbin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_F._Philbin

USA v. Donald Trump

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-jan-6-indictment-2020-election/1f1c76972b25c802/full.pdf

* pp. 3-6 list, describe unnamed co-conspirators

* p. 30: Insurrection Act mentioned

#TrumpIndictment3 #Trump #neofascism #insurrection

Addendae 2023-08-04

Most Frightening Part of Trump Indictment

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/trump-indictment-jeffrey-clark-insurrection-act.html

* co-Conspirator 4 = Jeffrey Clark

* conversation w. Patrick Philbin, deputy White House counsel

* mentions (alludes to Trump) invoking Insurrection Act

Insurrection Act of 1807: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807

* empowers the POTUS to deploy U.S. military & federalized National Guard troops w/i U.S. to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion

#TrumpIndictment3 #Trump #neofascism #insurrection