Addendae 1
Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls
“American Precariat” explores ways which people pushed to edge by myriad social ills
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/american-precariat-parables-of-exclusion
Precariat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
* neologism; social class formed by people suffering f. precarity (existing w/o predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare)
#precarity #incarceration #poverty #PrisonIndustrialComplex #HumanRights #capitalism
Addendae 1 cont'd
American Precariat: U.S. Capitalism in Comparative Perspective
* addresses rise of “gig” work in context of much longer trend toward precarious forms of employment
* explores forces driving these developments, discusses problems they pose at both individual & national levels
* identifies structural factors exacerbating precarity & intensify its effects in U.S. political economy
#precarity #poverty #HumanRights #capitalism #GigWork #PoliticalEconomy
Addendae 1
Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls
“American Precariat” explores ways which people pushed to edge by myriad social ills
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/american-precariat-parables-of-exclusion
Precariat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
* neologism; social class formed by people suffering f. precarity (existing w/o predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare)
#precarity #incarceration #poverty #PrisonIndustrialComplex #HumanRights #capitalism
Addendae 3 cont'd
* Stephen Harper: right-wing weasel #ApologiesToNonHumanWeasels
* former Prime Minister
https://persagen.com >> search: "stephen harper"
"stephen harper" AND christian
"stephen harper" AND transphob*
"stephen harper" AND homophob*
"stephen harper" AND "residential schools"
"stephen harper" AND "fraser institute"
"Macdonald-Laurier Institute"
"Shuvaloy Majumdar"
#Canada #FarRight #StephenHarper #neoconservatism #ConservativePartyOfCanada #MacdonaldLaurierInstitute
Addendae 3
Timeline: Doug Ford government & Ontario’s Greenbelt
Auditor general’s explosive report adds key dates to chronology that confused Ontarians
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbelt-timeline-auditor-general-report
* auditor general Bonnie Lysyk adds key dates to timeline of Doug Ford's development policy decisions around Ontario's protected Greenbelt
* quality source: The Narwhal nostr:npub1kc3ddedaykl56scs5yklfvuk763lhmlj5x72h8q0qk53f69a27asukvzct
*https://persagen.com >> search: "Doug Ford" AND greenbelt
#Ontario #corruption #Greenbelt #capitalism #neoliberalism #PublicLand
Addendae 4
Greenbelt Land Grab Wasn’t About Affordable Housing, ‘Unprecedented’ AG Report Shows
* “truly unprecedented” report by Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk shows Doug Ford government’s “Greenbelt land grab” was never about building affordable housing on a treasured expanse that 83% of Ontarians & 76% of Progressive Conservative voters want protected
#Ontario #corruption #Greenbelt #capitalism #neoliberalism #PublicLand #appropriation
xkcd 2814 Perseids pronunciation
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2814:_Perseids_Pronunciation
Title text: When speaking out loud, you can can [sic] call it the 'Perseids meatier shower' and no one will ever know. (If you do get caught somehow, just tell them to Google the 'Kentucky meat shower' and that will distract them while you escape.)
#xkcd #cartoons #humor #Perseids
Addendae 3
Poilievre's Conservative Party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories
Tory leader's summer stump speeches include ramped-up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-world-economic-forum-rhetoric-1.6935294
* Poilievre's recent speech featured ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments
* sign that conspiracy theories moving f. fringes to mainstream thinking as distrust of government grows
Addendae 3 cont'd
Poilievre's Conservative party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories
* Alberta Premier Danielle Smith espouses World Economic Forum conspiracy theories: https://persagen.com/docs/world_economic_forum.html
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110561029841218829
Suddenly World Economic Forum ballot box issue in Manitoba byelection
Conservatives using Maxime Bernier's visit to Davos as a weapon against him
#DanielleSmith #ConspiracyTheories #WEF #WorldEconomicForum #Pierre Poilievre #populism
Addendae 3
Poilievre's Conservative Party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories
Tory leader's summer stump speeches include ramped-up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-world-economic-forum-rhetoric-1.6935294
* Poilievre's recent speech featured ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments
* sign that conspiracy theories moving f. fringes to mainstream thinking as distrust of government grows
Addendae 1
Man inspired by Terry Fox finishes cross-Canada run in Port Coquitlam
* 160 days: Jackson Charron-Okerlund (https://northboot.xyz/search?q=Jackson+Charron-Okerlund) walking & running across Canada to raise funds for cancer research
* started St. John’s NL at Terry Fox’s memorial statue 2023-03-06
* 2023-08-12 crowd gathered in Port Coquitlam BC to give Charron-Okerlund hero’s welcome to mark end of cross-Canada journey
#Canada #TerryFox #JacksonCharronOkerlund #fundraising #CancerResearch
What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune?
Hunt family, private oil companies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37108824
* Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end use of fossil fuels
* elite philanthropy: charity per whims of plutocrats
* 2000 American Experience (cash-washing of Rockefeller reputation): https://eztv.re/search/american-experience-the-rockefellers
https://persagen.com >> search: "elite philanthropy"
"Leah Hunt-Hendrix"
texas AND billionaire AND hunt
#ElitePhilanthropy #DefundBillionaires #capitalism
Addendae 1 cont'd 3/x
https://persagen.com >> search:
"canada strong" AND (proud OR free)
"chip wilson"
"pacific prosperity network"
vancouver AND dying
tba
"joe lonsdale"
"cicero institute"
homeless model act
...
#ChipWilson #DefundBillionaires #Lululemon #FarRight #BCProud #PacificProsperityNetwork #propagnda #CultureWars #populism #VancouverIsDying
Addendae 2
Pierre Poilievre aims to rebuild a 'broken' Canada; ads soften his image
* "Everything feels broken" Pierre Poilievre says in a voice-over
* repeats that line countless times in speeches, social media & rallies
* now in slick 29-second ad, 1 of several the Conservative Party rolled out as part of $3 million campaign
* trying to spin Poilievre's polarizing support of 2022 "Freedom Convoy"
#Canada #FarRight #FreedomConvoy #populism #ConservativePartyOfCanada
Women accuse Montreal billionaire Robert Miller of sexually exploiting them as minors
* 30 women in class action lawsuit against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller
* alleged sexual exploitation of underage girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Miller_(businessman)
https://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-miller/?list=rtb%2F&sh=6544567552e1
* 1968: founded Future Electronics; built it into world's 3rd-largest electronics distributor
#Canada #RobertMiller #DefundBillionaires #SexualAbuse #SexualPredation #pedophilia *
Addendae 2023-08
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: August 2023
* New books for reds and greens:
* Exporting emissions
* How weather works
* Saving the birds
*Bottled water
* Cell science
* Phosphorous in life and death
* Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus: https://climatejustice.rocks/@IanAngus
#Ecosocialism #IanAngus #EcosocialistBookshelf
Addendae 3 cont'd 1/2
* What I meant was that I was in the process of changing my mind about something very personal: whether my work in its current trajectory – racing to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art in AI & human-level intelligence – was aligned w. my values.
* Is it actually beneficial or dangerous to humanity, given the current structure of society and the fact that powerful tools like AI are dual-use, they can be used for good or for bad?
Addendae 3
Personal & Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
* 2023-05-31 BBC web page headline: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work" - a statement I never made
* I actually said: “It is challenging, emotionally speaking, for people who are inside, especially if like myself, you’ve built your career, your identity around the idea of bringing something useful and good to society & to humanity & to science”
U.S. House Republicans adding dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ measures to must-pass bills
https://19thnews.org/2023/08/house-republicans-anti-lgbtq-measures-federal-spending-bills
* 45+ anti-LGBTQ+ provisions
* weaken discrimination protections for same-sex couples; restrict gender-affirming care
* volume, severity unprecedented
* federal GOP lawmakers restricting LGBTQ+ rights
https://persagen.com >> search: "transphobia AND "republican"
#GOP #CultureWars #neofascism #ChristianRight #FarRight #lgbt #transphobia #homophobia #TransLivesMatter
Addendae 3
Abbott Busses Migrants To Los Angeles, Continuing Effort To Out-MAGA DeSantis
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110549397503308670
#Texas #GregAbbott #RonDeSantis #DeSantis #migrants #HumanRightsViolations #SanctuaryCities #GOP
Addendae 6
Debunking Florida’s Argument That Slavery Benefited Slaves: History lesson f. Tennessee
Garrison Hayes: https://www.motherjones.com/author/garrison-hayes
nostr:npub150ta43mms4yrt9740mh8gcdt54thpzrjfw4v7c6rhzzzkf9wc0hq75hyh7
Video: https://files.persagen.com/01/argument_against_slavery_benefitted_slaves-2023-08-12.mp4
* tackles controversy surrounding Florida’s teaching standards wh. sparked avalanche of criticism
* suggesting that enslaved Americans “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”
#BlackHistory #HistoricalRevisionism #BLM #BlackLivesMatter
Nuclear fusion reactors
Wendelstein 7-X milestone: Power plasma w. gigajoule energy turnover generated for 8 min
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5322229/01_23
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37092212
* 2023: energy turnover of 1 gigajoule targeted
* researchers achieved 1.3 gigajoules, new record for Wendelstein 7-X
* hot plasma maintained for 8 minutes
* Wendelstein 7-X fusion facility the most modern, largest stellarator in world
Wendelstein 7-X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
#FusionReactor #NuclearFusion #NuclearPower
Addendae 2
Comments: article placed here due to
1. use of prompt engineering + chain of thought (mentioned above)
2. application to long documents (here, applied to legal domain, but broadly applicable)
3. novelty
Large Language Model Prompt Chaining for Long Legal Document Classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04138
#LLM #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #ChainOfThought #reasoning #classification
Addendae 2
Comments: article placed here due to
1. use of prompt engineering + chain of thought (mentioned above)
2. application to long documents (here, applied to legal domain, but broadly applicable)
3. novelty
Large Language Model Prompt Chaining for Long Legal Document Classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04138
#LLM #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #ChainOfThought #reasoning #classification
Addendae 2 cont'd
* prompting is used to guide or steer a language model in generating an appropriate response that is consistent with the desired outcome.
* chaining is a strategy used to decompose complex tasks into smaller, manageable components