🎵 Morning ☮-in
* The late great SRV - my favorite guitarist; likely my favorite musician 😀
* Jimi Hendrix classic
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIB1OL09H0
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #StevieRayVaughan #SRV #VoodooChile
cont'd
* Y usually/not always results in embryo w. male characteristics
* Y is one of smallest chromosomes; fewest protein-coding genes
* b/c normally no paired chromosome to swap pieces with prior to sexual reproduction (genetic recombination), Y esp. likely to accumulate repetitive DNA
Complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06457-y
#genomics #Ychromosome #HumanGenome #HumanGenomeProject #NGS #CellularBiology #bioinformatics #RepetitiveDNA #DNAsequencing #DNA #genomics
🎵 Morning ☮-in
Legendary 3-person Canadian rock group Rush! 🥳 🇨🇦
Tom Sawyer - Rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gztabfs5ngA
Rush - Tom Sawyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsXhH93QAs
HD (may need to VPN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk
Rotterdam, Netherlands, Oct 16/17, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgYw5DOZx8
Neil Peart drum cam! 😯 🙏
Reaction videos
Daily Doug Analyzes Tom Sawyer (Rush) studio/live versions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMwjUHtvdCY
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LFR Jojo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLG36ovxvGw
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #Rush #TomSawyer #guitar #drums
Queer Teacher Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win
https://www.texasobserver.org/a-queer-teacher-in-edgewood-picked-a-fight-he-couldnt-win
* notoriously transphobic Chaya Raichik / Libs of TikTok
* San Antonio suspended Michael Gonzales after he tweeted pic of himself in classroom with Pride flag
* “Hey somebody tell @Libsoftiktok I put up a progress pride flag in my classroom. What’re they going to do about it? Cry? Lmfao,” Gonzales wrote
#LibsOfTiktok #ChayaRaichik #CultureWars #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #Learn4Life
‘Jesus Wasn’t a Pacifist’: Training Christian Minutemen to Remove ‘Domestic Enemies’ From Office
* “Elijah Streams” program increasingly focused on promoting far-right conspiracy theorists, self-proclaimed “prophets” who resolutely insist Trump still president
#Trumpism #neofascism #ElectoralFraud #ChristianRight #extremism #ConspiracyTheorists #QAnon #DominionTheology
#theocracy : #MikePence #LeonardLeo
"Always About Oil." Coup 70 yrs Ago Destroyed Democracy in Iran
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/23/ervand_abrahamian_iran_coup_1953_anniversary
* 1953-08-19: U.S./U.K backed coup in Iran
* 2 yrs after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister nationalized oil industry
* had been controlled by [now] British Petroleum
Ervand Abrahamian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervand_Abrahamian
* Iranian historian; author of Oil Crisis in Iran
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/oil-crisis-in-iran/DA39D7FF328813BAF75C7698D00F5119
https://persagen.com >> search: "British Petroleum"
#neocolonialism #Iran #FossilFuels #CIA #BritishPetroleum
As predicted; 😥
"… the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees ppl the rights listed in the Constitution, + some “fundamental rights” not mentioned in the document. It then quoted Dobbs directly:
To determine whether a right at issue is one of the substantive rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, courts must look to whether the right is “deeply rooted in [our] history & tradition” & “essential to our Nation’s ‘scheme of ordered liberty.’”"
nostr:npub1c9ee8wcja0tpa45gy4l9zqwfhvfpvyc848xusfcxdy2rnx44t9gq93zhes https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110930812750770004
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This sounds a lot like the "originalism" interpretations baggage favored by SCOTUS Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, ... 🤨 😠
https://persagen.com >> search: originalism
#SCOTUS #Dobbs #Roe_V_Wade #originalism #AmyConeyBarrett #ClarenceThomas
Addendae 1
[2023-06-29] U.S. Supreme Court delivers setback to affirmative action in college admissions
Addendae 1
Long, very well written/important read for those concerned about
* internet privacy, surveillance, profiling
* data analytics, prediction
* state, corporate ownership, use of those data
Yandex Leak: How Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data
https://www.confiant.com/news/the-yandex-leak-how-a-russian-search-giant-uses-consumer-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37074177https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37074177
Yandex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
* Russian tech company; internet search ...
* [FSB] Federal Security Service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service
* principal security agency of Russia
#Yandex #privacy
Addendae 2
Amazon's AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine
2014+ poured billions into Israel, illegal settlement programs, surveillance of Palestinians
Israeli end goal: biometric profiles, security ratings for every resident of West Bank
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amazon-ai-israel-palestine-apartheid-surveillance/
3 Palestinians killed as Israel raids in West Bank
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110648770131315282
How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across Globe
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110540184068126055
#Amazon #Palestine #WestBank #surveillance #capitalism #Israel #apartheid #Jenin
2 lawyers involved in judge surveillance case fined, barred from Manitoba courts
Lawyers represented churches fighting COVID-19 pandemic orders barring in-person gatherings
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/judge-lawyers-joyal-surveil-1.6942524
* Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyers Jay Cameron & president John Carpay represented churches seeking to overturn Manitoba's pandemic public health orders barring in-person religious services
#Canada #COVID19 #Manitoba #FarRight #ChristianRight #JCCF #neofascism
Lawyers barred from practising in Manitoba after judge followed during COVID-19 trial
2 lawyers involved in judge surveillance case fined, barred from Manitoba courts
Lawyers represented churches fighting COVID-19 pandemic orders barring in-person gatherings
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/judge-lawyers-joyal-surveil-1.6942524
* Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyers Jay Cameron & president John Carpay represented churches seeking to overturn Manitoba's pandemic public health orders barring in-person religious services
#Canada #COVID19 #Manitoba #FarRight #ChristianRight #JCCF #neofascism
cont'd 2/
Heritage Foundation
* 2021: spent >$5M lobbying to block federal voting rights legislation & advance ambitious plan to spread far-right agenda calling for aggressive voter suppression measures in battleground states
* 2021 tax filings f. Heritage Action for America (activist wing): spent $5.1M on lobbying
#HeritageFoundation #DarkMoney #neoconservatism #neofascism #VoterSuppression #ElectoralFraud
Addendae
See also: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights f. Science of Consciousness
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights f. Science of Consciousness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
* argues for rigorous, empirically grounded approach to AI consciousness
* surveys scientific theories of consciousness
* analysis suggests that current AI systems not conscious
* no obvious barriers to building conscious AI systems
See also: [Yoshua Bengio] FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110601069686173752
#consciousness #ArificialConsciousness #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #YoshuaBengio
Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts search for homeless dur. Yellowknife wildfire evacuation 🔥
* Caroline Cochrane: social worker before entering politics
* when NWT ordered everyone to leave due to wildfires, she made sure homeless people weren't forgotten 👍️
* "My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years" 🙏
Caroline Cochrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cochrane
#Canada #NWT #CarolineCochrane #homelessness #WildFires #SocialWork
Human toll of wildfires 'unparalleled': The latest fire updates for the N.W.T.
* 65% of population of NWT is under evacuation order
* evacuation orders in place for the Yellowknife's 20,000 residents as they flee threat of wildfires
* "The human toll of this wildfire season is unparalleled"
#Canada #NWT #WildFires #ClimateChange
Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts search for homeless dur. Yellowknife wildfire evacuation 🔥
* Caroline Cochrane: social worker before entering politics
* when NWT ordered everyone to leave due to wildfires, she made sure homeless people weren't forgotten 👍️
* "My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years" 🙏
Caroline Cochrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cochrane
#Canada #NWT #CarolineCochrane #homelessness #WildFires #SocialWork
Addendae 6 cont'd 3/
Update: "follow-on" post re:
I Created a Neural Network which Beats the Transformer in a Metric by Quite a Bit [Project][Discussion]
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/15wxk88/i_created_a_neural_network_which_beats_the
#MachineLearning #TransformerModel #transformers #NeuralNetworks #RNN #RWKV
Addendae 23
Previous related Giuliani threads
Giuliani Sweats Disbarment as Lawyers Who Lied for Trump Finally Face Consequences
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110679989893748050
Rudy Giuliani Used A Female Alias In Emails About Plan To Overturn The Election
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110551067610317908
#Trump #TrumpIndictments #neofascism #sedition #insurrection #ElectoralFraud #GOP #Trumpism #RudyGiuliani
A 4% income tax on millionaires will make lunch free for Massachusetts K-12 students
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194424563/free-school-lunch-massachusetts
* Massachusetts' new budget will provide free school lunches for K-12 students, thanks to 4% income tax on state residents' incomes above $1 million
* Fair Share Amendment approved by voters 2022-11
* generating $1 billion for MA; $224 million will go to K-12 programs: free lunch; implementing "clean energy" in schools
#WealthInequality #TaxWealth #DefundBillionaires #Massachusetts
Addendae 18 cont'd
* depicts the right-wing lobbyist dictating fake elector plot in key battleground states
* video shot 2020-11-05 - 2 d before election called
* disproves Trump’s main defense that he, his allies genuinely believed they won the race
https://persagen.com >> search: "roger stone"
#Trump #RogerStone #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #sedition #insurrection #ElectoralFraud