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A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’ | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 04:47 PM by Xiphias | |
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A phone belonging to a prominent supporter of two princesses who fled Dubai was infected with Pegasus spyware last year, a new forensic examination shows, offering more evidence that government clients of the Israeli surveillance giant NSO Group have used its phone-hacking tool to target human rights activists and adding to the confirmed targets of the surveillance firm’s clients around the world. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 04:02 PM by Wreckard | |
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently said the vaccinated will “get to benefit in all sorts of ways,” while for the unvaccinated, there will “be fewer and fewer things that you’re able to do.” | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 04:02 PM by Wreckard | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:33 PM by Xiphias | |
President Biden is following a script that once doomed Black voters -- and the party they supported -- by not going all out to protect voting rights. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:31 PM by Xiphias | |
"Until all of [our demands] are implemented, we will continue to fight." | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:06 PM by nocash | |
D.C. Metropolitan Police confirmed Monday that two officers died by suicide in July, becoming the third and fourth officer at the riot to do so. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:04 PM by nocash | |
The recommendation will head to the NLRB regional director, who could order a second election based on the finding that Amazon violated labor laws. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:03 PM by nocash | |
As many as 11 million Americans could be vulnerable to eviction, as billions of dollars in federal aid for renters remains unused. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:03 PM by nocash | |
Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:02 PM by nocash | |
Musings from the fake account began to pick up steam this past weekend, leading to the account being verified | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 01:58 PM by nocash | |
Grifters thrived in the age of MAGA, but where are they now? Mostly hocking crypto, their own Cameos, and survivalist buckets | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 01:58 PM by nocash | |
Three people were hurt Monday night at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge after part of the iceberg wall collapsed. According to our NBC affiliate in Knoxville, all three were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries are unknown. In a statement to WBIR, owners Mary and John Joslyn said "needless to say, we never would have expected an incident like this to occur as the safety of our guests and team members is always top of mind. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 05:40 AM by Spöklika | |
Before the University of Mississippi terminated Dr. Garrett Felber, an anti-racist history professor, his public criticisms of its ties to the private-prison industry drew concern from administrators on campus who had monitored social-media activities, emails this publication obtained show. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 04:39 AM by sleeppoor | |
Des Moines, IA – On Wednesday, June 30, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after she admitted to sabotaging the widely opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017. Reznicek previously had pleaded guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility. She is also ordered to pay over 3 million dollars in restitution and to serve three years of supervised release.
In July 2017, Reznicek and fellow Catholic Worker activist Ruby Montoya claimed responsibility for sabotage against the pipeline.
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Leaked documents show that Reznicek and Montoya had been targeted for surveillance by the pipeline security mercenary firm Tigerswan. In August 2017, FBI agents raided the Catholic Worker house in Des Moines, where the two women were living. The pair were indicted by federal prosecutors in September 2019.
In a Department of Justice press release lauding the harsh prison sentence, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel called Reznicek a “domestic terrorist” and said that her sentence “should be a deterrent.” Iowa’s acting U.S. Attorney Richard D. Westphal, a Trump appointee, also referred to Reznicek as a terrorist.
U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Ebinger sided with prosecutors in adding a domestic terrorism sentencing enhancement enabled by the PATRIOT Act. Ebinger, a Republican, was nominated by former President Barack Obama to the bench in 2015.
Despite federal authorities use of ‘terrorism’ language to describe Reznicek’s actions, no person was harmed by her actions, nor was she technically convicted of any terrorism-related crime. ‘§ 1366 – Destruction of an energy facility‘ – which encompasses the conspiracy charge Reznicek plead guilty to – is listed in the US Code under Chapter 65 – Malicious Mischief; Terrorism crimes are listed in a separate section of the US Code, Chapter 113B – Terrorism. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 03:13 AM by deathray | |
Nassau County minority leaders and activists are calling for the rejection of a Democratic-proposed bill that would elevate police officers to a "protected class" while allowing them to seek financial damages against protestors for "discrimination." | |
Submitted at 08-03-2021, 02:03 AM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 08-02-2021, 08:25 PM by Spöklika | |
Submitted at 08-02-2021, 07:24 PM by gotterdamm | |
The concept of a regular expression has a surprisingly interesting history that dates back to the optimistic, mid-20th Century heyday of artificial intelligence research.
The term itself originated with mathematician Stephen Kleene. In 1943, neuroscientist Warren McCulloch and logician Walter Pitts had just described the first mathematical model of an artificial neuron, and Kleene, who specialized in theories of computation, wanted to investigate what networks of these artificial neurons could, well, theoretically compute.
In a 1951 paper for the RAND Corporation, Kleene reasoned about the types of patterns neural networks were able to detect by applying them to very simple toy languages—so-called “regular languages.” For example: given a language whose “grammar” allows only the letters “A” and “B”, is there a neural network that can detect whether an arbitrary string of letters is valid within the “A/B” grammar or not? Kleene developed an algebraic notation for encapsulating these “regular grammars” (for example, a*b* in the case of our “A/B” language), and the regular expression was born.
Kleene’s work was later expanded upon by such luminaries as linguist Noam Chomsky and AI researcher Marvin Minsky, who formally established the relationship between regular expressions, neural networks, and a class of theoretical computing abstraction called “finite state machines.” | |
Submitted at 08-02-2021, 04:28 PM by Xiphias | |
So apparently Area 88/Ace Combat Zero started coming true last year and nobody told me about it. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2021, 03:24 PM by John Holmes Boxxyfucker | |

A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’
A phone belonging to a prominent supporter of two princesses who fled Dubai was infected with Pegasus spyware last year, a new forensic examination shows, offering more evidence that government clients of the Israeli surveillance giant NSO Group have used its phone-hacking tool to target human rights activists and adding to the confirmed targets of the surveillance firm’s clients around the world.
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently said the vaccinated will “get to benefit in all sorts of ways,” while for the unvaccinated, there will “be fewer and fewer things that you’re able to do.”
President Biden is following a script that once doomed Black voters -- and the party they supported -- by not going all out to protect voting rights.
"Until all of [our demands] are implemented, we will continue to fight."
D.C. Metropolitan Police confirmed Monday that two officers died by suicide in July, becoming the third and fourth officer at the riot to do so.
The recommendation will head to the NLRB regional director, who could order a second election based on the finding that Amazon violated labor laws.
As many as 11 million Americans could be vulnerable to eviction, as billions of dollars in federal aid for renters remains unused.
Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.
Musings from the fake account began to pick up steam this past weekend, leading to the account being verified
Grifters thrived in the age of MAGA, but where are they now? Mostly hocking crypto, their own Cameos, and survivalist buckets
Three people were hurt Monday night at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge after part of the iceberg wall collapsed. According to our NBC affiliate in Knoxville, all three were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries are unknown. In a statement to WBIR, owners Mary and John Joslyn said "needless to say, we never would have expected an incident like this to occur as the safety of our guests and team members is always top of mind.
Before the University of Mississippi terminated Dr. Garrett Felber, an anti-racist history professor, his public criticisms of its ties to the private-prison industry drew concern from administrators on campus who had monitored social-media activities, emails this publication obtained show.
Des Moines, IA – On Wednesday, June 30, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after she admitted to sabotaging the widely opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017. Reznicek previously had pleaded guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility. She is also ordered to pay over 3 million dollars in restitution and to serve three years of supervised release.
In July 2017, Reznicek and fellow Catholic Worker activist Ruby Montoya claimed responsibility for sabotage against the pipeline.
[...]
Leaked documents show that Reznicek and Montoya had been targeted for surveillance by the pipeline security mercenary firm Tigerswan. In August 2017, FBI agents raided the Catholic Worker house in Des Moines, where the two women were living. The pair were indicted by federal prosecutors in September 2019.
In a Department of Justice press release lauding the harsh prison sentence, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel called Reznicek a “domestic terrorist” and said that her sentence “should be a deterrent.” Iowa’s acting U.S. Attorney Richard D. Westphal, a Trump appointee, also referred to Reznicek as a terrorist.
U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Ebinger sided with prosecutors in adding a domestic terrorism sentencing enhancement enabled by the PATRIOT Act. Ebinger, a Republican, was nominated by former President Barack Obama to the bench in 2015.
Despite federal authorities use of ‘terrorism’ language to describe Reznicek’s actions, no person was harmed by her actions, nor was she technically convicted of any terrorism-related crime. ‘§ 1366 – Destruction of an energy facility‘ – which encompasses the conspiracy charge Reznicek plead guilty to – is listed in the US Code under Chapter 65 – Malicious Mischief; Terrorism crimes are listed in a separate section of the US Code, Chapter 113B – Terrorism.
Nassau County minority leaders and activists are calling for the rejection of a Democratic-proposed bill that would elevate police officers to a "protected class" while allowing them to seek financial damages against protestors for "discrimination."
The concept of a regular expression has a surprisingly interesting history that dates back to the optimistic, mid-20th Century heyday of artificial intelligence research.
The term itself originated with mathematician Stephen Kleene. In 1943, neuroscientist Warren McCulloch and logician Walter Pitts had just described the first mathematical model of an artificial neuron, and Kleene, who specialized in theories of computation, wanted to investigate what networks of these artificial neurons could, well, theoretically compute.
In a 1951 paper for the RAND Corporation, Kleene reasoned about the types of patterns neural networks were able to detect by applying them to very simple toy languages—so-called “regular languages.” For example: given a language whose “grammar” allows only the letters “A” and “B”, is there a neural network that can detect whether an arbitrary string of letters is valid within the “A/B” grammar or not? Kleene developed an algebraic notation for encapsulating these “regular grammars” (for example, a*b* in the case of our “A/B” language), and the regular expression was born.
Kleene’s work was later expanded upon by such luminaries as linguist Noam Chomsky and AI researcher Marvin Minsky, who formally established the relationship between regular expressions, neural networks, and a class of theoretical computing abstraction called “finite state machines.”
So apparently Area 88/Ace Combat Zero started coming true last year and nobody told me about it.