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ayoub, 16 days ago to random

If I manage to find the energy for it, I want to write about how Assadist infiltration in many Palestine-related spaces in the West risks making it much more difficult to effectively organize against oppression everywhere, including Israeli oppression. It’s become common enough, these days, to see prominent defenders of the genocidal Assad regime at protests and other spaces. They’re never the majority, but they’re amongst the most active authoritarians out there.

thorncoyle, 16 days ago to random

eSims are the only way for journalists and families to share communication in Gaza. People set up hotspots to share. Mirna el Helbawi’s organization is almost out of eSims right now.

https://gazaesims.com

#gaza

catileptic, 16 days ago to random

Pro-Palestinian protests in Romania have been met with hostility and control from the police forces.

From banning banners with slogans that do not infringe on rights, and neither do they incite to violence, to harassing protesters, to summoning people who intended to protest to the police station for "friendly advice", we see Ro police taking sides. The side of genocide.

ActiveWatch also condemns the silence of the press, which only covered these abuses sparingly: https://activewatch.ro/articole/fantomele-militiei-si-securitatii-bantuie-politia-si-jandarmeria/

propagandacentralen, 16 days ago to random Swedish

Sprid den här.
https://emanuelkarlsten.se/valkompass-eu-rankar-hogt-pa-google-drivs-i-hemlighet-av-hogerextrema-alternativ-for-sverige/

CedarTea, 16 days ago to random

There's been an uptick on discussion of Historical Materialism / Dialectical Materialism (HM/DM) here lately but also a great deal of confusion on what it actually is. So I thought I'd post some description and explanation, along with a bit of relevant historical implications and my own commentary.

Will start by saying that this is not a critique of dialectic logic, material analysis, or historical analysis. It is also not a critique of viewing history through the lens of class struggle. (1/15)

pvonhellermannn, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

UK: The Hay Festival dropped
its main sponsor after boycotts from speakers and performers over the firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies. Hooray! Protest works! #Gaza

https://www.hayfestival.com/news/blog.aspx?post=1693

garicgymro, 17 days ago to random Welsh

Reminder to other UK citizens not living in the UK: It's easy and quick to register for an overseas vote and there's no longer any time limit! If you haven't done it yet, do it now and be part of the General Election in July!

https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-abroad

christineburns, 16 days ago to random

Happy twentieth birthday to the Gender Recognition Act — once groundbreaking, now overdue for an update to catch-up with legislation that overtook it, but hopefully at least safe from the unhinged extreme right of the Conservative Party. Read how we forced Labour to pass it on 25th May 2004. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00PB84AUM

adelinej, 17 days ago to Autism

Alt text by the comic’s author Teresa Scovil

#ActuallyAutistic #autism

kallekn, 17 days ago to Russia

Reuters exclusive: Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-wants-ukraine-ceasefire-current-frontlines-sources-say-2024-05-24/

#russia #ukraine #putin

beverly_ochieng, 17 days ago to random

Kenya will be the first country in sub-Saharan Africa (fourth on the continent) to be a major non-NATO ally, underscoring its importance to regional and international security. I talk about the role it has played over the years, threats it frequently faces and US influence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp4421nx727o

urlyman, 17 days ago to random

Not getting tickled
by tactical voting.
Jumping over its
sliding tackle.

Vote for who you want
#ge2024

Garwboy, 18 days ago to random

Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

stavvers, 19 days ago to random

Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is what I wrote in mine, and the objection was immediately registered as successful, so feel free to copy.

Masto reply bores, this is not a post on which to fart out your opinions about Meta or AI or whatever. So don't. I'm sharing helpful info for people who need it, not for you.

black_intellect, 18 days ago to random

Voters deliver upsets in Georgia House races with other contests headed to a June runoff • https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/05/23/voters-deliver-upsets-in-georgia-house-races-with-other-contests-headed-to-a-june-runoff/

neuralreckoning, 19 days ago to random

OK, let's try something new. I'm not well connected because I'm bad at in person networking, and this is compounded by my decision to stop flying to conferences. So, can I use mastodon to find potential experimental colleagues who would like to work together?

Ideally for me, this would be people in Europe so I can visit by train, but it's not essential. I have some ideas for interesting projects and grant applications, and I'd love to develop those into concrete projects in close participation with experimental colleagues.

One of the main themes I'm interested in is how we can relate various neural mechanisms (e.g. inhibition, recurrence, nonlinear responses) to functions, using computational modelling to ask 'what if' questions that couldn't be answered by experiments alone.

I'm also interested in thinking about how we can use "information bottleneck" ideas to think more clearly about what computations networks of neurons are doing, going the next step beyond representing information to computing / discarding information.

A big question I'd like to answer is to find out how different brain regions work together in such a flexible and scalable way.

A technique I'm very excited about at the moment is using modern ML algorithms to train spiking neural networks at cognitively challenging tasks, making them directly comparable to both psychophysical and electrophysiological data.

Part of that could involve building in new mechanisms, like dendritic structure or neuromodulators into those networks and allowing the trained networks to make use of them in the best way possible.

I'd also love to build jointly motivated experimental and theoretical/synthetic datasets to test models against.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, take a look at some of my recent papers and get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.

http://neural-reckoning.org/publications.html

jon, 18 days ago to austria

Article from Politico Europe on future European Commission nominees

https://www.politico.eu/article/frontrunners-next-european-commission-eu-election-2024/#austria

The only mention of transport? Cyprus 🇨🇾

Please no. Not one of only 2 countries in Europe that doesn’t have a railway. And not Stella Kyriakides again please…

clacksee, 19 days ago to UKpolitics

Bring on the #GeneralElection!

#ukpolitics

Come On GIF by Max Morpheus: Bring it

doktorzjivago, 19 days ago to random Swedish

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lzg, 20 days ago to random

remember when we thought keyloggers were a bad thing? now companies assume we want them to log all of our keystrokes for yet unknown and never materialized benefits. good times.

nordicnews, 20 days ago to random

Iceland presidential election: Former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir now leading in three major polls https://www.icelandreview.com/news/katrin-leads-prosent-poll-for-first-time/

w7voa, 21 days ago to random

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the US receives a huge boost with London's High Court ruling that Americans assurances over his case are unsatisfactory and he’ll get a full appeal hearing. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/wikileaks-julian-assange-given-permission-appeal-against-us-extradition-2024-05-20/

Jennifer, 21 days ago to Israel

Wow. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas and for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant from Israel. #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #WarCrimes
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

erikdelareguera, 21 days ago to Israel Swedish

🚨 Internationella brottmålsdomstolen ICC:s chefsåklagare Karim Khan vill utfärda arresteringsordrar mot Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu och tre av Hamas högsta ledare för misstänkta krigsbrott och brott mot mänskligheten som begåtts under kriget i Gaza.
Tre domare i ICC ska nu ta ställning till detta, innan arresteringsordrarna kan träda i kraft. #Israel #Hamas #Gaza https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html