Today in Labor History September 15, 1931: Sailors at Invergordon, Scotland, mutinied, causing a panic on the London Stock Exchange and ultimately forcing England off the gold standard. The sailors mutinied primarily over a 25% cut for the rank and file. They sang “The Red Flag” and refused orders. Military control was restored without bloodshed, with the pay-cut reduced to 10%. One of the mutiny leaders later defected to the USSR, where he was imprisoned in the gulags as a British spy. Another mutiny leader later commanded the British Battalion of the antifascist International Brigades, fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of #GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research mathematical tasks.
Here are some concrete experiments (with a prototype version of the model that I was granted access to). In chatgpt.com/share/2ecd7b73-360… I repeated an experiment from mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1099482491… in which I asked GPT to answer a vaguely worded mathematical query which could be solved by identifying a suitable theorem (Cramer's theorem) from the literature. Previously, GPT was able to mention some relevant concepts but the details were hallucinated nonsense. This time around, Cramer's theorem was identified and a perfectly satisfactory answer was given. (1/3)
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🧵 #JDVance is even more dishonest than Donald Trump. The old guy lies constantly, but often he can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. He regularly thinks he's in some other state.
Vance is a calculating deceiver who has twice admitted that he lied for political advantage.
Speaking to CNN today, Vance said that he and Trump "create stories" which are untrue, like the lies about Haitians in Springfield.
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This was not a slip of the tongue by Vance. 4 days ago also on CNN, he said almost the exact same thing.
Twice now, the second-highest ranking Republican has admitted to fabricating a news story for propaganda purposes.
If these flagrantly racist lies are things he admits to telling in public, what kind of lies does he keep secret?
As anyone who actually read his memoir can tell you, Vance has been personally at war with everyone else for his whole life. He constantly trashes others for their supposed laziness and lack of discipline.
Along his way, he's met other people like Peter Thiel, Amy Chua, Catholic integralists, and Donald Trump who found him a kindred spirit.
They handed him everything. And it's only made him hate more. And lie more.
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FPÖ: »Euer Wille geschehe«
So fotografiert in Kammern bei Hadersdorf.
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Just a reminder that the Auschwitz Memorial fedi account is for following & reflecting. Not harrassing.
There is no need to reply to it ever. This is coming from someone becoming increasingly #AntiZionist because of Netanyanhu's regime's atrocities in #Gaza and the #WestBank.
Never again means never again. To any group of people.
Follow? Yes
Reflect? Also yes.
Boost? Maybe
Reply? Nope.
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After many years of following @auschwitzmuseum, here and on Twitter, I’ve scrolled across exactly two survivor posts.
There are so many posts.
So many.
A lot of posts.
Too many.
Two survivor posts, that I’ve personally seen.
The rest harden my anti-fascist resolve.
Funny, but it just doesn’t seem to happen to people who don’t cut the heads off whales or commit insurrections.
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This weekend, Running Down the Walls events are taking place in a dozen cities across North America, with prisoners also participating on the inside. The events will bring together hundreds to raise awareness + funds for political prisoners. Check out our list here:
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in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Linux Is Best
in reply to Orion Ussner kidder • • •Step 1) Install Mint Linux
Step 2) Using the GUI tool, update Mint
Step 3) Reboot
Step 4) Create new admin (as done in the video)
Step 5) Log out and log in as new user
Step 6) Delete original admin
Step 7) You're basically sudo forever now.
That's how I discovered this.
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