Does MAGA even want stability in American politics? Even if American democracy is at stake?
Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued a warning on Saturday predicting the United States will collapse in an "imminent new civil war" amid this year's election over Russian sanctions.
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The rise in AI-fabricated publications could be another reason NLM is unlikely to extend the PubMed preprint pilot beyond NIH-funded preprints.
[Reminder NIH preprints are in PubMed via PMC by virtue of its role as an archive of NIH-funded research NOT because this is a likely first step to archiving all preprints] 1/n
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
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September 7, 2017 – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called campus sexual assault enforcement a “failed system” and vowed to review the Title IX guidelines put in place by the Obama administration. DeVos claimed the current system “clearly pushed schools to overreach” by using “intimidation and coercion.”
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Is Trump Fever finally breaking in rural, red counties? To win statewide, the key is "decreasing margins in rural areas [and] show up and compete everywhere." Democrats are deploying resources to do just that.
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September 7, 2019 – Trump announced in a series of tweets that he planned to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David to negotiate peace. But Trump had to cancel the meeting with the fundamentalist group after an attack of theirs in Kabul killed an American soldier and several civilians.
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September 7, 2020 – Bob Woodward revealed in his new book, Rage, that Trump knew about the dangers of the coronavirus but downplayed them for the public. “This is deadly stuff,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. On Feb. 26, by contrast, Trump told a press conference: “You know, in many cases, when you catch this, it’s very light; you don’t even know there’s a problem. Sometimes they just get the sniffles.”
Tiny Tapeout 08 closed yesterday!
I'm happy to share that I submitted two designs 🎉.
The first design is an entry for the demoscene competition 🖥️ (tinytapeout.com/competitions/d…). I don't want to spoiler anything, so we'll see the results when the chips come back in about 8 months time.
The other design is my first design with analog components, AICD Playground ⚡ (github.com/mole99/tt08-aicd-pl…)
See below for more info ⬇️
Actually working on the skill tab and skill creation 🛠
To make you wait for it, I wanted to show you a sneak-peek of the "stats" tab of the character editor!
Each stats can have a different easing option (No easing, or Ease in / ease out).
Note: The UI is still in a WIP stage, what you see isn't the definitive UI!
Want to follow the progress?
Join the discord server:
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Cada ola de modernidad urbana ha sido contestada desde el mundo rural con otra ola reaccionaria de gente que encontraba en los cambios que se iban imponiendo una amenaza a su modo de vida, tradiciones y fé.
Una contestación que en ocasiones ha llegado a provocar guerras, incluso, como las Carlistadas o la mismísima Guerra Civil.
Enfrentamientos en los que, con matices, tenemos más o menos claro quienes eran los "buenos" y quienes los "paletos que querían detener el progreso".
El tema es que yo veo a dónde vamos ahora: ciudades sin personalidadcomidas por las franquicias, tiktok, PAUs que son guetos de pijos, sanidad concertada, importación de todo lo básico, ultracentralismo, carne de laboratorio, turismo como principal fuente de ingresos, lo queer, harinas de gusano, marketing, vacaciones de ir a un parque de atracciones para turistas para copiar la foto que viste en Instagram hace 2 meses...
...y me siento el mismísimo Zumalakarregi
Andrey Sidorov, Deputy Dean of world politics at the Moscow State University on why Russia loves Donald Trump and the Republican party:
“I will always root for Trump. Trump is a direct path to civil war in the United States.”
What was in the content that Russia paid for from Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin? Ragebait about trans people, race, civil war, illegal immigration, guns, and Elon Musk.
If you believe right-wing narratives on these topics, you're being manipulated. You're thinking what Russia wants you to think. wired.com/story/influencers-te…
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Richard Sever
in reply to Richard Sever • • •There are tools for spotting fake papers, but everyone knows this this will be an arms race (the faking will get better and better)). Probably one we won't win. And of course it's more of a challenge for a preprint server to do this in 24 h then a journal in weeks/months.
We'll probably have to accept a certain amount of noise and rely heavily on post-hoc verification. 2/n
Richard Sever
in reply to Richard Sever • • •For me, the key is author accountability i.e. something may get through but in time the likelihood it's discovered increases [another reason articles must be permanent].
And institutions should come down on any academic who does this like a ton of bricks (and do better than they currently do when ethics issues are raised). It'll be tougher when the people involved aren't are are no longer associated with one. 3/n
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Stephen Royle
in reply to Richard Sever • • •Richard Sever
in reply to Stephen Royle • • •Björn Brembs
in reply to Richard Sever • • •@steveroyle
Also here, as with so many other problems with our scholarly literature, a modern infrastructure replacing 17th century journals would go a very, very long way.
This particular problem would essentially disappear.
Richard Sever
in reply to Björn Brembs • • •@brembs @steveroyle Worldwide identity verification is a really hard problem and there’s no clear easy tech solution. And data provenance is an issue outside publishing - it’s arguably research infrastructure that must catch up.
Meanwhile clunky tech has one benefit: friction. Were new frictionless publishing tech developed it might be easier to swamp it with junk submissions.
Tech could improve things but unlikely to eliminate the problem (hence “arms race”).
Björn Brembs
in reply to Richard Sever • • •@steveroyle
Well, my eduroam, for instance, knows who I am everywhere. Why wouldn't something like that work? No write rights without such authentication.
Richard Sever
in reply to Björn Brembs • • •Björn Brembs
in reply to Richard Sever • • •@steveroyle
I think institutional infrastructure should be quality controlled by the institutions first and foremost. A dedicated body ought to be formed for accrediting non-institutional members?
Richard Sever
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