Buttigieg: Trump’s Debate Snub Is An 'Extraordinary Show Of Weakness'

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-drops-out-live-updates_n_669d4e31e4b02fec30d26209/liveblog_66a3aefbe4b0d5de59dc6904

Y'all Celine's performance was incredibly emotional.

#Olympics

Seeing some stuff saying mutual aid is always more important than political donations. Here’s my thoughts:

1. If we get a landslide and maybe even control of the legislature, that means a mandate. And if we keep this energy up after the election, we can push for better social supports or maybe even UBI.

2. Donations aren’t mutually exclusive. I give mutual aid to individuals thoughout the year, and sometimes to causes.

3. I’ve seen the criticism that corporate donations decide everything. But do they have to? When a campaign gets tons of small donations, that causes shifts in media reporting, campaign energy, talking points, governing priorities, and gives an elected political capital towards for-the-people actions during their term. Which is exactly why I made two small donations to Harris’s campaign last weekend. Obama’s mass of small donors was all the talk of the media all 2008 and I still see it referenced. Small donations = INFLUENCE.

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#USPol #Harris2024 #KamalaHarris

This bus driver is colour blind ... He doesn't know the difference between green orange and red ... Maybe the bus is out of control ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Anabel shares some of the local grape harvest in Kern County, CA. Farm workers earn an hourly wage plus a tiny bonus for each box of grapes picked and packed during the summer months where temps hover between 95°-105° on a regular basis. #WeFeedYou

Lane closures on I-20 in Cobb Douglas and Fulton beginning this evening, Friday, July 26 https://cobbcountycourier.com/2024/07/lane-closures-on-i-20-in-cobb-douglas-and-fulton-beginning-this-evening-friday-july-26/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Stunning Report Exposes Project 2025 Ties to Radical Christian Group
Kevin Roberts, leader of the Heritage Foundation, is closely linked to Opus Dei
https://newrepublic.com/post/184307/project-2025-architect-kevin-roberts-ties-radical-christian-group-opus-dei

* a lead author of Project 2025 (disturbing blueprint for a 2nd Trump presidency) has close ties to Catholic group Opus Dei
* Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage Foundation, receives weekly spiritual guidance led by Opus Dei priest

#HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #Trumpism #fascism #conservatism

Don’t hate me cos I’m beautiful.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

So, JD Vance is being mercilessly mocked this week, but he represents a real threat to the fight against the opioid epidemic in the US. ~80,000 people died from an opioid overdose in 2023. JD Vance could very well make this worse. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-opioid-crisis-vice-president/

47% say their financial situation is getting worse, up by 17 percentage points since 2021, per Gallup.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Environmentally, Offshore Wind Is … Fine

How often can you say that about an energy generation system?

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/offshore-wind-is-environmentally-fine/

"To hit the world’s climate goals, projections suggest the world’s offshore wind capacity needs to scale to 2,000 gigawatts by mid-century. That would mean installing a whopping 5,000 new turbines in the ocean every year for the next 25 years."

#climatecrisis #climatechange #renewables #ocean

Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris

Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris. User Heidi Li Feldman started the modest campaign on ActBlue two days ago, with a humble goal of one thousand...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2257916/-Mastodon-users-donate-a-quarter-million-dollars-in-2-days-for-VP-Harris-MastodonForHarris

am I the only one who finds "you have read your last free article" to have a threatening aura

Of course, they didn't think through any of this! They were too busy salivating at the thought of "saving the unborn", sticking it to liberals and women, and keeping their base motivated and voting. Screw the consequences!

Hey Republicans! Where Have All the Babies Gone?

It's being reported that after a steady, 25-year decline in infant mortality, America saw a full 3 percent increase in dead babies during the first Dobbs year…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/hey-republicans-where-have-all-the-73b?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=147013954&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1mmz2x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I'm 55 years old. I didn't think I'd see one black POTUS in my lifetime and I am going to get TWO. Incremental change. It's difficult but black folks are long suffering. 🎶 We shall overcome someday. 🎶

#blackmastodon #uspol #uspolitics #Democrats #voteblue

It's Push New Features to Production Friday!

If showing the output voltage on the rails breaks something, the 2 people on Earth with one of these prototypes are gonna be pissed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iv1nzQ0FST8&si=RIvr_tiFCDYpWeu5
#RemoveThomasBach #InvestigateThomasBach #BoycottTheParaOlympics
#InvestigateTheIOC #BoycottTheOlympics #BoycottTheParisGames
#487DeadUkrainianathletes
#TerroristsDontGetToPlay
⛔️🇫🇷How neutral are Russian athletes at the Olympics? (UATV News VIDEO LIVE) #Ukraine #Press #Olympics #Paris #France #USA #US #UK #EU #Mastodon #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

Has anyone checked on the dolphins today?

Biden saw abortion as an issue for troubled women who could be aided by heroic men like himself (benevolent sexism). VP Harris is willing to argue to trust women with abortion rights & "that women can be things other than mothers. Like maybe the president."
@moiradonegan

Where is my seat belt

Hugz & xXx

Analysis: it’s hard to win as a bad weirdo

The harvest goddess held a long brown pod. "The Cacao pod," she said. "Crack them open and scoop out the seeds. Ferment these - very important for flavor! Dry them, roast them, and grind them into a bitter liquor. Add sugar and milk powder, and conch it, temper it, and finally mold it into bars."

"Amazing!" the god of wine replied. "Did you leave clues to help humans figure this out?"

"Clues?" said the goddess. "No! I never knew chocolate was a thing until they made it!"

#microfiction

I feel for you sticker person

Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Rod Emmerson on #KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ghZQiFhJWJs&si=U57vksk3VaOl7LK-
⚡️🇺🇦Putin's regime are peddling the false narrative that the Russian economy is strong | Daily Wrap-Up (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

This sucks that the FBI under Joe Biden has to pay this when it was Trump's corrupt DOJ under Bill Barr that did this crap while trying to hide their Russia connections.
https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3dg/post/C95rYPxJ6YK

It really is a tough decision when one candidate says pronouns at a speaking engagement and the opposing campaign vows to do programmatic ethnic cleansing and subjugate every woman to her "proper" role as a silent, servile baby mortar.

from #CommonDreams
#US #Healthcare Workers Back From #Gaza Tell #Harris and #Biden: 'End This Madness Now'

"Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to #Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/healthcare-workers-gaza

#medicine
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Palestine #politics
#USA #USPolitics #POTUS #KamalaHarris
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Found 11 new servers and 10 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,405 servers checked. 14,132,135 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mstdn.snyman.info a #mastodon server from United States
moshpit.zip a #mastodon server from Portugal
m.yyilmaz.com.tr a #mastodon server from Türkiye
mi.lilalm.site a #misskey server from Private
www.supixi.jp a #misskey server from Japan
fedi.transgender.ing a #sharkey server from United Kingdom
subspacewagon.systems a #mastodon server from Portugal
pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

Edit: I said my needs aren't 100% urgent but it WOULD be nice to get even one donation so I can put some gas in my car so I can go to my doctor's appointment tomorrow. It's important: it's for a Covid booster and an in person visit to continue getting refills on my meds)

If white leftists wanna try for some extra brownie points, you can always send some support my way, because I'm disabled, trans, AND Rromani. (And constantly broke as a result of all three lol.)

CashApp: https://cash.app/$bengesko

Paypal: https://paypal.me/jorjcardas

(My needs aren't 100% urgent, but I am constantly living by the skin of my teeth, and anything helps me)

Picture of my birb for enticement, because he's almost 36 and is special needs, too! (He's on medication for seizures and arthritis)

#mastodonforharris #mutualaid #mastodon4harris

#ThankYouKamala. Thank you for your leadership, courage and humanity, all of which are too rare in our world.
#Kamala #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Peace
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/26/i-will-not-be-silent-harris-voices-concern-for-gaza-after-meeting-with-netanyahu-video?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

to whoever invented these square kitchen sinks where nothing goes down the drain and everything gets stuck in the corners all the time, i just wanna talk, who hurt you?

Ok, who am I going to sue over this ... I just cut my tongue, on the plastic lid of my coffee ... All i want is a warning "don't lick maybe sharp" ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Good morning sweeties ... 💋

It's raining ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

This is the funniest thing I've read on Xitter in years.

quite the pawnundrum when you can't tell where the cat ends and the human begins

#Caturday

If people just fucking listened to trans kids and trans people in general, they would know the biggest threats to us aren't social media but narcissistic, abusive parents, legislators banning our access to necessary care, and widespread discriminatory systems that promote violence against us.

But they don't want to listen.

How to refine data for #LLMs? What does it mean that the data has high quality?

It's not about the data having fewer typos, or less wrong answers. Unless you are training a trivia bot.

The power of LLMs comes from them modelling the latent processes behind the task trajectories, the data, especially when the processes contain intelligent thought.

So, when you're generating synthetic data, or refining collected data, you will need to make sure the refinery output is of higher quality than its inputs.

This means you need to:
- Add intelligence. Make the new task trajectories perform deeper syntheses, pull in more relevant knowledge, take steps futher. Make more complex task performances out of simpler ones. Go through more possibilities. Go deeper meta-level and e.g. validate validations. Use search over alternative solutions.
- Groom out bad data. Rank, criticize, evaluate, and either improve/fix bad data or recontextualize it.
- Collect new data which is created by the data refinement processes themselves.
- Add knowledge from external sources, and synthesize it with the knowledge already known. Also consider the next level implications of all the knowledge already acquired.
- Apply skills to knowledge to produce new knowledge and new skills.

LLMs are data-defined. Data isn't a static thing, it needs to be looked at philosophically.