John Blattner

AI/ML 🤖 Tech 💾 History 📖 Music 🎵 Film 📽️ Art 🎨 Culture 🎭 The Bronx 🏙️ NYC 🗽 USA 🇺🇸 🌎 @AIUniverseLabs

[AI Universe @aiuniverselabs]

70 years after the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop helped launch AI as a field, one of AI’s founding programs is runnable again.

The Logic Theorist, widely regarded as the first AI program, has been reanimated from its IPL-V source by Jeff Shrager using a new Common Lisp interpreter.

The revived system proves 16 of 23 attempted Principia Mathematica theorems, offering an executable window into the origins of AI.

Paper: https://t.co/iWqdNMXEBv
Repo: https://t.co/sZMqzZxXqc

[Brookhaven Lab @BrookhavenLab]

Join us virtually this afternoon to celebrate "Decades of Discovery" at Brookhaven Lab, from the milestone anniversaries of two @NobelPrize-winning discoveries to our future explorations in physics. ⚛️🎉
https://t.co/lIUi8qYemG

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of drummer Roy Haynes.

In a career lasting over 80 years, Haynes has influenced and innovated, shaping some of the greatest recordings in jazz while altering the very fabric and direction of jazz improvisation with his mercurial, intelligent, joyous drumming.

Nicknamed “Snap Crackle” for his punchy snare and cymbal patterns, Haynes’ style was characterized by crispness and finesse, as well as a tremendous sense of drive. His playing has never sounded dated. On the contrary, in every decade he has been associated with musicians on the cutting edge, having worked with such artists as Lester Young and Charlie Parker in the 1940s, Bud Powell, Sarah Vaughan and Thelonious Monk in the ‘50s, Stan Getz and Gary Burton in the ‘60s, Chick Corea in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and Pat Metheny in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

His bands have included some of the more exceptional young musicians on the scene, ranging from his Hip Ensemble to his various quartets.

[JAZZRADIO.com @JazzRadioNow]

Remembering the legendary Lou Donaldson, the soulful master of the alto saxophone, who passed away on November 9 at the age of 98. His legacy will continue to inspire jazz lovers for generations.

https://t.co/6HY1xaArMd

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Photo: Francis Wolff/Blue Note Records
#LouDonaldson

[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory @SLAClab]

It’s been 50 years since the discovery of the J/psi particle!‼️

Join us in celebrating this monumental milestone in the modern era of particle physics with a webinar on #NationalSTEMDay Nov. 8: https://t.co/zNiU8kV6yQ

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Dov Waxman @DovWaxman]

To the people celebrating the mass murder of Israeli civilians, you have lost your humanity. To the people enthusiastically calling for Israel to decimate Gaza, densely populated with 2 million Palestinian civilians, you have lost your humanity. Israelis and Palestinians are real people, just like you and me.

[One World Observatory @OneWorldNYC]

Today, we pay solemn tribute to the lives lost on 9/11, a day that forever changed our world. Through the darkest of times, we found strength, resilience, and unity. Let this beacon of hope stand as a symbol of our unwavering resolve to never forget #NeverForget

[NYC Parks @NYCParks]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop and we're taking you back to where it all started. DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell's party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue overflowed into Cedar Playground, sparking a movement! #HipHop50

[XXL Magazine @XXL]

50 years ago today, hip-hop was born 🙏

DJ Kool Herc’s Back to School party marked the start of it all

[CNN @CNN]

2020 was the year that changed everything. Go inside those memorable 12 months in the finale of the CNN Original Series #2010sCNN, tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT

[John Blattner @jblattnerNYC]

Celebrate half a century of Hip-Hop at the inaugural Aerosol Arts & Street Jam at the Museum of Bronx History 🎤

Saturday June 17, 2023 📆

3266 Bainbridge Avenue 🏛️

Food provided by the legendary Johnson's BBQ (Est'd. 1954) 🍽️

Courtesy of @BronxHistory 📜

[ABMC @usabmc]

On D-DAY, ABMC commemorated both the fallen and the Veterans of WWII who participated in the Normandy landings and eventual liberation of France.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The American Library Association documented 1,269 demands to censor library books & resources in 2022, the highest number since @ALALibrary began compiling censorship data > 20 years ago.

Check out the top 13 most challenged books of 2022 at @openlibrary: https://t.co/W3YCOz4buL

[Amoeba Music @amoebamusic]

Rest In Peace Tina Turner. The mesmerizing, powerful, groundbreaking Queen of Rock n Roll has died at age 83. 💔 👠

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

These are the pages of my inaugural poem that an objecting parent cited as "not educational and have indirectly hate messages". And now because of that one complaint, my poem is now banned for elementary school students at a school in @MiamiDadeCounty.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Don't go chasing waterfalls...cautiously approach and be careful of slippery conditions. In fact, you may just want to stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to.

📷: Lost Creek Falls/Yellowstone

[CNN @CNN]

EDM meets country meets…tropical house?! Discover how the 2010s shattered music genre boundaries in a new episode of the CNN Original Series #2010sCNN. Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT

[Zinn Ed Project @ZinnEdProject]

#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9.

Also remember: massacres at Orangeburg (2/8/1968) & Jackson State (5/15/1970). Study & teach all three.

See⬇️
https://t.co/i5ytFjFVJ1