Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy

Actively seeking downfall of white supremacy and capitalism, ODF, XML, XQuery. He/his. Menstruation Matters (donate):

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

I need to be reminded of this exercise on a daily basis.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

“If you, as a White person, would like to be treated the way Black people are in this society, stand."

Watch who stands in response to Jane Elliott.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@mark_slapinski Go ahead! Torrenting terabytes of video?

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@HeidyKhlaaf All that penetration and still no #Epstein files. You almost have to wonder if hackers aren't looking for the #Epstein files.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@sabamaliktmhg 84

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@j_foerst @bold_lab_ai As others have noted, the original post is misleading if not entirely false.

Would "transparent research processes" include specifying training sources and operations on them?

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

We need 30-second spots during football games on behalf of all the women who died the week before. One on abortion bans, one on domestic violence. Make you lose your appetite sort of commercials.
I can't fund even one, but I would league with others for spots during GA games.

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Nevaeh Crain, an 18-year-old from Beaumont, Texas, passed away from organ failure and sepsis on October 29, 2023, after seeking help at emergency rooms three separate times over a 20-hour span. She was six months pregnant. The day she died was the day of her baby shower. Greg Abbott, when you meet your Maker, how will you explain that one? VOTE BLUE TEXAS! END THE NIGHTMARE!

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@asclepiasyriaca Why should even elderly scumbags get a pass? If the crowd didn't boo, why didn't network camera crews boo? Or reporters? No one was obligated to laugh with the scumbag. We are responsible for the environments we tolerate.

[Lolwe @Lolwe_]

Our October edition is out now!

Featuring: fiction by Charles Kadib and Pearl Bunyazi; poetry by Abigail George
and Felix Eshiet; and nonfiction by Tony Simo Dzumgang (in French).
https://t.co/0ldPld6QuM

[Andrew Piper @_akpiper]

AI is doing two things simultaneously to scholarship: 1) it is generating tons of AI slop that is flooding journals, editors and peer-reviewers and 2) cleaning up tons of human slop that was flooding editors, journals and was missed by peer-reviewers.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

Open question to #OpenAI and #anthropicAI: What data goes into your models?

All we are getting is behavior with no known training data. It is hard to correlate one without the other.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@ladm1699 You object to tracking loggers in the woods?

[little grey mouse 🐭 @mouse_math]

i find it hilarious that after decades of squeezing every last drop of blood out of the middle class, now capitalists are complaining that not enough people are eating at restaurants, taking trips, using airlines, or buying crap from box stores.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

Are the materials taught in the Confucius Institutes in your LLMs? Or the Vedic literature from India? Or Chinese literature and historical documents?

Not much of a human knowledge machine if it only contains what was easy to get.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US war on Iran is going very badly, so the US Department of War has declared a new war on... Confucius Institutes.

These are academic institutions at universities that teach Chinese language, history, and culture. The horror!

The US regime wants its people to be ignorant.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

AI seems to be one other thing that Africans and Africans in the Diaspora literary communities must deal with. The disproportionate witch-hunting of our gifted writers, especially at the height of their success, is disheartening. And the continuous finger-wagging from agents working (for) with Pangram makes the campaign even more legible. How do you even trust a system that intends to use you as tinder for new trends? We must keep building from within and celebrate platforms that prioritise our creators' and stories' well-being.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

Let's hope Saudi Arabia falls before negotiations can conclude.

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahim___Yemen]

Iran is willing to mediate, but Yemen will continue fighting until Saudi Arabia accepts its conditions.

We welcome any mediation from any country, whether Iran or others. The important thing is that we will not change or compromise on any of Sana'a's conditions, and we will not stop until Saudi Arabia implements Sana'a's conditions.

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

@attrc @cohere FUD is the essence of advertising. It depends upon an easy to frighten audience.

[Andrew Case @attrc]

This reads as 1000% FUD. @cohere told the LLM to create a detection for:

"""... malicious file download and execution by monitoring for curl processes downloading bash scripts to /tmp followed by bash execution"""

And then the LLM ran a curl invocation that sent a harmless static string over curl and downloaded the payload to /tmp.. so the LLM did exactly what it was instructed. Shocking!!!

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

#BlackHistory

Oct. 26th

Anna Diggs Taylor. "In 1979, Anna Diggs Taylor became the first black woman judge to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Nineteen years later, she became the first black woman Chief Judge for that circuit as well." https://t.co/sat530NVMW

Oct. 25th

Ellen Tarry. "Tarry went on to study at an HBCU, Alabama State University, before becoming a teacher and writer, one of the earliest Black Catholic figures to openly advocate for Black liberation and Black pride in the press." https://t.co/Uz8KhZnXTv

Oct. 24th

Ann Tanneyhill. "Tanneyhill’s commitment to Black youth was extraordinary. In the late 1950s, she was pivotal in the League's pioneering effort to persuade major corporations to recruit on Historical Black College and University campuses." https://t.co/4qrCDB8nha

Oct. 23rd

Madame Sul-Te-Wan. "Her stage name, with its mix of formality and exoticism, served a dual purpose in a racist industry: it guaranteed she would always be addressed as “Madame” and plausibly allowed her to play a range of ethnicities." https://t.co/cuyoSSRQM0

Oct. 22nd

Niara Sudarkasa. "In 2001 Sudarkasa became the first African American to be installed as a chief in the historic Ife Kingdom of the Yoruba of Nigeria." https://t.co/Hi2ncEZKiU

Oct. 21st

Ella P. Stewart. "Ella Nora Phillips Myers Stewart was one of the first practicing Black women pharmacists in the United States." https://t.co/779rBw2odr

Oct. 20th

Jeanne Spurlock. "As a psychiatrist, she made significant contributions in focusing the medical community's attention on the stresses of poverty, sexism, racism, and discrimination that effect women, minorities, gays, and lesbians." https://t.co/Dq0Tcopeyb

Oct. 19th

Victoria "Queen Victoria" Spivey. 'Among her compositions are "Black Snake Blues" (1926), "Dope Head Blues" (1927), and "Organ Grinder Blues" (1928). In 1962 she co-founded Spivey Records.' https://t.co/xhEWzPCFJU

Oct. 18th

Hortense Spillers. "Having taught in the U.S. academy for three decades now (and counting), I am reluctant to look back for all those mythical reasons that warn against the backward glance." https://t.co/YpifGTIJpq

Oct. 17th

Isabele Taliaferro Spiller. " Her primary instrument was the tenor saxophone, but she also doubled on alto and baritone saxophone, and occasionally, trumpet and piano." https://t.co/X0FxtDVuwo

Oct. 16th

Anne Spencer. "Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of Black intellectual and cultural life, and fought for equal rights for African Americans." https://t.co/hZ9z0djCLF

Oct. 15th

Eulalie Spence. "Eulalie Spence was considered one of the Harlem Renaissance's rising young playwrights, although she had little financial success." https://t.co/Ravb4M6c7p

Oct. 14th

Valaida Snow. "Her story epitomizes the history of countless gifted but underappreciated African American artists, performers and musicians who often were not universally recognized in their lifetime." https://t.co/lIgQs89th7

Oct. 13th

Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith. "Among her published writings are The New Nigerian Elite (Stanford University Press, 1960), co-authored with husband Hugh Smythe, and the widely used The Black American Reference Book (Prentice Hall, 1976), of which she the principal editor." https://t.co/rT0A1WWHPA

Oct. 12th

Willie "Mother Smith" Mae Ford Smith. "A rare interview with St. Louis legend Willie Mae Ford Smith, recorded in 1973 and now heard for the first time." https://t.co/znEi0oKvwV

Oct. 11th

Mamie Smith. "Actress and performing artist Mamie Smith made music history in 1920 when she stepped into a studio to lay down “Crazy Blues,” considered by industry scholars to be the very first blues recording." https://t.co/nStJJhmxuI

Oct. 10th

Lucie Wilmot Smith. "She served as an editor and wrote special columns for Our Women and Children and was also on the staff of the Baptist Journal. She spoke out on women's rights and voting." https://t.co/Iep17tjNWP

Oct. 9th

Clara "Queen of the Moaners" Smith. 'Her May 1926 recording of "Whip It to a Jelly", was noted as "one of the more overt sexual blues".' https://t.co/yG2c8neI33

Oct. 8th

Ada "Bricktop" Smith. "Born Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith in Alderson, Bricktop was a dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the Paris nightclub Chez Bricktop." https://t.co/Eso3r2HocF

Oct. 7th

Lucy Diggs Slowe. “Education must fit…[African-American] women, as it must fit all women, for the highest development of their own gifts; but, whatever those gifts, they will not be able to exercise them unless they understand the world they live in and are prepared to make their contribution to it,” Lucy Diggs Slowe, “Higher Education of Negro Women,” 1933. https://t.co/RQbZlASj4t

Oct. 6th

Edith Barksdale Sloan. "When she took over the National Committee on Household Employment, she did not just see a group of underpaid women. She saw a carefully engineered legal trap." https://t.co/1w8PDR86PR

Oct. 5th

Norma Merrick Sklarek. 'Lauded for her numerous pioneering achievements as one of the first African American women architects in the United States, Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926–2012) has been called the “Rosa Parks of architecture.”' https://t.co/Zj4RvooCut

Oct. 4th

Naomi Sims. "Naomi Ruth Sims is widely credited as the first African-American supermodel. A businesswoman and author, Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal." https://t.co/Q5QXaiDfZH

Oct. 3rd

Hilda Simms. "Black actress and Minneapolis native Hilda Simms was a rising star on stage and screen in post-WWII America. However, accusations of un-Americanism and communist sympathies eventually derailed her career." https://t.co/0OQU5Jc8QT

Oct. 2nd

Judy Dothard Simmons. "Thematically, Simmons's work is a fierce welding of personal accomplishment with social responsibility as exampled by her father's great-great-grandfather, the civil rights leader George T. Downing (1819–1903), an associate of Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, and her maternal grandmother, educator Mary Julia Ross (1890–1991), who was the first of three college-educated generations—a rarity for most American families in the first half of the 20th century." https://t.co/3AHCvAgTE7

Oct. 1st

Althea T.L. Simmons. "Althea T. L. Simmons was an active member of the NAACP for thirty-five years and led the organization's lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s." https://t.co/RnFn2yc7wt

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

All this AI-enhanced hacking, and no one has seen the #Epstein files?

[OrcaRouter 🐳 @OrcaRouter]

You prompted a model in a security-sensitive environment, investigated it with forced command completions, and framed the results as evidence of a hidden backdoor.

Then you layered on geopolitical fearmongering, repeatedly emphasizing China and Beijing to imply state-sponsored espionage without proving it.

That’s not evidence of a backdoor. That’s a security observation turned into competitive and geopolitical FUD.

Publish the original prompts, full traces, and reproducible results. Let the evidence speak for itself.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC BROKE EQUALITY LAW AND GOT CAUGHT

Carrie Gracie spent 30 years at the @BBC. She spoke fluent Mandarin. She ran the Beijing bureau. She was one of four international editors, two men and two women.

Then in 2017 the BBC was forced to publish salary data. Gracie looked at what her male equivalent, the North America editor, was earning. He was on nearly double her salary. She had explicitly said equal pay was a condition of taking the China role. The BBC agreed. Then quietly paid her far less anyway.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC offered her a raise that still left her below the men. She turned it down. She resigned from the China post in January 2018 and published an open letter telling the licence fee public exactly what their broadcaster was doing.

The BBC then put her through nearly a year of an internal grievance process that went nowhere. It took three meetings with the Director-General and the threat of an employment tribunal before she got a public apology and the backdated pay owed to her. The total came to £361,000.

She donated every penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety), the gender equality charity. She said the fight was about principle, not the payout.

A publicly funded institution, legally obligated to follow equality law, paid women less than men in identical roles, got caught, dragged it out for a year, and only coughed up under threat of a tribunal. That is not a pay oversight. That is a policy.

Gracie did not ask for a favour. She asked for what she was owed. The BBC made her fight for it like it was a privilege.

Sources: @BBCNews, @guardian, @thetimes, @Independent.