How neural networks build up their understanding of images

you can use a scarf. a lot of people have scarves. and you can use a scarf. a scarf would be very good. use a scarf instead of going out and getting a mask. you can use something else over your face. it doesn't have to be a mask.

Large studies in the U.S., Mexico and Britain found two doses of the Novavax vaccine were safe and about 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. When the delta variant emerged last summer, Novavax reported a booster dose revved up virus-fighting antibodies that could tackle that mutant.

SinoVac 58%
AstraZeneca 62%
Jansen, Johnson & Johnson 67%

Dallas real estate investor Harlan Crow's rare papers and statues are powerful on their own.

“You see all these kids wearing Che T-shirts,” Crow says. “I don’t think they know who he is. He is a killer, a murderer.”

"President emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to. Problem with overall welfare plan is that it forces poor whites into same position as blacks."

When I emailed Griffin again after the Capitol attack, he hadn’t changed his mind. “Trump is far too pathologically incoherent and intellectually challenged to be a fascist, and suffers from both Attention Deficiency Disorder, lack of self-knowledge, capacity for denial, narcissism and sheer ignorance and lack of either culture or education to a degree that precludes the Machiavellian intelligence and voracious curiosity about and knowledge about contemporary history and politics needed to seize power in the manner of Mussolini and Hitler,” Griffin wrote back.

Stanley Payne, a University of Wisconsin historian of Spain and author of A History of Fascism 1914-1945, agrees that Trump’s lack of coherent revolutionary fervor makes him fall short of fascism. “Never founded a new fascist party, never embraced a coherent new revolutionary ideology, never announced a radical new doctrine but introduced a noninterventionist foreign military policy,” Payne wrote to me in an email. “Not even a poor man’s fascist. Ever an incoherent nationalist-populist with sometimes destructive tendencies.”

So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a597e6Wv_xg Hasan came prepared with facts. Lots of them. Many of which debunked the core foundation on which Taibbi and his…

why this is bad faith bullshit:
1) sex identification not based on testosterone levels
2) statistical non-issue with one male-to-female transgender child across 70 school boards
3) applies to pre-puberty, where size differences nonexistent and variance is massive as kids hit growth spurts differently
4) boilerplate legislation pushed by The Alliance Defending Freedom

If Hillary Clinton’s emails mattered so much, why shouldn’t Ivanka’s?

The current race towards ever larger "AI experiments" is not a preordained path where our only choice is how fast to run, but rather a set of decisions driven by the profit motive. The actions and choices of corporations must be shaped by regulation which protects the rights and interests of people.

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