ravenaspiring

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[–] ravenaspiring 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

While I sympathize, I also have read enough history and law to know that the executive branch has many option and powers to leverage to make this happen.

The SAC, aka the third option is a prime example.

Further the executive has the ability to deploy forces for 90 days, but still must notify the speaker of the house within 48 hours of deployment.

These are just two examples.

But if Trump can't even report within 48 hours, then they need to assert their power.

[–] ravenaspiring 49 points 2 days ago (9 children)

This android only.

From the article:

Meta managed to do this even when:

  • You aren’t using the app (but have a session open in the background).

  • You haven’t logged into your account in the browser.

  • You’re browsing in incognito mode.

  • You’re using a VPN.

  • You delete cookies at the end of every session.

The captured data includes:

  • Complete browsing history with specific URLs

  • Products added to cart and purchases made

  • Registrations on websites and completed forms

  • Temporal behavioral patterns across websites and apps

  • Direct linking to real identities on social networks

You’re not affected if (and only if)

  • You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone

  • You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)

  • You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile

[–] ravenaspiring 7 points 2 days ago

I hate this sort of post, not for what it's saying but how it's saying it. This is one news organization writing a story about another news organization poll, and no links to the data are evident. Links to the original news story which aired via a YouTube link, but there's not even a transcript of it up as I check yet.

So, it's great that there a backlash, but without context of the data it's not worth citing.

[–] ravenaspiring 111 points 1 week ago (16 children)
[–] ravenaspiring 4 points 1 week ago

Listen to the first half of this podcast as Chenoweth explains what the cavets are to this rule. She describes it more of as a descriptive rule not prescriptive rule, and suggests many other circumstances going on in addition to achieving this rule. Further régimes have adapted to this rule since it was first discovered and she's still truing to see what that adaptation means.

You Are Not So Smart: 313 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth

Episode webpage: https://youarenotsosmart.com/

Media file: https://stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/aa9f2648-25e9-472a-af42-4e5017da38cf/episodes/2512fbaa-aa0a-406c-9829-7c1d58ff70d6/audio/128/default.mp3

[–] ravenaspiring 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She has become the Republican-appointed justice most likely to be in the majority in decisions that reach a liberal outcome, according to a new analysis of her record prepared for The New York Times. Her influence — measured by how often she is on the winning side — is rising. Along with the chief justice, a frequent voting partner, Justice Barrett could be one of the few people in the country to check the actions of the president.

Overall, her assumption of the seat once held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has moved the court’s outcomes dramatically to the right and locked in conservative victories on gun rights, affirmative action and the power of federal agencies. But in Trump-related disputes, she is the member of the supermajority who has sided with him the least.

So not what they wanted, but not RBG. Still to much authoritarianism for me from the SCOTUS.

[–] ravenaspiring 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ravenaspiring 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fascinating idea and I look forward to reading the book. As someone who has never seen protests be that effective as compared to other constituency pressure mechanisms, it's an interesting counter point.

The OP's article indicates 3.5% of the population, which for the US at the moment would be around 340 million. 3.5% would be 11.9 million people.

Rough guesses are that the protest saw about 4-6 million people out yesterday.

I'm particularly curious about the paper's coalition building concepts about tying immigration to other value such as worker rights, private sector interests such as agriculture, racial justice, etc.

Beyond this I wonder if the analysis from ten years ago takes into account the technological isolation, manipulation, and echo chambering of modern politics. I would venture to guess that the 3.5% might need to be higher in a population that doesn't listen to 'untrusted opinions'.

[–] ravenaspiring 4 points 2 weeks ago

Write at rite, right?

[–] ravenaspiring 36 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Hugging face is repository and Machine learning hub. https://huggingface.co/huggingface

[–] ravenaspiring 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I love this fact, and am curious where you learned it?

[–] ravenaspiring 4 points 4 weeks ago
 

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to sever the link between academia and government by freezing billions of dollars in federal grants to top research institutions. This act may score political points among those accustomed to understanding academia as a left-leaning “ivory tower” insulated from ordinary Americans and private enterprise. But it reflects a dangerous misunderstanding of how the United States became militarily and commercially dominant in the first place. Research universities have long undergirded, in particular, the country’s national security through defense research, and they continue to train the pipeline of talent that powers both government and industry. Practically speaking, cutting their support does not represent a principled political stance—it is a friendly-fire assault on U.S. national security. ...

Universities, for their part, converted U.S. taxpayers’ dollars into innovations that made the country prosper. Nowhere was this more evident than at Stanford, where federal defense contracts and research funding supported a culture of innovation that helped create Silicon Valley. Faculty members such as Frederick Terman, who aggressively expanded the university’s statistics and engineering departments to win more Defense Department grants, encouraged students to commercialize their research, enabling the founding of companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Fairchild Semiconductor that would become cornerstones of the computing revolution.

While many other countries, such as France and the United Kingdom, continued to direct government funding for scientific research mainly toward government labs, the United States built a decentralized research system anchored in its universities. This decentralized system not only accelerated technological progress but also helped defense-related innovations flow into private commerce, giving U.S. industry a clear edge that the Soviet Union struggled to match, despite its extensive investments in technical education. By the end of the twentieth century, this system of federally funded university research had become the backbone of the United States’ global leadership.

 

A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric grid.

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