biased interpretation of strangely normalized data from 2013.

"If you’re a white person in 2013, Nuzzo explained, your chances of being murdered by another white person are approximately 11 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a black person are two in a million. Meanwhile, if you’re a black person in 2013, your chances of being murdered by another black person are 56 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a white person are five in a million."

"Although half of the people shot and killed by police are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate,” being “killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans.”

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“We knew we needed to find an issue that the candidates were comfortable talking about,” said Terry Schilling, the president of American Principles Project, a social conservative advocacy group. “And we threw everything at the wall.”

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"Gehry responded with a public resignation from the project, and at that point, Diane Disney Miller—daughter of Lillian and Walt—intervened. “We promised Los Angeles a Frank Gehry building, and that’s what we intend to deliver,” she declared. There would be no further funding from the Disney family if Gehry was not kept on as the architect. Broad backed down, and in 1999, more than a decade after he won the commission, Gehry was finally given free rein over the project."

Ukraine’s forces have lost a large share of their most experienced soldiers, having suffered an estimated 120,000 casualties. Purportedly leaked US intelligence documents have suggested that the counteroffensive could fall “well short” of Kyiv’s goals.

Yet Ukraine’s army has been underestimated before, such as when it defied western military assessments last year and pushed back Russian forces from around the capital and then the northeastern city of Kharkiv. Russia has also lost almost twice as many men since the full-scale invasion, according to western assessments. Moreover, Ukrainian troops are better equipped and trained than their foes.

“If the Ukrainian attack is hard and fast and gets behind the Russians, the frontline will unravel and the Russians will run . . . just as they did during the counter-offensive around Kharkiv,” said Glen Grant, a former British army officer and adviser to the Ukrainian parliament’s defence committee.

Alpaca was developed on Meta AI's LLaMA 7B model and generated training data with a method known as self-instruct

I think one of the safest ways to move forward with this technology is to make sure that it is not in too few hands."

In this third article we will look at option collateralization, specifically the margin and liquidation engines of the protocols that allow leverage option trading in DeFi. We will also explore the concept...

ECP has every incentive to be totally transparent about their backers. Transparency would be more likely to bring back Visa/Mastercard, soothe regulators, and fix the business. The only reason to act against such strong incentives is if you have something to hide. To the outside observer, ECP’s operations, staffing, and funding inspire little to no confidence.

A new private equity firm based in Ottawa says it has acquired the company behind one of the world's largest pornography site, Pornhub.

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…