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«La vivienda es la chispa del malestar social que existe. La complejidad del problema obliga a que las medidas sean audaces.

Hace falta cirugía radical. No hay que tener miedo al control del precio del alquiler ni a la intervención del mercado, porque el Estado no puede dejarle un derecho humano, como la vivienda, al mercado. Pero también hay que hablar de expropiación a los grandes tenedores si hace falta».

📌 Ya puedes leer la entrevista de hoy a Antonio Maíllo

lavanguardia.com/politica/2024…


Antonio Maíllo: “Quien no quiera unificar la izquierda, que se retrate”

Con cinco diputados en el grupo parlamentario, y una ministra sentada en el Consejo de Ministros, Izquierda Unida está capitaneando el impulso legislativo de Sumar firmando dos tercios de las leyes registradas por el espacio confederal en lo que va d…
Asier Martiarena (La Vanguardia)

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How are things going in the UK? National newspaper is promoting shoving crisp packets down the back of the radiator as a solution to not freezing to death 👍

Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments
metro.co.uk/2024/10/13/pension…


Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments

A heating expert has devised a novel solution to the Winter Fuel crisis.
Tom Sanders (Metro)

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About 2.5 years ago, dozens profiles on some supposedly "free speech" #Mastodon fedi were blocked for a few posts like this one. I was one of them.
The fact that it's now a book is called vindication against some nazi friendly admins

Despite Chrystia #Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi #genocide
A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of #Ukrainian_Nazis in #Canada

breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freela…


Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide ⋆ The Breach

A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada
Peter McFarlane (The Breach)
#Mastodon #canada #genocide #Freeland #ukrainian_nazis

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 14. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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I am very excited to announce that beyondthegallery.app is now online! Beyond The Gallery is a community for sharing Shortcuts that have been created in the Shortcuts app on Apple devices. Create an account, and share your favorite shortcuts. Thanks to @tayarndt for all of the hard work.

Beyond the Gallery – A Community for sharing Shortcuts from Apple Platforms.

beyondthegallery.app
@Taylor Arndt

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OK so I guess I'm going to keep doing these because it's pretty fun. I've found the script that loads the paywall for The Washington Post. Simply block `washingtonpost.com/subscribe/static/tetro-client/fusion/tetro.min.js` with your favourite URL blocking extension (I use AdNauseum) and the paywall doesn't show up. For educational & research purposes only. Please remember to support journalism if you're able to. Have fun! washingtonpost.com

The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video - The Washington Post

Breaking news, live coverage, investigations, analysis, video, photos and opinions from The Washington Post. Subscribe for the latest on U.S.
The Washington Post

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This article gathers feedback from 11 VR and digital accessibility experts. It explores how the metaverse needs to develop to be accessible and inclusive. This requires compatibility with assistive technologies, navigating different environments seamlessly, ensuring privacy, and creating VR environments that incorporate universal design principles. #accessibility mdpi.com/2414-4088/8/3/21

Accessible Metaverse: A Theoretical Framework for Accessibility and Inclusion in the Metaverse

The following article investigates the Metaverse and its potential to bolster digital accessibility for persons with disabilities.
MDPI
#Accessibility

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„Empfinde absolutes Glücksgefühl“: Erstes Team für trans Männer im spanischen Fußball anerkannt
tagesspiegel.de/sport/empfinde…

„Empfinde absolutes Glücksgefühl“: Erstes Team für trans Männer im spanischen Fußball anerkannt

Beim Fenix FC spielen ausschließlich trans Männer. Gründer Hugo Martínez spricht über Hürden im Sport, Emotionen bei den Spielen und Ambitionen des Vereins.
Inga Hofmann (Der Tagesspiegel)

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Buenos días. Hoy me he despertado con esta canción en la cabeza: Paisa, de reincidentes: youtube.com/watch?v=7ChSe2ktuT…

Nuestos viejos han emigrado.
Como mierda les han tratado.
Muchos no han regresado
ni regresarán.
Dos millones de los nuestros
andan desperdigados.
Los que nos hemos quedado
no debemos olvidar.
Al racismo
eliminar.
Fascismo
criminal.

Reincidentes - Paisa (La canción del Estrecho)

Reincidentes - Sol y rabia
YouTube

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It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…


Introducing Our New Name

After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
Minetest
#FreeSoftware #opensource #gamedev #Minetest

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Yes, Digital Bytes will be out in about an hour… Did you listen to this Jaws Tips - Introduction to Place markers that dropped last Friday? pnc.st/s/unmute-presents-on-ac…

Jaws Tips - Introduction to Placemarkers

Show Notes: Episode Overview In this episode of Unmute Presents, we dive into upcoming changes for the show and explore a powerful feature in JAWS for website navigation: Place Markers.
pnc.st

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As neither of the current Accessibility team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.org, team meetings are suspended until further notice. Bug scrubs will continue to run as normal.


Totally fine! make.wordpress.org/accessibili… #A11y


Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org

Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
WordPress.org
#a11y

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Jung, links, propalästinensisch – und am wenigsten antisemitisch


Eine neue Studie der Uni Mannheim zeigt: Der Antisemitismus-Vorwurf gegen linke Studierende geht »an den Tatsachen vorbei«. Zwischen propalästinensischen Einstellungen und Antisemitimus bestehe kaum ein Zusammenhang.


nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185968.…


Jung, links, propalästinensisch – und am wenigsten antisemitisch

nd-aktuell.de

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* BinEd - Binary/Hex Editor 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Excel, Word, PowerPoint und Co. sind mittelmäßig. Weil sie aber allgegenwärtig sind, muss die reale Welt an ihre Mittelmäßigkeit angepasst werden. Wie aber können wir dieser Abhängigkeit vom Mittelmaß entkommen?

netzpolitik.org/2024/degitalis…


Degitalisierung: Peak mittelmäßig

Excel, Word, PowerPoint und Co. sind mittelmäßig. Weil sie aber allgegenwärtig sind, muss die reale Welt an ihre Mittelmäßigkeit angepasst werden. Doch der Abhängigkeit vom Mittelmaß können wir entkommen.
netzpolitik.org

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Hey, they did it! People have known for a long time that in 4 dimensions you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 24 others. In 2008 someone showed that's the best you can do. But in April this year, three mathematicians showed there's essentially just 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 you can accomplish this!

This way is easy to describe. Take the points whose coordinates are all integers, together with those whose coordinates are all integers plus 1/2. Use each of these points as the center of a ball of radius 1/2. Then each ball touches 24 others. This pattern is called the 𝗗𝟰 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.

The new result shows that if you pack equal-sized balls in 4 dimensions so that each touches 24 others, you're 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 to create a version of the D4 lattice - possibly rotated, translated and/or rescaled.

This sort of thing is hard to show: it took a lot of fancy math and two weeks of calculation on a standard desktop computer. I believe only other dimensions where we know a result like this are 1, 2, 8 and 24. In dimension 3 it's just false: you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 12 others, and this is the best you can do, but there are uncountably many different ways to do it!

arxiv.org/abs/2404.18794


Optimality and uniqueness of the $D_4$ root system

We prove that the $D_4$ root system (the set of vertices of the regular $24$-cell) is the unique optimal kissing configuration in $\mathbb R^4$, and is an optimal spherical code.
arXiv.org

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We've spent decades trying different things to counter our rising domestic extremism problem. Good news: We've finally found a strategy that seems to work. thestar.com/opinion/contributo…

Justin Ling: This Toronto team knows how to talk down extremists. Their secret tactic might surprise you

Canadian agencies like Yorktown Family Services in Toronto have developed proven tactics for de-radicalizing youth. We need to build on those breakthroughs, write Justin Ling, not let them waste away.
Justin Ling (Toronto Star)

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I'm a little puzzled at the salience that is being given to the Apple conclusions on #LLM #reasoning when we have lots of prior art. For example: LLMs cannot correctly infer a is b, if their corpora only contain b is a. #Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288

#AI #MachineLearning #logic


The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"

We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction "B is A".
arXiv.org
#AI #llm #machinelearning #logic #reasoning #paper
in reply to mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl

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modulux

I tend to think so too. I suppose it shouldn't really surprise me, but I expected a bit more critical engagement.

There's lots of evidence on the limits of LLM reasoning, as well as pretty basic self-reference and so on (how many letters l does this statement include?). And yes, reasoning is being used rather technically in the sense of deductive inference.

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Remember this? Where ministers belonging to the biggest party in government were hellbent on deporting a sick child before his application could be approved but their coalition partners effectively vetoed it meaning the kid and his family got asylum?

ruv.is/english/2024-10-09-yaza…

Well, it’s looking like this pissed that party’s MPs off to such an extent that the government has collapsed, meaning we’re about to have an election about the same time as the Americans.


Yazan and family receive asylum in Iceland - RÚV.is

Yazan Tamimi and his parents received asylum in Iceland yesterday. Last month they were scheduled to be forcibly removed to Spain, but the Minister of Justice stopped the deportation after an intervention by the Minister of Social Affairs.
RÚV

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Hab grad die Band "ok.danke.tschüss entdeckt. Echt hörenswert. Aufgefallen sind sie mir, weil Ohrfunk.de das hier gespielt hat: youtu.be/koGaUwyp7DA?si=XRLnaL… Und dann hab ich noch einige tolle Songs mehr gefunden, wie "Soldat", "das neue Normal" oder verrückt... Reinhören lohnt sich meiner Meinung nach!

ok.danke.tschüss - Zu laut in der Disko (Live Session)

NEU - UNSERE 1. SINGLE - Vincent van Gogh: Hier streamen: https://hyperfollow.com/AllesOKDTok.danke.tschüss: Homepage | http://okdanketschuess.deInstagram | ...
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