Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ☮ Truth network • YES! Universal social justice, human rights | environmentalism | unions | democratic socialism • NO! Capitalism | billionaires | inequality | oligarchy | authoritarianism | theocracy • https://Persagen.org/wpi/ • Transgenocide: https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf • About: https://persagen.org/html/about.html • Me: https://persagen.org/about/victoria/victoria-bio-mastodon.html #NoBots

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 9 months ago

Meta Oversight Board rules anti-transgender videos don't violate hate speech rules

Advocate.com

Meta Oversight Board rules anti-transgender videos don't violate hate speech rules

<p>Meta's Oversight Board allowed transphobic posts after executives warned they should be “treated carefully ... given the fraught political deb...

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #transgenocide Trump sycophant Mark Zuckerberg #billionaires #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #MetaAI #transphobia #HateSpeech #transphobia 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)

Attached: 2 images 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/ Background: Transphobia & transgenocide https://persag...

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 9 months ago

Cinnamon could affect drug metabolism in the bod

ScienceDaily

Cinnamon could affect drug metabolism in the body

Cinnamon is one of the oldest and most commonly used spices in the world, but a new study indicates a compound in it could interfere with some pres...

https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/4/cinnamon-drug-interactions/index.html * could interfere with some prescription medications Evaluation of bioaccessibility, metabolic clearance and interaction with xenobiotic receptors (PXR and AhR) of cinnamaldehyde https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566224000443 #food #DrugMetabolism #pharmacokinetics #cinnamon #cinnamaldehyde #DietarySupplements

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 10 months ago

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? | The Cheese Professor

The Cheese Professor

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? | The Cheese Professor

A tiny team of 24 "battitori," or tappers, is responsible for ensuring the quality of 4 million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano produced annually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644970 video: Così si testa la stagionatura del Parmigiano Reggiano: "Il segreto è nel suono della battitura" #food #cheese #CheeseMaking

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 10 months ago

Protests against Trump & Musk: ‘Hands Off!’ rallies across U.S.

AP News

Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in 'Hands Off!' rallies

Thousands of demonstrators from New York to Alaska protested against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

Protesters tee off on Trump, Musk in global 'Hands Off' rallies https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hands-off-protests-trump-musk-1.7503026 'He's tearing this country apart,' says Ohio demonstrator 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter 🇺🇲 #Trump #fascism #antiLGBTQ #Christofascism #transgenocide Transgenocide

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)

Attached: 2 images 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/ Background: Transphobia & transgenocide https://persag...

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate #solidarity #socialism #unionize

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

How close is AI to human-level intelligence? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03905-1 nonpaywalled https://archive.fo/Uq4B0 * large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving AGI: artificial general intelligence * unlikely to reach this milestone on their own * new capabilities of LLM radically changed the landscape * breadth of abilities that have cause some researchers to seriously consider the idea some form of AGI might be imminent or already here #LLM #AI #AGI #OpenAI

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims AI systems to be 100x more powerful

Windows Central

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https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1guncvr/d_eric_schmidt_says_that_scaling_laws_are_not_yet * Sam Altman [OpenAI] reportedly preps $1 TRILLION AI model training run * Schmidt bashes scaling power law reports * claims AI models will lead to dangers s.a. biological attacks, new forms warfare Comments: * environmental cost * better to await more efficient architectures, models? #ML #LLM #AI #EricSchmidt #OpenAI #SamAltman

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Better Dev Link: Issue 263 - Aug 19, 2024

Better Dev Link - On becoming a better programmer

A weekly news letter of resource around the web on becoming a better developer

#dev #programming #tech #development #AI BetterDev

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Better Dev Link: Issue 262 - Aug 12, 2024

Better Dev Link - On becoming a better programmer

A weekly news letter of resource around the web on becoming a better developer

#TechNews #computing #ML #AI #NLP #LLM #programming

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Last Week in AI #282 - MORE OpenAI drama, Stable Diffusion creators are back, and more! OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave, Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, SD creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M ...

Last Week in AI #282 - MORE OpenAI drama, Stable Diffusion creators are back, and more!

OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave, Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, SD creator...

#AI #ML #NLP #LLM #tech #GPT #OpenAI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Anthropic

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Your guide to AI - August 2024 https://nathanbenaich.substack.com/p/your-guide-to-ai-august-2024 These summaries are superb 👍️ #AI #ML #NLP #LLM

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Watched 60 Minutes S56E40 last evening: Geoff Hinton (Toronto), machine learning, large language models, artificial (general) intelligence ... The power of LLM is both transformative and sobering; here is a great example (Google Bard. 2023) ... current / future models leapfrog ahead ... 42 sec. clip:

#ML #AI #LLM #60Minutes #GeoffHinton #GoogleBard #chatbot

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Is intermittent fasting better than counting calories? Maybe not, but you might stick with it

AP News

Intermittent fasting might not be better than counting calories. Here's why it still could work for you.

Intermittent fasting, where people eat what they want, but only during certain daily windows of time, has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years.

Intermittent fasting - Wikipedia

#fasting #diet #health #IntermittentFasting #TimeRestrictedEating

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

🎵 Morning ☮-in Planet Funk - Lemonade (Benny Benassi Remix) Planet Funk - Lemonade (Benny Benassi Remix) Planet Funk - Lemonade (Official Video) Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #house #PlanetFunk #BennyBenassi

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 1 year ago

Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark

ScienceDaily

Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark

An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark -- and within just two minutes.

paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/1814232X.2024.2311272 video: #orca #sharks #predation #ecology

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon

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BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon

So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...

BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon | Hacker News

#mastodon #bbc #MetaThreads #XCorp #Twitter

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

🎵 Morning ☮-in All Your Base Are Belong To Us Bonus Extreme low level flying * music: Stay Away - Nirvana Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #AYB #AllYourBase #Nirvana #ExtremeFlight

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

[thread] Neofascism Fascism:

Fascism - Wikipedia

* far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology & movement * char. by dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation & race, strong regimentation of society & economy ... #fascism #neofascism #GOP #GOPmenace

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

[thread] Politics, LGBTQ+, repression Transphobia:

Transphobia

Transphobia is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions towards transgender people or ...

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth:

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth

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Weaponization of language: Anti-transgender Rhetoric; Use of Language:

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth

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GOPAC memo of 1990:

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth

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#GOP #GOPAC #GOPmenace #transphobia #homophobia #lgbt #TLM #BTLM #TranslivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #neoconservatism #CultureWars #populism #ChristianRight #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #HumanRights

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

[thread] Police state, militarized police See also: Stop Cop City

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)

[thread] Stop Cop City See also: Police state, militarized police https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111070223601282945 Domestic terrorism charges...

#police #LawEnforcement #PoliceAccountability #accountability #1A #PoliceState #neofascism #GOP #GOPmenace #DefundPolice #BLM #BTLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter

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