The Trump White House is repurposing the potent framing of “terrorism” to go after a new set of enemies – drug cartels, migrants and domestic political opponents. Its words and deeds pose serious risks to the U.S. constitutional order, civil liberties and maybe peace as well.

https://www.crisisgroup.org/united-states/united-states/trump-administrations-wars-terror-old-and-new

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/judge-launches-inquiry-into-trump-administrations-refusal-to-seek-return-of-wrongly-deported-man-00291942

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- EfficientNet
- TensorFlow
- WhisperAI
- Stable Diffusion Image Generation by Stability AI
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Beatles use AI to complete a new song

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Summary Bot for Nextcloud Talk Chat

What are Common AI Models & How to Use Them

Ollama, supporting Deepseek and other kinds of models, from small to large.
- Project Github

Perplexica AI Search
- Built on Searxng

Common AI Models and When to use them?

Artificial intelligence (AI) models include a wide range of techniques and approaches designed to mimic human thought processes and perform tasks that would typically need human intervention.

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Forse sarà che pure il vibe di questa sera è sullo zzz… o forse sono semplicemente touch-starved come al mio perpetuo solito… ma un pochino sto già pensando al momento in cui andrò a dormire stanotte (anche se sarà molto tardi, perché già so che procrastinerò come al solito, nonostante già soffro al solo pensiero […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-04-15 19:52:45

aaaaaaaaaa quando dormi senza abbracciare perché gli insetti ti odiano

t.me/thewireedd/327507
Forse sarà che pure il vibe di questa sera è sullo zzz… o forse sono semplicemente touch-starved come al mio perpetuo solito… ma un pochino sto già pensando al momento in cui andrò a dormire stanotte (anche se sarà molto tardi, perché già so che procrastinerò come al solito, nonostante già soffro al solo pensiero di dovermi alzare presto domani mattina), e quindi mi viene in mente che la situazione a letto francamente è un po’ così… o almeno, vorrei, perché questa immagine trasmette qualcosa di desiderabile, non spaventoso come potrebbe sembrare a primo impatto. 😿

A parte che, lo sappiamo, camera mia non è così bella con le pareti decorate e tremila peluche di My Melody — che ruberebbero si lebensraum del mio letto, ma pur sempre in modo piacevole e con implicazioni più positive di quanto i normaloidi potrebbero mai immaginare per qualsiasi fatto quotidiano — cosa per cui questa ragazza 2D inesistente se la passa già sicuramente meglio di me… ma poi, caspiterina, io veramente non ho nessuno che mi abbracci mentre mi addormento. Lei ha questo meraviglioso dolcissimo e carinissimo centopiedi (o millepiedi?) che, se vedete bene, con le sue zampe la abbraccia forte, come lei abbraccia in primo luogo lui, ricambiando tutto l’amore che riceve da chi non ne ha altrimenti mai ricevuto. 💌

…E poi, appunto, ci sono io. Io, che oh maremma maiala, faccio fatica ad addormentarmi, quando capitano quei dolorosi momenti in cui non riesco propriamente a ben dissociarmi per proiettare temporaneamente la mia anima nel mondo delle ombre, permettendo così al corpo di riposarsi e alla mente di (parzialmente, perché i danni subiti durante ogni giornata non sono propriamente reversibili) rigenerarsi, finendo così per elaborare involontariamente svariati pensieri, tra cui può arrivare il doloroso promemoria di come io non abbia nessuno. Ho il cuscino, in realtà (intendo, uno in più rispetto a quello dove poggio la testa)… ma lui ovviamente non può ricambiare il mio abbraccio. L’insettone gigantesco proveniente da un universo australianizzato invece si, potrebbe, ma io ovviamente non lo possiedo. (…Sarà il caso di inventarne uno robotico, magari? Anche perché, sapendo quanto faccio schifo, secondo me uno vero comunque non mi abbraccerebbe, a me.) ☠️

psych ward in who

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/global-ai-opinion/

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/10857620

If you are interested in this text, you might save not only the link, but the PDF as well - apparently there are ongoing efforts to de-publish it completely. (What again was the word we were using for this in USSR times?)

And if you are interested on many more details how "social media" and most smartphone software employs a neverending stream of "brain hacks" to capture our attention by addictive design, amplifying the campaigns of Cambridge Analytica and people behind it like Bannon or Mercer, this is a book you should look into:

"Free Your Mind from Smartphone and Social Media Stress", by Imran Rashid and Søten Kenner, Johm Wiley & Sons, ISBN (print) 978-3-527-51002-3, (epub) 978-3-527-82886-9.
- title sounds like a self-help book but I think it is immensely political.

these “agreements” are – depending on the agreements – three or four bullet pointed paragraphs of text

...
putting all the pieces together it seems clear to me that these blocks of text are in fact the sum total of the agreement. They appear to be identical to what Donald Trump posted on Truth Social.

What’s Really in the White House Law Firm Agreements?

Last week I asked some questions about the law firm “agreements” with Donald Trump that seem very unclear from the available news coverage. Namely…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

SCATTI D’AUTORE
UNA MOSTRA IN RICORDO DI LUCIANO VIOTTO E CHET BAKER

Nel 2024 è scomparso a 67 anni Luciano Viotto, appassionato di jazz e figura storica dell’urbanistica torinese. Funzionario della Città metropolitana di Torino dal 2005, era da poco in pensione. Per ricordarlo, la Città metropolitana, il Torino Jazz Festival e la Fondazione per la Cultura Torino promuovono una mostra fotografica dedicata a Chet Baker.

Gli scatti, realizzati da Viotto il 21 aprile 1988 durante un concerto al Teatro Carignano, ritraggono il celebre trombettista pochi giorni prima della sua morte, avvenuta il 13 maggio ad Amsterdam.

Viotto non era un musicista, ma un profondo conoscitore del jazz e collezionista, autore anche di una dettagliata discografia su Miles Davis. Il concerto del 1988 fu un evento irripetibile: Chet Baker si esibì con Enrico Rava, Franco D’Andrea, Massimo Urbani, Giovanni Tommaso e Roberto Gatto. La sua presenza fu in bilico fino all’ultimo: bloccato alla dogana francese, arrivò a Torino solo per il secondo set grazie all’intervento di un avvocato. La performance fu comunque indimenticabile.

Le foto saranno esposte nel foyer della sede della Città metropolitana di Torino, in corso Inghilterra 7. L’inaugurazione è prevista per il 22 aprile alle ore 16, con la partecipazione della famiglia Viotto, di Lorenza Cattadori (Musica Jazz) e del sassofonista Gianni Denitto.

La mostra sarà visitabile fino al 5 maggio, dal lunedì al venerdì dalle 8 alle 18 (chiusa nei weekend e nei festivi).
Ingresso gratuito.

Torino: Scatti d'autore. Dal 22 aprile al 5 maggio mostra in ricordo di Luciano Viotto attraverso le sue foto a Chet Baker nel 1988 - ViaggieMiraggi

SCATTI D’AUTORE UNA MOSTRA IN RICORDO DI LUCIANO VIOTTO ATTRAVERSO LE SUE FOTO A CHET BAKER NEL 1988 Nel 2024, all’età di soli 67 anni, è venuto a mancare Luciano Viotto, uno dei protagonisti più appassionati della scena jazz torinese....

^{Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)}

Un sondaggio pubblicato dal Guardian che mostra come i ragazzi inglesi siano più preoccupati per i soldi che per gli ideali ha suscitato scandalo negli adulti che hanno commentato come crescono generazioni senza ideali, materialisti e non sanno sognare.

Concita De Gregorio: non capisco lo stupore.
Se non hai un lavoro non c’è posto per i sogni.
Se il lavoro ce l’hai ma non guadagni abbastanza per mantenerti ti svegli con gli incubi.
Se sei libero professionista (diciamo così, includendo nella categoria il precariato) ti pagano a 60 giorni, a volte a 120.

Persino i diritti individuali, l’emarginazione, il bullismo, la violenza di ogni genere arrivano dopo, nella gerarchia delle priorità, rispetto all’urgenza di avere un tetto, un lavoro, i soldi per mangiare.
È così per tutti, giovani, adulti e anziani.

Se paghi con regolarità le tasse, se non rubi, se non fai traffici illeciti e saldi i tuoi debiti con puntualità diventi rapidamente povero.
Ma veramente povero.

Concita De Gregorio: Se non hai un lavoro, non c’è posto per i sogni

ha suscitato scandalo un sondaggio che mostra come i ragazzi inglesi siano più preoccupati per i soldi che per gli ideali, in caso di assenza di entrambi. Non …

^{Concita De Gregorio (la Repubblica)}

Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang ties

A 19-year-old Venezuelan in New York City reportedly was apprehended by Trump administration immigration authorities and deported to El Salvador despite agents’ realizing he was not whom they meant to arrest in a targeted operation.

Merwil Gutiérrez, whose family opened an asylum case after arriving in the US, was deported from the Bronx to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador despite his relatives’ insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history, according to Documented, a newsroom dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in New York City. The Gutiérrez family says it has been left without information or answers.

The teen was detained alongside 237 other Venezuelans on 24 February by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). His father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented: “I feel like my son was kidnapped.”

Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target

^{Marina Dunbar (The Guardian)}

With, I think, a massive grain of salt since this info is unverified and direct from the manufacturer...

Huawei’s official presentation claims their Cloudmatrix 385 supercomputer delivers 300 PFLOPS of computing power, 269 TB/s of network bandwidth, and 1,229 TB/s of total memory bandwidth. It also achieves 55 percent model fitting utilization (MFU) during training workloads and offers 2.8 Tbps of inter-card bandwidth, heavily emphasizing its strength in networking.

| Spec            | NVL72 (Nvidia) | CloudMatrix 384 (Huawei) | Better? (%) |
|-----------------|----------------|--------------------------|------------|
| Total compute   | 180 Pflops     | 300 Pflops               | 67%        |
| Total network bw| 130 TB/s       | 269 TB/s                 | 107%       |
| Total mem bw    | 576 TB/s       | 1,229 TB/s               | 113%       |

Nvidia finally has some AI competition as Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics”

Huawei is flexing its networking muscles with its newly unveiled CloudMatrix 384 supercomputer, and it looks like Nvidia could be in trouble.

^{Hassam Nasir (PC Guide)}

Department of Government Efficiency staffers have been given access to government databases containing private information about where people work or live - all with the intention of identifying undocumented immigrants and assisting in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Those databases - at agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Social Security Administration and IRS - contain private information that immigrants of all statuses have submitted about themselves, believing the information would not be used against them.

At HUD, officials are working on a rule that would ban mixed-status households – or those with people who have different immigration or citizenship statuses – from obtaining public housing, unnamed staffers

DOGE, which is being spearheaded by Elon Musk, is combing through HUD data to identify undocumented immigrants and then share that data with the Department of Homeland Security to have people removed from accessing public benefits, even if they live with someone who has legal status.

How DOGE is combing through housing and other data to find migrants for Trump’s deportation plans

Data that DOGE staffers may access include where potential undocumented immigrants may live and work

^{Ariana Baio (The Independent)}

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from rescinding deportation protections and work permits for more than a half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted entrance into the United States under a humanitarian parole program during the Biden presidency.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled, after a hearing last week, that the paroled migrants can stay in the United States as they pursue immigration benefits. In effect, her ruling will prevent the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary, Kristi Noem, from revoking their parole status as part of an administration plan to end the humanitarian program on April 24.

“While [Trump administration officials] are correct that the Secretary’s discretion in this area is broad, their conclusion that the Secretary’s actions are wholly shielded from judicial review is incorrect,” Talwani wrote in in a 41-page order filed in Boston federal court.

In November, Riggs won an election for the state supreme court by a razor-thin 734 votes. But on Friday, the North Carolina supreme court ordered the state board of elections to give certain overseas voters 30 days to prove their eligibility in order to have the votes they cast more than five months ago count.

Riggs has already asked a federal court to intervene and halt the ruling, which could lead to the election results being overturned. She told the Guardian she sees her court challenge as about more than just her seat.

“I worry that this is honing a playbook to be used in the future, that people in power hold on to power by selectively challenging election outcomes that they don’t like,” she said.

‘An existential threat to democracy’: the US judge facing a challenge to her election victory

Allison Riggs won in November – but a court ruling has put ballots in North Carolina under threat. The stakes are high

^{Sam Levine (The Guardian)}

While it is a notch below being a governor or U.S. Senator, the attorney general’s office in Texas has long been a platform for generating publicity and getting into the pipeline for higher office. Every Texas attorney general since 1972 has run for either the U.S. Senate or governor, though not all have won.

Yet, Texas hasn’t seen many open primary battles of attorney general over the last 25 years. Paxton had to go to a runoff election with former Texas Rep. Dan Branch in 2014 to win his first term in office. Before that, you have to go back to 2002, when now Gov. Greg Abbott won his primary unopposed to begin a 12-year run as Texas attorney general. Those are the only two open-seat battles for attorney general since George W. Bush was governor.

Who will replace Ken Paxton as Texas Attorney General?

Ken Paxton's decision to run for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn could set off a crowded GOP primary for Texas Attorney General.

^{Jeremy Wallace (Houston Chronicle)}