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Music:Reflections (curated new weekly releases)https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UXu2FnwnhVZKvJ13FsawQ?si=dKqufMtHQ2-bQTmWSjQxJQ&pi=u-4_Eb8GxBQ8yr
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power by Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

The Guardian

Bomb threats in swing states now number into the dozens, so yeah. Maybe start by letting Ukraine do what they believe is best.

Russia has declared war on US democracy - It is past time for Washington to adopt a proactive stance and “return the favour” for Moscow’s influence operations

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/05/russia-declared-war-on-us-democracy-us-election-putin/

Russia has declared war on US democracy

It is past time for Washington to adopt a proactive stance and “return the favour” for Moscow’s influence operations

The Telegraph

Always left wondering if politicians and the federal government will ever have the will to go after these churches to revoke their tax statuses. (They won’t)

In Pews Across America, Evangelicals Are Told That God Wants Donald Trump https://www.wired.com/story/in-pews-across-america-evangelicals-are-told-that-god-wants-donald-trump/

In Pews Across America, Evangelicals Are Told That God Wants Donald Trump

The weekend before the election, one Pennsylvania pastor told congregants that hosting Elon Musk weeks earlier was “phenomenal.” In Nevada, another dressed as a garbageman while urging his flock to vote Trump.

WIRED

Musk, an Apartheid era raised South African who has clearly come out as a racist Nazi, lied to, cheated and transported black people in cargo vessels.

How is this not a massive scandal that ends with, at a minimum, him exiled from this country?

Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/

Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out

A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.

WIRED

What could possibly go wrong with the masses being manipulated?

“My Spirit Halloween is a Pakistan-hosted website that creates AI-generated news”

Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-invented-dublin-halloween-parade

Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade

Irish revellers flooded the streets of Dublin expecting a Halloween parade last night. The only problem? No parade had been organised.

euronews

From the nobody is surprised and billionaires shouldn’t exist departments

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/31/elon-musk-an-excess-of-billionaires-is-destabilising-politics-just-as-academics-predicted

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian

Of course this is how it played out

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

WIRED

MAGA civil war has begun

FBI Opens Investigation After Ballot Boxes In Oregon & Washington Were Set On Fire On Monday https://wsau.com/2024/10/28/police-open-investigation-after-ballot-boxes-in-oregon-washington-set-on-fire-monday-morning/

FBI Opens Investigation After Ballot Boxes In Oregon & Washington Were Set On Fire On Monday

PORTLAND, OR, (WSAU) - Police have opened an investigation into ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington sta...

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As with everything else he has ever done, musk is a complete fraud

Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk-illegal-immigration

Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report

Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views

The Guardian
llama-recipes/recipes/quickstart/NotebookLlama at main · meta-llama/llama-recipes https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/tree/main/recipes/quickstart/NotebookLlama
llama-recipes/recipes/quickstart/NotebookLlama at main · meta-llama/llama-recipes

Scripts for fine-tuning Meta Llama with composable FSDP & PEFT methods to cover single/multi-node GPUs. Supports default & custom datasets for applications such as summarization and Q&A...

GitHub