2021-05-02

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The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct

I heard from a couple of people that they thought they were losing their minds because they seemed to be surrounded by people in the company who kept crapping on them for trying to fix things. They thought they were all alone in this, and then some person reached out with the invitation to the channel, and they realized that no, they were not alone.

At least one of these folks told me over coffee and tea one day at the Philz down the street that "it probably kept them at the company longer" since it gave them faith that it could be brought around to doing good, solid and real work. They believed in the actual stated mission of the company and just wanted to deliver on that as much as possible without being treated like a child by other children.

Using online ads to spot human trafficking | Newsroom - McGill University

The test data set contained actual ads placed by human traffickers. The information in these ads is sensitive and kept private to protect the victims of human trafficking, so the team could not publish examples of the activities identified or the data set itself. This meant that other researchers could not verify their work. To remedy this, the team looked for public data sets they could use to test InfoShield that mimicked what the algorithm looked for in human trafficking data: text and the similarities in it. They turned to Twitter, where they found a trove of text and similarities in that text created by bots.
Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World

Steve Finberg, W1GSL, SK - Western Massachusetts ARRL

Steve started the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology electronics flea market in 1985 and ran it up continuously until October 2019. That was 35 years, 8 shows a year, always the third Sunday of the month, April through October. I don’t recall it ever being canceled. An outstanding accomplishment!

No, Left-Wing Activists Aren’t the Same As Fascist Thugs

For far-right parties across Europe, forcing their way into working-class and immigrant districts is a standard maneuver. The calculation is that their presence will cause incidents, relayed as a media spectacle that gives them visibility and permits them to play the victim. Precedents include Marine Le Pen’s numerous rallies in the working-class northern suburbs of Paris, or Matteo Salvini’s foray into the Bologna suburb of Pilastro, followed by a throng of cameras, to ask immigrants if they were drug dealers.
Black Penn State profs report ‘noose’ behind house; ends up being part of neighbor’s swing set | The College Fix
No, ‘Jeopardy ’ Champ Kelly Donohue Didn’t Make the ‘White Power’ Hand Gesture