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The Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement Party or ‘MSI’) was founded in 1946 on ‘the assumption that fascism was not a parenthesis in Italian history, a twenty-year aberration, but a movement, a set of ideas and values, that survived military defeat,’ according to its founder Giorgio Almirante. Like Almirante, most of MSI’s leaders were […]
Local election results across England have largely come in, and with them, the inevitable spin, gloss, and damage control has begun. Early indications show a low turnout, Conservative voters staying at home, and a general lack of enthusiasm and engagement across the board. As a local Labour candidate for the Crewe South ward of Cheshire […]
Companies like Evolv sell multimillion-dollar AI-powered gun detection systems to schools nationwide, but weapons still slip through.
The post AI Tries (and Fails) to Detect Weapons in Schools appeared first on The Intercept.
Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron
on fedi),
the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and
lead developer of Mastodon-the-software,
got some people worried
about the outsized
influence Mastodon (the software project and the
non-profit) has on the rest of the Fediverse.
Good. We should be worried.
Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The
biggest instance, mastodon.social
, is home to over 200.000
active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole Fediverse, on a
single instance. Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often
identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that
Fediverse is a much broader
system comprised of a much more diverse software.
“I don’t think we’ve spoken enough about what Black women have had to endure here,” said Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx, a Gardner ally.
The post Why St. Louis’s Reform DA Kim Gardner Quit appeared first on The Intercept.