Deep Learning State Machine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks to establish English as one of the international communication languages in Ukraine, making English proficiency mandatory for specific official positions and setting guidelines for its usage across various domains.

Ha ha ha! Yes! Musk is limiting access to Twitter in order to break its users’ addiction and free them to touch grass. He has correctly diagnosed the problem (Twitter users are too obsessed with it) and implemented a solution (don’t let them see too many tweets). Of course to do this he had to become completely obsessed with Twitter, devote himself full-time to running it, tweet constantly and sink tens of billions of dollars of his own money into buying Twitter and then breaking it. He has sacrificed so much himself so that people like me can spend a bit less time on Twitter; he has taken the burden of Twitter addiction from millions of users and put it all on himself. Thanks!

French Police Union Calls Rioters 'Vermin'

Unions representing half of French police on Friday said they were at war with "vermin" in nights of rioting over an officer's shooting of a

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"Today police officers are at the front line because we are at war," the Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA Police unions said in a statement echoing far-right turns of phrase. "Faced with these savage hordes, it's no longer enough to call for calm, it must be imposed," they added. [...] "Now is not the time for industrial action but for fighting against these 'vermin'," the union statement released soon after said. But they added that unless officers enjoy still greater legal protection and more resources in the future, "tomorrow we will be in resistance".

Restarting student loan repayment was already going to be a nightmare, and this creates additional challenges. The first challenge is the sheer number of borrowers re-entering repayment. Roughly 43 million Americans have federal student debt, and the Biden administration estimated that about 20 million would have their loans completely forgiven by their proposal. I have little confidence that the Department of Education, student loan servicers, and colleges can smoothly handle 23 million borrowers that would have remained, let alone 43 million. Federal Student Aid badly needed additional resources to manage a return to repayment, but Republicans were only willing to provide the funds if it came with a rider blocking its use on debt relief. Since both parties agreed on no riders in last year’s omnibus spending bill, no additional funding was provided.

The ruling marked the first time that the Court had encountered a five-year-old law in which Congress, reacting to government arguments that it needed added surveillance powers to pursue the “war on terrorism,” broadly expanded federal agencies’ authority to monitor telephone, e-mail, and other communications between the U.S. and other countries, using high-volume computer-driven techniques. Because the Court ruled that the challengers to the 2008 law did not have “standing” under the Constitution’s Article III to file their case in regular civilian court, the decision did not judge the constitutionality of the sweeping new monitoring power.  The dissenters did not do so either, but they did argue that the challengers’ case should have been allowed to proceed in lower courts. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who wrote the majority opinion, concluded that the challengers’ lawsuit was based upon a “chain of contingencies” that would have to fall into place before their communications might be at risk of eavesdropping.  They had not shown, the opinion concluded, that harms to them were “certainly impending” —  a rigorous standard for testing the right to sue.