Interview with Roberto Nickson on Meta AI, Fighting in the UFC, Llama 3, Legacy, Metaverse

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Force

Emily BertholfForce, 2024 Fandom: Star WarsWatercolor, gouache on paper12 x 9 inCollection of the artist Rating: General Audiences Tags: star wars, john wilde, george lucas, family drama, identity, cinema, space, watercolor, gouache, princess leia, darth vader, death star, millenium falcon, collageCreator\u27s notes: A Star Wars themed reimagining of John Wilde\u27s A Lesson from Nature

Definitely I See

OICnails Definitely I See, 2024 Fandom: nail polish Nail art Variable dimensions Collection of the artist Rating: General Audiences Tags: (None provided) Creator\u27s notes: I loved that the inspiration piece uses the same model in contrasting poses much the way the same content can be interpreted not only in different, but often in opposing, ways. So I chose this optical illusion design where the shades flip and turn into each other

I am your hope. You are my hope.

Christina DeSpearsI am your hope. You are my hope., 2024 Fandom: BTS/ARMY Digital photography Variable dimensions Collection of the artist Rating: General Audiences Tags: ARMY, BTS, KPOP, boyband Creator\u27s notes: The inspiration piece reminded me of ARMY waiting patiently (or not so much) for BTS to complete their mandatory military service in South Korea. The image of the group (which I have been obsessed with) was posted to RM\u27s Instagram in the days after oldest member, Jin, completed his service. In the original image they all look a little rosy, apparently celebrating their brief reunion before the others returned to their duties. The release of the balloons in my image will be the day the last member completes his service and all ARMYs celebrate. The image looks less solid than the inspiration piece because the reunion between BTS and ARMY is still a dream

Rectifying Harm Through Care-Based Practices: How Journalists Might Tend to Disengaged Communities

Journalists struggle to engage with disengaged communities, especially conservative and BIPOC groups. In this research, we suggest that an ethic of care, born from developmental psychology, can be a strategy for trust building. Using a multi-phased, multi-method approach through interviews, surveys, and a focus group, we found that community members believe journalists must be more careful and intentional with cultural and political language relating to ideology, racial identity, and sexual orientation. This study shows that journalists must address harm by contending with negative news experiences, nuancing labels and language associated with their communities, and adopting a combination of five care-based values (drawn from political scientist Joan Tronto): attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness, and solidarity. The findings from this applied research will be used to create training that improves relationships between newsrooms and their communities, as well as help journalists to become more receptive, flexible, and empathetic to audiences

Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more

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ARMING THE NAKED PUBLIC SQUARE: AMERICA’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFRONT THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, 1980-1983

This dissertation examines 1983 pastoral on war and peace, The Challenge of Peace, from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). It analyzes in-depth the process of the ad hoc committee of the NCCB that wrote the pastoral alongside the simultaneous debates within the American Catholic community and the Reagan administration surrounding the pastoral. Special attention is given here to the interactions of the Reagan administration with the ad hoc committee, led by Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, and the role of American Catholic lay critics Michael Novak, Philip Lawler, and George Weigel. It also explicates the intrapersonal aspect of drafting process, focusing especially on the perspective of committee member Bishop (later cardinal archbishop of New York) John O’Connor. I argue that The Challenge of Peace was the first American episcopal document after the Second Vatican Council showcasing the American Catholic Church attempting to establish itself as a major player in mainstream political life. It provided specific parameters, though not specific policies, through which American Catholics may navigate issues of war and peace. The Challenge of Peace had a modest effect on American nuclear policy, but it expanded the field of what counted as religious advocacy in public policy matters. This project features materials from The Catholic University of America, the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Papers at the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Archives and Records Center of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Thomas Gumbleton Papers at the University of Notre Dame, and numerous collections at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. It also draws from a personal interview conducted via telephone with Father J. Bryan Hehir, the editor of the finished pastoral. This dissertation contributes to the historiography surrounding the American Catholic Church and political policy in the 1980s and the religious aspects of political conservatism of the same period. It contextualizes the pastoral in a unique manner that prioritizes the role of the Second Vatican Council in forming the theological background of the discussions behind the pastoral. It takes seriously the critiques of conservative critics of The Challenge of Peace who have been previously underrepresented in narratives surrounding the pastoral

US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis

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Gamma Amplitude-Envelope Correlations Are Strongly Elevated within Hyperexcitable Networks in Focal Epilepsy

Methods to quantify cortical hyperexcitability are of enormous interest for mapping epileptic networks in patients with focal epilepsy. We hypothesize that, in the resting state, cortical hyperexcitability increases firing-rate correlations between neuronal populations within seizure onset zones (SOZs). This hypothesis predicts that in the gamma frequency band (40–200 Hz), amplitude envelope correlations (AECs), a relatively straightforward measure of functional connectivity, should be elevated within SOZs compared to other areas. To test this prediction, we analyzed archived samples of interictal electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals recorded from patients who became seizure-free after surgery targeting SOZs identified by multiday intracranial recordings. We show that in the gamma band, AECs between nodes within SOZs are markedly elevated relative to those elsewhere. AEC-based node strength, eigencentrality, and clustering coefficient are also robustly increased within the SOZ with maxima in the low-gamma band (permutation test Z-scores \u3e 8) and yield moderate discriminability of the SOZ using ROC analysis (maximal mean AUC ~ 0.73). By contrast to AECs, phase locking values (PLVs), a measure of narrow-band phase coupling across sites, and PLV-based graph metrics discriminate the seizure onset nodes weakly. Our results suggest that gamma band AECs may provide a clinically useful marker of cortical hyperexcitability in focal epilepsy