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Yogthos

Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models lukashoel.github.io/text-to-ro

Yogthos

Codegen: an open large language model for code with multi-turn program synthesis arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13474.pdf

jojo🔞

@yogthos Feels like 'nam all over again. The proxy wars must come to an end.

Yogthos

Israel bombed Aleppo International Airport in the early hours of the morning today.

This is Syria's main hub for crucial earthquake aid deliveries.

And the "civilized world" barely blinks.

thecradle.co/article-view/2281

Yogthos

A new study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.

academic.oup.com/cje/advance-a

Yogthos

‘Mexico is not a US colony!’: AMLO condemns invasion threats, honors nationalization of oil, lithium youtube.com/watch?v=3dw1pcDoew

Yogthos

China’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered service vessel enters operation. Over the next few years, China will see a rapid growth in number of modified and newly-built hydrogen-powered ships, & the market size of domestic hydrogen fuel cell will reach the benchmark of 10 billion yuan ($1,45 billion)

globaltimes.cn/page/202303/128

Yogthos

Capitalism is a wasteful scam.

Bottled water companies do not produce water, they produce plastic bottles.
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Just Mark

For which the people of southern Mississippi are extremely grateful while they rebuild their infrastructure. To mangle an old saying, let's not throw the baby out with the bottled water.

gone

@yogthos
You can say the same thing of most of today's apps and collaterals, from airbnb to deliveroo to influencers, producing nothing but hyper-valued

Yogthos

Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs, "Good Reasons for Going Around the UN," 18 March 2003
nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion

What we are witnessing today is an unruly process of pushing and shoving toward a redefined role for the United Nations. Practices have to evolve without formal amendment. On Kosovo, a majority of the people, at least in the NATO countries, rejected a system that blocked a humanitarian intervention because of the political allegiances of a prominent Security Council member. In the next crisis, over East Timor, the council was once again able to reach a consensus and authorize a United Nations force.

That is the lesson that the United Nations and all of us should draw from this crisis. Overall, everyone involved is still playing by the rules. But depending on what we find in Iraq, the rules may have to evolve, so that what is legitimate is also legal.

A version of this article appears in print on March 18, 2003, Section A, Page 33 of the National edition with the headline: Good Reasons for Going Around the U.N.. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Yogthos

For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq

The New York Times Magazine

The American Empire (get Used to It)

by Michael Ignatief
Yogthos

Michael Ignatieff's infamous NYT magazine cover story from January 2003 (Ignatieff was founding director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights)

nytimes.com/2003/01/05/magazin

America's empire is not like empires of times past, built on colonies, conquest and the white man's burden. We are no longer in the era of the United Fruit Company, when American corporations needed the Marines to secure their investments overseas. The 21st century imperium is a new invention in the annals of political science, an empire lite, a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights and democracy, enforced by the most awesome military power the world has ever known. It is the imperialism of a people who remember that their country secured its independence by revolt against an empire, and who like to think of themselves as the friend of freedom everywhere. It is an empire without consciousness of itself as such, constantly shocked that its good intentions arouse resentment abroad. But that does not make it any less of an empire, with a conviction that it alone, in Herman Melville's words, bears ''the ark of the liberties of the world."
Weltzeitgeist

@yogthos The absolut richest country in all of history. What a fucking disgrace.

Yogthos

'A financial banana republic': UBS-Credit Suisse deal puts Switzerland's reputation on the line cnbc.com/2023/03/21/ubs-credit

Sid🇵🇸

@yogthos how many actual fascists that the US and Europe sponsored in South America stashed their cash in Swiss banks, and they use the term "banana republic." I hate it here

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