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How, precisely, did the cockatoo painted by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna reach Mantua? nyer.cm/MjrKSPe
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We're excited to announce our 2nd and final round of endorsements for City Council, in 18 additional races. The degree to which candidates have embraced progressive transportation & street-safety policies is truly breathtaking. Meet today's endorsees here: streetspac.org/streetspac_an…
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Selected machine learning attacks; first in a series.
1. Cyberpunk
2. Looney Tunes
3. Magritte
4. Witchcraft
ALT Illustration: a sticker with strange markings tricks a classifier into thinking a banana is a toaster.
ALT Screenshot: an article titled "Hackers stuck a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35 mph speed sign and tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85 mph"
ALT Illustration: a machine learning model classifies an apple with the word "iPod" stuck to it as an iPod.
ALT Photo: an empty asphalt area. In center frame, a car is trapped inside a salt circle that resembles "no lane change" markings.
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"Nonwhite voters are seven times more likely than white voters to wait in line for more than an hour to vote."
SEVEN times.
Race is one of the strongest predictors of how long a person waits in line to vote, research shows. nbcnews.to/3jUKkM6
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“We have now heard of us taking breastfeeding defendant moms away from their infants,” one government prosecutor wrote to his superiors. “I did not believe this until I looked at the duty log.”
nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/po…
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Your vote has never mattered more than it does right now.
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Go to iwillvote.com to register and make a plan to vote. And make sure everybody you know does, too.
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NEW: Never-released report shows number of people killed by police activity in New York City is more than double what was reported. nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opini…
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Severe lack of #COVID19 testing means we need alternate methods to understand community transmission.
We are launching @COVIDNearYou crowdsourcing platform. Take a few seconds to report your symptoms and help us build a national picture of #coronavirus.
covidnearyou.org
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Space engineer Justine Haupt has made her own rotary mobile phone.
justine-haupt.com/rotarycell…
WANT.
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When it comes to cruise ships and air pollution, the Eastern Seaboard is the Wild West. As little use as the plug-in system gets in Brooklyn, it is the only shore power option for cruise ships on the Atlantic in this country. nyti.ms/37aVqWO
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Release the transcripts.
cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/…
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After I forced myself into a cell w/ women&began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as “psychological warfare” - waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc.
Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?”
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This is the drone forecast for Airstrip One, issued by the Bot Office at 0900 hours. Heathrow, Gatwick, chance of anomalies, rising slowly.
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Watching this behemoth of the seas belching its monstrous carcinogenic and asthma-inducing fumes over #RedHook all day long. How has this been allowed to happen? Why was this even allowed to happen in the first place when there was a zero-emissions alternative? – at Brooklyn, NY
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Your vote can decide the health care of millions. Your voice can determine the character of our country. You have power — use it! In most states, you don't even have to wait until Election Day to cast a ballot. Find out where you can vote before Nov. 6: IWillVote.com
