#foa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #foa, aggregated by home.social.
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"The “#Zionist Occupied Government” (#ZOG) #conspiracytheory increased more than threefold during the 2026 #Iran war, Fighting Online #Antisemitism (#FOA) has revealed.
The “ZOG” #conspiracy theory falsely claims a secret #Jewish/ #Israeli #cabal controls global institutions and sovereign governments, especially that of the #US.
FOA looked at two 38-day periods in 2026 for its study: the baseline period (January 21 – February 27, 2026) and the war period (February 28 – April 6, 2026).
It found that the increased volume of hate content was accompanied by a focus explicitly around the term “ZOG” – which increased from 49% prevalence in the baseline period to 63% during the wartime dataset.
Public engagement with the rhetoric also intensified dramatically during the Iran conflict – conspiracy theory content, including ZOG references, received double the amount of likes and a 10-times increase in shares compared to pre-war levels."
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My first attempt at #bookbinding
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https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356896
#ClimateResilience Centers' funding opportunity announcement #FOA
…extend #DOE #climatescience and research capacity by supporting…Minority Serving Institutions…and…Emerging Research Institutions…to address the needs for #regionalresilience; including new science to describe #climatechange induced impacts…also aim to foster capacity at regional and local scales by connecting with affected communities and stakeholders to translate basic research into actionable #science…
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Футбольные алгоритмы глобальной оптимизации (часть 2)
В предыдущей статье я рассказывал о некоторых метаэвристических алгоритмах, инспирированных динамикой футбола и стратегическими элементами футбольного матча. В этой мы продолжим знакомство с семейством таких алгоритмов. Алгоритм футбольной оптимизации ( Football Optimization Algorithm, FOA ) FOA — это популяционный алгоритм, в котором пространство поиска имитируется футбольным полем. Индивидуальные решения представлены отдельными игроками, которым присваивается набор параметров (переменные решения) и значение мощности (функция приспособленности). Все игроки делятся на два типа: основные и запасные. В процессе поиска игрокам присваивается рейтинг, а игрок с лучшим рейтингом становится обладателем мяча. На каждой итерации рейтинг переоценивается и право владения мячом передаётся основному игроку с самым высоким рейтингом. Каждый раз при передаче мяча происходит обмен параметрами между двумя игроками. Игроки корректируют свои позиции, чтобы быть ближе к мячу, и постепенно направляются к воротам. То есть после каждого паса другие игроки перемещаются в положение, где они могут получить мяч, и дают больше возможностей игроку, владеющему мячом, в соответствии с уравнением, где игроки перемещаются к лучшему игроку на x единиц.
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U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign awarded $459K grant from the #NSF to create inclusive #EdTech environments and advance workplace equity for persons with disabilities in #STEM fields.
Project builds on #OpenSource tools that augment visual charts into touchable (braille), readable (text), and audible (sound) representations.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1056143
(Want to promote more open source in #HigherEducation and #OpenScience? Join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)
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A $400K US grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is earmarked for Queens University's 3D Slicer, an #OpenSource platform for medical imaging, data analysis, visualization, and image-guided therapy, and will support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement.
https://www.queensu.ca/artsci/news/open-source-software-program-receives-critical-funding-0
(Want to promote more open source in #EdTech and #OpenScience? Join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)
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Graduate and undergraduate researchers at the #Wharton School, have created an #OpenSource tool to help social scientists analyze the dynamics of team communication. The tool offers a new way to break down complex interactions, enabling researchers to systematically measure and optimize how teams collaborate across a variety of environments.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wharton-hu-css-lab-mechanics-collaboration
(Want to promote more open source in #EdTech, join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)
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MONZA, NUOVA OCCUPAZIONE DEL FOA BOCCACCIO IN SEGUITO ALLO SGOMBERO DI GIOVEDI https://www.radiondadurto.org/2024/06/22/monza-nuova-occupazione-del-foa-boccaccio-in-seguito-allo-sgombero-di-giovedi/ #piazzaPodgora #occupazione #Movimento #NAZIONALI #boccaccio #Politica #sgombero #monza #Foa
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Since the start of this year, Danielle Allen has been making the case that it’s time to renovate our democracy.
But the very idea presumes several things. These include:
(1) that constitutional democracy is good for human beings;
(2) that we should want to keep and improve the one we’ve got;
(3) that long-term work on the health of our democracy is worthwhile even as we face the near-term stress of a pretty unpalatable upcoming presidential election; and
(4) that change is possible.
Several questions have cropped up repeatedly that touch on those underlying propositions.
Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/democracy-renovation-faq-danielle-allen/
#DanielleAllen
#supermajority #Mounk #Foa #supermajority #initiatives #fairness #inclusion -
For me, the single bleakest data point about the health of our society concerns a difference across generations in that sense of attachment to democracy.
As political scientists Yascha #Mounk and Roberto #Foa have reported in a few different guises, there has been significant 🔸generational decline in 🔸how people value democracy.
In the starkest formulation, made in 2016, roughly 70 percent of Americans in the generation born before World War II consider it very essential, while not quite 30 percent of Americans who are now about 40 and younger do so.
This finding occasioned controversy, but the points about decline of young people’s attachment to democracy are robust.
Among those of us who have not been radicalized, on both sides of the aisle, there is work to do to forge a cross-ideological #supermajority.
First of all, people have to believe such a supermajority is possible.
Happily, the evidence abounds, especially in the results of state ballot #initiatives.These are decided with cross-ideological supermajorities or near supermajorities voting in favor with surprising frequency.
Here are some examples:
🔹Legalization of recreational marijuana (2020): New Jersey, 67 percent;
🔹legalization of recreational marijuana (2022): Maryland, 67 percent;
🔹legalization of medical marijuana (2020): Mississippi, 74 percent;
🔹restoring voting rights to those who have completed felony conviction (2018): Florida, 65 percent;
🔹new state flag without Confederate emblems (2020): Mississippi, 71 percent;
🔹right to repair in support of small auto shops (2020): Massachusetts, 75 percent.
Look at these decisions and you’ll see American supermajorities voting over and over again for #fairness, #inclusion and the person getting the short end of the stick.
This is not only a ♦️cross-ideological supermajority ♦️in the making; it’s one with good, salt-of-the-earth values.
This potential American supermajority for constitutional democracy is what we need to forge.No democracy can be stable without a supermajority supporting the basic rules of the game.
Inside the bounds of those rules, we can fight like the dickens over specific policy questions. But the rules themselves require supermajority support for stability.
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#Foa faceva il putiniere dalla TV di stato pagata coi soldi di tutti. E oggi i suoi compari scendono dal pero e dicono "ohibò, dobbiamo mandare tante armi per fare la pace! Non si poteva fare niente prima, non si può fare nient'altro adesso, chi dice di no è amico di Putin!"
