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@collective_truth RE: "Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures" 👈🏻 Oooh, is there a reason why you left organisations out of the mess they have created themselves in the first place?

I don't know many democratic orgs. that have survived from over the course of the last 30 years I've been in this industry 😢. Have you?

.cc @NebulaTide @mariafarrell

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

@NebulaTide @elsua54 @mariafarrell Maybe we never had control from the beginning?

Being slaves of some sort may be natural (like a child needing to follow)...

Perhaps we never had proper control and were working in sub-territories & small bubbles of what is still overall #authoritarian #hierarchical work for #governments / prefectures.

i.e. The #fascistic or army style divisions used to reap / take more than give people something as #reasoned control and #care.

(Said in a positive tone).

AI AND THE OUTCAST: DISMISSABILITY AS STRUCTURE

Relational Anthropology — Audience-Facing Analysis 1. Dismissability Is a #System Property, Not a Personal Trait In #hierarchical systems, certain positions are structurally coded as: ignorable

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/01/ai-and-the-outcast-dismissability-as-structure/

Literally making the case for a less #hierarchical society
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70590174/powerful-people-brains/
All the more reason to start an #impeachment movement in #Brooklyn my video here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cSyHuEqhDhc&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD #science #NeuroScience #psychology #trump #iran #iranwar #psychopathy #fascism

Literally making the case for a less #hierarchical society
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70590174/powerful-people-brains/
All the more reason to start an #impeachment movement in #Brooklyn my video here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cSyHuEqhDhc&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD #science #NeuroScience #psychology #trump #iran #iranwar #psychopathy #fascism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/115554755824379271

Can we stop seeing #MutualAid as #transactional please? #Reciprocal yes, transactional no. And we must allow that #reciprocity isn't always direct. Otherwise, are we not simply uplifting #capitalist paradigms of #hierarchical value?

I keep seeing trends wherein those in pain, grieving or ill get dropped.

I know that I haven't uplifted as much, while ill and grieving and in many ways never have enough, but my loved ones are in danger and they need uplifted. Please!!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/115554755824379271

Can we stop seeing #MutualAid as #transactional please? #Reciprocal yes, transactional no. And we must allow that #reciprocity isn't always direct. Otherwise, are we not simply uplifting #capitalist paradigms of #hierarchical value?

I keep seeing trends wherein those in pain, grieving or ill get dropped.

I know that I haven't uplifted as much, while ill and grieving and in many ways never have enough, but my loved ones are in danger and they need uplifted. Please!!

Wow! He is saying that to solve #capitalism s problem you need what the #cooperative movement has been doing: changing from #hierarchical decision making to #democratic decision making!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2lrQIry2zsU&si=OlNk_v_ecBbfTCZL

Wow! He is saying that to solve #capitalism s problem you need what the #cooperative movement has been doing: changing from #hierarchical decision making to #democratic decision making!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2lrQIry2zsU&si=OlNk_v_ecBbfTCZL

[Thread] So, the book #LimitsToGrowth is back in the news after the projections were updated. I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about this topic (the preface of the book 1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed being the impetus).

My conclusion is that only #Degrowth and implementation of a lot of #SolarPunkSunday ideas (repairing stuff, building community, rewilding) will help us adapt to the coming changes. That's why I started SPS -- to highlight events, ideas and to build connections.

Yes, I am known for "Doomposting," but like with most things, I try and find solutions as well. Yeah, all the #Fascist BS isn't helping -- in fact, it's a symptom of the desperation of the elites to hold onto their #Capitalistic, #Colonial, #hierarchical ways. And, well, we all know where that leads.

We may not be able to fix the climate or all the other things that are going wrong right away, but we can try to adapt, and make sure by doing so, we aren't making the problems worse for all the beings that live here on planet Earth.

I'll be posting some quotes in this thread -- some with commentary, some just by themselves. Do humans have all the answers? Not sure (I know I don't)... But sticking our collective heads in the sand is NOT an option!

#ClimateChange #Adaptation #Collapse #Change #TheLimitsToGrowth #PlanetaryBoundaries

[Thread] So, the book #LimitsToGrowth is back in the news after the projections were updated. I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about this topic (the preface of the book 1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed being the impetus).

My conclusion is that only #Degrowth and implementation of a lot of #SolarPunkSunday ideas (repairing stuff, building community, rewilding) will help us adapt to the coming changes. That's why I started SPS -- to highlight events, ideas and to build connections.

Yes, I am known for "Doomposting," but like with most things, I try and find solutions as well. Yeah, all the #Fascist BS isn't helping -- in fact, it's a symptom of the desperation of the elites to hold onto their #Capitalistic, #Colonial, #hierarchical ways. And, well, we all know where that leads.

We may not be able to fix the climate or all the other things that are going wrong right away, but we can try to adapt, and make sure by doing so, we aren't making the problems worse for all the beings that live here on planet Earth.

I'll be posting some quotes in this thread -- some with commentary, some just by themselves. Do humans have all the answers? Not sure (I know I don't)... But sticking our collective heads in the sand is NOT an option!

#ClimateChange #Adaptation #Collapse #Change #TheLimitsToGrowth #PlanetaryBoundaries

"In early 20th-century #Kerala, the #Asari (carpenter) #caste #resisted #colonial and #Brahminical #systems by deliberately ignoring opportunities offered by colonial #institutions.

This act of #refusal was a #strategy against being shaped into compliant subjects within a #hierarchical order."

https://panthi.in/carpenters-who-refused-an-empire/

"In early 20th-century #Kerala, the #Asari (carpenter) #caste #resisted #colonial and #Brahminical #systems by deliberately ignoring opportunities offered by colonial #institutions.

This act of #refusal was a #strategy against being shaped into compliant subjects within a #hierarchical order."

https://panthi.in/carpenters-who-refused-an-empire/

This article @SabiLewSounds posted talks a lot about the origins #mentalhealth treatments

Things that remain centerstage today in the #marginalization of so many

There's a long history of #segregation and #uglylaws, on and on, to keep those who don't conform with expected norms from having an affect on lulled masses

#fascist #hierarchical #capitalist #elitism is present in systems that are not, nor ever were, built to help the #marginalized

They created the very disparity seen still today

This article @SabiLewSounds posted talks a lot about the origins #mentalhealth treatments

Things that remain centerstage today in the #marginalization of so many

There's a long history of #segregation and #uglylaws, on and on, to keep those who don't conform with expected norms from having an affect on lulled masses

#fascist #hierarchical #capitalist #elitism is present in systems that are not, nor ever were, built to help the #marginalized

They created the very disparity seen still today

Observations Reveal Changing Coastal Storm Extremes Around The United States
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02315-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #extremeweather #coast #coastal #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #communities #publicsafety #climatechange #stormsurge #USA #flood #flooding #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #cost #economics #mitigation #insurance #sealevel #SLR #sealevelrise #Bayesian #hierarchical #framework #tideguage #tide #tidal #water #hydrology #hydrography #extremes #intensity #monitoring

Observations Reveal Changing Coastal Storm Extremes Around The United States
--
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02315-z <-- shared paper
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #extremeweather #coast #coastal #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #communities #publicsafety #climatechange #stormsurge #USA #flood #flooding #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #cost #economics #mitigation #insurance #sealevel #SLR #sealevelrise #Bayesian #hierarchical #framework #tideguage #tide #tidal #water #hydrology #hydrography #extremes #intensity #monitoring

“Fascist #politics feeds off the sense of aggrieved #victimization caused by loss of #hierarchical status. #Empires are particularly susceptible to #fascist politics because of this sense of loss.” - #JasonStanley, How #Fascism Works: The #Politics of Us and Them

“Fascist #politics feeds off the sense of aggrieved #victimization caused by loss of #hierarchical status. #Empires are particularly susceptible to #fascist politics because of this sense of loss.” - #JasonStanley, How #Fascism Works: The #Politics of Us and Them

'An Axiomatic Definition of Hierarchical Clustering', by Ery Arias-Castro, Elizabeth Coda.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/24-1052.html

#cluster #clustering #hierarchical

'An Axiomatic Definition of Hierarchical Clustering', by Ery Arias-Castro, Elizabeth Coda.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/24-1052.html

#cluster #clustering #hierarchical

@Radical_EgoCom because they are only human. These systems underpin both #narcissism, #paranoia and various parts of the lizard brain.

Forgive them, for they do not know what they do, or some may - because some are sociopaths - but more often than not you'll find that they've at least swallowed half of their Kool aid. They believe very much that trickle down works, because again they are narcissists.

This is part and parcel of a #hierarchical systems such as #capitalism and #nationalism.

#Epic #Systems epitomizes everything perverse about the commercialized mess that American medicine has become.

“Epic’s clients are not doctors.
They are the CEOs and CFOs who write the checks to Epic,” says Dr. Bill Stead, who created pioneering #electronic #health #record systems at Duke and then at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
both eventually supplanted by Epic.

Epic became the dominant vendor of databases because it was better than anyone else at combining regulatory compliance with 🔸maximizing hospital income.
Epic enables the hospital to maximize the use of codes that determine the payment.
“Before Epic, nobody was able to systematize upcoding,” says an executive of one hospital system.
🔥Epic’s software can enable doctors and hospitals to overcharge patients, insurers, and Medicare and Medicaid.

There are about 10,000 possible billing codes that indicate conditions and complications.
These #Hierarchical #Condition #Category (HCC) codes allow increased payments based on risk.
For instance, diabetes with no complications, HCC code 19, pays a capitation rate of $894.40 -- while diabetes combined with kidney failure can use 2 HCC codes, 18 and 136,
which increases the capitation rate to $1,273.60.
Doctors have the ability to also use codes for past patient conditions that have nothing to do with current presenting symptoms.

Assigning codes to each patient health malady is more of an art or artifice than a science, where doctors’ judgment calls can bleed into Medicare fraud.

Payments are based partly on time spent with a patient, on a scale from 1 to 5.
One doctor told me that her supervisor, who gets reports from Epic on her billing practices, regularly contacts her and says things like “That appointment was a 2. Don’t you think it might be a 3?”

Epic’s software can thus enable doctors and hospitals to overcharge patients, insurers, and government agencies such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Before a doctor can complete the record of a patient visit, they must respond to every question and check every required box.
🆘 Hospitals have financial incentives to make patients look sicker so that they can maximize revenue, and Epic’s software facilitates this.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-10-01-epic-dystopia/

#Epic #Systems epitomizes everything perverse about the commercialized mess that American medicine has become.

“Epic’s clients are not doctors.
They are the CEOs and CFOs who write the checks to Epic,” says Dr. Bill Stead, who created pioneering #electronic #health #record systems at Duke and then at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
both eventually supplanted by Epic.

Epic became the dominant vendor of databases because it was better than anyone else at combining regulatory compliance with 🔸maximizing hospital income.
Epic enables the hospital to maximize the use of codes that determine the payment.
“Before Epic, nobody was able to systematize upcoding,” says an executive of one hospital system.
🔥Epic’s software can enable doctors and hospitals to overcharge patients, insurers, and Medicare and Medicaid.

There are about 10,000 possible billing codes that indicate conditions and complications.
These #Hierarchical #Condition #Category (HCC) codes allow increased payments based on risk.
For instance, diabetes with no complications, HCC code 19, pays a capitation rate of $894.40 -- while diabetes combined with kidney failure can use 2 HCC codes, 18 and 136,
which increases the capitation rate to $1,273.60.
Doctors have the ability to also use codes for past patient conditions that have nothing to do with current presenting symptoms.

Assigning codes to each patient health malady is more of an art or artifice than a science, where doctors’ judgment calls can bleed into Medicare fraud.

Payments are based partly on time spent with a patient, on a scale from 1 to 5.
One doctor told me that her supervisor, who gets reports from Epic on her billing practices, regularly contacts her and says things like “That appointment was a 2. Don’t you think it might be a 3?”

Epic’s software can thus enable doctors and hospitals to overcharge patients, insurers, and government agencies such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Before a doctor can complete the record of a patient visit, they must respond to every question and check every required box.
🆘 Hospitals have financial incentives to make patients look sicker so that they can maximize revenue, and Epic’s software facilitates this.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-10-01-epic-dystopia/

'An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning', by Amir R. Asadi.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0096.html

#supervised #hierarchical #multiscale

'An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning', by Amir R. Asadi.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0096.html

#supervised #hierarchical #multiscale

Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models
https://crowsonkb.github.io/hourglass-diffusion-transformers/
#ycombinator #Diffusion #Machine_Learning #Generative_Models #Generative_AI #Megapixel #High_resolution #Image_Synthesis #Transformer #Neighborhood_Attention #Local_Attention #Hierarchical #Pixel_space

Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models
https://crowsonkb.github.io/hourglass-diffusion-transformers/
#ycombinator #Diffusion #Machine_Learning #Generative_Models #Generative_AI #Megapixel #High_resolution #Image_Synthesis #Transformer #Neighborhood_Attention #Local_Attention #Hierarchical #Pixel_space

Direct Pixel-Space Megapixel Image Generation with Diffusion Models
https://crowsonkb.github.io/hourglass-diffusion-transformers/
#ycombinator #Diffusion #Machine_Learning #Generative_Models #Generative_AI #Megapixel #High_resolution #Image_Synthesis #Transformer #Neighborhood_Attention #Local_Attention #Hierarchical #Pixel_space

Direct Pixel-Space Megapixel Image Generation with Diffusion Models
https://crowsonkb.github.io/hourglass-diffusion-transformers/
#ycombinator #Diffusion #Machine_Learning #Generative_Models #Generative_AI #Megapixel #High_resolution #Image_Synthesis #Transformer #Neighborhood_Attention #Local_Attention #Hierarchical #Pixel_space

These freedoms, as pursued by Republicans, contribute to the construction of a #rigid and #hierarchical #society where #domination is valued over #egalitarianprinciples.

These freedoms, as pursued by Republicans, contribute to the construction of a #rigid and #hierarchical #society where #domination is valued over #egalitarianprinciples.

A Revenue Function for Comparison-Based Hierarchical Clustering

Aishik Mandal, Michaël Perrot, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

https://openreview.net/forum?id=QzWr4w8PXx

#hierarchical #clustering #hierarchy

A Revenue Function for Comparison-Based Hierarchical Clustering

Aishik Mandal, Michaël Perrot, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

https://openreview.net/forum?id=QzWr4w8PXx

#hierarchical #clustering #hierarchy

New #preprint modeling #BodySizeDistributions aka #ISD, #CommunitySizeSpectra using a #Hierarchical #Bayesian framework is now live: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.14.528491v1

Authors: @wesnerlab, @jimjunker, Vojsava Gjoni, Yuhlong Lio and yours truly.

Really excited this great work led by @wesnerlab is out there and I look forward to seeing what people think of it.

Lots of interesting algorithmic advances at Google in 2022, in particular in #hierarchical #clustering, #optimization, #networks: https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/02/google-research-2022-beyond-algorithmic.html

'HiClass: a Python Library for Local Hierarchical Classification Compatible with Scikit-learn', by Fábio M. Miranda, Niklas Köhnecke, Bernhard Y. Renard.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/21-1518.html

#hiclass #hierarchical #scikit

'HiClass: a Python Library for Local Hierarchical Classification Compatible with Scikit-learn', by Fábio M. Miranda, Niklas Köhnecke, Bernhard Y. Renard.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/21-1518.html

#hiclass #hierarchical #scikit

'Approximation Bounds for Hierarchical Clustering: Average Linkage, Bisecting K-means, and Local Search', by Benjamin Moseley, Joshua R. Wang.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/18-080.html

#clustering #algorithms #hierarchical

'Approximation Bounds for Hierarchical Clustering: Average Linkage, Bisecting K-means, and Local Search', by Benjamin Moseley, Joshua R. Wang.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/18-080.html

#clustering #algorithms #hierarchical

Probably very unpopular opinion, but:

#woke is great. It’s one of the best things to come out of #white society lately. Serious.

But. Expecting conservative people to get it is not being woke enough.

You cannot say you’re woke, if you’re not woke about what makes #consevatives tick.

There’s no way you can sell deconstruction of #hierarchical #narratives to people who intuit the world through those hierarchies.

Be woke, but be smart. Some people can’t get it, accepting that is no problem.

Probably very unpopular opinion, but:

#woke is great. It’s one of the best things to come out of #white society lately. Serious.

But. Expecting conservative people to get it is not being woke enough.

You cannot say you’re woke, if you’re not woke about what makes #consevatives tick.

There’s no way you can sell deconstruction of #hierarchical #narratives to people who intuit the world through those hierarchies.

Be woke, but be smart. Some people can’t get it, accepting that is no problem.

@tshirtman @EwanCroft I just ended up here in the last couple months. The thing is, this #configfile has to be #human #editable but also #hierarchical. Is #yaml the way to go?

@tshirtman @EwanCroft I just ended up here in the last couple months. The thing is, this #configfile has to be #human #editable but also #hierarchical. Is #yaml the way to go?

Dropping the last @Stata package of 2022! #treecluster.

This package allows users to plot #hierarchical data in both #Cartesian and #Polar #coordinates. Also features several customization options including line widths, smoothness, spacing etc.

https://github.com/asjadnaqvi/stata-treecluster

:stata:

#introduction

I am a Ph.D. student in #MachineLearning. My research interests cover #uncertainty / #robustness in machine learning, #hierarchical / #causal inference, and #efficient machine learning :)