Next stop in our NLP timeline are the (mostly) futile tries of machine translation during the cold war era. The rule-based machine translation approach was used mostly in the creation of dictionaries and grammar programs. It’s major drawback was that absolutely everything had to be made explicit.
#nlp #historyofscience #ise2025 #lecture #machinetranslation #coldwar #AI #historyofAI @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise
"During #WWII, the Soviet Women’s Antifascist Committee started an experiment – a pen pal campaign with American women to promote the friendship between the United States and the USSR. The program began with fits and starts but eventually gained traction. So much so it continued into the early #ColdWar even as relations between the two countries quickly soured."
#EurasianKnot welcomes Alexis Peri, author of #DearUnknownFriend
@dangillmor #Trump is a #Putin puppet. #Russia has been trying to destroy the #UnitedStates since the start of the #ColdWar over 75 years ago. Where’s the mystery?! 
#MATH (Make America Think Harder)!
Today in Labor History April 30 1945: Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler committed suicide, in Berlin, after being married for less than 40 hours. Many Nazis were tried, convicted and executed. And literally thousands were secreted into the U.S., given false identities, and put to work as spies, intelligence officers, informants, and rocket scientists in the Cold War. Some of them had even been high-ranking Nazi Party officials, secret police chiefs, and heads of concentration camps. In fact, during the first few years after WWII ended, it was easier to get into the U.S. as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish concentration camp survivor. There were policy makers in Washington who said the Jews shouldn’t be let in because they’re “lazy” and “self-entitled.” For more on this sordid history, read “The Nazis Next Door How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men,” By Eric Lichtblau.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #WorldWarTwo #holocaust #fascism #coldwar #concentrationcamps #hitler #jewish #antisemitism #books #nonfiction #author #writer @bookstadon
Switzerland has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world — in the event of a crisis, every resident of the country would be guaranteed shelter space. The Dial takes a look at the origins of the bunker-building policy, what the underground shelters provide, and how they're used during peacetime — as wine cellars, saunas and even, in the case of large "command posts," as overflow housing for refugees.
#Switzerland #Culture #ColdWar #History @histodons #EmergencyPreparedness #Prepping
https://www.europesays.com/uk/39923/ World is ‘lining up’ to work with Europe amid Trump’s trade war – POLITICO #Americas #Canada #China #ColdWar #DonaldTrump #Environment #EU #Europe #European #GiorgiaMeloni #Iceland #India #Malaysia #Markets #Mercosur #NewZealand #Philippines #SouthAmerica #Stability #Tariffs #Trade #TradeWar #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #XiJinping
Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.
For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon
The full sized M29 Davy Crockett finished printing. Only a couple small changes needed for the production model. I will also be sanding, finishing and painting this one.
It's a lot of fun to hold, I love my nuclear son.
It's not a coincidence that every concession #workers gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the #capitalists since the end of the #ColdWar. Why? Because they no longer fear #revolution. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.
As with the #Trump-#Regime, everything is transactional and thus noone in their right mind would turn themselves into a #PuppetState and sign off #UnfairTrade with the #USA.
At least #USpol and the #401k's collapsing are a good reason to firmly showcase why basing #RetirementFunds off #Stocks is a horrible idea to begin with!
Recently, a number of media analysts who seem to have forgotten fascism is a word, have looked towards the dark days of McCarthyism in the US to find historical comparisons for the Trump regime's fascist attempts to transform American society into a white ethnostate dictatorship. There are valid reasons to use this comparison as there *are* eerie parallels to be found between the McCarthyist American right's ever expanding war against made up "communist infiltrators" and both Trump's actions, and the responses to it from a mainstream establishment far more committed to profit than civil rights; including the weaponization of fear to silence objections and quell dissent, the pre-marking of folks ideologically opposed to fascism for reprisal, and the willing capitulation in advance of much of the US establishment to a fascist agenda. Placed in the proper context, which includes noting that the Trump regime is merely installing a fascist dictatorship through a new type of McCarthyism, the analogy is quite useful for getting people to understand how the regime is operating, and how its methods might be countered.
The problem of course is that context is often missing. Few if any of the folks referencing McCarthyism would be willing to admit that even McCarthyism was just another fascist takeover project designed to eradicate dissent under the guise of "anti-communism." Hell, you can still find articles about Senator Joe McCarthy using conspiracy theories to defend Nazi war criminals who slaughtered American soldiers on the Smithsonian website (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-mccarthys-nazi-problem-180975174/) - at least until Trump deletes them. In that context, the use of McCarthyism as a more genteel accusation than fascism, which is how a lot of folks writing in mainstream sources appear to be using it, is nonsensical; McCarthyism was just a project to install fascism in America.
How successful that project was depends a lot of whether or not you think it ended with McCarthy's fall, the defeat of Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential election, the implosion of Nixon, or basically never; speaking for myself I'd say you don't get Trumpism without the US War on Terror, which in turn doesn't happen without the legacy of Vietnam and the COINTELPRO program, which ultimately spawned out of McCarthyism and the Cold War struggle against "communism." In that context, it's probably better to understand the modern American fascist movement as a descendent of McCarthyism, rather than a totally novel expression of it.
Furthermore, while the repressive tactics and ideological policing of the Trump regime patterns well with America's fifties-era Red Scare, it's important to understand that Trumpism has already moved beyond many of the goals the McCarthyists were trying to accomplish. While anti-communism often stood in for white nationalism, and supremacist power structures, it ostensibly focused on ideological policing; the Trump regime however is already targeting people for who, or what they are, not just what they believe; the anti trans pogrom, the bipartisan war on migrants, and War on Terror style Islamophobia have already paved the way for eliminationist policies in a way McCarthyism existed to accomplish.
Given the term's ability to both heighten awareness of, and still minimize the threat posed by the Trump regime's project to install a fascist dictatorship, I'm going to proceed cautiously with sharing articles adopting McCarthyism as a framework to explain the actions of Trump, and his apparent Secretary of Nazi Shit, Stephen Miller. In doing so however, I'm begging readers to keep in mind that Trumpism, is definitely a fascist project, and the fact that during the installation phase the regime's activities pattern match so closely with the 1950's US Red Scare says a lot more about how fascist this country already was, than it does about why there's a meaningful difference between McCarthyism and fascism in general.
Trump has never made so many excuses for someone as he has for Putin.
El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico is a bombshell book on how US unions & the CIA teamed up during the Cold War to crush socialist labor movements & topple leftist governments abroad. The receipts are brutal.
Who knew this? *Any* of it? Read it in corporate media?
“Modern art was CIA 'weapon'”
by Frances Stonor Saunders in The Independent @Independent@flipboard.com
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“Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
#US / Newly released CIA report reveals Cold War activities targeting Israeli Communist Party
A declassified 1961 #CIA report details the agency's surveillance of the Israeli Communist Party (#MAKI). The 25-page document, released under the Trump administration, examines MAKI's leadership, its youth wing, and its connections to various Israeli organizations. The report highlights the CIA's concerns about the party's political influence and its efforts to undermine it. The report details the party's membership, split by ethnicity and origin. The report also reveals the CIA's focus on encouraging internal divisions within the party.
[...] The secret document reveals a glimpse of the depth of American global imperialist activity, and one can only wonder how involved then-Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was in the anti-democratic campaign in Israel, as according to the document, he expressed concern on more than one occasion that 'MAKI, MAPAM, and Israeli leftists would seize power
This release is part of a larger declassification effort related to the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Hebrew https://zoha.org.il/136188/
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#Zionism #USImperialism #ColdWar
#TrumpIsARussianAsset #trump #putin #ColdWar #KGB #AmericanCoup #DictatorTrump #authoritarian #fascism #FarRight
Definition of 'simping' from https://fluentslang.com/simping-meaning/
The term simping is a slang term used to describe someone who obsesses over another person and goes to great lengths to please them, even if their feelings are not reciprocated.
@SocraticEthics The #BrainDrain from #Hungary to the #UnitedStates during #WorldWar2 and the following #ColdWar catapulted #American #Mathematics and #ComputerScience (John Von Neumann…), #Chemistry (George Olah…), #Nuclear #Physics (Leo Szilard…) to become the undisputed world leader in #science and #technology.
That brain drain resulted in the Russia-aligned country full of morons that you see today.
#DonaldTheDeplorable is also a #Putin puppet and starting a brain drain FROM here.
