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Re: [External Message Added] City of Miami public records request #22-459
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Dear City of Miami: Thank you for your email. However, the PDF documents are not attached. The file still links to .psd files. City of Miami, on February 4, 2022 kindly submitted a records request for any and all correspondence between the City of Miami concerning CityCoins, MIA Coin and Stacks (STX). Additionally, any and all related correspondence concerning CityCoins, MIA Coin, Stacks (STX), Digital World Acquisition Corp and Harvard Management Company. 1. On March 7, 2022, Miami came to us noting 13,092 e-mail records were returned for the above keywords. 2. Today on April 15, 2022 we have yet to receive the records in a timely and reliable manner. 3. Given several factors of delay in receiving these records, we must take our concern to The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN is the bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> - Bank.org <http://bank.org/>, PBC* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 10:30 AM PublicRecords(a)miamigov.com < support(a)nextrequest.com> wrote: > -- Attach a non-image file and/or reply ABOVE THIS LINE with a message, > and it will be sent to staff on this request. -- > City of Miami Public Records > A message was sent to you regarding record request #22-459: > Good morning Mr. Larson, Attached please find all the records produced > from the revised IT search. The records have been converted to pdf format. > Thank you, Anthony Brdar, Paralegal [A picture containing text, coin > Description automatically generated] City of Miami Office of the City > Attorney Telephone: 305-416-1885 Facsimile: 305-400-5071 E-mail: > abrdar(a)miamigov.com Disclaimer: This e-mail is intended only for the > individual(s) or entity(s) named within the message. This e-mail might > contain legally privileged and confidential information. If you properly > received this e-mail as a client or retained expert, please hold it in > confidence to protect the attorney-client or work product privileges. > Should the intended recipient forward or disclose this message to another > person or party, that action could constitute a waiver of the > attorney-client privilege. If the reader of this message is not the > intended recipient, or the agent responsible to deliver it to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited by the sender > and to do so might constitute a violation of the Electronic Communications > Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. section 2510-2521. If this communication was > received in error we apologize for the intrusion. Please notify us by reply > e-mail and delete the original message. Nothing in this e-mail message > shall, in and of itself, create an attorney-client relationship with the > sender. Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do > not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records > request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this > office by phone or in writing. Please consider the environment before > printing this e-mail.[cid:image002.png@01D850B2.6E5A92E0] > > View Request 22-459 <https://miami.nextrequest.com/requests/22-459> > https://miami.nextrequest.com/requests/22-459 > > <https://www.nextrequest.com/> > > The All in One Records Requests Platform > > *Questions about your request?* Reply to this email or sign in to contact > staff at City of Miami. > > *Technical support:* See our help page > <https://help.nextrequest.com/knowledge/requester-resources> > > * Too many emails? * Change your email settings here > <https://miami.nextrequest.com/settings> > >

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Moscow Stock Exchange Index Is Slumping Toward Its Invasion Low
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Moscow Stock Exchange Index Is Slumping Toward Its Invasion Low <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/moscow-stock-exchange-index-is-slump…> By Pam Martens and Russ Martens <https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/>: April 14, 2022 ~ The Moscow Stock Exchange Index, known as MOEX, tanked 4.9 percent on Thursday to close at 2,404.73. The Index is now down 36.5 percent year-to-date. The stock exchange had shuttered stock trading after the trading session on February 25, 2022, the day after the Russian military invaded Ukraine. The Moscow Stock Exchange did not reopen for stock trading until March 24. The Russian government had previously announced on March 1 that its Finance Ministry would use up to $10.3 billion from the National Wealth Fund to prop up share prices of Russian companies by buying up shares on the exchange. Those funds would appear to be running out as the MOEX had a rough tumble on Thursday and closed near the lows of the day.

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Two of the worst rotten creeps on earth
by professor rat 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/14/20/56620569-10719535-image-a-117_16… Thiel and Musk - very Assange

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InCoder: A Generative Model for Code In-Filling and Synthesis
by Karl Semich 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

This is something you should know about, use, and understand how works, probably in that order. https://twitter.com/dan_fried/status/1514265047761043456 https://sites.google.com/view/incoder-code-models InCoder InCoder: A Generative Model for Code In-Filling and Synthesis Daniel Fried*, Armen Aghajanyan*, Jessy Lin, Sida Wang, Eric Wallace, Freda Shi, Ruiqi Zhong, Wen-tau Yih, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Mike Lewis arXiv, 2022 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05999 Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/incoder-demo Model weights and instructions: https://github.com/dpfried/incoder/blob/main/README.md Examples: https://sites.google.com/view/incoder-code-models/home/examples Inserting and completing code in a single model We train a generative, decoder-only Transformer using a causal-masking training objective (from CM3, Aghajanyan et al. 2022) , which trains a model to generate entire code files in arbitrary orderings via masking. Here's an example where a single region is masked: Zero-shot generation for code tasks In inference, we can prompt our model with a document containing MASK tokens where we want it to insert code. This lets us perform a plethora of code tasks without any task-specific fine-tuning, including docstring generation, type hint prediction, variable renaming, cloze tasks, and more. Here are real outputs from our model: See more examples here: Examples Trained on open-source code and StackOverflow Unlike past work, our model's training data consists of only permissively-licensed code (Apache 2.0, MIT, BSD-2 and BSD-3 licensed) from online sources such as GitHub and GitLab, as well as StackOverflow. We focus on Python and JavaScript, but include 28 languages in total -- a total of ~200GB of data (after deduplication, filtering, and decontamination). See our paper for details. Demo available Demo Link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/incoder-demo Model available in HuggingFace's Transformers 6.7B parameter version: https://huggingface.co/facebook/incoder-6B 1.3B parameter version: https://huggingface.co/facebook/incoder-1B See our readme here for instructions on required versions of transformers and tokenizers, and examples of how to do infilling. Credits Thanks to Lucile Saulnier, Leandro von Werra, Nicolas Patry, Suraj Patil, Omar Sanseviero, and others at HuggingFace for help with the model release, and to Naman Goyal and Stephen Roller for the code our demo was based on!

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Argentine tragedy
by professor rat 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Sorry - Brazil Brazilian man gets 2kg dumbbell stuck up his bottom, with medics unable to remove it surgically. ( Google News ) This news story graphically ( X-rays! ) shows some of the dangers of becoming viewed as a batshit-crazed individual. Shocking.

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Pete Enimas
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Heard Fleet Enimas had a hostle takeover bid by none other than Pete Enimas. It is a Gotham is a cleanup job. Be sure to get two pack, the USDP deal ...

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Delaware’s Supreme Court Shifts Fees to Losers
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Check out my new aricle: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/delawares-supreme-court-shifts-fees-to… *Delaware’s Supreme Court Shifts Fees to Losers * The state of Delaware is home to some of the world’s largest corporate entities. New designs to litigation funding agreements are beginning to include provisions for the losing parties’ financial responsibility in covering some (if not all) of the case costs). Delaware’s Supreme Court has stopped short of billing losing parties for state costs associated with facilitating trial. All this, part of a new Supreme Court decision out of Delaware, in Shareholder Representative Services LLC (“SRS”) v. Shire US Holdings, Inc. (“Shire”). Lake Whillans profiles the $20M case award, where a third of the award went to attorney case costs. The concept is broadly called “fee shifting” … Where in this instance the award could potentially total $20M+ to cover attorney representation. Delaware is world renowned for innovating business structures, now helping pioneer litigation finance investment theory. Check out Lake Whillans’ profile of the case here.

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Peter, Now Manning
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Because of computer crimes, Ms. Peter now goes by Manning. I hear they have no bars, but liquid soap at the Meta Reap Center for Mannings, at Marlaga VR park for criminals. Just set sail on a Titanic Bermuda triangle tour.

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KKK Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump
by Gunnar Larson 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Like a where is Waldo, how many times do you spot KKK here ..... SIX! And, I heard Peter Thiel dropped the soap: https://www.justsecurity.org/75032/litigation-tracker-pending-criminal-and-…

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U.S. lawmakers say they have 'serious concerns' about face-scan contractor
by jim bell 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

https://news.yahoo.com/u-lawmakers-serious-concerns-face-185531097.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have opened an investigation into the identity verification contractor ID.me, saying that they have "serious concerns" about the efficacy, privacy and security of technology it provides to 10 federal agencies. A letter, first reported by the Washington Post, was sent by Representatives Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House Oversight Committee, and Jim Clyburn, the Democratic whip, to ID.me chief executive Blake Hall. It was dated Thursday. The letter reflects unease over the use of facial recognition software to secure important transactions, including those with the Internal Revenue Service, amid concerns about privacy violations and inaccuracy. For its part, ID.me touted its efforts in helping U.S. agencies fight government benefits fraud by foreign criminal gangs. "We look forward to providing important information to the Committee on how ID.me has expanded access to government for disadvantaged Americans, including individuals who do not have credit history, are underbanked or are without a home," the company said in a statement.

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