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Abortion protester in a scene from Progressive Socialism, the new production of K. Piroto.| Photo: Bigstock

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According to producer K. Piroto, who gave us this exclusive interview directly from his home in Belford Roxo, in Baixada Fluminense, the story of Progressive Socialism repeats some elements known to fans of the franchise, such as the search for utopian equality through violence as explicit as possible.

The novelty, according to K. Piroto, is due to the use of a new technology, called Diversity, which he ordered from the famous Ideology Studios. Thanks to advances in science, nowadays everything is much easier. In the days of National Socialism we had the radio, trains and Zyklon B, but today we have the Internet and cancel culture. So everything is much cleaner and more subtle. The fans will love it!, predicts the always optimistic K. Piroto, creating suspense, but not too much.

There is still a lot of speculation about the stars who will star in Progressive Socialism. One sure name, however, is that of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. For now, we are also working on the search for an L, a G, a B, a T, a Q and a + capable of telling this beautiful story of intolerance disguised as tolerance, says K. Piroto, putting his hands to his mouth. as soon as you realize you gave a spoiler of whats to come. Asked if it is possible to have a Brazilian, Brazilian or Brazilian in the cast, K. Piroto says yes, for sure, but does not reveal names.

K. Piroto takes advantage of the relaxed moment in the interview to give more details about the production. Details that this journal publishes with total exclusivity. For example, anyone who thought that after the dramatic finale of Marxist Socialism Communism had died buried under the rubble of the Berlin Wall will be in for a surprise right in the opening scenes of Progressive Socialism. Communism is our big star. Our great reference. I couldnt leave him out of this one, says K. Piroto. The script is still being finalized, but the idea is, at the beginning of the story, to show Communism disguised as the Common Good. With that, I hope to attract a younger audience, says the millennial producer.

)K. Piroto, however, rules out using Swastika, the star of the controversial National Socialism. Times are different. And we know that the Swastika is not in a good phase, he says. The idea is to use the ideals and values that marked National Socialism, but employing less stigmatized symbols. There are many possibilities. Perhaps the Carbon Footprint could make a romantic pairing with Communism. Why not? What counts is creativity, says K. Piroto.

At ease in your mansion, in the At the end of the interview, an animated K. Piroto says, with his unmistakable accent, that he has a revelation to make to Brazilians. Im working with Embrafilme partners on a totally green-yellow production, he says, and then bursts out laughing. I lie, oh, of course I lie. For am I not the King of Lies? The truth is that the production is red too, he says, showing his fangs.

With the provisional title of A Vingana da Jararaca, K. Pirotos hope is to cause a lot of destruction and death around here, in a version that would condense the narratives of Marxist Socialism, National Socialism and even Progressive Socialism. The partnership with Pet Produes is taken for granted. As far as I know, our legion of lawyers even managed to obtain funding via the Rouanet Law, says an excited K. Piroto. Unfortunately, it wouldnt be his first successful production here.

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In Providence on Sunday an event to mark the 174th anniversary of the publication of the The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was underway at Red Ink Community Library when a number of self-identified Nazis, holding a red swastika flag, began banging on the windows screaming obscenities.

Due to the publication of The Communist Manifesto, February 21 is celebrated internationally as Red Books Day and the Nazis apparently came in response to this event which was advertised on Facebook. Video from both inside and outside Red Ink Library shows nearly two dozen Nazis wearing masks to hide their faces.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza made the following statement:

Providence is home to diverse people, cultures, and ideas and our city has no room for hate-filled actions meant to intimidate and cause fear. My administration is committed to making every resident feel safe and protecting the rights of people who are gathering peacefully. Anyone with information regarding the incident last night involving a swastika flag is encouraged to contact our police department.

Update: Uprise RI has the Providence Police Department report from the incident last night:

On Monday February 21st 2022 at approximately 18:40 hours, District 8 and 9 received information and were advised a group of Neo Nazis were proceeding to the Red Ink Community Library (130 Camp Street) to interrupt the individuals who were inside attending a reading.

At 1845 the District 8/9 cars proceeded to 130 Camp Street. While responding dispatch advised police they were receiving calls for an active disturbance. Upon arrival we observed approximately 15-20 subjects (from the Neo Nazi group) standing outside and striking the front window of the Red Ink Community Library with their hands. As soon as all of the District 8 and 9 cars arrived on scene with the overhead emergency lights on, the Neo Nazi crowd began to disperse. Moments later the crowd of subjects walked to their vehicles parked on adjacent streets and left the area. Police did not observe any damage to the building.

Car-282 (Ptlm. Lugo) remained on scene until 2015 hours to ensure no further disturbances.

Sergeant Groot was on scene.

Body Worn camera was activated.

During the last few minutes of the reading, as can be seen on the Facebook livestream, one can hear the Nazis chanting, rattling the windows and screaming obscenities.

You commie piece of shit! shouted one Nazi. You fucking commie piece of shit! Commie Scum! Shut your goddamn mouth you fucking whore! Commie Scum off our streets!

Video taken of the Nazis from inside the library and posted on Twitter show a clearly visible Nazi flag.

Neighbors alerted the police. After a short time six Providence Police Department vehicles arrived and the Nazis dispersed. See here.

The Black Lives Matter RI PAC responded in a statement:

There is no greater threat to Rhode Island than nazism and white supremacy. Yesterday evening, an organized group of Neo-Nazis that have established themselves throughout Rhode Island terrorized Red Ink Community Library in Providence Ward 3.

Candidates for Providence City Council Ward 3 have responded to the event:

Im saddened and disgusted to learn about the events that took place on Camp Street last night, said Bradly VanDerStad. Our city is better than this. Domestic terrorists have no place in Providence.

Bill Bartholomew did an excellent interview:

Ward 3 Democratic Committee

We, the Ward 3 Democratic Committee, are extremely disturbed that a group of self-identified Nazis, holding a red swastika flag, banged on the windows and screamed obscenities outside of the Red Ink Community Library at 130 Camp Street in the Mt. Hope neighborhood on Monday, February 21, 2022. We condemn the intentions and the actions of this group of Neo-Nazis in no uncertain terms; such hate-filled and intimidating behavior is unacceptable in our community. One of the wonderful aspects of Ward 3 is the variety of ideas and diversity of cultures represented within it. We stand with everyone who embraces acceptance, civil rights, and love over the fomenting and agitation of fear, white supremacy, racism, hate, and violence.

NeverAgain Rhode Island stands in solidarity with the Red Ink Community Library and residents of Mount Hope

We spent Sunday afternoonrallying outside an I.C.E. processing facilityunder construction in Warwick to call attention to Americas cruel immigration policies, and the culture of othering and dehumanization that leads to genocide like the Holocaust.Then on Monday night, ideological remnants of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germanyattacked a leftist libraryin the heart of our community. When we sayNeverAgain is Now, we mean nowthe forces of white supremacy and antisemitism will remain until we defeat them.

Martin Nimollers infamous 1946 confession begins with, First they came for the Communists/And I did not speak out/Because I was not a Communist. We know how his story ends, and the lesson within it is clearall of us must speak out, before there is no one left.

ICE is cloaking its brutality in bureaucracy, but last night we saw the cruelty and malice of this ideology on full display. Their processing facility is just one stop on the road to camps, to deportation, to disappearing from ones home. It is a necessary mechanism in the machine of genocide. The machine doesnt stop, will not stop, until every component is dismantled.

These struggles are all connected.The same hate groupthat targeted and harassed our comrades at Red Ink Library last night have also advocated calling ICE to target and abduct immigrants, in addition to taking hateful action against socialists and Jews.

Please join our allies and Mount Hope community members tomorrow afternoon at Billy Taylor Park on Camp Street at 4pm to stand up against the hatred and bigotry that is the fuel for this machine of genocide.

You can alsodonate to Red Ink Community Library.

In solidarity, NeverAgain Rhode Island

Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) released the following statement:

I am absolutely sickened by the image of a swastika waving in the streets of Providence. Hate groups like neo-Nazisand white supremacists have no place in our city,said Congressman Cicilline. Groups like these and the hatred they spew have too often led to terrible violence. The rise of neo-Nazis, white supremacy, and antisemitismin our country is not something we can afford to ignore.This hatred and last nights attack are a scourge on our community, and we must all condemn it in the strongest terms.

This group of Nazis may be the Rhode Island chapter of NSC-131, the same group that has been holding banner drops on highway overpasses from north of Boston to at least as south as Cranston Rhode Island. More information on NSC here.

Note: After this story went to press, Uprise RI received an email taking [minor] fault with the title, which includes a line from Martin Niemllers First they Came for the Socialists.

The poem that many know as beginning with First they came for the socialists, did not begin that way. It really started with First they came for the communists.

Our red-baiting American leaders in the mid-20th century, who wanted to paint Communists as never-a-victim-always-a-terror changed the poem to make it a more palatable one to our McCarthyist society at the time, focusing just on Socialists, erasing the fact that Communists were killed by the Nazis for their views as well. For Communists to ever be victims was unacceptable, even if it was historically true.

I apologize for going on at such great length, but just wanted to send this your way in case it is relevant to any follow-up articles. People still like to play this whole Socialism I dont like, but its okay, but COMMunism, thats gotta be out of bounds game, and my hope is that all of us together can fight back against that.

Heres an article (a bit lengthy, unfortunately) that explores this editorial choice, and the anti-communist reasons behind it.

Uprise RI has made an Access to Public Records Request to the City of Providence for the police body cam footage.

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OPINION:

What could be more working-class than truck drivers? Spending 12 straight hours on the road, driving a big rig, isnt for sissies. And Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to the manner born (the son of a prime minister), with his beautifully styled hair, has the audacity to call them fascists because they protest his arbitrary COVID-19 restrictions.

Now, our own Freedom Convoy is forming up in Barstow, California. It could be on the road as early as Wednesday. According to organizers, more than 38,000 people have signed up so far.

Theyre putting up fencing around the Capitol again, ahead of President Bidens State of the Union address. The same that was in place for most of last year in response to the insurrection of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Will the Army Corps of Engineers begin blowing up bridges leading to Washington to quell an imaginary uprising? And to think, we used to call it First Amendment speech.

Mr. Biden will use the Capitol Police, as Mr. Trudeau used Canadian cops, to quell demonstrations visions of the czars Cossacks swinging their sabers at marchers.

Old Joe and Young Justin are cut from the same cloth.

In 2020, the presidents campaign styled him lunch bucket Joe. Mr. Biden went to Washington in 1973, at age 29. And there he stayed, and stayed, and stayed. The president and physical labor are not well-acquainted. Mr. Trudeau entered the House of Commons at age 36.

In the fairy tale version of socialism, socialists are champions of the working class thus, the communist symbol is a hammer and sickle representing those who toil on farms and in factories.

In reality, Marxists/socialists gave up on the proletariat a century ago when they refused to join the revolution.

This gave rise to cultural Marxism, formulated by Antonio Gramsci, who said workers were being held back by faith and family. Like Soviet communism, progressives wokeism is aimed at deconstructing both.

This contempt for the working class started with Marx himself, who loved the proletariat but only at a safe distance.

During his 61 years on earth, he never set foot in a factory. His collaborator, Friedrich Engels, offered to take him on a tour of one of his families factories. Marx refused. He didnt want reality to intrude on his fantasies. He preferred to spend his time reading statistical tables in the library of the British Museum and turning out stultifying tracts.

Revolutionaries are invariably drawn from the middle or upper-middle class from Vladimir Lenin to Fidel Castro to Hugo Chavez to Mr. Trudeau.

Workers sense the hypocrisy of their would-be liberators. When I was a student at Boston University in the 1960s, the local (Maoist) Progressive Labor Party leader ordered her cadre to join a picket line with striking GE workers. They reported back: Emily, these people hate us. They hit us and spit on us.

When his soulmate Castro died in 2016, Mr. Trudeau waxed eloquently on the love the Cuban people had for their commandant to such an extent that he ruled them for 50 years without ever standing for election and sent a million of them into exile.

The typical socialist has never done hard, tedious or boring labor. Most have a post-graduate liberal arts degree. At age 30, theyre still living at home. If they ever marry, they wont have children. They think the earth is overpopulated and diapers are a capitalist conspiracy.

They fret over saving the planet, saving the trees, saving the whales, saving endangered species anything but saving the people.

Like climate change, COVID-19 has been a godsend for the left, another opportunity to coerce people, reallocate resources and get them used to taking orders and living like the proles of Orwells 1984. The faceless masses are here.

Many Trump supporters are drawn from the lower end of the middle class. Youre more likely to find them on a gun range or at a motorcycle rally than slapping bumper-stickers on their electric cars that urge us to Think globally, act locally.

In 1917, during the October Revolution, protestors were in the streets of Moscow, calling for an end to the Romanov monarchy. This time it could be patriots in Americas streets calling for the restoration of small r republican government.

Power to the People was a slogan from the era of protest. Guess what? We are the People.

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist.

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Hassabis has been thinking about proteins on and off for 25 years. He was introduced to the problem when he was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s. A friend of mine there was obsessed with this problem, he says. He would bring it up at any opportunityin the bar, playing pooltelling me if we could just crack protein folding, it would be transformational for biology. His passion always stuck with me.

That friend was Tim Stevens, who is now a Cambridge researcher working on protein structures. Proteins are the molecular machines that make life on earth work, Stevens says.

Nearly everything your body does, it does with proteins: they digest food, contract muscles, fire neurons, detect light, power immune responses, and much more. Understanding what individual proteins do is therefore crucial for understanding how bodies work, what happens when they dont, and how to fix them.

A protein is made up of a ribbon of amino acids, which chemical forces fold up into a knot of complex twists and twirls. The resulting 3D shape determines what it does. For example, hemoglobin, a protein that ferries oxygen around the body and gives blood its red color, is shaped like a little pouch, which lets it pick up oxygen molecules in the lungs. The structure of SARS-CoV-2s spike protein lets the virus hook onto your cells.

COURTESY OF DEEPMIND

The catch is that its hard to figure out a proteins structureand thus its functionfrom the ribbon of amino acids. An unfolded ribbon can take 10^300 possible forms, a number on the order of all the possible moves in a game of Go.

Predicting this structure in a lab, using techniques such as x-ray crystallography, is painstaking work. Entire PhDs have been spent working out the folds of a single protein. The long-running CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) competition was set up in 1994 to speed things up by pitting computerized prediction methods against each other every two years. But no technique ever came close to matching the accuracy of lab work. By 2016, progress had been flatlining for a decade.

Within months of its AlphaGo success in 2016, DeepMind hired a handful of biologists and set up a small interdisciplinary team to tackle protein folding. The first glimpse of what they were working on came in 2018, when DeepMind won CASP 13, outperforming other techniques by a significant margin. But beyond the world of biology, few paid much attention.

That changed when AlphaFold2 came out two years later. It won the CASP competition, marking the first time an AI had predicted protein structure with an accuracy matching that of models produced in an experimental laboften with margins of error just the width of an atom. Biologists were stunned by just how good it was.

Watching AlphaGo play in Seoul, Hassabis says, hed been reminded of an online game called FoldIt, which a team led by David Baker, a leading protein researcher at the University of Washington, released in 2008. FoldIt asked players to explore protein structures, represented as 3D images on their screens, by folding them up in different ways. With many people playing, the researchers behind the game hoped, some data about the probable shapes of certain proteins might emerge. It worked, and FoldIt players even contributed to a handful of new discoveries.

If we can mimic the pinnacle of intuition in Go, then why couldnt we map that across to proteins?

Hassabis played that game when he was a postdoc at MIT in his 20s. He was struck by the way basic human intuition could lead to real breakthroughs, whether making a move in Go or finding a new configuration in FoldIt.

I was thinking about what we had actually done with AlphaGo, says Hassabis. Wed mimicked the intuition of incredible Go masters. I thought, if we can mimic the pinnacle of intuition in Go, then why couldnt we map that across to proteins?

The two problems werent so different, in a way. Like Go, protein folding is a problem with such vast combinatorial complexity that brute-force computational methods are no match. Another thing Go and protein folding have in common is the availability of lots of data about how the problem could be solved. AlphaGo used an endless history of its own past games; AlphaFold used existing protein structures from the Protein Data Bank, an international database of solved structures that biologists have been adding to for decades.

AlphaFold2 uses attention networks, a standard deep-learning technique that lets an AI focus on specific parts of its input data. This tech underpins language models like GPT-3, where it directs the neural network to relevant words in a sentence. Similarly, AlphaFold2 is directed to relevant amino acids in a sequence, such as pairs that might sit together in a folded structure. They wiped the floor with the CASP competition by bringing together all these things biologists have been pushing toward for decades and then just acing the AI, says Stevens.

Over the past year, AlphaFold2 has started having an impact. DeepMind has published a detailed description of how the system works and released the source code. It has also set up a public database with the European Bioinformatics Institute that it is filling with new protein structures as the AI predicts them. The database currently has around 800,000 entries, and DeepMind says it will add more than 100 millionnearly every protein known to sciencein the next year.

A lot of researchers still dont fully grasp what DeepMind has done, says Charlotte Deane, chief scientist at Exscientia, an AI drug discovery company based in the UK, and head of the protein informatics lab at the University of Oxford. Deane was also one of the reviewers of the paper that DeepMind published on AlphaFold in the scientific journal Nature last year. Its changed the questions you can ask, she says.

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An artificial intelligence system developed by a Sony Group Corp. subsidiary beat world-class players of the Gran Turismo Sport car racing game, overtaking opponents at high speed and avoiding crashes based on split-second decisions.

Gran Turismo Sophy defeated four Japanese players, some of whom had won world championships, in all races at an event held in Tokyo in 2021, according to an article published Feb. 10 in the online edition of the British science journal Nature.

Sony AI Inc. adopted an approach called deep reinforcement learning, and the system acquired driving skills, such as how to efficiently use acceleration and braking and how to respond when the way ahead is blocked by an opponent, based on vast amounts of data.

Gran Turismo Sophy used innovative ways to race its cars faster, and I could tell at a glance that its moves made perfect sense, said one player. There is so much to learn from what it did.

Technologies behind complex racing maneuvers could be applied to autonomous driving on public roads, an area that Sony Group is expected to work on through an electric vehicle venture to be set up this spring.

Similar know-how could also be used for drones as well as robots designed to work alongside humans.

Gran Turismo Sport, a popular simulation game for the PlayStation 4 home video-game console, allows players across the globe to compete online.

The e-sport platform offers faithful reproductions of racing cars, high-resolution imagery and realistic driving experiences. It has been adopted for racing events certified by the International Automobile Federation (FIA).

At the event in Tokyo, four AI-operated cars competed against the four players in races set along three tracks, including Frances Circuit de la Sarthe. The 13.629-kilometer course is the venue of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, a leg of the so-called Triple Crown of Motorsport.

The Red Bull X2019 Competition, a fictional car with a top speed in excess of 300 kph, was among the models featured in the virtual races.

Gran Turismo Sophy also beat three top-level players in time trial races on solo runs. The best finish time along the Circuit de la Sarthe was 193.080 seconds, about 1.8 seconds below the minimum of 194.888 seconds for humans.

AI has the potential to make racing games more exciting and help discover new maneuvers, said a member of the research team.

AI systems have already overwhelmed humans in board games.

In 1997, IBMs supercomputer, Deep Blue, defeated the world chess champion. Another system won a professional shogi player in 2013. An article published in Nature magazine in 2016 said AlphaGo, developed by a Google Inc. subsidiary, beat Europes go champion.

But things are far more complicated when it comes to racing games, where car movements are simulated in accordance with the laws of physics, especially when multiple players are involved.

Competitors have to know, for example, how to pass an opponent using tactical maneuvers and block a rival while avoiding excessive contact and incurring penalties.

Those techniques require complicated strategies, real-time decision-making and advanced car control skills all at the same time. That previously made it difficult for AI systems to get the better of humans.

But there is still room for improvement in AIs strategic decision-making abilities.

Gran Turismo Sophy sometimes failed to follow the racing line immediately after it had overtaken an opponent along a linear section of track, according to the research team.

The journal article can be read at (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04357-7).

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