Rob Lucas
Digital Editor at New Left Review
Publishing Director at @newleftreview.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
newleftreview.org | Rob Lucas
14 April 2015: Obama announces the removal of Cuba from the ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ list, on which it had languished since the Reagan era. 12 January 2021: the outgoing Trump Administration reinstates it; the incoming Biden Administration doesn’t demur. 14 January 2025: an outgoing Biden at last removes it. On 20 January 2025 – less than a week later – the incoming Trump reinstates it.
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Mar 14, 2024 |
newleftreview.org | Rob Lucas
We are ruled, in part, by algorithms. They govern some of what we see and read, how we communicate and work; this is widely understood. What is less obvious is how we should situate this elementary truth in socio-historical terms, or even what an algorithm actually is. We might usefully begin by defining the electronic computer as a deterministic but flexible device for modelling rules by which sets of symbols are reliably transformed into other sets of symbols.
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Feb 2, 2024 |
newleftreview.org | Rob Lucas
There is no denying the technological marvels that have resulted from the application of transformers in machine learning. They represent a step-change in a line of technical research that has spent most of its history looking positively deluded, at least to its more sober initiates.
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Dec 8, 2021 |
newleftreview.org | Rob Lucas
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Mar 4, 2021 |
newleftreview.org | Rob Lucas
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Someone already translated my recent Cuba piece into Portuguese. https://t.co/j27ii64saA
"the Cuban state doesn't have means to keep in check a population immersed in social media… since the digital blockade encloses it in an external ‘great firewall’, blocking access to much of the internet, the major censor in Cuba is now the US government. https://t.co/CqqLtqEdhh
"the consensus among State Department officials is that the sponsor of terrorism classification is nonsense… Meanwhile, since the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA has plotted with thugs and mafia types to perpetrate assassinations, paramilitary raids and sabotage…"
Rob Lucas (@roblucas) on Cuba and the US: ‘Across the Straits from Rubio’s home state, they will be anticipating the worst.’ https://t.co/ZtX8n38DGd