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Rage Against the Machine guitarist rips Trump over president's feud with Bruce Springsteen in fiery rant

FOX News

Kid Rock told Fox News Digital that he doesn't necessarily set out to write patriotic music, but "the message of patriotism in my music has just always been there." Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello had some choice words for President Donald Trump at a concert on Sunday. Rolling Stone reported that during his performance at the Boston Calling Music Festival, the famous musician unloaded on Trump in response to the president's recent spat with classic rock legend Bruce Springsteen. "Bruce is going after Trump because Bruce, his whole life, he's been about truth, justice, democracy, equality," Morello said onstage, adding, "And Trump is mad at him because Bruce draws a bigger audience. The feud between Trump and Springsteen began nearly two weeks ago when the artist accused the president of treason during a concert in Manchester, England. "The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll in dangerous times.


Morello: Compiling Fast Neural Networks with Dynamic Programming and Spatial Compression

Kaufman, Samuel J., Just, René, Bodik, Rastislav

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

High-throughput neural network inference requires coordinating many optimization decisions, including parallel tiling, microkernel selection, and data layout. The product of these decisions forms a search space of programs which is typically intractably large. Existing approaches (e.g., auto-schedulers) often address this problem by sampling this space heuristically. In contrast, we introduce a dynamic-programming-based approach to explore more of the search space by iteratively decomposing large program specifications into smaller specifications reachable from a set of rewrites, then composing a final program from each rewrite that minimizes an affine cost model. To reduce memory requirements, we employ a novel memoization table representation, which indexes specifications by coordinates in $Z_{\geq 0}$ and compresses identical, adjacent solutions. This approach can visit a much larger set of programs than prior work. To evaluate the approach, we developed Morello, a compiler which lowers specifications roughly equivalent to a few-node XLA computation graph to x86. Notably, we found that an affine cost model is sufficient to surface high-throughput programs. For example, Morello synthesized a collection of matrix multiplication benchmarks targeting a Zen 1 CPU, including a 1x2048x16384, bfloat16-to-float32 vector-matrix multiply, which was integrated into Google's gemma.cpp.


Scenes from Hollywood's Hot Labor Summer

The New Yorker

"Jump the fuck up!" Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, instructed the crowd outside the gates of Paramount. Morello, who wore his signature red bandana around his neck, was strumming "This Land Is Your Land," to rev up the morning's picketers. Everyone raised a fist and jumped the fuck up, singing, "This land was made for you and me!" The Writers Guild of America was on day one hundred and three of its strike against the Hollywood studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (A.M.P.T.P.); the actors of SAG-AFTRA were on day thirty. The August sun was blazing, and the experienced strikers wore hats; others found shade under signs that read "ON STRIKE!" or "CUT OUT THE CRAP AMPTP!" It was "Bruce Springsteen Day" on the Paramount line, and several people had come in "Born in the U.S.A." garb. A guy in a headband and tight jeans marched along Melrose Avenue. "I'm here so often I plan my outfits," he said to a companion.


Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello accidentally tackled by security during Toronto concert

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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment. Tom Morello, lead guitarist of Los Angeles rock band Rage Against the Machinne, was accidentally tackled by a security guard who was chasing a fan that rushed the stage during a Toronto concert Saturday night. Morello and the band were playing their final song, "Killing in the Name," when a fan in a red shirt jumped onto the stage, according to video posted online. In the video, a security guard can be seen chasing after the fan, but accidentally tackles Morello -- who falls off the stage -- as the fan jumps down and tries to escape back into the crowd.


Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello asks for help in getting female guitar students out of Afghanistan

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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is asking for the public's help in assisting female guitar students out of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the capital city, Kabul. Morello penned an open letter calling attention to his friend and musician Lanny Cordola's "Girl with a Guitar" program, which currently has 12 female guitar students ranging in age from 8 to 17 years old who are stuck in Kabul. The girls are students of a music school in Afghanistan Cordola helped bring to fruition through a non-profit called Miraculous Love Kids.


Rage Against the Machine singer recalls band storming New York Stock Exchange and shutting it down

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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Rage Against the Machine is one of the most politically outspoken bands currently making music today and singer Tom Morello loves to toe the line. In a recent interview with Yahoo, he recalled the moment his band stormed the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan while shooting their 1999 music video for "Sleep Now in the Fire," directed by Michael Moore. "The band shut down the New York Stock Exchange, which was the first time that that happened in its 200-year history, in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon," Morello, 56, recalled to the outlet.


Chance discovery brings quantum computing using standard microchips a step closer

#artificialintelligence

A study to prod an antimony nucleus (buried in the middle of this device) with magnetic fields became one with electric fields when a key wire melted a gap in it. An accidental innovation has given a dark-horse approach to quantum computing a boost. For decades, scientists have dreamed of using atomic nuclei embedded in silicon--the familiar stuff of microchips--as quantum bits, or qubits, in a superpowerful quantum computer, manipulating them with magnetic fields. Now, researchers in Australia have stumbled across a way to control such a nucleus with more-manageable electric fields, raising the prospect of controlling the qubits in much the same way as transistors in an ordinary microchip. "That's incredibly important," says Thaddeus Ladd, a research physicist at HRL Laboratories LLC., a private research company. "This could potentially change the game for nuclear qubits in silicon."


Fight the Power, With a Supergroup?

The New Yorker

Prophets of Rage, composed of members of Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill, and Public Enemy is, in the words of its guitarist, Tom Morello, an "élite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election-year bullshit, and confront it head-on, with Marshall stacks blazing." Morello prefers his gassy characterization to the admittedly hokey term "supergroup," but the outfit does have a Voltron-like quality: an intimidating assemblage of steely-faced, aggressively minded musicians from the early nineties, stomping in to save us from ourselves. On Monday, Prophets of Rage announced a North American tour that will begin on July 19th, at the Republican National Convention, in Cleveland, and has been titled "Make America Rage Again." Has America ever stopped raging? On dark days, it feels as if we are raging more than ever.


Chuck D, B Real join members of Rage Against the Machine to form supergroup Prophets of Rage

Los Angeles Times

A few weeks ago, an anonymous website arrived with a countdown clock, one set to hit zero on May 31. The domain, Prophets of Rage, is named for a Public Enemy song, and arrived with a red-and-black militaristic logo. Prophets of Rage also started posting oblique Instagram photos and embeds of Public Enemy and Cypress Hill tracks. It did all this while referencing a hashtag: #takethepowerback. This wasn't a political movement or an armed insurrection.