When photographer hates his subject.
Karoline Leavitt for Vanity Fair, by Christopher Anderson
Photographer Defends His Vanity Fair Photos of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt https://petapixel.com/2025/12/17/photographer-defends-his-vanity-fair-photos-of-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt/
Sabine Hossenfelder got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1199469798/youtube-star-scientist-sabine-hossenfelder
The Defense of the Sampo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defense_of_the_Sampo
The Al situation has hit a crisis point. Students have a solution.
Jeff Bezos Exerts More Control Of Washington Post Opinion Pages, Says Focus Will Be On “Personal Liberties And Free Markets”
https://deadline.com/2025/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-1236302292/
" Bezos’ announcement applies only to the opinion pages, not the news side. But it already has raised concerns in the newsroom."
How scientists scrambled to stop Donald Trump’s EPA from wiping out climate data
https://www.theverge.com/22313763/scientists-climate-change-data-rescue-donald-trump
Climate Web Pages Erased and Obscured under Trump
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-web-pages-erased-and-obscured-under-trump/
"Trump’s reckless venality is a reason for hope. Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court, in Congress, in statehouses around the nation, and in the public arena." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/trump-victory-democracy/680549/
2024 US 🟠 vs. 🔵 presidential elections
Forecast models
- The Economist https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president
- Silver Bulletin https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
- Princeton Election Consortium https://election.princeton.edu/presidential-race/
Polls and aggregators
- The Economist https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/trump-harris-polls
- Realclear Polling https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
- Cook Political Report https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/presidential-race-ratings
Betting odds
- https://electionbettingodds.com/
- https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
#harris #trump #elections2024 #politics #uspol #polls #election #US #USpolitics
A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy
Sep 9, 2024
Dani Rodrik
It may be impossible simultaneously to combat climate change, boost the middle class in advanced economies, and reduce global poverty. Under current policy trajectories, any combination of two goals appears to come at the expense of the third.
Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. https://consentomatic.au.dk/
© 2022 Aarhus University.
MIT licence, code: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
#web #browserExtension #eu #europe #CMP #browser #firefox #chrome #safari #privacy
How big is the Electoral College Bias?
https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-electoral-college-bias-has-returned
A very high energy hadron collider on the Moon 😲 Just the dipole magnets cost > $200 billion.
A circular collider on the Moon (CCM) of ∼11 000 km in circumference could reach a proton–proton center-of-mass collision energy of 14 PeV—a thousand times higher than the Large Hadron Collider at CERN—optimistically assuming a dipole magnetic field of 20 T.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ac4921/meta
2024 US presidential elections forecast models
- Nate Silver https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
- The Economist https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president
- PEC https://election.princeton.edu/presidential-race/
- Fairmodel https://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/vote2020/indeane2.htm
- Primarymodel http://primarymodel.com/
POLLS and AGGREGATORS
- https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
- https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/presidential-race-ratings
- https://electoral-vote.com/
- The Economist https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/trump-harris-polls
- Realclear Polling https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
- https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/6cac2af2a5a642b7a7fbe37bd1705776/
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