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And I hear Schumer is going for the International Trifecta: After this not-unexpected win of the Benedict Arnold "Saratoga Award", he plans to go on and try to capture both the Vidkun Quisling "Service to One's Country" Award and the Marshal Pétain "Doing What I Think Is Best for My Country" Trophy!
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If the Republicans are too frightened to hold Town Hall meetings, the nearest Democratic Reps should do so in those Republican Districts! Forget "decorum"

I and others would happily volunteer to staff!

@raskin.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts
A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The overall gist of this article is excellent though obvious. My only quibble - I argue the Incumbent party always sides with the rosy "official numbers", so saying "it's Dems" is disingenuous.
Didn't Clinton beat Bush with "It's the Economy Stupid" ?

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Every once in a while, one of the hairless monkeys is darn clever! And Andrew Krapivin is a very clever monkey!

www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's all the rage these days, the OSS (precursor to the CIA) field guide to sabotaging Fascism. Weird that it's currently the number one download, can't imagine why!
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
www.gutenberg.org
February 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Oh sure Cornell, what were you jealous of the cars-for-rats program at the University of Richmond? But Cars for Mushrooms? Really?
news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electri...
news.cornell.edu
January 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Interesting article on iron age matrilocality in england. Makes me want to re/read Tacitus." and what we know about the Boudican revolt.

www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
A groundbreaking study led by geneticists from Trinity finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife’s community.
www.tcd.ie
January 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM