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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 5h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Johann van de Bron @johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social · Jun 1

▪️Schaden durch Betrug beim Bürgergeld - 60 Mio. €
▪️Schaden durch Steuerhinterziehung - 100 Mrd. €

▪️Vor 60 Mio. Sekunden war es Juli 2023
▪️Vor 100 Mrd. Sekunden regierte Ramses III Ägypten

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 15h

just sayin‘

Schwarzer Kreis, oben ein kaum sichtbarer Strich, der 110 Millionen Schaden durch „sozialbetrug“ bedeutet. Der Rest steht für 100 Milliarden durch Steuerbetrug.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 1d

Swedish people in front of charts
Source: digitaltmuseum.org

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I keep hearing good things about Cloudflare!

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

But you are right, end of the day I will probably just have to enforce lowercase ids, given the point with the different treatment by the various file systems.

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · 1d

Solange die Union „christlich“ im Namen tragen darf, wird man auch Veggie-Wurst überleben.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

OR: they could also just not change the routing, as any other static hoster?

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

My problem is that parts of the URL represent case sensitive IDs, and hence XyZ and xYz should correspond to different routes.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very niche rant, but the fact that netlify converts all file paths to lower case makes it impossible to use for static sites where IDs with uppercase characters are part of the URL. (e.g. using static-adapter in sveltekit). It seems like such a shortsighted decision?

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 3d

digitaltmuseum.org/021018210152...

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly! This paradox is also addressed in the discussion.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 3d

A vast majority of people globally is in favor of climate action:

"Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. [...] 69% [...] expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income [...] and 89% demand intensified political action."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change

Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate action, while a perception gap exists regarding other citizens’ intention to act.

www.nature.com

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 3d

Things that don't get enough attention in the media:

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 5d

Sehr gut gemacht. Auch zum Teilen sehr nützlich:

"Es sei zu teuer, biete zu wenig Anreiz zum Arbeiten oder verleite zu Sozialbetrug – immer wieder kursieren online und in der Politik Behauptungen über das #Bürgergeld. Wir haben uns die größten Narrative der letzten Jahre genauer angeschaut."

Das Bürgergeld: Die hartnäckigsten Behauptungen im Faktencheck

Es sei zu teuer, biete keinen Anreiz zum Arbeiten oder verleite zu Sozialbetrug. Die größten Narrative zum Bürgergeld im Faktencheck.

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 5d

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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 5d

I'm very excited to share the official announcement from School of Visual Arts on the new MPS Data Visualization & Communication (DV&C) program!! It is a real thrill to build such an ambitious new project in the heart of NYC. We're just thrilled to create something truly new! sva.edu/features/sva...

SVA Announces New Graduate Program in Data Visualization and Communication | School of Visual Arts | SVA NYC

A feature on the upcoming MPS Data Visualization and Communication program arriving in fall 2026.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 7d

New blog post

Why can’t I get a portrait mode TV?

Here’s a plan for BBC to launch a new portrait only channel, BBC Vertical. And all the other networks too

Because why not that’s why

interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

The Campaign for Vertical Television

Posted on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025. 1,186 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

interconnected.org

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Amanda Montañez @unamandita.bsky.social · 7d

ever since becoming a parent i have wanted to do this exact data viz project (but no time because, you know, parenthood lol). so thank you, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social. because sometimes animals are ladies!! pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

Bears Will Be Boys

A data analysis of animal gender in children’s books

pudding.cool

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