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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Apr 15

Great #rstats productivity package for us list workers:

github.com/feddelegrand...

GitHub - feddelegrand7/slash: Path-Based Access and Manipulation of Nested Lists 🪆🪆🪆

Path-Based Access and Manipulation of Nested Lists 🪆🪆🪆 - feddelegrand7/slash

github.com

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GrumpyKätzchen (spooky edition) @grumpycat.bsky.social · Apr 5

Frido und die Gassigang

Ein Ridgeback, ein weißer Boxer, ein Australien Sheppard, ein Cockerspaniel und Fridolin sitzen brav zusammen auf einer Wiese für ein Gruppenfoto.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · Apr 10

Our Ridgeback bestie is gonna be a mother soon‼️😍🥰😩

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Feb 11

blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...

World Bank country classifications by income level for 2024-2025

Explore the updated World Bank country income classifications for 2024-2025, highlighting GNI per capita shifts and global economic trends. Discover which countries moved between income categories and...

blogs.worldbank.org

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Oct 31

Python? Python!

Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges

In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.

github.blog

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Oct 26

Germany and a new wave of drug-based crime, violence and lawlessness.

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Oct 24

This map shows the range and variety of Earth’s tides, created by Dave Taylor, a cartographer with Pathfinder Geospatial.

Taking Stock of Our Oceans’ Tides

A stunning new map shows the range and variety of Earth’s tides. Explore tides that are barely perceptible to those that rise over 50 feet.

www.maps.com

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MIT Election Lab @mitelectionlab.bsky.social · Oct 24

Good morning, election friends. First up today, we've got a look at mail & in-person early voters in Texas! The number of Texans who've returned their ballots by mail has risen to just over 200k; meanwhile, about 2.4 million voters have opted for in-person early voting so far.

The unofficial count of mail and in person early voters in Texas since September 29th 2024. The number of Texans who have returned their ballots by mail has risen gradually to just over 200,000. Data for 2020 began on October 4th (30 days before the election) and was noticeably higher than at the equivalent point in 2024. 13 days before the 2020 election, around 720,000 Texans had returned their mail-in ballot. Though in-person early votes are currently at around 2.4 million and had reached 5.2 million in 2020, in person early began 22 days before the election in 2020 compared to 16 days before the election in 2024.

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · Oct 24

Useful new report, Politics Without Winners, on why neither party has developed a majority electoral coalition:
www.aei.org/research-pro...

True that voters are in the middle & each party overshoots, but I don't expect a clear victor anytime soon. Incentives are toward more of same

www.aei.org

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Oct 24

Source: www.bundestag.de/dokumente/te...

Deutscher Bundestag - Vor 90 Jahren: Letzte Reichstagswahlen in der Weimarer Republik

Fast neunzig Prozent der Stimmberechtigten folgen am Sonntag, 5. März 1933, dem Aufruf zur Wahl des achten Reichstages der Weimarer Republik. Das Ergebnis bestätigte Adolf Hitler, den...

www.bundestag.de

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Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Oct 24

March 5th, 1933.

The last free elections with multiple independent parties in Germany.

Nazi organizations "monitored" the voting process.

#elections #consequences #history

Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg verlässt bei den Reichstagswahlen am 5. März 1933 das Wahllokal in der Berliner Kanonierstraße. (© picture-alliance/IMAGNO)

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · Oct 21

A different view of the USA

3D topographic map of the contiguous United States. The map shows exaggerated elevation, with the western states, particularly the Rocky Mountains, appearing much higher and more rugged than the relatively flat eastern and central regions. The contrast is stark, with the western third of the country depicted in vibrant greens, yellows, and browns representing high elevations, while the rest of the country is shown in shades of blue, indicating lower elevations. This visualization dramatically illustrates the geographical divide between the mountainous west and the flatter eastern regions of the US.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · Oct 22

The age you peak

Folded timeline graphic shows the typical peaks ages for certain skills and life achievements. Learning a new language (aged 7), muscle strength (25), bone mass (30), and winning a novel prize! (aged 40)

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YouGot.Us @yougot.us · Oct 18

Nearly 25% of Data Teams Struggle with Communication When Building Data and ML Workflows.

- 24.5% of respondents in a recent YouGot.us study said they struggle with communication breakdowns across different teams.
- 20.6% reported conflicts due to competing priorities between teams.

#data #insight

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