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Alice Hare
@towerblockwalks.bsky.social
· Oct 16
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RESEARCH | Analysis of covert networks by testing the usefulness of metrics such as betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centrality in identifying terrorist roles and functions in the cells behind major terrorist attacks.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Typology of Terrorist Profiling Using Centrality Metrics: Hinge Figures, Influential Operatives and Trusted Assets
The increase in terrorist activity worldwide has prompted the development of research tools and methodologies to study the phenomenon of terrorism. Among them, social network analysis (SNA) has fou...
www.tandfonline.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
RESEARCH | Analysis of covert networks by testing the usefulness of metrics such as betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centrality in identifying terrorist roles and functions in the cells behind major terrorist attacks.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Good for you. Did you also use a control group family to isolate a variable? Did you do this thousands of times to test your null hypothesis? No? Then sit down and do some real learning instead of thinking you know everything thanks to personal anecdotes.
December 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Good for you. Did you also use a control group family to isolate a variable? Did you do this thousands of times to test your null hypothesis? No? Then sit down and do some real learning instead of thinking you know everything thanks to personal anecdotes.
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So are you suggesting social programs should restrict the money given to homeless people because some of them are smokers and might buy cigarettes.
December 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So are you suggesting social programs should restrict the money given to homeless people because some of them are smokers and might buy cigarettes.
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UK | What do you do when the supposed defenders of national pride are the loudest voices talking Britain down? When those who rage most against immigration are emigrating themselves? When critics of Islam seek shelter in Islamic states?
apple.news/AuiaOfhFlRJK...
apple.news/AuiaOfhFlRJK...
2025 was the year the far-right became a parody of itself — The London Economic
Never has a group of people so fervently loathed the country they are supposed to love.
apple.news
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
UK | What do you do when the supposed defenders of national pride are the loudest voices talking Britain down? When those who rage most against immigration are emigrating themselves? When critics of Islam seek shelter in Islamic states?
apple.news/AuiaOfhFlRJK...
apple.news/AuiaOfhFlRJK...
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The evidence shows that spending on addictions like drugs and alcohol actually go down when people are provided unconditional cash. You may have your n=1 story, but rigorous study of much larger n values prove otherwise.
Poverty leads to self-medication. Cigarettes and booze are misery meds.
Poverty leads to self-medication. Cigarettes and booze are misery meds.
The poor don’t use cash transfers on alcohol and tobacco. Really.
Two years ago, Anna Popova and I put out a working paper examining whether beneficiaries of cash transfer programs are more likely than others to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes (“tempt…
davidevans.blog
December 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The evidence shows that spending on addictions like drugs and alcohol actually go down when people are provided unconditional cash. You may have your n=1 story, but rigorous study of much larger n values prove otherwise.
Poverty leads to self-medication. Cigarettes and booze are misery meds.
Poverty leads to self-medication. Cigarettes and booze are misery meds.
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Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
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Mel - quoted in the manifesto of a fascist mass shooter who murdered seventy seven people, including a large number of teenagers he specifically targeted as children of socialists - says incitement to murder is disqualifying. Every day, these papers are rubbing everyone’s faces in their impunity.
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Mel - quoted in the manifesto of a fascist mass shooter who murdered seventy seven people, including a large number of teenagers he specifically targeted as children of socialists - says incitement to murder is disqualifying. Every day, these papers are rubbing everyone’s faces in their impunity.
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This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:
C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:
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December 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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"Watch Bubbling Alaska Lakes Catch on Fire"
'Seeping methane is driving a global warming feedback loop'
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
'Seeping methane is driving a global warming feedback loop'
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Watch Bubbling Alaska Lakes Catch on Fire
Seeping methane is driving a global warming feedback loop.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Watch Bubbling Alaska Lakes Catch on Fire"
'Seeping methane is driving a global warming feedback loop'
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
'Seeping methane is driving a global warming feedback loop'
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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incredibly enjoyable to block the people RTing this saying that I don't know enough about African politics
I am sincerely hoping that indeed The Future Is African because on this evidence Europe and the US are bankrupt civilizations
December 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
incredibly enjoyable to block the people RTing this saying that I don't know enough about African politics
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Extra points for Carol in Pluribus reading Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness (in the rumspringa episode where she’s off on her jolly hols.) A book about incompatible cultures, individualism and fluid identity, but full of hope for harmony between non-consensus realities. Tick!
December 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Extra points for Carol in Pluribus reading Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness (in the rumspringa episode where she’s off on her jolly hols.) A book about incompatible cultures, individualism and fluid identity, but full of hope for harmony between non-consensus realities. Tick!
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Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.
tell me if you've heard this one before: a billionaire gets upset for being criticized for saying stupid things on social media, then confidentially concludes the problem is most certainly everybody else
Mark Cuban Says It’s ‘CRAZY’ That 'Real Conversations' Are Easier On X Or Threads Than On Bluesky
Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and longtime "Shark Tank" star, is stepping back from Bluesky, the social media platform once hailed as a kinder, more
offthefrontpage.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.
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CTE | Police will be deployed "in massive numbers" and some will be carrying weapons that residents have not seen before, in what is being reported as an unprecedented display of firepower by officers.
apple.news/AfG29fLD_S8e...
apple.news/AfG29fLD_S8e...
'Massive numbers' of police to be deployed for Sydney New Year's Eve celebrations — Sky News
The premier of New South Wales, Chris Minns, called on the public to
apple.news
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
CTE | Police will be deployed "in massive numbers" and some will be carrying weapons that residents have not seen before, in what is being reported as an unprecedented display of firepower by officers.
apple.news/AfG29fLD_S8e...
apple.news/AfG29fLD_S8e...
Anyone out there considering a new vacuum cleaner?
I just got rid of my Dyson Tosh to charity; they looked at me like I was Santa!
Got a much, much better VC- the AEG Clean 5000!
An absolute gem.
Honestly try one.
Less than £100, great suction, light as a feather and very quiet.
Honestly fab!
I just got rid of my Dyson Tosh to charity; they looked at me like I was Santa!
Got a much, much better VC- the AEG Clean 5000!
An absolute gem.
Honestly try one.
Less than £100, great suction, light as a feather and very quiet.
Honestly fab!
December 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Anyone out there considering a new vacuum cleaner?
I just got rid of my Dyson Tosh to charity; they looked at me like I was Santa!
Got a much, much better VC- the AEG Clean 5000!
An absolute gem.
Honestly try one.
Less than £100, great suction, light as a feather and very quiet.
Honestly fab!
I just got rid of my Dyson Tosh to charity; they looked at me like I was Santa!
Got a much, much better VC- the AEG Clean 5000!
An absolute gem.
Honestly try one.
Less than £100, great suction, light as a feather and very quiet.
Honestly fab!
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Raining here. Chocolate time.
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Raining here. Chocolate time.
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Two startups say they want to create CRISPR babies 🧬 to prevent serious inherited diseases 🧪
But why found companies to try to do this when there’s already a far better way of preventing inherited diseases, I ask in my latest column?
www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
But why found companies to try to do this when there’s already a far better way of preventing inherited diseases, I ask in my latest column?
www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
Gene-edited babies are the future – but these CRISPR start-ups aren’t
Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring will one day become routine, but not like this
www.newscientist.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Two startups say they want to create CRISPR babies 🧬 to prevent serious inherited diseases 🧪
But why found companies to try to do this when there’s already a far better way of preventing inherited diseases, I ask in my latest column?
www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
But why found companies to try to do this when there’s already a far better way of preventing inherited diseases, I ask in my latest column?
www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
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Tucking into yet another yule log like…
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Tucking into yet another yule log like…
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Even with Trump lording over America like a giant slug, positive change can and will still happen at the state (and city) level. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-wealth-tax-that-works
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Even with Trump lording over America like a giant slug, positive change can and will still happen at the state (and city) level. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-wealth-tax-that-works
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Absolutely loved this. Creepy and creeping. Listened to it with a smile on my face, my eyes shut and my headphones in, then shit myself as my wife spoke to me from suddenly very close
Christmas Eve. The perfect time for ghost stories…
TOND
A one-off story from the Broken Veil channel.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
(or wherever you get your podcasts.)
TOND
A one-off story from the Broken Veil channel.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
(or wherever you get your podcasts.)
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Absolutely loved this. Creepy and creeping. Listened to it with a smile on my face, my eyes shut and my headphones in, then shit myself as my wife spoke to me from suddenly very close
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This is abject drivel, it doesn’t make a lick of sense, presumably because you are an imbecile.
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is abject drivel, it doesn’t make a lick of sense, presumably because you are an imbecile.
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The Tories are very concerned about ancient Tweets from a UK national Egyptian democracy activist. But happy to dish out a knighthood to billionaire Mohamed Mansour - a minister during the Mubarak dictatorship - after he gave them a £5m donation.
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Tories are very concerned about ancient Tweets from a UK national Egyptian democracy activist. But happy to dish out a knighthood to billionaire Mohamed Mansour - a minister during the Mubarak dictatorship - after he gave them a £5m donation.
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'This is absolutely shameful.'
Anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti demands answers after Alaa Abd El Fattah - who called for the 'killing of Zionists' and described British people as 'dogs and monkeys' - was allowed back into the UK.
Anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti demands answers after Alaa Abd El Fattah - who called for the 'killing of Zionists' and described British people as 'dogs and monkeys' - was allowed back into the UK.
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
'This is absolutely shameful.'
Anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti demands answers after Alaa Abd El Fattah - who called for the 'killing of Zionists' and described British people as 'dogs and monkeys' - was allowed back into the UK.
Anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti demands answers after Alaa Abd El Fattah - who called for the 'killing of Zionists' and described British people as 'dogs and monkeys' - was allowed back into the UK.
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'They have MI5 and MI6 at their fingertips, so if they don't know, then I give up on the whole system.'
Caller Jo can't believe government ministers weren't aware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets.
Caller Jo can't believe government ministers weren't aware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets.
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'They have MI5 and MI6 at their fingertips, so if they don't know, then I give up on the whole system.'
Caller Jo can't believe government ministers weren't aware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets.
Caller Jo can't believe government ministers weren't aware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets.