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The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
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One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”
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In de herhaling:
Verdeling Nederlandse bevolking naar gezindte.
Let op: islam zat tot 2010 onder Overige.
Verdeling Nederlandse bevolking naar gezindte.
Let op: islam zat tot 2010 onder Overige.
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In de herhaling:
Verdeling Nederlandse bevolking naar gezindte.
Let op: islam zat tot 2010 onder Overige.
Verdeling Nederlandse bevolking naar gezindte.
Let op: islam zat tot 2010 onder Overige.
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🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
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🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
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Do (human) readers prefer AI writers? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Do (human) readers prefer AI writers? - Marginal REVOLUTION
It seems so, do read through the whole abstract: The use of copyrighted books for training AI models has led to numerous lawsuits from authors concerned about AI’s ability to generate derivative content. Yet it’s unclear whether these models can generate high quality literary text while emulating authors’ styles/voices. To answer this we conducted a […]
marginalrevolution.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Do (human) readers prefer AI writers? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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En dan te bedenken dat de Romeinen nooit meer dan zesendertig voornamen hebben gekend.👇
A short thread on onomastics in Numidian inscriptions (eastern script).
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
En dan te bedenken dat de Romeinen nooit meer dan zesendertig voornamen hebben gekend.👇
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Ik wil jullie er graag nog eens op wijzen dat een abonnement op het tijdschrift van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed gratis is. Echt een prachtig en informatief magazine, viermaal per jaar in de bus. www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/abonneren
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ik wil jullie er graag nog eens op wijzen dat een abonnement op het tijdschrift van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed gratis is. Echt een prachtig en informatief magazine, viermaal per jaar in de bus. www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/abonneren
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Presentatie van Bert Hubert, Digitale Autonomie: broodnodig
maar hoe komen we daar?
berthub.eu/logius/preso...
maar hoe komen we daar?
berthub.eu/logius/preso...
berthub.eu
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Presentatie van Bert Hubert, Digitale Autonomie: broodnodig
maar hoe komen we daar?
berthub.eu/logius/preso...
maar hoe komen we daar?
berthub.eu/logius/preso...
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Pure illusion: the dots and box doen't move OR change shape.
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Pure illusion: the dots and box doen't move OR change shape.
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Excellent post by the creator of the hoax FormatMyPaper.com.
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
ubadah.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excellent post by the creator of the hoax FormatMyPaper.com.
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
"We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
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What happens when a team turns a failure into a dramatic success? Sometimes, their hard work and courage earn them a GAO nastygram. That's because the GAO holds them accountable to the wrong operating model. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/gao-gets-s...
GAO gets schooled by the Department of Education
The FAFSA team stands up for itself, and for everyone operating in the product model
www.eatingpolicy.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
What happens when a team turns a failure into a dramatic success? Sometimes, their hard work and courage earn them a GAO nastygram. That's because the GAO holds them accountable to the wrong operating model. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/gao-gets-s...
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Voorts ben ik van mening dat er een vuistdik architectuurboek over minibiebs in Nederland moet komen. Kan iemand dat even maken?
Alvast bedankt.
Alvast bedankt.
September 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Voorts ben ik van mening dat er een vuistdik architectuurboek over minibiebs in Nederland moet komen. Kan iemand dat even maken?
Alvast bedankt.
Alvast bedankt.
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Een bespreking van het handzame boekje _Het kon minder: de lessen van Johan Remkes_. Ook zonder fan te zijn of te worden van Remkes is dit een inzichtelijk werk over hoe politiek ook kan/kon werken. Met waardering voor ouderwetsche dingen als 'goed luisteren'. berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Johan Remkes: Het kon minder - Bert Hubert
Net uitgelezen, het handzame boekje “Het kon minder, de lessen van Johan Remkes” (bol.com e-book).
Geschreven door Thijs Broer en Peter Kee die samen toch al heel wat van de politieke wereld gezien en...
berthub.eu
September 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Een bespreking van het handzame boekje _Het kon minder: de lessen van Johan Remkes_. Ook zonder fan te zijn of te worden van Remkes is dit een inzichtelijk werk over hoe politiek ook kan/kon werken. Met waardering voor ouderwetsche dingen als 'goed luisteren'. berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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In which I argue that Weeding is Fundamental. :)
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/better-pol...
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/better-pol...
Better Politicians
Weeding is Fundamental
www.eatingpolicy.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In which I argue that Weeding is Fundamental. :)
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/better-pol...
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/better-pol...
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Ten overvloede: links dient helemaal niet naar rechts op te schuiven, maar ruggengraat te kweken. Dat zal Elshout wel hooghartig vinden, maar ik draag mijn hooghartigheid met trots, nu ik weet dat daar slechts interesse in de waarheid mee wordt bedoeld. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
En ik maar denken dat journalisten op zoeken moeten naar de waarheid
www.volkskrant.nl
July 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Ten overvloede: links dient helemaal niet naar rechts op te schuiven, maar ruggengraat te kweken. Dat zal Elshout wel hooghartig vinden, maar ik draag mijn hooghartigheid met trots, nu ik weet dat daar slechts interesse in de waarheid mee wordt bedoeld. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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De motie van Dennis Ram (#PVV) c.s. over de Kamer beter informeren over de ontwikkelingen en besluitvorming rond revolverende fondsen, is aangenomen. (36725-XVII-38) #TweedeKamer
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July 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
De motie van Dennis Ram (#PVV) c.s. over de Kamer beter informeren over de ontwikkelingen en besluitvorming rond revolverende fondsen, is aangenomen. (36725-XVII-38) #TweedeKamer
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Het amendement van Don Ceder (#ChristenUnie) over het volledig herstellen van de koppeling tussen het ODA-budget en het BNI, is verworpen. (36725-XVII-14) #TweedeKamer
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July 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Het amendement van Don Ceder (#ChristenUnie) over het volledig herstellen van de koppeling tussen het ODA-budget en het BNI, is verworpen. (36725-XVII-14) #TweedeKamer
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Hallway carpets in hotels is another good one too
May 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Hallway carpets in hotels is another good one too
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Mir egal wie der neue Papst heißt, der ZDF-Reporter am Vatikan heißt A. Postel 😭
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Mir egal wie der neue Papst heißt, der ZDF-Reporter am Vatikan heißt A. Postel 😭
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Youtuber begint burgerinitiatief om Postcodeloterij te stoppen: ‘Het is onethisch, mensen spelen mee uit angst’
Youtuber begint burgerinitiatief om Postcodeloterij te stoppen: ‘Het is onethisch, mensen spelen mee uit angst’
www.volkskrant.nl
April 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Youtuber begint burgerinitiatief om Postcodeloterij te stoppen: ‘Het is onethisch, mensen spelen mee uit angst’
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6/35 Looking at laboratory evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with E. coli, started by @relenski.bsky.social and now past 75,000 generations, has provided extraordinary insights into how adaptation actually unfolds in real time.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
March 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
6/35 Looking at laboratory evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with E. coli, started by @relenski.bsky.social and now past 75,000 generations, has provided extraordinary insights into how adaptation actually unfolds in real time.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
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@yappelbaum.bsky.social: in California cities where the share of progressives votes goes up by 10 percentage points, number of housing permits issued declines by 30 percent www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
www.theatlantic.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@yappelbaum.bsky.social: in California cities where the share of progressives votes goes up by 10 percentage points, number of housing permits issued declines by 30 percent www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...