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Parks gift shops directed to remove items that ‘disparage Americans’
Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content.
The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical racism and sexism.

The directive instructs park staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or…

Parks gift shops directed to remove items that ‘disparage Americans’
The National Park Service’s directive is part of a wider Trump administration effort to reshape how American history is told at federal institutions.

By 24%
Prices for common baby items are rising due to Trump's tariffs, congressional analysis says
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/prices-common-baby-items-are-rising-due-trumps-tariffs-congressional-a-rcna212753

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 400727 nodes and 3200440 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Don’t start with your most emotionally charged items. Don’t start with your difficult items or your most expensive items to make decisions about. Start with low stakes things. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-188-decision-making…

Documents Are People and Words Are Items: A Psychometric Approach to Textual Data with Contextual Embeddings
Jinsong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08920 https://

Documents Are People and Words Are Items: A Psychometric Approach to Textual Data with Contextual Embeddings
This research introduces a novel psychometric method for analyzing textual data using large language models. By leveraging contextual embeddings to create contextual scores, we transform textual data into response data suitable for psychometric analysis. Treating documents as individuals and words as items, this approach provides a natural psychometric interpretation under the assumption that certain keywords, whose contextual meanings vary significantly across documents, can effectively differ…

"‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution"
#Italy #Plastic #Plastics

‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/italy-museum-of-plastic-pollution-faded-items-beaches-ocean

X-iting: Local Governments Are Stepping Away from Musk’s Platform:
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/10/X-iting-Local-Governments/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Optimal Non-Adaptive Group Testing with One-Sided Error Guarantees
Daniel McMorrow, Jonathan Scarlett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10374 https://

Optimal Non-Adaptive Group Testing with One-Sided Error Guarantees
The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of defective items from within a larger set of items via a series of tests, where each test outcome indicates whether at least one defective item is included in the test. We study the approximate recovery setting, where the recovery criterion of the defective set is relaxed to allow a small number of items to be misclassified. In particular, we consider one-sided approximate recovery criteria, where we allow either only false neg…

At least 2/3 of Americans aren’t daily coffee drinkers. ☕️
Wait, they are.
Well, at least hundreds of millions of American coffee drinkers don’t drink an average of 3 cups a day.
Wait, they do.
Folks, these are #TrumpTariffs, taking money from the American people.
via @…