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La ultraderecha global. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
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foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, requiring issuers to get approval from the Monetary Authority, comply with AML protocols, and more (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/333078/hong-kong-kicks-off-stablecoin-licens…

Hong Kong Kicks Off Stablecoin Licensing Regime With Eye on Global Hub
Hong Kong’s new stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, tightening rules as the city vies for a global crypto edge.

Paramount reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $6.85B, a $57M profit, vs. a $5.4B loss a year ago, Paramount subs down by 1.3M QoQ to 77.7M and revenue up 23% YoY (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/paramount-global-earning…

Paramount Sees Q2 Bump From ‘Mission Impossible’, Paramount+ In Redstone Swan Song As Skydance Merger Set To Close
aramount Global reported its last set of financials under Redstone ownership with a jump in theatrical revenue from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

🥵 As SoCal bakes, UCLA study shows duration of heat waves is accelerating faster than climate change
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/ucla-study-heat-wave-duration-faster-than-global-warming
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Heat-wave duration accelerating faster than climate change, UCLA says
UCLA researchers have released an alarming new finding — the duration of heat waves is increasing faster than global warming itself.

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05164-9
Data for 35 cities. Looks similar to the neatnet method

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation - Scientific Data
Urban road network is crucial for understanding and revealing the spatial logic of urban organization and evolution. However, existing urban road network datasets like OpenStreetMap are designed for traffic studies, treating each lane as a distinct spatial unit of mobility, which may not align with urban studies considering each road as an integration space for social and cultural dynamics. This study established a novel workflow to self-adaptively transform the global urban road network from t…

Zahlen, bitte! 350 Inspektoren für globale Atomsicherheit: Die IAEA
Die IAEA fördert global die friedliche und sichere Nutzung von Kernenergie und dämmt die Ausbreitung von Atomwaffen ein – was mal mehr, mal weniger gut gelingt.

Trump Tariff Blitz Unleashes Delayed Shock to Global Economy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/trump-s-tariff-blitz-unleashes-delayed-shock-to-global-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p22#a250801p22

Debating Mamdani's refusal to condemn the phrase 'globalize the intifada' (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/debating-mamdani-s-refusal-to-condemn-the-phrase-globalize-the-intifada-242455621872
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p73#a250630p73