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@servelan@newsie.social
2024-06-11 21:27:09

Rick Wilson (via e-mail list): 'A well-meaning Republican friend recently asked me why Biden would be better than Trump. He voted for Trump in 2016 and (in his words, “very reluctantly') in 2020. I could tell he was looking for something, anything to hold on to in making a stand against Trump.

Text of a letter from Rick Wilson to a Republican friend about voting for Trump in 2024: Dear REDACTED: I think the simplest question is this: what will you tell your kids? I know the economy is the thing for you, but brother, you’re rich, and always will be, even if your marginal tax rate goes up by a percentage point or two. It’s not — and shouldn’t be, anyway — about the money. There’s no argument the REDACTED sector is booming, and if you’re not having a record year under Marxist Commu…
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-06-13 06:52:51

Dynamical evolution of social network polarization and its impact on the propagation of a virus
Ixandra Achitouv, David Chavalarias
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08299

Dynamical evolution of social network polarization and its impact on the propagation of a virus
The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in 2020 has highlighted the complex interplay between vaccine hesitancy and societal polarization. In this study, we analyse the dynamical polarization within a social network as well as the network properties before and after a vaccine was made available. Our results show that as the network evolves from a less structured state to one with more clustered communities. Then using an agent-based modeling approach, we simulate the propagation of a virus in a pola…