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After Trump won the Iowa caucuses, Biden said:
“You know, it’s kind of funny: all these Republican candidates in the primary trying to beat Donald Trump, and I’m still the only person to beat Donald Trump.”
CNN picked up on the idea on Friday.
“Biden has laid out the stakes of the election in as stark terms as any American election ever. But as serious as he is about what’s at stake for democracy in 2024, aides to the president’s reelection campaign tell CNN that the need…

How Biden is neutralizing the Big Lie | Opinion
If you spend time on Twitter (I won’t use its official name), you have probably encountered what my friend Magdi Jacobs calls “doomerism.” Generally speaking, that’s an attitude arising from the most extreme ends of the continuum, according to which nothing really matters in human society except the ability of one group to dominate another. It’s nihilism from the far right and the far left. Both enable tyrants like Donald Trump. I’ll talk more about doomerism another time. For now, …

As YouTube marks one year as Nielsen's top US streaming service, a Q&A with YouTube VPs Nicky Rettke and Tara Levy on the NFL, ad innovation, creators, and more (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/02/youtube-nie…

As YouTube Marks One Year As Nielsen’s Top U.S. Streaming Platform, Senior Execs Nicky Rettke And Tara Walpert Levy Talk NFL, Ad Innovation And How Creators Invaded The Living Room
As YouTube marked 12 straight months as Nielsen's top-rated streaming platform, Deadline spoke with two top execs about how the video giant got there.

As YouTube marks one year as Nielsen's top US streaming service, a Q&A with YouTube VPs Nicky Rettke and Tara Levy on the NFL, ad innovation, creators, and more (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/02/youtube-nie…

As YouTube Marks One Year As Nielsen’s Top U.S. Streaming Platform, Senior Execs Nicky Rettke And Tara Walpert Levy Talk NFL, Ad Innovation And How Creators Invaded The Living Room
As YouTube marked 12 straight months as Nielsen's top-rated streaming platform, Deadline spoke with two top execs about how the video giant got there.

scida: scalable analysis for scientific big data
Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17818 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

scida: scalable analysis for scientific big data
scida is a Python package for reading and analyzing large scientific data sets with support for various cosmological and galaxy formation simulations out-of-the-box. Data access is provided through a hierarchical dictionary-like data structure after a simple load() function. Using the dask library for scalable, parallel and out-of-core computation, all computation requests from a user session are first collected in a task graph. Arbitrary custom analysis, as well as all available dask (array) o…

I'll be at the upcoming Nullcon conference in Berlin and will talk about an interesting bug I found in Firefox that allowed bypassing HSTS in many common situations. https://nullcon.net/berlin-2024/speaker-bypassing-http-strict-transport-securit…

"enligt artikelförfattarna Richard Wilkinson, professor emeritus i social epidemiologi vid bland annat University College London, samt Kate Pickett, professor i epidemiologi vid University of York, båda i Storbritannien, är ett starkt ojämlikt samhälle en riktigt dålig idé – av flera anledningar."

Vad sägs om en nybliven miljardär till frukost?
Världen har inte råd med de superförmögna. Det hävdar forskare i tidskriften Nature där de listar en rad exempel på effekterna av ekonomisk ojämlikhet.

Happy Appomattox Day! Frederick Douglass has some strong words for remembering what the victory over the Confederacy meant.
We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it, those who fought for slavery and those who fought for liberty and justice.
I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant; but may my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.
...But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause. We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the Republic."

Kommentar: Weselskys Bahnstreik torpediert die Verkehrswende
Der erneute Lokführer-Streik bei der Deutschen Bahn ist destruktiv – er schade nicht nur dem Unternehmen, sondern auch der Verkehrswende, meint Claudia van Laak. GDL-Chef Claus Weselsky gehe es in erster Linie um einen persönlichen Triumph.

The smooth Mordell-Weil group and mapping class groups of elliptic surfaces
Benson Farb, Eduard Looijenga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15960 https://<…

The smooth Mordell-Weil group and mapping class groups of elliptic surfaces
This is a paper in smooth $4$-manifold topology, inspired by the Mordell-Weil Theorem in number theory. More precisely, we prove a smooth version of the Mordell-Weil Theorem and apply it to the `unipotent radical' case of a Thurston-type classification of mapping classes of simply-connected $4$-manifolds $M_d$ that admit the structure of an elliptic complex surface of arithmetic genus $d\geq 1$. Applications include Nielsen realization theorems for $M_d$. By combining this with known results,…

This poll inspired by two recent uses of the word "queer".
The second was clearly a problem (but she was drunk, and meant well).
Still puzzling over the first, the song has a rich queer-positive history as does Willie Nelson. The word "queer" is not negative and used to connote irony. But the way it works in this version of the song in 2024 doesn't quite sit right with me.