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Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.

"Once you operationalize #management ideas in a real organization it necessarily should have differences from how it is operationalized elsewhere. As Deming said there are no effective simple recipes for management."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02548 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Modal logic for reasoning about uncertainty and confusion
We consider a modal logic that can formalise statements about uncertainty and beliefs such as `I think that my wallet is in the drawer rather than elsewhere' or `I am confused whether my appointment is on Monday or Tuesday'. To do that, we expand Gödel modal logic $\mathbf{K}\mathsf{G}$ with the involutive negation $\sim$ defined as $v({\sim}ϕ,w)=1-v(ϕ,w)$. We provide semantics with the finite model property for our new logic that we call $\mathbf{K}\mathsf{G_{inv}}$ and show its equivalence…

I have completed the online registration for #ICM2026 . It was easy (but not cheap), and I'm not planning to go through any border checkpoints on the way there (or elsewhere, anytime soon).
#ICM #MathConference

Nu nåede jeg forbi Dio, og … det gik godt nok ned af bakke. Jeg elsker Gillian i gammelt Deep Purple, og jeg kan godt sætte pris på, at de prŸver at lave noget andet, der passer mere til hans stemme, men hvis det ikke var min mission at hŸre det hele, så havde jeg godt nok trykket “næste” på det meste af Born Again.

Ik weet dat jullie zelf de weg wel kunnen vinden, maar om het wat makkelijker te maken:
Maak het verschil en word lid
https://groenlinkspvda.nl/word-lid/
'Lid worden kan vanaf €4 per maand' wordt naar gekeken om dat te verlagen nav motie/toezegging op het congres.

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"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
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Their website is minimalist and good. Telus’ network is reliable and widespread (uses Bell elsewhere). You can order a SIM/eSIM online.
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Cycling question: trying out saddles, in the UK
UK cycling people, is there somewhere you'd go to sit on different saddles to test if they're comfortable? Is that a thing?
I've worked out that my (default came-with-the-bike) saddle isn't the right shape for me: it's giving me an achy tailbone, as well as I think being a bit too narrow for optimal sit-bone comfort.
For context, I'm an "occasional cyclist for pleasure and/or practical reasons", shall we say. No ambition to be super fast.
Looking around online, I think I want something more like the Rido R2 or one of the Selle ones, shaped to have air under the tailbone area. Or maybe even a noseless one like the Spongy Wonder, though I don't like the look of how the metal frame sticks out at the front of those.
What's the chances a shop would have more than one of those and a willingness to get them out for a test sit? Or, better still, is there a loan scheme anywhere, so you can actually "test drive" them for a bit? Or do people usually just buy and be willing to sell again?
I'm in Nottingham, and I know there are bike shops I could get to, but I'm not seeing "come in and try all these saddles, we'll help you to find the right one" kinds of messaging.
Could also potentially travel elsewhere at some point if it turns out there's some kind of "best place in the country for that question".
Advice welcome!
#cycling #BikeTooter #AskFedi #UK

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Salad:
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