Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition (Rebecca Solnit/Meditations in an Emergency)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-unbearable-stupidity-january-6-2026-edition/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p67#a260106p67
I found this statue of Guanyin at the #Rijksmuseum in #Amsterdam oddly calming.
«Here the Buddhist deity Guanyin, saviour of people in peril, is represented meditating on a rock. According to legend, he was once found in this position, meditating on the reflection of the moon in water, a symbol of ill…
euroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
zebras: Zebras (2002)
Social interactions among a group of wild Grevy's zebras (Equus grevyi), observed in Mpala Ranch in Kenya in 2002. Metadata (UCINET version) provides animal sex and lactation status.
This network has 27 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
zebras: Zebras (2002)
Social interactions among a group of wild Grevy's zebras (Equus grevyi), observed in Mpala Ranch in Kenya in 2002. Metadata (UCINET version) provides animal sex and lactation status.
This network has 27 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
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
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
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
terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 1650 nodes and 151766 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata