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"De mens is wat hij eet, zei filosoof Ludwig Feuerbach al. Hij had het over de relatie tussen kapitaal en eetcultuur, maar verbond dat niet aan iemands identiteit. (...) De Europese Commissie en de Tweede Kamer zouden er goed aan doen daarnaar te kijken en niet te doen alsof een vleescultuur samenvalt met identiteit. Gezond oud worden en de planeet leefbaar houden, vormen geen bedreiging van culinaire tradities."

Wat vindt NRC | Men is wat men eet, maar vlees eten staat los van identiteit
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A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/apache-oak-flat-copper-mine/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY0OTEwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2MjkzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ5MTA4MDAsImp0aSI6IjBiOWVmZjkyLTRhYzctNDQ4OC1iY2MzLTYzMzVjNjc2Y2E2OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyNS9hcGFjaGUtb2FrLWZsYXQtY29wcGVyLW1pbmUvIn0.SFEZTvbd0EXODLQnsgxZ0ghUVnIhTfIBypYDNHXgnec&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p64#a251206p64

Money has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…

Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers
The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.

Like most people, I've been using a touchscreen smartphone for many years, but I miss phones with keyboards. I've traded the number of words I could type per minute on my BlackBerry for the number of typos I make in a sentence. Oh, and autocorrect! Damn autocorrect!
Duuuuck!

Improving Sensitivity in A/B Tests: Integrating CUPED with Trimmed Mean Techniques
Kevin Charette, Tristan Boudreault
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03468 https://

Improving Sensitivity in A/B Tests: Integrating CUPED with Trimmed Mean Techniques
Accurate estimation of treatment effects in online A/B testing is challenging with zero-inflated and skewed metrics. Traditional tests, like Welch's t-test, often lack sensitivity with heavy-tailed data due to their reliance on means, as opposed to e.g., percentiles. The Controlled Experiments Using Pre-experiment Data (CUPED) technique improves sensitivity by reducing variance, yet that variance reduction is insufficient for highly skewed metrics. Alternatively, Yuen's t-test uses trimmed mean…

Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/western-tatami-mat-mania-keeping-alive-japans-traditional-woven-grass-flooring-industry/

Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan's Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry
From Europe, the US, and even the Middle East, eager importers of tatami mats now account for a sizable amount of orders

"We feel accountable to our religious tradition. And just as accountable to our own intuition. When we have a question or a challenge on our religious tradition, we don't abandon our religious tradition, nor do we assume a posture of submission or sacrifice towards our own intution. That is not what the Talmud does, instead, we think harder, think more critically, think more carefully." Sammanfattar bra min syn på bibeltolkning och vrf Talmud är ett så storslaget dokument

R. Aviva Richman: Why Talmud is the Bedrock of My Faith - Ta Shma
The Talmud has often been subject to misrepresentation—viewed as esoteric or overly complex—yet it holds profound power as a centerpiece of Jewish tradition. How can Talmud and Talmud study anchor an approach to Judaism that speaks to the challenges  and dangers of our moment? How can its embrace of complexity, argument, and multivocality offer a model for living a thoughtful and principled Jewish life in our uncertain times?  Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/…

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On Hyperproperty Verification, Quantifier Alternations, and Games under Partial Information
Raven Beutner, Bernd Finkbeiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03942 https://

On Hyperproperty Verification, Quantifier Alternations, and Games under Partial Information
Hyperproperties generalize traditional trace properties by relating multiple execution traces rather than reasoning about individual runs in isolation. They provide a unified way to express important requirements such as information flow and robustness properties. Temporal logics like HyperLTL capture these properties by explicitly quantifying over executions of a system. However, many practically relevant hyperproperties involve quantifier alternations, a feature that poses substantial challen…

What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…

As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression In Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.