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Guardian US EIC Betsy Reed says the outlet expects to bring in $50M this year, up from $43M last year, and plans to grow newsletters and launch a news podcast (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/betsy-re

Betsy Reed on covering Trump and the ‘normalization of extremism.’
The editor in chief of Guardian US says staying above the fray doesn’t cut it.

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

"For Afghan women, the stakes could not be any clearer. Every gesture towards normalization tells them their rights can be traded away for political convenience. Every meeting that sidelines the issue of gender apartheid reinforces the message that their lives are secondary to geopolitical interests. "
UN Report Details Deepening Crisis for Afghan Women and Warns Against Normalising Taliban Rule - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/un-report-details-deepening-crisis-for-afghan-women-and-warns-against-normalising-taliban-rule/

The idea that propaganda's main effect is in what it makes normal keeps sticking with me. I see it everywhere now. And it's how so much media that doesn't set off alarm bells as trying to manipulate so effectively works as propaganda. Reject or accept the overt message, the covert normalization works either way.

Geometric Interpretation of the Redshift Evolution of H_0(z)
Seokcheon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07454 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07454 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07454
arXiv:2511.07454v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent analyses of the Master Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample have revealed a mild redshift dependence in the inferred local Hubble parameter, often expressed as tilde{H}_0(z) = H_0 (1 z)^{-\alpha}, where \alpha quantifies possible departures from the standard cosmological time dilation relation. In this work, we show that such an empirical scaling can be interpreted as a purely geometric effect arising from a small, gauge-dependent normalization of cosmic time within the Robertson-Walker metric. This interpretation naturally unifies the observed redshift evolution of tilde{H}_0(z) and the corresponding deviation in SN Ia light-curve durations under a single geometric time-normalization framework. We demonstrate that this mapping leaves all background distances--linked to the Hubble radius in the general-relativistic frame--unchanged, while the apparent evolution in SN Ia luminosity distances arises from the redshift dependence of the Chandrasekhar mass. The result provides a unified and observationally consistent explanation of the mild Hubble-tension trend as a manifestation of the geometric structure of cosmic time rather than a modification of the expansion dynamics.
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Revised comment on the paper titled "The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Insights from Research on Human Language
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07881
arXiv:2512.07881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This short note comments on \citet{Aerts2024Origin}, which proposes that ranked word frequencies in texts should be read through the lens of Bose--Einstein (BE) statistics and even used to illuminate the origin of quantum statistics in physics. The core message here is modest: the paper offers an interesting analogy and an eye-catching fit, but several key steps mix physical claims with definitions and curve-fitting choices. We highlight three such points: (i) a normalization issue that is presented as "bosonic enhancement", (ii) an identification of rank with energy that makes the BE fit only weakly diagnostic of an underlying mechanism, and (iii) a baseline comparison that is too weak to support an ontological conclusion. We also briefly flag a few additional concerns (interpretation drift, parameter semantics, and reproducibility).
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