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Venezuela comprises an area of 912.050 km2, with a population estimated at 31,3 million in 2024. By comparison, France has 638.475 km2, population 68,6 million.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
#farming …

Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
Farm size plays a crucial role in shaping food production systems and environmental outcomes. However, its long-term global trends have remained poorly understood.

“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-co…

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

«En dix ans, les coûts liés au personnel ont progressé de 2,30 Š 2,67 milliards de francs. Si l'on tient compte de l'augmentation de la population, la charge du personnel de l'Etat est passée, sur le même intervalle de temps, de 3168 Š 3244 francs par habitant par année. Une hausse de 76 francs, inférieure toutefois Š l'inflation.»

«En dix ans, les coûts liés au personnel ont progressé de 2,30 Š 2,67 milliards de francs. Si l'on tient compte de l'augmentation de la population, la charge du personnel de l'Etat est passée, sur le même intervalle de temps, de 3168 Š 3244 francs par habitant par année. Une hausse de 76 francs, inférieure toutefois Š l'inflation.»

«En dix ans, les coûts liés au personnel ont progressé de 2,30 Š 2,67 milliards de francs. Si l'on tient compte de l'augmentation de la population, la charge du personnel de l'Etat est passée, sur le même intervalle de temps, de 3168 Š 3244 francs par habitant par année. Une hausse de 76 francs, inférieure toutefois Š l'inflation.»

Lots of national population numbers are total fiction. We don't know how many people live in Papua New Guinea, or Nigeria, or even India.
https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake

The Yamuna River,
a vital waterway for millions and a crucial source of drinking water for approximately 40% of Delhi’s population,
is grappling with a severe pollution crisis.
The river’s condition has deteriorated to the point where considerable portions are frequently covered in toxic substances,
raising serious public health concerns and threatening the region’s water security.

Yamuna River: From Sacred Lifeline to Toxic Disaster Threatening Delhi's Water Supply – Archyde
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Thailand’s endangered ‘sea cows’ are washing ashore – pointing to a crisis in our seas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/thailand-dugong-sea-cow-population-sea-biodiversity-crisis

VA reorganization to shift health care workforce to hubs with growing veteran population (Jory Heckman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2026/01/va-reorganization-aims-to-shift-health-care-workforce-to-hubs-with-growing-veteran-population/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p124#a260128p124

South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/cou…

These proposals were common knowledge in Bulgaria. I remember the oldtimers being disgusted how desperately in love was the regime with the Soviets, while the Bulgarian economy had been crashing constantly way into the 1980s (which was a not that common knowledge because it was kept in secret from the population that didn't perish in prisons and work camps). Fully incompetent, servile scum in full power for 45 years straight.
Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Bulgaria?

"Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange

can we get support for these defenders of the only democracy in the pandora east

Population belge par niveau d'urbanisation
https://population.un.org/wup/countryprofiles?country=Belgium&mainCategory=Countries and Aggregates&…

Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

Globally, four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change.
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/worlds-largest-survey-climate-change-out-heres-what-results-show<…

The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
We break down the results of Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, representing 87 percent of the global population.

It's very sad, after more than a year of the current government, to read triumphalist press releases where they state they've basically done their job.
It at least acknowledges that longer sentence lengths contribute to an increase in prison population. i.e. prison overpopulation is broadly a policy choice that's independent of the number of actual cells.

Government action to avert summer prison disaster
The prison system would have collapsed entirely by summer if not for the Government’s decisive action to keep the public safe, new analysis has revealed.

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes #BCI

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes - npj Flexible Electronics
Neural representations arise from high-dimensional population activity, but current neuromodulation methods lack the precision to write information into the central nervous system at this complexity. In this perspective, we propose high-dimensional stimulation as an approach to better approximate natural neural codes for brain-machine interfaces. Key advancements in resolution, coverage, and safety are essential, with flexible microelectrode arrays offering a promising path toward precise synth…

good grief describing 1993 as “before most people were born” gave me an emotion
median age is apparently 30.9 years https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/world-demographics/

World Demographics 2025 (Population, Age, Sex, Trends) - Worldometer
Population Pyramid, Age Structure, Sex Ratio (Males to Females), Life Expectancy, Dependency Ratio of the World

Israël : le réveil civique et politique des Arabes en Israël face aux violences liées au crime organisé
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/01/30/isra…

Israël : le réveil civique et politique des Arabes en Israël face aux violences liées au crime organisé
Devant la recrudescence des violences liées au crime organisé dans les villes majoritairement arabes du nord d’Israël, les habitants et leurs élus se mobilisent, espérant rallier la population juive à leurs demandes et convaincre le gouvernement de garantir leur sécurité.

LAP1-B: Nächster Kandidat für Galaxie aus Sternen der allerersten Generation
Sterne der sogenannten Population III waren laut Simulationen riesig und kurzlebig. Nun gibt es erneut einen Kandidaten einer Galaxie, die aus solchen besteht.

U.S. Population Growth Slows Due to Historic Decline in Net International Migration (Census.gov)
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p78#a260127p78

Society should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its
“massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”,
a leading population expert has said.
While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for the economy and healthcare,
others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the “silver economy” brings new opportunities for growth.
Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Populatio…

George Carlin once said the govt doesn't want a well-informed, educated population capable of critical thinking.
Q: Does any of this anti-education sentiment sound familiar?
☑️ Why Republicans hate higher education
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article2848448…

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
#Astrophysics

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
Recently, Nakajima et al. (2025) presented James Webb Space Telescope observations of the $z=6.6$ Population III (Pop III) candidate LAP1-B, which is gravitationally lensed by galaxy cluster MACS J0416. We argue that this is the first object to agree with three key theoretical predictions for Pop III stars: (1) formation in extremely low-metallicity halos with virial temperatures ranging from $T_{\rm vir}\sim 10^3-10^4~{\rm K}$, (2) a top-heavy initial mass function, and (3) formation of low-ma…

#смерть #ЗОЖ @…

Better Population Health Through Behavior Change in Adults: A Call to Action
Discover how behavior change can lead to better population health. Get insights from the AHA's science news & take action towards a healthier lifestyle.

Bra artikel kring Modicförändringar och antibiotikabehandling.
De är dock lite för diplomatiska om du frågar mig. Det stinker "vi vill tjäna pengar på vårt påhittade koncept" här tycker jag. Den här behandlingen marknadsförs också på tveksamma sätt via influensers på social medier redan idag.

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?
It was billed as a treatment worthy of a Nobel prize. In 2013, two studies purportedly showing the effectiveness of oral antibiotics in treating back pain were published in the European Spine Journal​1,2​. Given that 10–17% of the population in England report back pain, which is often chronic and difficult to treat, the findings were accompanied […]

Thanks, Greenland. Stay strong and don’t let up. We’re with you.
Love, Minneapolis
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/18/tenth-greenlands-population-join-protest-telling-trump-we-not-sale-26366246/

I need to read it properly, but this looks 🔥 https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16652

Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
We introduce Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning (EGGROLL), an evolution strategies (ES) algorithm designed to scale backprop-free optimization to large population sizes for modern large neural network architectures with billions of parameters. ES is a set of powerful blackbox optimisation methods that can handle non-differentiable or noisy objectives with excellent scaling potential through parallelisation. Na{ï}ve ES becomes prohibitively expensive at scale due to the…

Random thought: humans view trees as vulnerable because they can't move out of the way of danger. But consider:
1. A single tree can produce tens of thousands of offspring.
2. Many of those seeds can remain dormant and viable for millennia.
3. Some living trees survive fit millennia themselves.
4. Trees vastly outnumber humans, maybe up to 100:1.
5. Many seeds die, but those that don't have found a niche that supplies them everything they need without having to move.
In contrast, humans:
1. Only produce a few dozen offspring at most. Barely replace their own population.
2. Cannot remain dormant once birthed.
3. Only survive for a century tops. Can only reproduce for maybe half that time.
4. So few of us. Individual humans live hundreds of feet apart, or at least dozens even in the densest cities.
5. Need to constantly burn energy moving around for their next meal. Could starve and die at any time in just a few days if they can't find water.
At a species level, the survival of humans begins to look much more perilous than the survival of many tree species.
Also I forgot to add:
6. Humans kill *each other* all the time. What the fuck humans?!? We have made ourselves our own biggest threat.
Trees do compete locally for water and sunlight and thus do kill each other, but only via circumstance, not intentionally.

#NorthDakota "likely topped 800,000 residents for the first time in history, state demographer Nigel Haarstad said. Births continue to exceed deaths, and the amount of people moving into the state outpaces people moving out"

North Dakota has likely surpassed 800,000 residents, state demographer says
The state continues to set record population numbers year over year, according to U.S. Census estimates.

Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/tapanuli-orangutans-floods-indonesia-government-mining-extract…

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Unveiling a Population of Strong Galaxy–Galaxy Lensed, Faint Dusty Star-forming #Galaxies: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfa88 -> James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Helps Discover 13 Distant, Dusty Galaxies: https://www.maunakeaobservatories.org/stories/james-clerk-maxwell-telescope-helps-discover-13-distant-dusty-galaxies

@… I think there’s also an aspect of differing opinions on what it means to “use” a feature.
If I have a community “profile” on steam, but I never think of it, never look at the friend requests, never willingly interact with it, I would say I do not use it. But the bean counters at Valve would presumably count me as part of their “social users” population.

An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A …

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

Phase evolution of superposition target states in adiabatic population transfer
Eli Morhayim, Michael T. Ziemba, J. Lim, B. E. Sauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21720 https://

this is how a straight person starts to get it.
I know gays are statistically 10 percent of the population but this show is also saying that sexuality is so much more fluid than we … want to admit. #HeatedRivalry

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/115944704453132773
Speaking of this poll, the results are not at all surprising and I suspect that this actually follows a power law distribution for the general population.
I personally go with the last option because I have l…

Endangered marmots make comeback on Vancouver Island
CBC reports that efforts by conservation groups to restore Vancouver Island marmots – a separate species endemic to the island that was near extinction twenty years ago – have rebounded to more than 400 animals.
https://www.

British Columbia - CBC News
Stay on top of British Columbia with the latest in news, weather, sports and interviews.

Anybody else see huge increases in electricity costs this year? No idea if it's AI datacenter buildout, removal of renewable subsidies, generally increased demand from population growth, or what.
But my rates on the January 6th bill were 11.54 c/kWh for the first 520 kWh and 13.48 after that.
On the December 5th bill, they were 15.09 and 17.03 respectively - a 30.7 and 26.3 percent increase.

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

What?
Researchers from the University of Vienna have quietly compiled a digital directory so vast that it contains the personal details of nearly half the global population by scraping the data of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/whatsapp-da…

WhatsApp Data of 3.5 Billion Users Scraped in Record-Breaking Research Study
Researchers from the University of Vienna scraped data from 3.5 billion WhatsApp users, revealing significant privacy risks and prompting Meta to implement new security mitigations.

For those of us in Galloway, this is extremely bad news. Stranraer used to be a large reservoir of #UKLabour/#SNP swing voters, and the population of Stranraer is substantially larger than the population of the Rhinns.
If that ward is returning a #Tory/

Israel on Tuesday said it had
💥suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations,
including "Doctors Without Borders" and CARE,
from operating in the Gaza Strip
for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.
But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population d…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

There is one thing that American don't seem to understand about Canadians.
For us, there is no "after Trump".
They have elected him... twice!
What guarantee do we have that they won't re-elect some other fascist moron in 4 years, 10 years or whatever?
None. There is none.
We have to assume the population of the whole country is not trustworthy and distance ourselves from them as much as possible.

📉 Opinion: China's new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country's declining fertility rate
https://theconversation.com/chinas-new-condom-tax-will-prove-no-effective-barrier-to-countrys-declinin…

China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate
The Asian giant is grappling with a dramatic population decline, with a fertility rate of 1.0, well below the 2.1 replacement rate.

As we head into the holiday season keep in mind that 20% of the population completely misses the point of that tale about Ebenezer Scrooge, and would happily steal the money Uncle Billy folded into that newspaper.

Gives the tragedy of the Russian aggression of Ukraine its full depth. :-(

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: The President will be answering questions about new population control *?measures
RAVELLA: All our food and drink is treated with suppressants. Going without for a day and a half, they should be wearing off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/9 B7…

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

ICE's detainee population reaches new record high of 73,000, as crackdown widens (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ices-detainee-population-record-high-of-73000/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p67#a260116p67

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013714 "revealing a universal high-dimensional spectrum of visual information that emerges despite individual differenc…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. By examining large-scale neuroimaging recordings of human vision using a spectral approach more common in physics than neuroscience, we reveal the universal scale-free structure of population codes in visual cortex, which is found in all subjects and at multiple stages of visual processing. Moreove…

To be clear: I have no realistic expectation any Senator would actually attempt to zero out the DHS budget. I just want to set a baseline for them, move the Overton Window, give them a taste of how angry the population is.
Yes yes yes, Reply Armada, “oh those terrible Democrats yada yada,” I know, I know. I am •not• waiting for politicians to save us.
I am also, however, quite ready to exercise political leverage and use politicians as our tools whenever I think that has a nonzero chance of being useful. Make that call — then back to the rest of the work.

A Metal-free Galaxy at z = 3.19? Evidence of Late Population III Star Formation at #CosmicNoon: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1608 -> A “Living Fossil” of the Very Early Universe? Discovery of a First-Generation Galaxy at Cosmic Noon: https://astro.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1026/2762.htm

A friend in #Gaza, living in a tattered tent with a sick child, just wrote to me 'I hope things improve.'
It makes me want to cry. I don't believe that, in all my long life, we've seen a population anywhere in the world suffering such terrible punishment and, at the same time, being able to communicate clearly with the outside world. How can things improve for her?
It wou…

For anyone below 30 (half of the world population), climate COPs have taken place all their life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

United Nations Climate Change Conference - Wikipedia

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/05/african-penguins-starve-to-death-south-africa-sardine-population-aoe

🐺 Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-africa-rarest-carnivore-story-ethiopian.html

Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
What's the value of one animal? When a wild animal is found badly injured, the most humane option is often euthanasia to prevent further suffering. That's what usually happens, and often for good reason. Even when the resources to rescue one animal are available, a rehabilitated animal brought back into the wild might be rejected by its group, or struggle to find food or escape predators. If it does survive, it may fail to reproduce, and leave no lasting mark on the population.

What a brilliant idea to have an animated/interactive cartogram of the world’s population! 🗺️
#maps

FBI deploys more resources to
‘dismantle fraud schemes’
in Minnesota
Cash Patel said the FBI believes
“this is just the tip of a very large iceberg”.
Some of those involved in the alleged scheme are being
“referred to immigrations officials for possible further #denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible”.
The Trump administration has por…

This Is Why Our Rivers Are Turning Into Sewers (Michael Grunwald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p29#a260120p29

"What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers
Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though they cover roughly a tenth of the Earth’s land surface, meltwater from glaciers and seasonal snowpacks supports drinking water, agriculture, industry, and energy production for close to half the global population. That support system is now shrinking, fast. […]

Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lina19942810/115961991023223912
This is what worries me. When we have a population crowded into collapsing camps in flood zones, deprived of shelter and adequate food, in

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Dynamic reversal of IT-PFC information flow orchestrates visual categorization under perceptual uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.695044v1 Quite a mouthful to say that "the brain actually reverses its information flow when things get blurr…

Iran's president says moving the capital Tehran is now a necessity as the water crisis deepens. That'll be moving 16 million people (metro area) then, almost equal to the entire population of the Netherlands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

One year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.

Putin wants to fool you.
Russia isn’t winning.
Administration officials say that the “fall” of the eastern Ukrainian city of #Pokrovsk is a bellwether for what’s to come for Ukraine.
⭐️Yet, Pokrovsk, whose population was only around 60,000 even before the war, has yet to fall.
And in the entire year and a half that the Russians have spent trying to take this relatively small city,…

Russia isn’t winning. Putin wants to fool you.
Putin’s hope is that U.S. will somehow convince itself that Ukraine can’t succeed. Don’t fall for it.

ICE's detainee population reaches 66,000, a new record high, statistics show (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ices-detainee-population-reaches-66000-a-new-record-high-statistics-show/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p136#a251106p136

A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0900-3144: #MillisecondPulsar population, detected across multiple pulsar timing array observations: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/new-glitch-millisecond-pulsar

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

So today and all week, Minneapolis has been on edge because some J6 Nazi type staged a Saturday hate rally downtown. They were going to “march” into a neighborhood with a large East African population, but…well, things didn’t exactly go according to their plan.
I haven’t been posting a lot about it today, because I wanted to keep the response local. But I’ve been gathering reports from the ground and folks watching live video, and I think we’ve reached the point where I can share some choice excerpts.
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Trump immigration policies and aging population slow US growth projection, budget office says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-census-population-growth-baby-boomers-7470b270a004ae779518722488de58d4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p96#a260107p96

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
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This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
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This particular school has a large population of East African immigrant families (Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, etc). There are also many Spanish-speaking families there of many different origins. It’s a lovely school community that’s serving some of the very first neighborhoods ICE invaded here.

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
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I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:
"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."
Population of Vega? 1,208
Why can't mainland

Vega Municipality - Wikipedia

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
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A decade into our collective Donald Trump nightmare,
most of the reality-based population has given up on hoping MAGA voters will wake up and see the light.
We’ve come to realize that he could eat a live kitten on TV and they, unwilling to admit his critics were right all along,
would argue that kitten was “antifa” and liberals are the ones who are stupid for not seeing the threat the kitten posed to our safety.
I predicted this miserable state of affairs back in 201…

Some Trump voters are sneaking away
They'll never admit they're wrong, but polling reveals quiet GOP regret

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the
oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78,
concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
In the new settlements, they left intriguing friezes depicting victims of a famine with message…

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…