Governor Polis, Do Not Pardon Tina Peters (Stephen Richer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/governor-polis-do-not-pardon-tina-peters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p60#a260116p60

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

America Doesn't Need Greenland. It Needs a Reality Check (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-13/trump-s-greenland-bid-won-t-make-the-us-richer-or-more-secure
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p37#a260113p37

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Sixpence None The Richer:
🎵 There She Goes
#NowPlaying #SixpenceNoneTheRicher
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I’m pretty sure the tech broligarchs supported Trump because they thought he would make it easier for them to become even richer. I wonder how the discussions between them are as they see Trumps illegal and insane international «incursions» are going to cost them markets and profits as the rest of the world turns away from US-based products and services…

Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad's Election (Kyle Khan-Mullins/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/12/04/eric-trump-has-gotten-10-times-richer-since-dads-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p83#a251204p83

DOGE was never about efficiency.
It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and
“We need something for Elon to do.”
America’s veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein’s monster,
which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.
Three stories illustrate how DOGE damaged our veterans most of all.
First, the early warning signs:
firing veteran federal employees en masse, pushing GI Bill mortg…

The Greatest Victims of Trump’s Greatest Grift Are America’s Greatest Heroes
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer exists, but its negative impact on veterans will last for decades.

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

In retirement, I've found that gratitude transforms the mundane into extraordinary. The more I appreciate, the richer life becomes. Financial freedom is important, but truly savoring the moment reigns supreme. This weekend, I'm relishing a simple walk through my hometown. 🌳 What are YOU grateful for today? #GratitudeIsKey

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @…
Why there’s no European Google?…

Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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"Nothing will happen if you play it safe and outsource all of your experiences to a content machine designed to make rich people richer."
https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

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Sixpence None The Richer:
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Sonnet 091 - XCI
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,
Some in their garments though new-fangled ill;
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure,
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer tha…

Trump's Claims About Noncitizens Voting Are False. We Can Prove It. (Stephen Richer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/trump-elections-nationalizing-voting-citizens.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p52#a260205p52

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/

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