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Christmas of strength and unity: Address by the President of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/christmas-of-strength-and-unity.html
Christmas of strength and unity: Address by the President of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/christmas-of-strength-and-unity.html
train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
The ICE shootings are a tipping point (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-immigration-tipping-point
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p47#a260127p47
Chargers finalize deal with Mike McDaniel, per source. What to expect from his offense? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6992884/2026/01/26/mike-mcdaniel-hired-chargers-scheme-film-justin-herbert/
Overhyped and Underhyped Offensive Players in the 2026 NFL Draft https://insidethestar.com/overhyped-and-underhyped-offensive-players-in-the-2026-nfl-draft
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
Two-thirds of Americans want term limits for Supreme Court justices (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds-of-americans-want-term
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p24#a260226p24
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@… I don't know whether I can trust you about the strength of the password. Hang on, I'll boost it to get a second or third opinion before applying it.
Frequency-Dependent Magnetic modulation of deposition morphology
S. K. Saroj, P. K. Panigrahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21789
arXiv:2602.21789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for magnetic modulation of deposition morphology in an evaporating ferrofluid droplet. The magnetic field strength and ferrofluid concentration are kept unchanged, while the actuation frequencies are varied from 0.016 Hz to 5 Hz. In the absence of a magnetic field, a coffee-ring formation is observed and consistent with previous studies\cite{deegan1997capillary,deegan2000contact,saroj2019drying}. The application of a time-dependent magnetic field significantly modifies the deposition morphology. The periodic magnetic field induces the formation of multiple concentric rings during evaporation. The number of rings initially increases with increasing actuation frequency of the electromagnet. However, beyond a critical actuation frequency ($f_c = 0.2\,\text{Hz}$), the number of rings decreases. At higher actuation frequencies, magnetic particles preferentially deposit in the central region of the droplet, resulting in suppression of the coffee-ring effect. Additionally, the thickness of the inner rings and the ring spacing decrease with increasing actuation frequency up to critical actuation frequency. The transition from multi-ring formation to coffee-ring suppression is governed by the competition among magnetic forcing, capillary flow, and particle diffusion. The underlying physical mechanisms responsible for droplet dynamics and deposition morphology under periodic magnetic fields are evaluated using scaling arguments. The results demonstrate that diffusive particle transport plays a dominant role in determining the deposition pattern. A non-dimensional magnetic switching number, based on the magnetic perturbation timescale, is introduced as a control parameter to characterize the frequency-dependent deposition behavior.
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New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal -- it's being seen as too weak (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-democrats-real-problem-isnt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p23#a260227p23
On any given day, millions of Europeans use Microsoft software, heat their homes with American natural gas and buy U.S. stocks. Many Americans work with German software, drink French wine and take European-made medicines.
More than $5.4 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the United States and European Union each day,
backed by extensive cross-border investments that support millions of jobs.
Although Trump walked back a threat to impose extra tariffs on …
Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks
Raiders strength coach son of Jon Gruden breaks power lifting record https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/12/raiders-strength-coach-deuce-gruden-son-of-jon-grud…
Uppvärmning fungerar. Ju mer specifik den är desto mer effektiv brukar den bli.
Do warm-ups improve muscle strength? https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250911/Do-warm-ups-improve-muscle-strength.aspx
All 32 NFL teams (including the Cowboys) ranked by 2026 strength of schedule https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/18/nfl-32-teams-cowboys-strength-of-schedule/88743800007/
"Aspiring American authoritarians will only win if they are allowed to do so. None of this has to happen. Both of these terrible possibilities, land war and self-terrorism, are signs of weakness rather than strength. They can be prevented, but only if we name them, and use their horror as the first step to describe something much better."
http…
In the intricate tapestry of life, my family stands as the unwavering pillar of my joy and strength. It's vital to nurture relationships that elevate us – true happiness blooms where love is deeply rooted. 🌟 #FamilyFirst #HappinessMatters
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
New Abolish ICE polling and the end of the Trump "realignment" (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-coalition-abolish-ice-polls
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p16#a260125p16
News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html
God give me patience, because if you give me strength I'm going to need bail money.
Picked this up. Seems like it'll be useful to have wah/vol/exp in one pedal. And one can tweak the wah sound so should be able to make it work easily.
#guitar #GearSquad
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
#resist
Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2026/1/niaf054/8429936 "suggestive of a shared mechanism employed across both perception and imagery that evaluates the strength of visual experience"; mental imagery
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
India.Arie:
🎵 Strength Courage & Wisdom
#IndiaArie
https://sonnishine.bandcamp.com/track/strength-courage-wisdom-india-arie
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kIZPLtqtmDh3dX6HuAfD0
Speaking as a retired chemist, this is absolutely essential to help maintain California's strength in science and engineering.
On the other hand , the most valuable parts of my education (as opposed to training) came from the humanities. Yet we don't seem to recognize how important and central that non-STEM segment is. Why not?
Wiener pitches $23B ‘science bond’ to backfill Trump research cuts
Speaking as a retired chemist, this is absolutely essential to help maintain California's strength in science and engineering.
On the other hand , the most valuable parts of my education (as opposed to training) came from the humanities. Yet we don't seem to recognize how important and central that non-STEM segment is. Why not?
Wiener pitches $23B ‘science bond’ to backfill Trump research cuts
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean…
Rhamondre Stevenson finds strength in Patriots after losing father: 'They had so much support' https://www.nfl.com/news/rhamondre-stevenson-finds-strength-in-patriots-after-losing-father-they-had-so-much-support
'Alternatives to US support are uncertain' — Zelensky says 'strength' to end war exists with Trump, names 'most difficult issues' in negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/alternatives-to-us-support-are.html
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城 VII - 型 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Trump Credits ‘Mister Tariff’ for the Country’s Strength. Economists Beg to Differ. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/trump-tariffs-economists.html
Leadership Spotlight By Tradewind Australia
We know that the strength of the social services sector lies in its people - not only the dedicated professionals on the frontline, but also the leaders who guide organisations with vision, empathy, and determination...
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Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens
#Minnesota #Minneapolis
"At one point, she said he reached into the back seat, grabbed her by the handcuffs, and used all his strength to yank her repeatedly around the back of the car.
"She told him: “Yo…
I'm bookmarking this line for a future job application.
... Now I just need to find the right job application to add it to. 🤔
https://theonion.com/what-i-lack-in-physical-strength-i-make-up-for-in-pubic-hair/
Pressure beneath a periodic travelling water-wave in constant-vorticity flow over a flat bed
Adrian Constantin, Nicolas Gindrier, Otmar Scherzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21077 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21077
arXiv:2602.21077v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate within the framework of linear theory the behaviour of the total (hydrodynamic) pressure and of the dynamic pressure in a regular wave train which propagates at the surface of water with a flat bed in a flow with constant vorticity. We show that nonzero vorticity, the hallmark of a non-uniform underlying current, may strongly alter the behaviour with respect to the case of irrotational flows, for which the maximum and minimum of the dynamic pressure always occur at the wave crest and at the wave trough, respectively (the extrema of the dynamic pressure may occur along the flat bed or along the critical level, depending on the vorticity strength). While vorticity does not modify the increase of the hydrodynamic pressure with depth, it can significantly alter the location of the extrema of the hydrodynamic pressure at a fixed depth level.
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‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/stone-lifting-sport-irish-culture-indiana-stones
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Adaptive transitions in FitzHugh-Nagumo networks with Hebb-Oja coupling rules
Astero Provata, George C. Boulougouris, Johanne Hizanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18198 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.18198 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.18198
arXiv:2602.18198v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adaptive coupling in networks of interacting neurons has gained recent attention due to the many applications both in biological and in artificial neural networks, where adaptive coupling or synaptic plasticity is considered as a key factor in learning processes. In the present study, we apply adaptive connectivity rules in networks of interacting FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators. Adaptive coupling, here, is realized via Hebbian learning adjusted by the Oja rule to prevent the network link weights from growing without bounds. Numerical investigations demonstrate that during the adaptation process the FitzHugh-Nagumo network undergoes adaptive transitions realizing traveling waves, synchronized states and chimera states transiting through various multiplicities. These transitions become more evident when the time scales governing the coupling dynamics are much slower than the ones governing the nodal dynamics (nodal potentials). Namely, when the coupling time scales are slow, the network has the time to realize and demonstrate different synchronization regimes before reaching the final steady state. The transitions can be observed not only in the spacetime plots but also in the abrupt changes of the average coupling weights as the network evolves in time. Regarding the asymptotic coupling distributions, we show that the limiting average coupling strength follows an inverse power law with respect to the Oja parameter (also called "forgetting" parameter) which balances the learning growth. We also report abrupt transitions in the asymptotic coupling strengths when the parameter related to adaptive coupling crosses from fast to slow time scales. These findings are in line with previous studies on spiking neural networks.
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Much more so than in his first four years in office,
Trump has begun his second term with what amounts to an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major political parties as the foundations of American economic strength.
He has sought to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve,
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency that collects key economic data,
and cut funding to …
Now that ICE (i.e., the fascist USian regime’s brownshirts) has murdered a blonde white woman in cold blood by shooting her multiple times in the face in broad daylight we will see whether this, at least, sparks an uprising in the folks who wouldn’t bat an eyelid if it happened to a Brown or Black person. And if even this doesn’t… well, to the rest of the world I say: huddle close and arm yourselves because Nazi Germany was a chihuahua compared to the military strength of the United States. …
Raiders in 2026: Does the strength of schedule matter? https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/01/raiders-in-2026-does-the-strength-of-schedule-matter/
With the strength of the lineup, the mission was to bulldoze early and then feature youth early in the second half.
Szoboszlai's showboating gaffe, not only undermines all of that, but compounds it by piling extra minutes on the starters' legs.
It also allows Barnsley to stay in their low block (not just 5 in the back, but their DMs are also deep on top of that) and so the second half will likely be one of tedium, slowly cycling the ball around while nobody makes a run.…
Mitigating Forgetting in Low Rank Adaptation
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Philipp Hennig, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17720 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17720 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17720
arXiv:2512.17720v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), enable fast specialization of large pre-trained models to different downstream applications. However, this process often leads to catastrophic forgetting of the model's prior domain knowledge. We address this issue with LaLoRA, a weight-space regularization technique that applies a Laplace approximation to Low-Rank Adaptation. Our approach estimates the model's confidence in each parameter and constrains updates in high-curvature directions, preserving prior knowledge while enabling efficient target-domain learning. By applying the Laplace approximation only to the LoRA weights, the method remains lightweight. We evaluate LaLoRA by fine-tuning a Llama model for mathematical reasoning and demonstrate an improved learning-forgetting trade-off, which can be directly controlled via the method's regularization strength. We further explore different loss landscape curvature approximations for estimating parameter confidence, analyze the effect of the data used for the Laplace approximation, and study robustness across hyperparameters.
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They told you to pick one thing. To find your niche. To make yourself smaller.
But what if your many interests aren't scattered? What if they're connected?
What if refusing to fragment yourself is exactly what the world needs now?
On why being multi-passionate might be your greatest strength, not a flaw to fix.
Read more: [link]
A story of courage and tenacity.
#strength
@axbom@axbom.mefly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
Ranking head coaching vacancies: Which of these five remaining jobs is the most desirable?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-head-coachin…
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.33B est., and forecasts FY 2026 and Q1 revenue above estimates; PLTR jumps 6% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/palantir-pltr-q4-2025-earnings.html
Sonnet 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…
The consent of the governed has been withdrawn (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/one-year-of-trump-by-the-numbers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p18#a260123p18
Measuring the subjective signal strength: validating Persian Vividness of Visual Mental Imagery Questionnaire-2 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.71203 Note: The vOICe for Android and The vOICe for Windows have a user option for right-to-left scanning;
When you don't know the gender of a person because he/she/they doesn't talk about it, what is the best/preferred approach in English?
1) Gender the person based on their appearance, based on the heuristic that most people are cisgender
I don't like this heuristic because it gives strength to stereotypes and the notion of "normality"
2) Use a neutral pronoun like the singular they
It feels more natural, but maybe some people will consider this som…
Tiny Giants: How a baby boom and 'dad strength' has helped unite New York's locker room https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6841121/2025/12/09/ny-giants-baby-boom-dad-strength/
Saw someone post on another platform something that said "XXX are the most resilient #indigenous people in the world"
And I understand the sentiment, but there are ways praise the strength of people without indirectly denigrating other #struggles around the world. Let's remember tha…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
This Mortal Coil:
🎵 Strength of Strings
#ThisMortalCoil
https://open.spotify.com/track/771PoHfzfi4pseTfweKzC7
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115666454691421015
The only choice left to Europe is to strive, with all the strength it can muster, for independence from America, China, and Russia, and to ensure it won't be dependent for anything from any single other sou…
Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
Changes in a Florida ocean current could wreak havoc worldwide
For 43 years, scientists have been studying the strength of the water flow between Florida and the Bahamas
to learn what drives its changes over time.
The information could help scientists answer a pressing question:
Is the Florida Current, one of the world’s fastest ocean currents, slowing down?
If so, it could indicate weakening of the larger circulation system in the Atlantic Ocean
— what…
'Neujahrsvorsatz' #FotoVorschlag
'New Year's resolution'
More cycling / mountainbiking with my wife!
What should I say? There are a lot of official routes here and over the years I've built up some strength and endurance so that I dare going longer and higher routes.
Wish me luck! I'll also try to bring you there with photos and videos 😉<…
Good Morning #Canada
Happy #Festivus everyone. I'm looking forward to the airing of grievances and performing feats of strength later today. But we also have to celebrate National Christmas Movie Marathon Day on December 23rd. Our pickings are slim if you want to limit yourself to Canadian classics of this holiday season. Sure, virtually every #Hallmak movie is filmed in Canada, apparently with variations of a single plot, but they don't count. Here's a list of 5 Canadian films provided by CBC to get you started and you can provide a community service by suggesting other titles for your fellow Canucks. For example, Uncle Buck feels like a Christmas movie solely because of John Candy. When your list is ready, you can wrap yourself in a Hudson's Bay blanket, munch on some Nanaimo Bars, and binge watch your favourites.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ChristmasMovie
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/have-yourself-a-canadiana-christmas-with-these-5-movies-1.3909749
Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speech at Davos. It was a good one. This is how he ended it, but it is worth watching in full, including the Q&A afterward.
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA
😋 Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines
#food
#Bardot
"Cet héritage a été plus que compromis par sa tendance Š fulminer si souvent contre les musulmans et les « sauvages » que le procureur qui l'a poursuivie avec succès pour incitation Š la haine raciale en est venu Š se plaindre en audience publique qu'il en avait assez d'avoir Š s'occuper si souvent de Bardot."
The ABIC Podcast
Creating unity, community, conversation and strength, we are your representative association for beauty and aesthetics...
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Rams' Puka Nacua, Davante Adams have found strength in their opposite ways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6973194/2026/01/16/rams-davante-adams-puka-nacua/
train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Tropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
Voters blame Trump for their economic woes (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-voters-blame-trump-for-their
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p24#a251219p24
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
Cowboys list of '26 home, away opponents set, will face 8 playoff teams https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/04/cowboys-complete-list-of-2026-home-away-opponents/88025629007/…
Lane Johnson, former All-Pro offensive tackle, returning for 14th season with Eagles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lane-johnson-eagles-return/
The backlash against Trump is showing up in hard data, not just polls (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-backlash-hard-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p17#a260215p17
Ranking head coaching vacancies: Which of these eight remaining jobs is the most desirable?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-head-…
Now at the end of his eighth decade, Donald Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated:
Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency,
and he is aging.
https://www.
Trump has made ICE a 70-30 issue -- for Democrats (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-70-30-issue-against-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p36#a260115p36
train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …
The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost-low-info-voters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p20#a260212p20
Broncos clinch second straight postseason berth with win over Packers https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-clinch-second-straight-postseason-berth-with-win-over-packers
Ever since the government shutdown,
it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration
are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both,
peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy.
https://newrepubl…
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
Ranking head coaching vacancies: Which of these nine jobs is the most desirable?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-head-coaching-vacancies-ranked-most-desirable-jobs/
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
What Americans actually want done about ICE (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-americans-actually-want-done
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p30#a260206p30
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
Americans do not want war with Venezuela (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-do-not-want-war-with-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p13#a260104p13
Ranking head coaching vacancies: Which of these eight jobs is the most desirable?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-head-coaching-vacancies-ranked-most-desirable-jobs/
fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
What the special election in Tennessee's Seventh District means for the 2026 midterms (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-special-election-in-tennessees
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p175#a251202p175
Ranking head coaching vacancies: Which of these six jobs is the most desirable?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-head-coaching-vacancies-ranked-most-desirable-jobs/
Eagles' Jalen Carter to miss Week 14 showdown vs. Chargers after procedure on both shoulders
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jalen-carter-injury-update-eagle…