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"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.

Should Eagles' tush push be banned? Reader poll shows narrow divide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6862534/2025/12/04/eagles-tush-push-ban/

They told the poor white man:
"You may be starving,
you may be broke,
but at least you aren't one of Them."
It worked.
The poor whites stopped fighting the rich.
They started guarding the rich.
They accepted their poverty -- because they had been given a false sense of superiority.
The "Divide and Rule" algorithm was born.
350 years later, the campaign is still running.
The Elite are still terrified of Unity…

MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Andre Gonsalves The most effective marketing campaign in history was launched in 1676. The product was Racism. Before that year, the Elites in America had a massive problem. In the colony of Virginia, poor white indentured servants and black slaves were friends. They worked the same fields. They lived in the same shacks. They even married each other. They realized they had the same enemy: The rich plantation owners. So, they united. Led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon, this…

"How do we find space for grace when we are so at odds that we cannot recognize humanity on the other side of the divide?”
—YDS professor Miroslav Volf reflecting on responses to Erika Kirk's gesture of forgiveness https://apnews.com/article/erik…

"In the wealthiest country on Earth, it’s normal for people who are diagnosed with cancer to set up a web page to beg their friends and family for money. It’s normal for those people to go bankrupt. Getting sick is the most normal reason to go bankrupt...
At a time when billionaires compete to launch rockets into space, it’s normal—completely normal—for construction workers to die of heat and thirst"

How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

from my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman

Raiders DE Maxx Crosby Gives Update on Recent Divide https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-gives-update-recent-divide

Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Political operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.

Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where…

🪓 Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-27/algorithms-do-widen-the-divide-social-media-feeds-shape-political-polarizati…

Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups

There is a divide in the world centered around privilege. For many, the cries of people suffering terrible injustice and abuse are comfortably removed.
For others, the sight of privileged people deliberately tuning out the suffering that surrounds them so they can better enjoy their privilege is like getting kicked in the teeth after being knocked down by a bully.
Our society is a monstrous abomination of cruelty, greed, and self-absorption.
Consider Ukraine, and how the we…

The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…

So incredibly angry at Mark Carney, who I thought, with all his UN "climate tzar" cred, would be able to bridge the divide between industry and co2 emissions.
Turns out, he is just an oily vassal for complete climate and carbon capitulation.
Alberta's oil industry is "very happy" acording to Alberta Premier Smith's Chief of Staff.
It's full steam ahead for carbon emissions. They have what they believe is a green light for massive growth.
#canpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels #climateTraitor #co2 #trudeau #abpoli

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/

What do you call it when you order a pizza that's completely naked on one side, beef on the other, and it triggers a divide-by-zero in the ordering website?
NaN pizza with left beef.

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Jason Miklian, Kristian Hoelscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04755 https://

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Digital technologies are transforming democratic life in conflicting ways. This article bridges two perspectives to unpack these tensions. First, we present an original survey of software developers in Silicon Valley, interrogating how coder worldviews, ethics, and workplace cultures shape the democratic potential and social impact of the technologies they build. Results indicate that while most developers recognize the power of their products to influence civil liberties and political discours…

Hey, wait a minute: on at-issue sensitivity in Language Models
Sanghee J. Kim, Kanishka Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12740 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1…

Hey, wait a minute: on at-issue sensitivity in Language Models
Evaluating the naturalness of dialogue in language models (LMs) is not trivial: notions of 'naturalness' vary, and scalable quantitative metrics remain limited. This study leverages the linguistic notion of 'at-issueness' to assess dialogue naturalness and introduces a new method: Divide, Generate, Recombine, and Compare (DGRC). DGRC (i) divides a dialogue as a prompt, (ii) generates continuations for subparts using LMs, (iii) recombines the dialogue and continuations, and (iv) compares the lik…

What Is an American? -- There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible. (Vivek Ramaswamy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/republican-identity-divide.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p21#a251217p21

Is CPL dark energy a mirage?
Mikel Artola, Ismael Ayuso, Ruth Lazkoz, Vincenzo Salzano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04191

Is CPL dark energy a mirage?
Recent observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) raise doubts about the standard cosmological model, $Λ$CDM, suggesting a preference for an inherently dynamical dark energy component. The Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parameterization -- a widely used two-parameter model for the dark energy equation of state -- displays marked early-time phantom behavior and a recent crossing of the phantom divide. These features suggest the convenience to check observationally the r…

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

Billionaire philanthropy’s growing divide: Mark Zuckerberg stops funding immigration reform as MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI
Two models for tech wealth are emerging, as notable billionaire donors reveal their priorities.

Orbit lengths for promotion on 2-row and near-hook tableaux
Laura Pierson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03671

Orbit lengths for promotion on 2-row and near-hook tableaux
Promotion has been well-studied for rectangular standard Young tableaux, in which case the orbit lengths divide the total number of boxes and are described by a cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP), but little is known about the orbit lengths for tableaux of general shape. We approach this problem by building a stable sequence of tableaux where we fix the bottom portion and add extra boxes to the first row to get $n$ total boxes, with $n$ varying. We show that for 2-row tableaux with a fixed bottom …

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
Bedoor AlShebli, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Anne Maass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06453 ht…

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
October 7th 2023 marked the start of a war against Gaza, which is considered one of the most devastating wars in modern history and has led to a stark attitudinal divide within and between countries. To investigate the role of media bias in reporting on this asymmetrical warfare, we analyzed over 14,000 news articles published during the first year of war in three Western (The New York Times, BBC, CNN) and one non-Western English-language outlets (Al Jazeera English). Exploring the media narrat…

Reducibility and rational torsion in modular abelian varieties
Amod Agashe, Matthew Winters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04323 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.043…

Reducibility and rational torsion in modular abelian varieties
Let N be a square-free positive integer and let f be a newform of weight 2 on Γ_0(N). Let A denote the abelian subvariety of J_0(N) associated to f and let m be a maximal ideal of the Hecke algebra T that contains Ann_T(f) and has residue characteristic r such that r does not divide 6N. We show that if either A[m] or the canonical representation ρ_m over T/m associated to m is reducible, then r divides the order of the cuspidal subgroup of J_0(N) and A[m] has a nontrivial rational point. We m…

Sounds like divide-and-conquer to me.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-trade-us-canada-mexico-cusma-usmca-jamieson-greer-9.7010300

Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.
Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.
His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
There’s no other wa…

"The Wrong Side of the #genai_slop Divide: High Adoption, Low Transformation"
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf

The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide (Colin Woodard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/13/woodard-immigration-00679254
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p15#a251213p15

Predictive economics: Rethinking economic methodology with machine learning
Miguel Alves Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04726 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Predictive economics: Rethinking economic methodology with machine learning
This article proposes predictive economics as a distinct analytical perspective within economics, grounded in machine learning and centred on predictive accuracy rather than causal identification. Drawing on the instrumentalist tradition (Friedman), the explanation-prediction divide (Shmueli), and the contrast between modelling cultures (Breiman), we formalise prediction as a valid epistemological and methodological objective. Reviewing recent applications across economic subfields, we show how…