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Yay, datasci.social is now 3 years old! 🥳
Same as last year, so I don't bother with a new post: https://community.datasci.social/blog/2024-11-15/two-years-old/
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Two years old
datasci.social is two years old

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/banned-for-years-dangerous-pesticides-persist-in-nigerian-farming/

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming
The sun rises over lush farm fields of on the outskirts of Lagos. For more than 20 years, a farmer named Joe has tilled the land, coaxing life from the earth and reaping bountiful harvests. But here, beneath the surface of this idyllic scene, lies a complex web of challenges — chief among them, the […]

"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…

This was written 50 years ago.
I wonder if in 25 years there will be situations like this in science about the Trump and AI years.
(Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason, 1976)

Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…

Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani
President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In recent days, the president has escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described Democratic socialist, threatening to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November. Mamdani’s stunning, surprise victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given Republicans a new target as they seek to paint t…

This seems most auspicious: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/yes-new-york-will-soon-be-under-new-management-but-zohran-mamdani-is-just-the-start anti-trust specialist Khan on M…

John Harbaugh hired in a New York minute: Giants score an 'A' for moving fast in new head coach pursuit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-harbaugh-hired-new-york-giants-…

President Trump files a 40-page amended $15B defamation complaint against the NYT and others, after a judge initially dismissed it on Sept. 19 due to its length (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-new-york-times-defam…

Not that the New York Times has much credibility left, but here’s another one for their long list of fails:
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
By Noah Hurowitz
Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
Exchanges about Trump between reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.