{ggblanket}, a wrapper around #ggplot for quick, explorative plots with sensible defaults and less code. https://davidhodge931.github.io/ggblanket/
Unity in Israel fades as war in Gaza approaches ninth month
In Israel’s deeply polarised society, split along ethnic, religious and political lines,
the military is supposed to be “the people’s army”,
an apolitical melting pot that brings the country together.
But as the war against Hamas approaches its ninth month, the national unity on display in the aftermath of the Palestinian militant group’s 7 October attack has faded.
“We are a politically divided socie…
“Empty Innovation” at Re:Publica 2024 #rp24
Under the motto "Who Cares" Re:Publica gathered a few thousand people in Berlin and I got to give a talk continuing the path I started out on with my last two talks in 2022 and 2023. Titled "Empty Innovation" I tried outlining my understanding of the patterns of the weird technological hypes we've gone through in the last ye…
Quillen (co)homology of divided power algebras over an operad
Ioannis Dokas, Martin Frankland, Sacha Ikonicoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18049 https://
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
weekend read-in: the debut issue of dummy, dedicated to the art & oral history of pee wee's playhouse. absolutely inspiring to hear how paul reubens ran the show, making space for gary panter & other weirdo artists to essentially rewrite/redraw the folk iconography of children's television for a new generation. consider myself blessed for being the exact right age when it debuted. excited for dummy #2, too, about air pirates funnies.
"for Republican lawmakers, criticizing university presidents for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism is a useful political issue with the potential to deepen divisions among Democrats — one that, unsurprisingly, they have pursued vociferously."
thing is, Democratic *voters* are not divided. 75% disapprove of Israel's actions in Gaza!
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Joseph Moxon, ‘Practical perspective; or Perspective made easie’, London, 1670 (photo by Matt Edgar) Via https://mastodon.me.uk/@mattedgar/111829029782481125
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