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I wish #Elections #Alberta would publish numbers of invalid votes together with Yes/No numbers. That would help with interpreting the partial unofficial results and estimating the final result.
Question 7 is a nail biter: The vote to keep the

Israel elects its parliament through nationwide proportional representation.
Citizens aged eighteen and older vote for a party, not a candidate,
and the number of seats in the Knesset that a party gets corresponds to the percentage of votes they receive.
Before the election, parties submit lists of prospective members of the Knesset.
To enter the Knesset, a party must receive at least 3.25 percent of the national vote, which is equivalent to four seats.

Israel’s Election: Who’s Who and What’s at Stake? | Council on Foreign Relations
Israel’s October 27 election could reshape the country’s political landscape, but neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies nor the opposition has a clear path to a governing majority. The outcome of the vote could determine not only who leads Israel, but how the country contends with various domestic and foreign policy concerns.

When your kids ask how long it takes to count to a million or you just try to help them understand the size of a billion, try this site. Uses syllable pronunciation speed to determine how long it takes to count to some big numbers.
https://engaging-data.com/count-to-one-million/…

Quad9 is retracting from France by 2026-11-24 to avoid having to censor DNS.
(They will continue to fight in court in the meantime.)
"Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users" and operates a public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9
#Quad9

It took me longer to understand this image outside the hotel elevator than it took a phone to crack eMudhra’s intermediate certificates.

in der #verschlagwortung diese woche (z.t. als ebooks und daher nicht im bild): "New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America" (https://…

Is the chasm between the billions tech is spending on data centers and its scant AI earnings a bet on a shiny future? Or is it a convenient mask for an even less popular agenda?
I run the numbers https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/what-if-data-centers-arent-really…

My collaborator represents our school in the university library board. This week’s topic: #OA. Our school is the one with the highest number and share of Diamond OA publications. She was asked whether there’s a strategic decision behind? Not to her knowledge, but if she could know the authors involved, she could tell more.
Turned out: it’s only me :)
Ah, she said, yes, that’s a strategi…

🔒 Kitten Security update
I just released a Kitten hotfix that upgrades the Kitten runtime to today’s Node 24.22.1 with a number of critical security fixes, including the eMudhra fix.
All Kitten production servers will automatically update within the next six hours if you do nothing.
If you want to upgrade your servers sooner, like I just did, sign in to your Settings panel and use the manual upgrade feature.

Where the Raiders rank statistically ahead of Week 7 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/10/22/raiders-statistical-rankings-week-7-offense-defense/92388553007/