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Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

jester: Jester joke ratings (2001)
Two bipartite networks of users and jokes, extracted from the online joke recommender system Jester. A user connects to all jokes for which that user entered a rating. Edge weights give the rating score, scaled from -10 to 10. The two files differ by how many joke nodes are included, 100 or 150.
This network has 73521 nodes and 4136360 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Weighted

Fox News, MS Now, and CNN all recorded double-digit growth in total viewers and among viewers in the 25-54 demo after US and Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28 (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/week-of-feb-23-2026-cable-news-ratings/

Week of Feb. 23 Cable News Ratings: Viewers Turn to Cable During Iran War
All three networks had over a million total viewers during primetime.

Robert Spillane, former Pats players bothered by Tom Brady not rooting for New England: 'Makes me sick' https://www.nfl.com/news/robert-spillane-tom-brady-not-rooting-patriots-super-bowl-lx-makes-me-sick

I'm a reading purist.
If you're listening to an audiobook, you're not really reading.
An e-book? Nah, that's not reading either.
A softcover book? How could that possibly count as reading?
Hardcover? Not reading.
Scrolls of vellum or papyrus? Hardly.
The only REAL reading is off stone tablets.
#joke

have been in a conversation about colleague rudenesses, and decided that we should use levels derived from Office Space
class I: borrowed my red swingline without asking
class II: destroyed the fax machine with a hammer
class III: burned down the building
it's important to thread the needle and stick with the Class II level rudeness.

I like to find unusual, even odd, ways of mis-reading (or often, more accurately reading) headlines.
Here's one:
"Scientists may have found a way to keep your bones strong for life"
Normal people would think "Oh, they made bone strength last longer."
But I might mis-read it as this:
"Scientists may have found a way to keep your bones strong for life - by ending life sooner".
This is how I discovered that true Vegans and tr…

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted