@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-22 14:21:01
Taxpayer bailout of Argentina may grow to $40 billion (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/update-taxpayer-bailout-of-argentina
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p36#a251022p36
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-20 20:40:36
Popular hair-loss pill linked to depression and suicide #health
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-17 02:10:43
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-doubao-chatbot-popularity/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-22 12:00:09
flickr_aminer: Flickr social graph
This network contains the social graph of flickr, a popular photo sharing network for users to upload photos and share photos, where a directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 214626 nodes and 9114557 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-21 22:56:24
My fairly boring take on Trump fawning over Mamdani is:
(1) Trump has no principles — philosophical, moral, or otherwise — but understands what makes for good reality TV and always instinctively sucks up to the popular kids when he first meets them.
(2) My main take-away from the meeting is where are the Epstein files, and how is the Trump admin going to try to redact, delay, blunt, compromise, discredit, or erase them?
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-09-22 06:55:38
»PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of stored data. Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode«
The AES-GCM 256 encryption is a component of any popular web browser, so this tool is also easy to use safely.
🔏 https://privatebin.info
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-22 01:00:39
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-21 15:52:41
Don’t get me wrong: I think it is •still• worth haranguing congress to use the powers they have and crank all these legal gears as hard as they can. It’s perhaps worth it now more than ever as the MAGA coalition falters and politicians look to their own post-Trump survival. There are battles to win there.
I’m just saying we shouldn’t pin our primary hopes on the legal system. Massive, relentless popular opposition is the bedrock here.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-21 00:31:10
A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 17:50:33
Some folks in the replies seem a bit confused about what that 3.5% counts, conflating it with polling or election results: “What if 3.5% support the authoritarian too? Who wins then??”
That study was specifically looking at (1) ongoing political engagement (2) in opposition to an authoritarian slide. It’s •not• a poll. It’s •not• an election. It’s •not• a popularity contest. It’s about how much active counter-engagement an authoritarian takeover can withstand.
If 3.5% of the population is actually •actively• engaged in opposition work on an •ongoing• basis, then that likely indicates a much broader base of less active and more intermittently engaged opposition — like maybe an order of magnitude larger! Who knows! The golden brown on top of the bread is a decent indicator of what’s happening inside.