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Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/top-trump-negotiator-retains-partnership
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p8#a251201p8

The Popular Dimension of Matchings
Frank Connor, Louis-Roy Langevin, Ndiam\'e Ndiaye, Agn\`es Totschnig, Rohit Vasishta, Adrian Vetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25150 https:…

The Popular Dimension of Matchings
We study popular matchings in three classical settings: the house allocation problem, the marriage problem, and the roommates problem. In the popular matching problem, (a subset of) the vertices in a graph have preference orderings over their potential matches. A matching is popular if it gets a plurality of votes in a pairwise election against any other matching. Unfortunately, popular matchings typically do not exist. So we study a natural relaxation, namely popular winning sets which are a s…

How live sports betting has exploded in popularity in the US, accounting for more than half of the money wagered on FanDuel and DraftKings in recent quarters (Jenny Vrentas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/busin…

In-Game Sports Betting Is Growing. So Are the Concerns.
In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. It’s a huge part of the sports gambling industry. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers.

Half black kitten, half otter 🦦

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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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/10/31/extended-call-for-papers-religion-and-peak-tv/

Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV
Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: November 30, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2026 Around the late 1990s/early 2000s …

Vakbonden opnieuw minder populair bij werknemers, maar er is ook goed nieuws | Economie | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.ad.nl/economie/vakbonden-opnieuw-minder-populair-bij-werknemers-maar-er-is-ook-goed-nieuws~ad255244/
Een artikel waar ik best wel blij van word.
Niet zozeer door dat algemene punt wat tot kop verheven is, maar door de stijging die het CNV onder jongere werknemers weet te bereiken.
(Zolang t bij t FNV zo blijft rommelen 'verdienen ze niet beter'. Nogal beschamende vertoning die die bond al jaren op slot zet)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/cyber-group-extorting-executives-with-claims-of-stolen-data
Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach

Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach
Executives and technology departments at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group that claims to have stolen their data from a suite of popular Oracle Corp. applications.

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/technology/college-compute…

College Students Choosing A.I. Majors Over Computer Science
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.

Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dealb…

Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises $1 Billion in New Round
The fund-raising effort, the company’s third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.