Dan Hedlin

@danhedlin.bsky.social

Teacher of statistics

Our #PictureOfTheWeek features Cold War codebreaking specialists. This group of highly skilled Black women were recruited as cryptologists to decipher intercepted Soviet messages. Their role in Cold War intelligence operations has been largely overlooked, until now. 📸: NSA

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I disagree. Le Pen hasn’t instigated a coup d’état. Meloni does not have track record of openly racist remarks. And Orbán accepted his electoral defeat. Not to say that Europeans would no longer vote for these leaders if they did, but we simply don’t know yet. Trump is much more extremist!

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more. Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.

2 augusti är sen 2015 minnesdag för den romska förintelsen under andra världskriget. Mellan 200.000 och 500.000 romer mördades systematiskt av nazisterna i bla Auschwitz. Natten mellan 2 och 3 augusti 1944 likvideras närmare 3000 romer i ett svep. Därför valde man detta datum som minnesdag.

Romer sitter på en väg infångade av nazister

In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate

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Astrid Menasanch Tobieson stannar vid "en formulering som komikern Zack Bornstein har spridit: klimatkatastroferna når oss först som bilder i mobilen, allt närmare platsen där vi själva bor, tills det är vi som håller i kameran." www.dn.se/kultur/astri...

Astrid Menasanch Tobieson: Min pappas by höll på att slukas av elden

På tv såg författaren Astrid Menasanch Tobieson brandmän som bekämpade elden intill hennes pappas hus. Detta är politiska röntgenbilder, skriver hon.

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"Children need to learn how knowledge emerges from many people cooperating and challenging each other within shared criteria – and that any consensus which survives this process is a strength, not groupthink." Även vuxna, vill jag lägga till theconversation.com/why-do-some-...

Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?

Trust in science seems compatible with believing almost anything, so long as it is expressed in plausibly scientific terms.

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I Ekot kvart i sex säger migrationsministern Jonas Forsell att Stockholms universitet borde bli klara med medborgarskapstestet i svenska på utsatt tid. Det är inte akademisk svenska som ska testas säger han utan bara det man behöver för att klara sig i samhället