Insightful stuff 👇

@jasmin-mehnert.bsky.social · 4w ago

Decision theory in the wild: Pig in a 70 m² Berlin apartment: This is no life for a pig. Pig classified as livestock: Here are your 0.75 m². Never underestimate the power of changing the loss function.

Qwen3.8 27B comes extremely close to Claude in programming tasks. It's been said, but I wanted to share a test I ran in #rstats for {paperboy} 📦. TLDR: Qwen in opencode got it done in 28 mins, Claude Code ( Opus 5) got it done in 3.5. Results differ a little, but both are perfect solutions.

Insightful stuff 👇

Today is Sweden's National Day. The new citizenship law will go into effect today. This means ~100,000 pending applications citizenship applications will likely be rejected, an act of quasi-retroactive law making. A sad day for Sweden.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.se · 6mo ago

The Swedish Parliament rejected transitionary rules for citizenship applications. This is a devastating decision for thousands of people who have waited 24+ months for their citizenship to be processed. A horrible precedent that stains Sweden's reputation as a country with a strong rule of law.

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover ➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the... 🧵[1/5]

Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?

A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

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Im sächsischen Altenberg führt die parteilose Kita-Leiterin Johanna Franz einen unfassbar engagierten Wahlkampf gegen den AFD-Amtsinhaber (kommissarisch), über den ich auch in größeren Medien gerne etwas lesen würde. Bitte schaut euch das an. www.saechsische.de/lokales/saec...

Kampf ums Altenberger Rathaus: Kandidatin mit Herz für Familie und Jugend

Johanna Franz leitet drei Kitas und möchte, dass junge Menschen in Altenberg mehr mitwirken. Sollte sie Bürgermeisterin werden, hat sie drei wichtige Ziele.

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Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

The electoral juggernaut Democrats cower in fear of: "nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, twice as large as the percentage of adults who strongly approve of him" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-str...

When does all the winning start?

Interesting new dataset on trans rights with data across 173 countries and 21 years doi.org/10.1017/S153...

NEW from me on The Epoch Times: A persecuted religious group's PR newsletter is now one of the most influential U.S. conservative media orgs. How they’ve ridden the moment of political polarization & conspirituality to make millions and go mainstream. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions

The conservative news outlet has amassed a fortune, growing its revenue by 685% in two years, according to tax documents.

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🚨 Don't miss @brendannyhan.bsky.social 's virtual talk this Wednesday! 🚨 Talk title... ⭐️Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos⭐️ Learn more and register on the OSoMe site! osome.iu.edu/events cc @fil.bsky.social

Excited to share that our (@bcastanho.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social) paper will be out soon in AJPS! We investigate how women MPs adapt to their environment, finding that over time women speak in more masculine ways, particularly women in progressive parties.  s.gwdg.de/ecTNEN

Hey German #rstats & train users: I discovered yesterday that the new interface on bahn.de uses a pretty open API. So naturally, I wrote a quick R wrapper package. Introducing {zugr} 🚆 github.com/JBGruber/zugr

GitHub - JBGruber/zugr: R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side:

R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side: - GitHub - JBGruber/zugr: R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side:

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With the Twitter API inaccessible, all research built with Twitter data has become inaccessible (you can only share the Tweet IDs). My suggestions: Share your Twitter datasets! It would be a huge lost to let this information disappear. joenoonan.se/post/share_t...

"Trump’s norm-violating rhetoric...does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Replicates and extends our study conducted in 2020 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What did we find? In all countries but Spain political communication today is more heavily morally loaded than it was six decades ago. The increase is substantial: On average, the estimated increase amounts to 15 percentage points! 5/11

Incredibly, this official campaign against researchers who are exercising their First Amendment rights is being carried out *in the name of free speech* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political disinformation but also the quality of medical informa...

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Who falls for misinformation around the globe? Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.