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It goes without saying that VoteHub enthusiastically supports students engaging in politics and elections—I co-founded this company in 2024 before I stepped onto Stanford's campus as a student! To this end, we support robust fellowship and internship programs to encourage that participation. It's incredibly disappointing to see fraudsters and cheats abuse and take from the common good as Wedgewood and others have done.
When Wedgewood first appeared, I reached out to their head pollster to try to learn more about them. We spoke on the phone for about 15 minutes. He told me he was a college student at Boston University who had previously worked with SoCal Strategies and had paid for some inexpensive polls out of pocket. He also mentioned that the other member of the team was involved in local Democratic politics in Ohio.
They struck me as nice kids with at least some understanding of polling, but obviously no professional experience. With that in mind, we assigned them a D grade and included their polling data on our site.
A few years ago, I was a college student following politics as a hobby myself, so I try to give people in that position the benefit of the doubt. It's disappointing to see how this has unfolded, because it's going to be a hell of a lot harder for the next college kid who's actually well-intentioned and super into politics to break into the space after this.
Might be due to a (possibly old) malware infection or browser hijack getting mitigated, since update day is also when the Malware Removal Tool runs? But I can't find a situation that'd do this repeatedly :/
I wonder how much of this attitude is echoing the way school-age world history describes broad societal transitions, but divorces them from the decision-making behind them, as if everything were inevitable or by chance.
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Climate Action Tracker has just published what it views as two extremely disappointing country analyses: the US (Critically insufficient), and Canada (Highly insufficient), as both governments roll back climate policies. Read our analyses here: climateactiontracker.org/pre…
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So about the egret… we were at ~9,500 in the eye and the pilot spots this egret. It’s not so close we are gonna hit it but it does go right in front of us at a slightly lower altitude. I’m busy with the radar and don’t have time to grab my camera but I did have the GoPro Max going. It’s not great footage but you can see the white speck going from right to left. I tell the weather officer he has gotta put it in the VDM for reasons… sure enough ten minutes later there are posts about it here on X.
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NBC has picked up the #bluewashing story.
On August 14, the CDC downshifted how they categorize wastewater levels to make all current and historical COVlD levels lower.
The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead. nbcnews.com/data-graphics/cd…
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It's been three days since he said this, but I think it deserves an encore:
“If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.”
This guy is in charge of the world's largest economy.
...oh, and the deleted tweet means that we're missing context of what exactly you're saying he did? Scraping data and hosting it insecurely vs. making the thread doxxing people vs. inciting w/ the "let's kill ***" prominent in the OP screenshots vs. etc.
I have to point out, these threads have branched off & are getting bumped without your below follow-up. With only the above as context, sounds like he was not just "saying", but took concrete actions towards the aim. (His incompetence notwithstanding.)
nitter.cf/soft_fox_lad/status/21…
The below tweet addresses "streamers" but any chance this is basically the same situation (new actions taken en masse due to aggregation)? Any info from Materia?
nitter.cf/tobyfox/status/1931124…
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The OTUS 2026 tornado of the year was the Tulliby Lake, Alberta EF3 on July 11… the most photogenic sight we have flown on.
If this is the issue:
When P is existing conventional wisdom as a prior,
"there isn't (strong) evidence of P"
vs
"there is evidence of not P"
are often confused for each other, as both erode P
IMO common, and hard to demonstrate unsound w/o Bayesian stats; opportunity to teach?
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A deeply reluctant Judge Mehta has dismissed the Jan. 6 Oath Keepers case after DOJ moved to drop the seditious conspiracy conviction of Stewart Rhodes and others.
"The court cannot write a different ending," Mehta writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
The AI is just summarizing someone's claim that the photo is from the 2023 concussion. It doesn't look like there's any actual different photo from it.