The word for world is forest had an unmanaged prison-but-dont-call-it-that island if I remember correctly.

If there wasn't more, worse stuff in the rest of the evidence then they'd have published them in response to (or just before) the email releases and plugged all the Clinton connections.

Really interesting article. I didn't understand why here "This data includes only groups who relied solely on hunting and gathering, were economically independent, politically egalitarian, and..." they excluded non-egalitarian hunter gatherer groups. Are they only a modern thing?

Yeah he writes emails like a typical c suite dude his age

I've always assumed that he was insanely charismatic and amiable in person given how many already powerful people seemed to want to spend time with him

This case really reinforces my concern about the British state and its attitude towards data. Orders being treated as mere requests to be actioned at will. Junior staff members making blanket assertions about IT systems. It is all rather Horizon-like.

Lol just realised you wrote that which perhaps reflects on how much I took in...

I found Statistical Rethinking easy enough to follow with only secondary education stats.

Imagine being an author and your major works are this and strange & norrell. How on earth do you have the confidence to follow up!

The products which barely taste like meat in the first place are all basically equivalent now.

Lots of people are willing to day they're against factory farms and only support pasture raised beef or whatever already, while eating almost exclusively factory meat. Riding that definitely seems like a good strategy

Why does the USA have metallic trains unlike the paints in the RoW?

Intermezzo is all 4 of these if you squint

Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).

It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.

Snap and paychecks for federal workers coming back are good but air travel is a nothing burger vs healthcare