I'm relying mostly on Google here, so the other two are harder to track down - there is a Robin Ludwig who worked for the UN's Electoral Assistance Division, and published a paper on Processes of Democratization in '95.
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Philip Berry (bottom left) does seem to have eventually found 'the right hookup' - he has a wide-ranging career as an HR manager & executive, including at DEC and the Clinton Foundation, and now has a management consulting company.

ceo.usc.edu/bio/philip-b...

www.linkedin.com/in/philip-be...

I was curious what happened to these folks. Here, I *think*, is Gordon Conable (upper right).
He did find a career in library science, served as president of the ALA's Freedom to Read Foundation. Died in '05, there's an FtRF scholarship fund in his honor. www.toledoblade.com/news/deaths/...

Dunno if it’s the one they used, but it wouldn’t surprise me. slackmojis.com/emojis/54209...

One of the things I took away from visiting Italy - these folks really, really love their Nutella.

I apologize if I’m explaining the joke, but that does seem like a fair description of Belgian vs American-style waffles.

Perhaps you’ve found the yet-to-be-named white-black counterpart to River of Tears.

I presented the same problem to GitHub Copilot, framed as a coding problem ('write python code to solve this'). Interesting things about the result:
1. It's totally valid, runnable Python code that looks plausible.
2. It's wrong, in a very similar way to the logic ChatGPT gave you.

Have you been to the Colosseum in Rome? 2100 years of graffiti on the columns around the entrance. For some reason the tour guide didn't draw attention to this, but it was one of my favorite parts.

If this is true, which it might not be, that's still really, really dumb and bad. Why does your 'user settings API' return hashed passwords, reset codes and 2FA secrets?! Why do you even have un-salted password hashes?! How did this deploy without anyone noticing!? Gahhh!

Some additional detail from the paper:

Wonder what ever happened to that guy who aggressively insisted I was lying about the tech industry job market being bad and that the constant huge layoffs never show up in the data.

Alligator clips. We were told this was because they were 'drug paraphernalia'. I'm pretty sure this got more kids to look up information on drug use than it prevented.

It very much does look like he meant to do that.

But really, it's the results that matter, of course. Those intensely practical positions and policies that will resonate with voters and... oh, right.

Video game. Spaceships. Uses a classification system for equipment (including, naturally, laser-based weapons) that has a number for the size of the item, and a letter for the rating (quality). For sharing equipment loadouts, players typically just refer to them as e.g. a 3F Pulse Laser.