Sam Wang

Also, it is to the Persian/Arab world that we owe: algorithms (named after الخوارزميّ al-Khwarizmi) algebra (الجبر al-jabr) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...

Oh, and this is a good one, relevant these days: "tariff" is a word from Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff#...

...and, of course, Arabic numerals! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_...

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

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House and Senate trends, moving together. The Princeton Election Consortium is live: election.princeton.edu The Senate and House meta-leads are moving together over time, suggesting that a tide of Democratic opinion driving parallel changes in both datasets.

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@literaryhub.bsky.social Fuck off with this nonsense. People do what they want to do. They don't do what they don't want to do. People have moral agency. Fascist racists are fascist racists because they want to be, not because anyone "made them" or because democracy was drunk.

A masterful and nauseating summary of where we are.

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“Confidence men” is right on the nose.

Jeffries Edges Closer to Hegseth Impeachment https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/26/jeffries-edges-closer-to-hegseth-impeachment/?ap=b

I've never given any money in response to a text or email. I worry about scam organizations and I won't support the paid fundraising. Go directly to the candidates website or find someone like @samwang.bsky.social to find some good analysis of where your money will do the most good.

Love to see them already thinking along these lines, though I'm curious how this will play out against an administration that will walk right into a government shutdown before signing budget/appropriations bills it doesn't like

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let's fucking go

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factcheck: no lies detected

factcheck: no lies detected

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

This story of Google’s destruction of a forest for a data center gets worse and worse.

House and Senate trends, moving together. The Princeton Election Consortium is live: election.princeton.edu The Senate and House meta-leads are moving together over time, suggesting that a tide of Democratic opinion driving parallel changes in both datasets.

I'm quite willing to forgive this from a 27-year-old. Welcome to adulthood! A little late to it but happy you're here regardless.

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More and more people are saying it.

At last a small bit of good news. it’s possible to preserve public health. But we have to fight for every inch. In 2027, let’s pressure Congress to use all its powers to stop this reckless force of malevolence, RFK Jr.

I think this is the cleanest argument and has the bonus of allowing us to declare a bunch of other garbage invalid, though I don’t think you can get even a packed court to go for it but as a matter of actual letter of law Robert is right, he’s disqualified

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The primary thing that this argument has going for it is that it is straightforwardly true.

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​Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Moral Decline of Zionism www.lawfaremedia.org/article/isra...

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Since Van Drew doesn't know his policy positions until trump tells him it's an interesting debate.