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“Everybody in math and physics uses it.” Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for sharing research. It changed science for good. Three decades in, Ginsparg reflects on its legacy—and its future.

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"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant

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"I want to live somewhere my own government doesn’t want me dead."

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

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These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Young Americans lose trust in the state https://www.ft.com/content/44a7927b-66d7-4321-8425-08ed162a3994

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“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.” —Madeleine L’Engle

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#WOW2025 Week10 Can you rank by multiple measures? I had a ton of fun figuring out how to set up the ranking rules and color coding! Viz buff.ly/c0OSGRO Thanks Kyle Yetter for this week's challenge! @WorkoutWednsday #Tableau

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Y’all. Please understand what this means for people who are post op, it’s basically a death sentence. A slow and torturous death sentence.

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China’s tech minister missing for 2 months https://www.ft.com/content/7219acbc-01b9-4ac4-befa-aa6e9484995b

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NEW: Who’s guiding Elon Musk as he navigates life in DC—and uses DOGE to dismantle key parts of the government? Stephen and Katie Miller, multiple sources tell WIRED. An inside look into the couple who have become integral to the world’s richest man and his ambitions in Washington.

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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year." It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

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BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

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Jeff Bezos narrows Washington Post opinion pages around ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets’ https://www.ft.com/content/bb816e89-74de-4ba1-a8d8-bd335f3a42f3

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The Russian over-50s fighting and dying in Ukraine https://www.ft.com/content/fd2f5c67-9705-495a-8a30-622dc8f55143

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Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

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Welp—Asteroid ☄️impacting Earth 🌎 odds now 3.1%, says NASA. Yesterday it was 2.7%. The week before was 2.2%.

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Flirting is just being yourself. People are afraid to because of their egos. But you have to realize 1. There is no endgame to flirting. And 2. Incompatibility is not rejection.

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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#Swasticars #TeslaShame #ElonMusk #Elon is a nutzi. Please consider selling your #Tesla.

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Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

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I know you probably slept through history, but August 24th, 1814

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I can’t even begin to describe the sheer heartbreak I feel reading this. We need to give trans youth a future.

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From lush forests 🌲 to bustling cities 🏙️ and peaceful farmlands 🌾, my new map brings France’s breathtaking landscapes to life using the ESA WorldCover dataset. Want to create maps like this? Here’s how: youtu.be/EuLip_J0x3I #dataviz #MappingFrance #GIS #DataViz #Cartography

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Trump just abolished all men. All embryos are, at conception, female. After about 9-14 weeks of gestation male physiology develops. For an ideology that's supposedly 'science-based' these chumps really can't get high school biology right.

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📊 When faced with profound pain, one can either succumb to it or channel it into growth. Through a powerful data visualization project, Zehra Emine Unal transformed her healing journey into a meaningful and tangible reflection of resilience. nightingaledvs.com/healing-thro...

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You shouldn't be doom scrolling but in case you are here's your hydration reminder

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My god… Musk just did the N*zi Salute live on TV.

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It’s Friday night. Turn off the news this weekend. Avoid politics. Have dinner with friends and family. Play board games. Go for a nice walk. Watch a romcom. Eat food that’s bad for you and terribly delicious. Ban nonsense from your weekend. Friendly advice. 💜

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You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

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Which states get the most % of their money from US Dept of Education? Versus that state’s Trump vote. Red states hurt themselves the most if they eliminate the Dept of Education. Graph by @jamessmurphy.bsky.social

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What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

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I’ve created a BlueSky starter pack for #tableau folks (link below). If your name is missing, please reach out and I’ll add you! go.bsky.app/9fsbAJL #datafam #dataBS

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Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for STEPHEN KING to say it’s too dark

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#TidyTuesday week 45 - Democracy and Dictatorship. #30DayMapChallenge Day 5 - A Journey Tableau Public: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #dataviz #tableau

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I’ve now escaped from an app, which was formerly known as #twitter, in search of the #DataFam elsewhere ;) And this is the first post I’ve encountered here on #BlueSky: a Tableau Escape Room! I love this coincidence and shall do a celebratory repost then. 📈

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