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New articles with some thoughts on visualizing the popular "spatial model" of roll call voting and public opinion:
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Xenocrypt
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Politics, math, etc. GitHub pages page: xenocrypt.github.io/index.html Medium: medium.com/@xenocryptsite/
Blogspot: xenocrypt.blogspot.com
Joined February 2013
- Is this Loss?Quick tutorial
Replying to @nikicagaHarris will be the first president in an interracial marriage though, right?- Sometimes I feel like I've had low-level oxygen deprivation for like six years straight."Notices Bulge / OwO What's This?" - This is the original meme referenced by Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter.
- This is cute, I think cities should have more silly random things for no good reason. Look how much mileage St. Louis gets out of that arch. What's that good for. Literally nothing.THE PORTAL: a visual bridge connecting New York City to Dublin A public technology sculpture known as The Portal was unveiled this morning in New York Cityโs โs Flatiron neighborhood. The sculpture has a real-time, visual live stream connecting New York City to Dublin, Ireland.
00:00 - Classic "X-Files" is so weird. Gillian Anderson (glowing, face filling the screen, lit like a beautiful 40s movie star): "Mulder, even if the Easter Bunny was real, it's not necessarily our killer." Gillian Anderson 40 minutes later: (shooting at a puppet rabbit)
Feels a little too convenient that an odyssey would happen to a guy named Odysseus- You know all brands fade at some point I suppose but there was a remarkable stretch where every Pixar movie was a genuine event. The 2001-2009 run from "Monsters, Inc" to "Up"--seven original movies in nine years, all hits at the time, all iconic since--really boggles the mind.Pixarโs โELIOโ is early tracking to earn $35M-$45M on its domestic box office opening weekend. โข Budget was nearly $300M โข Potentially becoming the 2nd worst debut for a Pixar film
- The life of JFK, in chronological order:that escalated quickly
- Replying to @_glorianasDoes Putin get briefed on all of his interviewers' psychological weaknesses.
- Hm maybe Democrats could walk some picket lines, funnel a ton of money into infrastructure, put some aggressive antitrust regulators into the FTC, oversee tight labor markets and income growth concentrated in the bottom quartiles, that should fix it.NEW: Trump didnโt win Pennsylvania. Harris lost it. The consensus from voters and organizers I talked to this week is clear: Democrats have abandoned working class voters and I tโs costing them their political lives. โIt's class war.โ interc.pt/4emmpRj
- No seriously I think all the time about how the one legacy of the iPod is the word "podcast". It's like my default small talk.Do high schoolers know that it's called a podcast because it's a broadcast that you would download to your iPod?
- I feel like making Anakin a little kid in "Phantom Menace" really made a lot of stuff needlessly weird and backed them into a corner.If you could change ONE thing from the Prequel trilogy, what would it be?
