Notices by Arthur Charpentier ⏚ (freakonometrics@mastodon.social)

"Strangely, one study of national sentiment shows that Japanese are likely to express greater anti-immigrant sentiment — not less — when they know their answers will not be private. In other words, anti-foreign feeling in Japan is thought to be the norm while private sentiment is much more accepting." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/11/28/japans-real-feelings-about-foreign-sumo-champ/

"Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts" https://www.ft.com/content/abfe9741-f438-4ed6-a673-075ec177dc62 via https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/ai-is-too-risky-to-insure-say-people-whose-job-is-insuring-risk/ "AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk"

Mark Parisi, https://www.offthemark.com/

Himeji (姫路市), Fall 2025

"World leaders who just a few years ago lauded Thunberg and rushed to share stages and photo-ops with her have said nothing. The climate scientists who hailed her moral clarity and feverishly retweeted her have ignored her. The prime minister of her own country has been silent. Thunberg has been abandoned by a fake progressive liberal class that hailed her courage and valorised her strength just a few short years ago" https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-liberal-abandonment-of-greta?r=1nlk19

I remember seeing several presentations in actuarial mathematics lectures that mentioned such things, and which were heavily criticized... The response was always “yes, but it's a theoretical exercise”... I never would have believed that insurers would take the plunge and implement such dangerous ideas... #sorcerersapprentice

"Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. That has exacerbated water shortages across the world, Ms. Ajami said. “Water is an afterthought” for tech companies, she said. “The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html

c'est pas bientôt finie l'écologie punitive !?!

"oh, vous savez, moi... je ne fais pas de politique" par @unpied 🔥

Toronto, 100 Adelaide St. E. – March 1989 / April 1998 by Patrick Cummins https://www.urbanspacegallery.ca/event/full-frontal-t-o/

"As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened." https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/los-angeles-protest-police-riot/

https://www.tomgauld.com/

another https://www.tomgauld.com/ #sundaymorning

"People with autism and parents of autistic kids are asking clinicians to erase their diagnoses and cancelling appointments with medical professionals, according to interviews conducted in recent days at an international autism conference" https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/autism-registry-fears-hurt-diagnosis-screening-parents-cancel-autism-evaluations "Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry"

Found on the Internet

and probability of winning https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

Poll Tracker https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/ 🇨🇦

"There is no good reason for small countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them" https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/small-countries-should-not-exist.html "Small countries do not make economic sense in their own right because their populations are too small to sustain the large scale markets required for specialisation and economies of scale and hence the economic productivity required for real prosperity. The lack of real economic opportunities leads many of their citizens to want to leave."

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"The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" - A "Study" https://www.jmspae.se/write-ups/kebabs-train-stations/ cool study #spoiler no