Notices by Arthur Charpentier ⏚ (freakonometrics@mastodon.social), page 2

"For years, the United States government hired people for all the wrong reasons. It filtered candidates based on integrity, experience, and diversity of perspective. The new administration is replacing this approach with a better, fairer system: hiring whoever yells the loudest." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/weve-replaced-the-governments-hiring-criteria-with-a-better-fairer-system-hiring-whoever-yells-the-loudest via @evan

"The Staggering Success of Vaccines" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-how-many-lives-vaccines-have-saved-around-the-world/ "Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world" (october 2024)

"Great Power Comes With No Responsibility", Tom Chitty https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-16th-great-power #RealLife

"2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o

"The Curious History of Venn Diagrams" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/venn-diagrams-history-and-popularity-outside-of-math-explained/ (see also https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0025570X.1975.11976431)

(via le Réseau Action Climat)

"Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship." https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-meta-zuckerberg-maga-trump/

"Paper Christmas Trees by Maho Motoyama" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaLFxGHnPxY via https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/12/maho-motoyama-christmas-tree-boxes/

Les pistes cyclables, c'est bien connu, ça tue les commerces ! https://www.journaldequebec.com/2024/12/10/piste-cyclable-du-chemin-sainte-foy--les-ventes-des-commerces-ont-augmente-depuis-limplantation (ou pas)

"You might think it’s unlikely for any interesting mathematics to arise from incense appreciation, but that’s only because you’re unfamiliar with the peculiar character of Muromachi (室町) era Japanese nobles." https://www.oranlooney.com/post/genji-ko/ 😍

https://www.samlau.xyz/?pgid=lp1jpw9j-6c6b734b-3353-4f9d-84fa-d87c5335b55d

"How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475224001592?via%3Dihub

"Who’s at the U.N. Climate Summit? Here Are 29 Years of Guests, Visualized." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/climate/cop-climate-summit-attendance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a04.aMMS.JHFxOoo2o-5V (and guess how they got there.... https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/11/15/did-people-have-to-fly-to-cop29-private-jet-use-soared-but-one-group-got-to-baku-overland)

"The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/ "America’s opportunity structure changed as well. It’s gotten harder to secure a good job if you lack a college degree, especially an elite college degree. When I started in journalism, in the 1980s, older working-class reporters still roamed the newsroom. Today, journalism is a profession reserved almost exclusively for college grads, especially elite ones."

L’Europe atlantique et l'Europe méditerranéenne, selon la ligne de partage des eaux https://www.perrinremonte.com/fraccueil

"... or perish" https://www.instagram.com/pedromics_/

when you visitor, coming from France, tries to explain why he took some time this morning to get to the university... 😍 #Fall #Montréal #ruelles

"Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?" https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-migration-hurricane-helene "As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable"

Sunday morning

Kendra Allenby, https://www.kendraallenby.com/