Notices by Henning Deters (detershenning@eupolicy.social)

@skinnylatte good for you! I don't mean to one-up you, but I just ordered one of these: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ First as an experiment; I'll see how it goes.

What's your go-to online store for English language books with shipping to Europe? Not Amazon obs.

On the + side:
- Record turnout of 84%
- The libertarian party that held the coalition hostage and staged a government collapse will probably get zero seats
- There's a chance the left-turned-authoritarian splinter party BSW also stays out
- Comeback of the Left party
- Of the coalition partners, the Greens held up the best. A 2%p loss is respectable.
- Conservative CDU <30%, despite predictions up to 37%, 2nd worst result ever
- Neonazis <=20%. Way too much, but still less than predicted
#BTW25

Grant-based research not only drives researchers into precarity by turning them into entrepreneurs, it also promotes bad research. The incentives to cut corners and get something non-rigorous published increase when projects run out of money after a set time period that cannot be adjusted to the intrinsic vagaries of the research process. This is true especially if your next grant also depends on publication metrics. The grant ideology looks at science and sees a conveyor belt. #AcademicChatter

@tillshadeisgone once your choice is between a fascist and a "centrist", your leverage is zero and your vote really counts for nothing.

@aral can it do apt uninstall/remove and pip uninstall/remove?

@thomasfuchs
Alone in the Dark!

@strypey @trib @laura @aral @danhon
And by ethical standards you mean binding regulation, splitting up, and expropriation, right? Right?
(I take it we're talking about surveillance and "AI" outfits.)

@evan
Depends on the opportunity costs

@evan
Strong négatif

#WebScraping is becoming ever more popular in the #Humanities and #SocialSciences. I just revamped a presentation I held last week in which I gave a quick but somewhat realistic primer for web-scraping with #python and #BeautifulSoup, using the #EuropeanUnion's famous legal data-base EurLex as example.

Have a look, if you like: https://henning.deters.me/media/web-scraping-python.html

Corresponding notebook to follow along and try the code examples: https://www.kaggle.com/code/henningninneh/web-scraping-with-python-two-examples

Feedback welcome!

@politicalscience