Learning to read in Finnish has made my brain rebel against English spelling: I just wrote "fase" in a text. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish...

Congrats!

The solution of course for those who prefer figures at the end is simply to stop being a sociopath.

Old photos of basketball games and boxing matches often have a pleasing hazy blue background that modern photos lack. “The blue haze that adds such a wonderful ambience to the arena is caused by cigarette smoke.” [petapixel.com]

Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze

Rich Clarkson’s photo of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then named Lew Alcindor, in the 1968 NCAA Men’s National Basketball Final Four semifinal game in Los Angeles

The point is that Bluesky R0>1, X/Twitter R0<1, and we know how that ends up.

I am unfollowing people at the other place if they are at all active here. Don’t be offended! It’s to incentivise me to interact with you only here.

A week ago, US election modelers were all over the place: Harris' chances given from a low of 40% (Silver) to a high of 61% (FiveThirtyEight). Today they are within 2 percentage points: 52.9% (DataDiary) to 55.0% (DDHQ). Live updates and reviews here. paulmainwood.substack.com/p/the-us-ele...

Keskikokoinen kahvi kiitos (a medium coffee please) is delightfully alliterative.

also, belatedly: nice piece! i was glad to get 3/3 even though I've been out of the infection dynamics biz for a few years now.