Alan Stacey

Mathematician.
Formerly Cambridge & UCLA faculty - specialized in the then-obscure subject of epidemic models.
More recently financial stuff. Risk.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@IsaacCohen8 @MaxNordau Having said that, the OED fails to highlight the shift in meaning around 1960, although it is somewhat clear from the examples.

That's the 2009 version so not much excuse for not doing so.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@IsaacCohen8 @MaxNordau The full OED seems very accurate on this.
The history of the word "Palestine" is covered very well in the opening to Volume I of Yehoshua Porath's history of Palestinian Arab nationalism.

The highlighted example clearly refers to Zionists.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@MaxNordau Britain or Turkey I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

If Hegseth tries to get this guy fired - and there's a whole slew of people who he's forced out or where he's intervened to block their promotion for totally inappropriate reasons - then that would be an impeachable offense.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

Not sure if this belongs on the impeachable offences list, but it's another offence to add to the list of reasons to resign. Both lists are long.

Donald's lists are even longer tho'.

https://t.co/LiJiPWIQMR

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@direct_instrctn @KhaybarLibORG Oh my. They're still waiting for the diplomatic mail to come in from the embassies. Only 45% counted so far.

That's splitting 96%-4% like it usually does. This is what happens to people when they see the world.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@direct_instrctn @KhaybarLibORG Oh my. They're still waiting for the diplomatic mail to come in from the embassies. Only 45% counted so far.

That's splitting 96%-4% like it usually does. This is what happens to people when they see the world.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

One-third of the uncalled House races (4 out of 12)
are in North Carolina
because their gerrymandering went so badly wrong,
their 11 "safe but not too safe" Republican seats
became 11 too-close-to-call/lean Dem seats.

Here's how NC stands at present.

[Alan Stacey @AlanVRK]

@direct_instrctn @KhaybarLibORG I'm guessing Peltola will win though and the spoiler candidate made no difference. If she gets up to 49.5% on first-choice votes, she'll be fine.

This is the screenshot I have of how things looked last Thursday.