The academics took issue with the act’s use of the International Holocaust Awareness Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has raised concerns that legitimate criticisms of the state of Israel could be seen as antisemitic under the bill.
Some reflecting with the recent passing of #JoeFlaherty , who was probably my favourite comedian on #SCTV .
His Guy Caballero & Count Floyd characters motivated me to be them for two Halloweens -- this several years into reruns of the show.
Here's Joe on a full episode of the Canadian game show #Definition in 1982 as he "dances" in his chair to "Soul Bossa Nova", with a nautically musical opening pun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QX54B8Z9X0
@andypiper ...
if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) {
return * an algorist *
} else {
return * not an algorist *
} #algorist#definition
Jean-Pierre Hébert
🙂
The Supreme Court Case Designed To Legalize Bribery
In the case of 🔸Snyder v United States,🔸 which the Supreme Court will hear on April 15th, James E. #Snyder is claiming that when a public official accepts a “#gift” from a person or corporation who has benefited from that public official’s actions, that should not be legally considered a #bribe.
Think of it instead as a “#tip,” like you’d leave for good service in a restaurant.🤔
Snyder is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, who, federal prosecutors successfully argued in court, rigged a city bidding process for $1.125 million worth of new dump trucks to help out a friend who sold such trucks.
After the contract was awarded to his buddy, his friend’s company gave a “tip” to Snyder of $13,000.
Snyder is appealing his bribery conviction before the Supreme Court next month, and his main argument is that the federal #definition of #bribery must include an explicit advance agreement, a spoken or written #QuidProQuo, to exchange money or gifts for official actions.
And that all this explicit agreement stuff must happen #before the official acts are taken.
If five for all of the six Republicans on the Court agree with Snyder, it will end almost all federal bribery prosecutions of #corrupt elected officials and we’ll see an explosion of politicians anxious to fall all over themselves to “earn a tip” after they bow to their “friends” wishes.
(Katya Schwenk has written a great summary of the case and its implications for The Lever.)
The unfixed and wishy-washy definition of "supermajority" has always bothered me. 3/5? 60 Senators out of 100? That's dumb and arbitrary.
I've come up with a better definition. This is now the formal definition for "supermajority" and we should all use it.
> A "supermajority" is the fraction within the interval (1/2, 1) attained by minimally adjusting the numerator and/or denominator of 1/2 by an integer value.
Every year the many names for mathematical statements cause my students a little anxiety. I want to make an Euler diagram to show how they all overlap and intersect— so please mention any words I could add to this list:
statement
proposition
theorem
axiom
postulate
rule
law
definition
formula
corollary
lemma
conjecture
hypothesis
Capitalism is only a “failure” if your definition of a “successful” political system is one that accomplishes the most good for the most people. #definition#politics#capitalism