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Weltschmerz à Gogo

Really good research from 'HOPE not hate' on the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), a kind of successor to the Pioneer Fund, continuing its work of supporting and funding "scientific" racist research.

As is so often the case, a mega-rich asshole from Silicon Valley has coughed up a lot of the funding. In this case, that asshole is Andrew Conru, founder of Adult FriendFinder (sorry, swingers), who has given HDF no less than $1.3 million.

Among the other major players are Emil Kirkegaard (legal name: William Engman), who is easily one of, if not the, best known race "scientist" in the world.

Another is Erik Ahrens, a close associate of "identitarian" figurehead Martin Sellner's and a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). He specifically wants to turn "Germany, or probably eastern Germany, a state power," into a white ethnostate and is seeking to build an "international network generating revenue in different countries" in order to do that.

Anyways, good work all around, and well worth reading.

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From the article:

In an online presentation to our undercover reporter in October 2023, Matthew Frost claimed that HDF has two arms. Emil Kirkegaard runs the “underground research arm”, a continuation of Pioneer’s main activity. It is a group of academics and independent researchers that convene weekly for a video call to coordinate ideas and share access to genetic data sets.

The team aims to slip papers into academic journals with higher impact and circulation than their own publications. If unable to do so, HDF will publish the group’s papers in their print journal Mankind Quarterly or the OpenPsych website, which has been described as “a pseudoscience factory-farm”. Kirkegaard is associated with the management of both titles. During a research team meeting in November 2023, Kirkegaard told his researchers that an article on “international dysgenics” was unlikely to get accepted by a proper academic imprint unless their colleague Bryan Pesta, a former scholar at Cleveland State University, could “make the words soft and sweet”. HDF leaders discussed a “pipeline” whereby the underground research team would publish scientific racism articles that would then be promoted by HDF’s public operations like Aporia or Edward Dutton’s YouTube channel, “The Jolly Heretic”.

A diagram shown to our undercover reporter shows that the research team has approximately 10 members. The meeting our infiltrator attended had 11 writers from the UK, the US, and Europe, including Kirkegaard. At least one contributor (Meng Hu at the University of Hong Kong) was not present. Several of the team are known in the world of scientific racism, and had contributed to Aporia or had in the past been funded by Pioneer. Chief among them is Bryan Pesta, who between 2019 and 2022 received Pioneer money and was dismissed from his academic position at Cleveland State University in February 2022 for misusing genetic data in his research.

Davide Piffer is also part of the team. His 2013 paper on intelligence and race was cited by Payton Gendron, the terrorist who shot dead 10 Black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York in 2022. The gunman wrote in his manifesto that Black people have a “lesser IQ”, concluding: “We must remove blacks from our western civilizations.” In past research papers, Piffer was credited as a member of the psychology department at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, however a representative said he never completed his PhD and left after a year in undisclosed circumstances.

Members of the research team are sometimes successful in smuggling their articles into peer reviewed journals. Piffer co-wrote an article with Kirkegaard focused on IQ for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics, published by Cambridge University Press, in March 2024.

investigations.hopenothate.org

#HumanDiversityFoundation#HDF#PioneerFund
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 8 - Reading Scientific Data Formats
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medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle <-- shared technical article / tutorial
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“Among its many well-known capabilities, GDAL has a hidden superpower — the ability to read scientific data formats like Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and Gridded Binary (GRIB). Many essential climate and satellite datasets created by the likes of NASA, NOAA, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the European Space Agency (ESA) are stored and distributed in one of these formats. They contain records of everything from global temperatures to land cover to ocean salinity. Unfortunately, many people who’d be interested in using these data don’t even know they exist…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earth #global #gdal #opensource #opendata #tutorial #learning #onlinelearning #introduction #scientificdata #HDF #NetCDF #GRIB #NASA #NOAA #WMO #ESA

graphic - GDAL logo
maps made via GDAL - Maps of monthly long-term climatology net flux data from CERES. In general, the Earth accumulates heat energy near the equator (red), and loses heat near the poles (blue). The latitudes receiving the most energy shift as the sun moves north and south with the seasons. The effect of thick clouds, which reflect solar energy, can be seen near the equator and during the summer off the west coasts of North America, South America, and Africa.
maps made via GDAL - Temperature forecast for the contiguous United States valid for July 29, 2024, at 2:00 pm PDT. The coolest areas (mostly along the West Coast or in mountain ranges) were predicted to be about 10˚C (light yellow), while the hottest (in the desert Southwest) were over 40˚ C (dark red). Contours complement the color palette and highlight small (1˚ C) variations in temperature.
maps made via GDAL - maps of the global biosphere combine ocean color, vegetation, and land cover classification data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) with bathymetry and elevation data from GEBCO.
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Jamie :h2dlaser: :saturn4ultra:

Painting a titan is a lot of work

even with its a teesy tiny little titan (Pilgrim-class if you were wondering).

Despite the clear nautical theme, I still wanted it to “fit in” with the army, so I’m aiming to paint him a bit like a giant infantryman and I think I’m on track. The colours will match much closer when the wash goes on and things get darkened and muddied up.

But this is a long paint job lol

#opr#grimdark#hdf
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Pilou 🐧⚔️

JM Vandendriessche, #AssuranceMaladie. 84% de la population des #HDF couverte par une #CPTS en fonctionnement ou en projet.

Ouvertures avec la présentations des URPS organisatrices (toutes en fait).

Sophie Augros intervient pour l'#ARS HDF à la place de Gilardi (à cause de la réserve électorale vis à vis des élections européennes). Les professionnels font les CPTS donc son discours est court pour nous laisser la place ! #merci

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FiFaFu

Der Witz ist ja, dass der vom Christentum kulturell angeeignete Weihnachtsbaum älter als die ominöse Deutsche Leitkultur ist.

"Der uns heute geläufige Weihnachtsbaum hat seinen Ursprung aber wahrscheinlich in der heidnischen Tradition. Zur Zeit der Wintersonnenwende holte man sich sogenannte Wintermaien ins Haus. Diese grünen Zweige waren ein Zeichen des Lebens, sollten Wintergeister vertreiben und versprachen Schutz und Fruchtbarkeit." (Quelle: NDR)

#TeamMerz#Merz#MeinBaumBleibtImWald
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