Looks like we'll just have to watch Bluey on YouTube from now on

$40k for an EV with just 216 miles of range does not even qualify as "average" imo. That's a very tough sell in a market where you can get a similar gas car for at least $10k less. Make that same EV for $25k and it'll sell like crazy, even if it had the interior of a Corolla.

For those at #positconf I'll be presenting this in one hour in Regency VII! surveydown.org

The GOAT RStudio addin by @milesmcbain.bsky.social

The man did not deserve to be murdered, but no, he did not practice politics the "right way" @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Calling your opponents cockroaches and saying gay people should be stoned is exactly the kind of dehumanizing language that leads to violence and should be condemned, not envied.

Political violence of all kinds is wrong, criminal, and must be condemned, regardless if it is committed against an inspirational and honorable lawmaker from Minnesota or a far-right activist who believed that having some "unfortunate" gun deaths each year is worth it for the 2nd amendment

One week til I present on our survey platform surveydown at #positconf! If you've ever wanted a #Quarto for surveys, this is it! 🚀 #rstats surveydown.org

I'm no political strategist, but I'd say the illegal occupations of our cities are rather unpopular. The Dems once again will have an opportunity to say something about that: end the occupations, or we shut the government down. But I also expect that they will, again, cave.

Very cool to see surveydown in RDM Weekly!

Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Seems bad

Whole lotta tiki torch energy from this one

If cheating on your wife is cause for being sacked as CEO, then why in hell is Musk still CEO of Tesla? Cheating is bad, but single-handedly destroying a humanitarian agency that will lead to the deaths of millions of children seems...worse. Make it make sense.

If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦 Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...

This is a very good talk by @karpathy.bsky.social on where we're at with LLMs for software development www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...

Excited to announce the release of our latest #surveydown project: {sdstudio} A GUI studio that runs as a local #rshiny app for building, previewing, and managing surveydown surveys. Check out our latest post! 📣 Should out to @pingfanhu.bsky.social who built it! surveydown.org/blog/2025-06...

The bill that just passed is devastating, esp for rural America. Millions will lose healthcare access entirely. Hundreds of rural hospitals will close. Electricity prices will rise, grid stability will worsen. ICE's budget is now larger than FBI & DEA combined. Masked kidnappings are just the start.

Not 👏 all 👏 research 👏 needs 👏 to 👏 be 👏 causal I swear, someone needs to start a new journal called "Descriptive Research" or something where editors filter explicitly for descriptive, non-causal research. And yes, non-causal descriptive research can be used to inform policy!

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

Destroy jobs, raise energy costs, obliterate trust in the business community, and add at least $3T to the national debt, all so we can give billionaires even more 💰

Legal people, based on the SCOTUS decision on universal injunctions, am I right that if a future president bans assault rifles and someone sues and wins in a lower court, the ruling only affects that one person? Like, the president could seize guns and nobody could stop it unless it got to SCOTUS?

Spot on

Claude writes #rstats code like it's python. It loves for loops and seems incapable of understanding vectorized operations, matrix math, etc. It ignores all the efficient ways of doing things in R. Great for simple tasks, but I'm running into limits.

I understood this post because I listened to @jessedjenkins.com's episode on shift key about it, which to this day is imo one of the best and most approachable explanations of how the grid works (with also good commentary on the causes of the Iberian blackout) heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

IMO the most unrealistic aspect of the AI 2027 predictions is the assumption of a reasonably competent / remotely informed White House. I suppose I can't fault the authors if they wrote this before Nov 2024. ai-2027.com

Bro you can build your own keyboard with the same or better build quality and WAY more features for like $200. For another $100 you can have someone build it for you. www.jhelvy.com/blog/2021-07...

I feel like posting my favorite state flag today, for no particular reason. Isn't it beautiful!

#rstats people, @posit.co 's Positron IDE + Claude Code is 🤌 for package dev work

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Listen to the language Noem uses about "liberating" the people from the California government. They will continue to escalate until they feel it sufficient to declare Marshall Law. It's the oldest play in the authoritarian playbook.

These kinds of books are such nonsense. To think that Apple partnered with the *Taiwanese* mega manufacturer Foxconn in China because of cheap labor shows a serious lack of understanding about how mass manufacturing and complex supply chains work www.simonandschuster.com/books/Apple-...

Don't forget that an extremely unpopular and dangerous budget bill is also being debated in the Senate. Nothing like inciting more protests to take attention off it.

Deploying the best war fighters in the world on our own citizens against the will of a state Governor. Pure authoritarianism. thehill.com/policy/defen...

More and more people are trying out our #surveydown survey platform! 🚀 If you work with surveys, give it a look: an open-source, fully reproducible, programmable, and markdown-based survey platform, built with ❤️, #rstats, #shiny, and #quarto surveydown.org

Had a great conversation about the state of EVs in the US and the significance of the budget bill that the Senate is taking up on "Deeper Shade of Green" www.waer.org/podcast/deep...

Citing uncertainty in Washington, a battery cell maker is pausing work on its manufacturing plant under construction in the Pee Dee, delaying its pledge of 1,600 new jobs for South Carolinians. scdailygazette.com/2025/06/05/e... Expect much more of this if Senate doesn't restore sanity soon. 🔌💡

This is a very cool study Drones can have up to 94% lower energy consumption per package than other vehicles

The GOAT of package names 🏆

It's also where the #Rstats world is now fyi

#Rstats has been later to the LLMs in code game, but the collection of packages being developed is well crafted to give users greater control over how LLMs are introduced to workflows. Add this to the new Positron IDE and data work in R is gonna be 🔥 www.linkedin.com/posts/veerle...

Happening in 2 hours! (12pm EST) Workshop materials are available at: jhelvy.github.io/2025-surveyd...

No words. "…U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students…"

If you use surveys and like #rstats, #shiny, and #quarto, sign up for my Workshop for Ukraine tomorrow where I'll show you how to use the {surveydown} platform to make reproducible and highly flexible surveys! sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

Extremely effective data visualization of generational damage being done to the US innovation ecosystem by the Republican administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If the IRA clean energy incentives are rolled back, it's a 🏳️ from the USA for a decade or more easily to China. Goodbye global markets - USA will be an island of tailpipes while the world runs on Chinese tech.

A story in four parts: Ph.D. Student, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, Tenured!

They are completely dismantling the American scientific enterprise. Generational damage being done every day. open.substack.com/pub/scilight...

My student's graduation cap is 🔥🔥🔥 #rstats

Just a reminder that every cut Republican lawmakers are proposing -- cuts that will rob our energy security and make America weaker and less resilient -- are entirely for the purpose of giving billionaires fistfuls of cash 💰 heatmap.news/politics/hou...

If passed, this bill will effectively cement the US position as technologically behind China for a decade or more in batteries and EVs. The US-based auto industry will shrink to a local market with high prices for outdated tech.