Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

Happy Friday! I'm a bit late, but better than never 😅 My #PositConf2025 talk, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, is live on Posit’s YouTube channel. This one was especially fun to put together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMn... #CognitiveEngineering #rstats #shiny

Back with a thread I've been pulling on New post on Cognitive Engineering: Building tech for human minds, often the most neglected layer jrwinget.com/blog/cognitive-engineering It also kicks off plans the Cognitive Engineering Field Guide, an open resource launching early 2026 More soon! #devx

The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Back from a brief hiatus with good news: {bidux} v0.3.3 dropped on CRAN! 🎉 Your production database → behavioral insights → better UX New bid_quick_suggest() for when you need a fix before standup More details here: www.jrwinget.com/blog/databas... #rstats #UX #UI

New open newsletter at Fight for the Human: Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to? In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...

🎉 I'm looking for an #rstats software engineer to work with me in 2026. Remote (WFH), swiss-based (already here or willing to move here), permanent or contract. + Pros: work with me - Cons: work with me... www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Dr. Cat Hicks (@grimalkina.bsky.social) gave one of my very favorite keynotes of all time at #positconf this year 🥹 It really made my heart glow, and now that all the conf talks are on YouTube, you can watch it even if you missed conf!! #databs #rstats #python www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bM...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

This is the way the normalization works. Scenes the media would've/could've chased a month ago go ignored in favor of what's new/shocking. It's not that people aren't reporting on what's happening, because they are. But the bar for what's "newsworthy" always shifts.

Full schedule is live: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online Sample session: “Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit) How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows. Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI @posit.co

That means the next Developer Science Office Hour is going to be Design-a-Study with Cat! Get your (free) spot here for our online event, space is limited for the vibes, but the enthusiasm will be unlimited: www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...

This post is blowing up. Please read the full paper 😌✨ 👇👇👇👇👇👇 Guest, O., Suarez, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

New blog post, in a slightly new style! Why do groups sometimes get stuck on the wrong thing? How do minority voices help systems stay honest? What does design has to do with dissent? Some thoughts, and some group science, on problems big and small www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...

🚀 {bidux} 0.3.2 is out! It's leaner, quieter, and more intuitive: • Modern, flat API • Telemetry sensitivity presets • Global quiet mode functionality Read the details 👇 www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10... #rstats #ux #ui #shiny

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle. There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*

Having difficulty uploading video. Several agents armed with long guns, others wearing gas masks. Chicago Police just went behind federal agents' line.

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

if they do not face any consequences for shooting people they will keep shooting people

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

NEWS: Trump is federalizing 300 National Guard troops in Illinois, Gov. Pritzker announced.

On scene on 40th and Kedzie in Chicago, where locals are facing down militarized federal agents over a possible federal immigration enforcement- related shooting. Details still scarce and developing. Locals chanting "ICE go home"

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

It was a bunch of people praying and singing. Local cops cleared a path for a fascist propaganda op and then assisted federal forces in brutalizing protesters. Those are the facts.

What a hed. Chicago today:

BTW one simple way schools can support their students is by dropping any mention of bullshit attendance incentives kids have enough to deal with right now without classmates getting mad because they didn't risk their family's safety for a pizza party

Broadview, Illinois today— A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests. All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

Gov. Pritzker Contact Resources: Springfield Office of the Governor 401 S. Spring St. Springfield, IL 62704 Phone: 217-782-6830 / 217-782-6831 Chicago Office of the Governor 555 W. Monroe St., 16th Floor Chicago, IL 60661 Phone: 312-814-2121 / 312-814-2122 gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

Agencies under the control of @govpritzker.illinois.gov detained a UChicago Professor today

They've arrested a UChicago professor. bsky.app/profile/eman...

ICE en masse physically attacked a crowd of protesters under protection of @govpritzker.illinois.gov’s state troops. Disgusting.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

While @govpritzker.illinois.gov continues to amplify moral outrage online, he’s allowing HIS agencies to do this

So much for Governor Come-Through-Me-First @govpritzker.illinois.gov

state police wanna show off their pepper ball guns, too.

Don’t let @govpritzker.illinois.gov’s posts fool you. Under his watch Illinois cops build protest cages and federal agents expand ICE raids. He amplifies outrage online while the machinery of repression keeps grinding because of his cooperation

Three phrases that capture some of the tidyverse team culture: Everybody takes out the trash We suffer so users don’t have to If it hurts, do it more often

"you can never see posts that Bluesky doesn't want you to see, but you're free to ban more posts or users beyond what Bluesky will ban. This system means that Bluesky inc retains the power to use their effective monopoly to suppress speech Graber finds distasteful"

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Don’t let @govpritzker.illinois.gov’s posts fool you. Under his watch Illinois cops build protest cages and federal agents expand ICE raids. He amplifies outrage online while the machinery of repression keeps grinding because of his cooperation