It's called Operation Epic Fury because Hegseth can't spell Immanetize the Eschaton jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective: My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger

Replaced the ice maker in the fridge and 🤞didn’t break it🤞 in the process(??🤞🤞❓❔❓?)

me rn (via allpoetry.com/I-felt-a-cle...)

I am, let's say, not an expert on this sorta thing, but shouldn't you plan for "what happens if this spirals out of control" before you bomb a country and kill their leader?

The US Department of State ‌called on Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen countries in the Middle East as US-Israeli strikes against Iran continue reut.rs/4rLPJIj

And now thanks to @mickael.canouil.fr text-prefix and text-suffix now work in both HTML *and* Typst! github.com/andrewheiss/...

me to the monkey paw: i wish star trek wasn’t on paramount!

New #QuartoPub extension! Footnote Styles: github.com/andrewheiss/... You can use one of nine InDesign-style footnote numbering systems (like *, †, ‡, §, ¶ symbols!) or define your own. You can also start numbers at arbitrary values and do a bunch of other neat things.

New #QuartoPub extension! Footnote Styles: github.com/andrewheiss/... You can use one of nine InDesign-style footnote numbering systems (like *, †, ‡, §, ¶ symbols!) or define your own. You can also start numbers at arbitrary values and do a bunch of other neat things.

What it's like for me under the missiles open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Back at Georgia Tech for the annual YMCA championships for the 13-yo (he’s in four events)

uhhh oh my god

Vibes from Doha (yesterday evening): driving to the Al Jazeera studio, the call to prayer on QBS 97.5FM, and the loud booms of interceptions above me as I hung a U-turn

BREAKING: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US air strikes today. A tearful host on state TV's channel one announced the news live on air.

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, senior Israeli official tells Reuters.

transition from Arc to Zen complete (this is a helpful little script for exporting your tab folders and open tabs to an HTML file: github.com/dharminnagar...)

Vibe check from Doha: folks are rattled but not freaking out. It seems anecdotally like UAE is getting hit worse. Always worried about shrapnel. Selfishly and irrelevantly glad to be teaching a course on nuclear politics this term—relevance, baby! Feeling more confident in the need for scholarship.

5 of 5 stars to The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

I do not feel the need to throat clear anymore about how terrible other regimes are: no war with Iran. Hands off Venezuela. Hands off Cuba. No invasion of Mexico. Leave Greenland alone

this timeline refuses to challenge the “dumbest dystopia” accusations

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

The U.S. is now attacking Iran.

oh crap

three youngest kids are off having a sleepover at my dad’s house, so we get to party* all night here at home _______ *catch up on work and grading and cleaning and a bunch of so-far-behind side jobs

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

holy moly the whole New Caprica storyline was intense

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

This also contains the causal inference meta-take I’ve converged to: randomization definitely the closest thing to magic in causal inference, but it doesn’t always work out like we want it to, so you still gotta have that whole toolkit available to you.

it felt like something was crawling on my leg in the middle of the night last night, but after like half an hour i found—what i thought, in the dark—was a weird thing of lint, so I balled it up and threw it on the floor. reader, in the morning, there was a dead balled up MOTH on my floor.

New blog post! After years of annoying shenanigans, I discovered that nowadays it's *really* straightforward to get tikz diagrams in #QuartoPub to automatically turn into SVGs in HTML, docx, and Typst! Install Inkscape, install a Quarto extension, and you're done. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/02...

this stuff doesn’t even phase me anymore. at least once a year i get a letter that amounts to “hello, it’s FuelCorp - in 2017 you used one of our gas pumps. your social security number is now on the dark web.”

New blog post! After years of annoying shenanigans, I discovered that nowadays it's *really* straightforward to get tikz diagrams in #QuartoPub to automatically turn into SVGs in HTML, docx, and Typst! Install Inkscape, install a Quarto extension, and you're done. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/02...

yesss proto expanse with more and more old-age makeup spread on everyone

who needs claude code to get stuck spinning its wheels when i'm perfectly capable of doing that myself

lol spent the day adding a feature/making a pull request for converting tikz diagrams to SVG in Quarto / pandoc and got it working (yay) only to the discover that the issue had been fixed in 2023(!) and I was just using an ancient version of Inkscape, so it was all for naught (boo)

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ooof

Finished S2 of Battlestar Galactica and, phew, that immediate democratic backsliding and institutional collapse that followed Baltar’s election…

In Memory of Ardis Parshall This morning I opened Facebook and, to my surprise and enormous sadness, learned that Ardis Parshall had passed away. For those who are unfamiliar with her, Ardis was, among other things, the founder and principal blogger at Keepapitchinin, a delightful blog full of…

this is bad

spending my sunday evening once again attempting to draw a DAG for diff-in-diff

Still obsessed with this finale of Turandot

Team Pope

thanks google #quartopub

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.