All data analyses are subjective!

I have been making fun of the Odyssey since I was a teenager and I’m not going to stop just because a director with a very parasocial fanbase has made it his mission to turn the Ancient Greek version of “Dude Where’s My Car” into a Very Serious Movie.

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

Red states: we’re gonna attack academics for caring about truth Blue states: we’re gonna attack the same academics, but for not supporting the business school

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

I realize I'm a week late to this discourse, I had some stuff going on, but it's clear this guy is exactly how Nico Harrison pictures Luka in his head.

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

What's *not* being cut is AI research, which is also enjoying astronomical investment from billionaires who want to turn public knowledge into private profit. Some claim AI can not just improve but fully replace the work we do as scientists. >>

The Wire, Friday Night Lights, West Wing, Mad Men, Good Place, Band of Brothers, Sesame Street, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Clone Wars, Rebels, A Team, Freaks & Geeks, Knight Rider, HIMYM (except the last episode)

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

Age is just a number. `data.table` is 'old' yet very actively maintained. Key to many robust, stable, low-maintenance recurring tasks I can rely on because it is also very 'behaviour-stable' The same may not hold for its main competition, or a 'popular plotting framework'. Design choices matter.

As if I needed another reason to get all my material off Canvas.

MIRO MY FUCKING HERO

Miro Heiskanen snipe. The Stars are 2-for-2 on the power play today. Minnesota is 0-for-4. Story of the series. Dallas leads 2-1 late in the second.

claudia goldin got shooters. NEVER let them forget that claudia goldin has got an army of defenders and fans

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance. As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.

my queen my love rose fuckin lavelle

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Dear academics: You don't need to outline every project you're currently working on at the start of your presentation. We're here for the presentation, not your schedule. Unless the title of your presentation is "My Schedule".

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

LET’S GO

So when you see the "reasonable" people carrying on like this, understand that they are knowingly making a choice to pursue proximity to power in order to advance their own carers, and in doing do, to bring favor those who attack science and scholarship and to diminish those who value them.

Not only unambiguously bad but also unambiguously massive fucking losers with precisely zero qualities remotely close to redeeming.

We certainly can’t “restore public trust” in public universities while constantly having the very people responsible for causing the trust problem in the first place come to our campuses & continue to lie about what the problem is & why we caused it ourselves.

When faculty are invited to speak at other universities, we do it for free (or a very nominal honorarium) plus travel expenses. Rufo is a trustee of New College. He should not be taking five figures to speak at other campuses. Along with everything else, it’s wildly unethical & unprofessional grift.

The parameters are uninterpretable, and that is perfectly fine. Just estimate a marginal effect that corresponds to whatever your target estimand is.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

A lot of these points apply to the use of generative AI in statistics. Especially this:

If only we could have ABS for the Supreme Court.

Ok but hear me out: what if we simply didn’t do any of this? What if we confiscated all of SA’s money, threw him into the volcano, and started interacting with humans again?

Here is my draft feedback on this ASPPH report on AI& public health: “I was astounded to read in this report that the AI Task Force considers AI to be “as significant as the development of modern sanitation or the expansion of vaccinations in the previous century.” (1/9) @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

Madison, WI says #NoKings

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

Proud of these Penn students!

They do understand compensation. They just don’t want to do it

one of my related hot takes is that we should ban news networks from real-time updates of results. they can report results when the votes are counted.

it will take generations for the world to trust America again but imo we can speed run it by shipping people to The Hague. As a gesture of like “we get it.”

The Wisconsin Badgers win the NCAA women's hockey national championship

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...

I spent two very formative years at UNT. This is a chickenshit decision.

Seems like such an obvious case to bring - the weird thing is how little the companies seem to be worrying about their liability. These are highly dangerous products that should have been pulled from the market after the first death.

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.