How do I politely explain to someone that you can't increase your sample size by just linearly interpolating values? #statistics

Can I do anything with tulsi besides dry it for herbal tea? I have so much right now! #gardening #cooking #tulsi

"People talk about vaccine hesitancy and true, people do have questions, they have concerns. But the biggest problem really is about access. Under-immunisation goes hand in hand with poverty,” she said. Parents being unable to take time off work to get their child to a vaccination appointment […]

Is there a way to get an RSS feed of just toots I’ve bookmarked? #fediverse #rss

BBC Verify - Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks […]

The bigots are screaming that a few thousand Afghans have been let into this country. Afghans that made the mistake of helping out the British and now the ungrateful British Peasant would rather they died in Afghanistan than 'pollute' their precious culture of Fish and Chips and lying to […]

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

⇒ Please help me find #genai truth-telling sites! ⇐ In the past I've come across several websites that effectively debunk #generativeAI hype. However, now that I actually need them, to help me make the case at work for strong oversight of the company's GenAI use, I can't find any of them. It […]

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

This is hugw! Parallel programming with #purrr functions now without any third packages. https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/ #rstats

If the stated goal of banning Nvidia chips sales to China is to keep China from eating our AI lunch (as claimed by this administration its efforts , this is truly baffling. My guess is repealing the ban is just another way for the POTUS to undo the work of […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media. I decided to build my own school instead. 500+ students. And more than 3,100 in the waitlist. Class starts tomorrow. We MOVE✊🏾 karenattiah.substack.com/p/sunday-not...

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/

@coatless.bsky.social Can I ask your advice? Say you wanted to do a shiny app with a leaflet map but you had more data than leaflet can deal with, is there a way to interrogate the gpkg based on current XY via mousemove to only return a subset of the data?

TikTok is telling me I have a thing called "polyphonic perception" where you hear all the parts of a song and can, like, switch your focus to different melodies, percussion, etc. For me, the different layers of a complex song almost exist in different physical spaces if that makes any sense. Is […]

I think about this a lot.

#LosAngeles, the city #Trump has called "lawless" to justify his invasion with secret police and federal troops, is on track to have its lowest #homicide#Trump#losangelesate in 60 years. https://archive.is/qUkoD

Wouldn’t. From: @BakerRL75 https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/114826981367712816

Unplug the goddamned AI server farms. From: @slashdot https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114826852820109427

I don't know anything about making music, but strudel seems *really* fun: https://strudel.cc

Free app idea: CanIPark—an app where you take a picture of confusing parking signs and it just displays "YES ✅" or "NO 🚫" and maybe something about how long you can park and if you have to pay.

🚨 macOS Ollama[.app] folks: be SUPER CAREFUL with this app. The Ollama folks have been ignoring an important vulnerability for over 6 months. https://www.imperva.com/blog/hijacking-ollamas-signed-installer-for-code-execution/ ☝🏽 Great work by Imperva researcher Ron Masas.

One of the best meal deals in San Francisco right this moment is the house special combo at Noodle Panda in the Outer Sunset. - Hand pulled Lanzhou noodle soup - side of cucumber salad - very traditional cumin lamb skewers I’ve been waiting for a Lanzhou place like this to open forever. So […]

ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming soon, and is moving some of the internals from S3 to the new S7 OOP system. This is worth a read if you're developing packages with ggplot2 (bioconductor or otherwise) blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Rstats

Academics, including myself, should create an equivalent of the arxiv for git. I am not sure how long it will take, but gihub will certainly go the google+ and jamboard way, by discontinuing things that are no longer interesting or profitable to Microsoft (or, even worse, acceptable by whatever […]

I tasted a new plant today! (Always a good day when you eat a new thing). These are fruits of Pistacia terebinthus, a wild pistachio relative. They are roasted and ground and brewed like Turkish coffee to make a drink called Qezwan. Tastes toasty, nutty, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Are you still on #spotify? Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in […]

"Terminated #nih grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states." https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/ (#paywalled) PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state […]

I’m a @Vivaldi convert. It's the easy workspace switching that did it for me. I've got like 3 jobs now, so it's really important that I keep stuff visibly separate to avoid overload. Also seems to allow me to be logged into Google stuff with different accounts in different workspaces.

The real question is how many other people have died under ICE who were not citizens of fancy ally countries. They will never report the true numbers. May all their memories be for a revolution. We need Canada to make a BIG FORKING DEAL over this and get it to be the scandal that ends ICE plz

"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. " - #sanfrancisco bookstore #booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author […]

#CDC just hired a professional #antivaxxer to work on #vaccine#antivaxxer#cdcafety. 🤬 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-vaccine-safety-office-hire-former-head-anti-vaccine-group-founded-rfk-jr/

Exclusive: US #cdc #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not […]

Ugh, I really liked Warp as a terminal before they went all-in on AI. https://youtu.be/k9BRhSbVSpI?si=kfmJS_MijsDVxXE7

The duality of the Mission District #mission #sanfrancisco

📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria. Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science. 🔗 https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash." (Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers […]

A protest is primarily effective as a show of power. But what kind of power does contemporary mass protest show? It shows a lot of people disagree with Trump et al and will vote against Republicans in the future, but they know that already. It doesn't show a willingness to shut down functioning […]

Time to start a series of posts on how LLMs don't actually know anything! https://thetrek.co/they-trusted-chatgpt-to-plan-their-hike-and-ended-up-calling-for-rescue/ 1/

@GossiTheDog Alt-text: image of a twitter lookalike social-media post by Grosdoriane @Grosdoriane: This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping through pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Reminder that disinformation from all sides will, historically, be rampant in a moment like this. Be careful what you repost.

What is the point of MAGA saying "the Democrat party" instead of the Democratic Party? Are they mad that they don't understand grammar, or is this supposed to be some flavor of "owning the libs"? I genuinely don't get it.