ICE is running a cash bounty system for migrant children. A *cash bounty system for children*. Unclear what is happening to these kids.

Poor bastard’s starving

Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.

Anyone know of a CS student really excited to get some hands-on experience writing unit tests?? It's for a good cause!

for fellow freaks who want to render sheet music by writing plain text inside of markdown inside of Astro, well, I made something for you! astro-lilypond converts text to SVG and works in markdown or with a <LilyPond> component. zero client-side JS. 🎶 docs and install: lilypond.ky.fyi

The administration and the insecure guys in its orbit think that testosterone levels are like an IQ test for manliness.

testosterone is a common obsession among evangelicals; it's how they justify their beliefs about the gender binary and that men are not just slightly stronger than women but 3-10x stronger

Got my comment on the abomination of the OMB rule in at the last minute. We could reach 400K tonight. This is one skirmish, but with hundreds of thousands of Americans, we have the power of a movement. Thanks @standupforscience.net, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, and everyone else in the fight.

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Interesting to see McConnell honoring the ancient pharaoh's tradition of taking your pet along with you to the afterlife

@prisonculture.bsky.social If you get a chance to read this (described by the author as a zine), it's extraordinary: www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/sti...

always missing from discussions about the debt

Navajo pictorial basket by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt

NEW: Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push at ICE to increase arrests. The WH has wanted more arrests. The expectation inside ICE is 2K arrests a day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Why do FIFA officials appear to be having the least fun of everyone in the stadium? They all look like they are waiting for their court appearance to begin.

DRC goalkeeper making some big sacrifices in this first half

Last year, the *grandson* of John Tyler, the 10th president--who served prior to the civil war--died.

McDonald’s CEO says potential customers cooking burger at home are on a very dangerous path.

I really wish folks would update the language around "AI" to be "generative AI". There's other forms of it (which is really just machine learning) that y'all lean on periodically (like ducking autocorrect, OCR, spam detection, [good] search engines, etc, etc). Fuck Anthropic and OpenAI for that.

"Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“ A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it. Read more from @beebrookshire.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/science/9576...

I do want to see this, I hope it finds a way to general audiences

This sounds like a removal of over *10%* of the population. That's just insane. Really clarifies that the people who said "we aren't against immigration, just illegal immigration" really didn't mean it. They keep closing legal pathways!

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

Weaponized CPS "tips" target poor people most often, people without the resources and platform to defend themselves like Mr. Buttigieg can.

just awful

The AI slop I see in statistical consulting from my clients is really starting to get exhausting. It wastes my time, but it also wastes theirs.

An extremely wealthy Clinton-era Democratic strategist flipping out over 21st century new deal politicians really really tells us how we got here

Working on the LMM guide

Hearing all the other nations belt out their national anthems before world cup matches makes me wish we did that. Sure, we will all fail on "and the Rockets' red glaaaaaare!" and only dogs will hear us, but it doesn't mean we should not try

can't argue with this.

The paper for this: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Imperfect as it is, this is a start to some level of equitability. This is actually a stab at "democratization",with a healthy dose of taxation to ensure a sharing of profits, should they materialize.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

Basically, I never want to hear an academic sincerely make a statement about AI and its marketed benefits of "democratization" ever again. Don't legitimatize the hype!

gotta say it: an AI tool out is not "democratizing" anything - not coding, writing or healthcare. Democratization is inviting people to participate in governance; AI is being forced on us whether we want it or not. We have no say in its creation, application or usage of our own data to train it.

One thing that amazes me about the academic discourse on AI is the absence of discussion on grift. I can't tell if academics are unaware it's happening or feel that it's impolite to bring it up.

The goal should never be "use ai ", the goal is "solve X problem" and sometimes ai could be a tool to do that

“I don’t want to tell you to hang on if you don’t believe it can ever get better.” "...maybe this is just the end." — ChatGPT to Alice Carrier, a 24-yo who took her life after openly discussing suicide with ChatGPT for months. Her mom is suing OpenAI: futurism.com/artificial-i...

"government efficiency" to defund inspectors then implement an untested expensive solution

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

How your email finds me when I'm in git detached head state: media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

the only solution will be to pass terrible legislation written by their lawyers legalizing all of their worst behaviors while boxing out smaller and foreign competitors and criminalizing open source sorry I don't make the rules

Microsoft shut down a bunch of its own code repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from Claude Code or Gemini. Really wild: www.404media.co/microsoft-ha...

So young, such talent to lose.

I’ve grown super worried about LLM agents w/ access to all my files and secrets. Existing sandboxes and containers felt hard to use day-to-day, so I built a small convenient utility to keep agents away from important stuff. It’s called “bulle” (for “bubble”). 1/2 vincentarelbundock.github.io/bulle

Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...