Ya know, I just wanted to know more about major land use areas.

The vague term "political violence" is used specifically bc of its elasticity. It can be contorted to include a murder (despite the motive and perpetrator being unknown), property damage (committed for life-preserving reasons), or protesters using signs as shields when they are attacked by police.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

In an unprecedented move, New Mexico is making child care free, starting this November. “By investing in universal child care, we are giving families financial relief, supporting our economy, and ensuring that every child has the opportunity to grow and thrive.” Via @19thnews.org

engaging article chronicling Baldwin's life and enticing us to read the bio its summarising. I've been lately reading his stuff quite a bit; Baldwin is emotionally honest, reflective, so full of love (but not always hope). It's an antidote to today's ways of being.

2 years ago, one of my clients choose to publish work without me in violation of an agreement we made, basically because she was mad at me. It still haunts me - if I don't make a client 100% happy, they may break agreement, break trust. I wish I knew how to move on.

Wow, I do not understand this habit of R statistical instructions beginning with all sorts of code about the ggplotting and colors used in them. I have limited time, energy, and focus. Can we all just have a button for "jump to analysis" or make the opening fluff section collapsible?

That none of us want to defend him already negates his argument.

i do wonder at what point this ratcheting of rhetoric about the democratic party ends up having real life effects

Going into my meme collection supporting that YYYY-MM-DD is the only true way

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Unfortunately, what I see happening even now as budget scale back is lower pay, too low to attract citizens, but good enough for foreign applicants. The diversity is there, but at exploitative wages.

That number means most Americans

Asking for myself: does anyone know an Indigenous women in science at an Ivy League? I am looking for mentoring around navigating the specific elements of Ivy institutions as an early career rooted in community work… and I don’t seem to have any one to ask for advice. It’s lonely out here 🥺

The old world is dying and the new world is incredibly stupid.

Basically asking for loyalty oath to apply.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

[cringes in statistician]

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI. Among the findings: -59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy -55% are more concerned than excited -*70%* want strong AI laws

"Several men had said that guards told them every day that they were worthless and nobody was looking for them." - men returning from CECOT

Just made my first actual substantive PR to emmeans (that I am learning how to co-maintain). By substantive, I don't mean huge, but something that's not just fixed typos. Dang, it's terrifying to try to carry on a legacy package.

apropos of me rewatching it, the Acolyte is good. Sure, it's no Andor, but it is a well paced, interesting story with some very strong emotional beats. Bummer that Disney gave into the trolls and cancelled it.

Thinking about building a Big Data in R training course - could be self-paced or live. If you've used Arrow (or want to), can you spare 3 mins for a quick survey? Your input will shape what I make. forms.gle/H68h7NSoAfXX... #rstats

Always a delight when a pastor from my small town makes the news.

One of the most upvoted posts on the OpenAI subreddit is skepticism about "AGI" ever being realized, in case you were wondering how that was going www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/com...

super profesh to opt out of the national guard like you're unsubscribing from an automated text

If you see this, post a bad woman you love.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Again, dying to know where all our free speech warriors are, bravely opposing cancel culture

just went through the process of unclicking roughly 400 boxes to reduce the number of notifications from LinkedIn and stuff like this still gets sent to me.

Day 3 of popgen we talked about effective population size. No, I don't really understand it. You probably don't either. But I highly recommend this fantastic guide about how to think about Ne onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

continually amazed at how "liberals" and "the left" are portrayed as politically violent.

Just a standard reminder that statistics is a stand-alone discipline because it’s really hard and it is very easy to get catastrophically wrong. (This example is p-curves, beloved of the reproducibility/scientific fraud warriors, absolutely indefensible in practice)

The point about how little time is actually spent typing out code really resonated with me - I program daily, but I spend the majority of my time considering the problem and how I might solve it.

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way. colton.dev/blog/curing-...

it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

new creative way to crash the economy.

for years I was baffled by what people were complaining about re "debanking" until I realized that it was just standard anti-money-laundering practice

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

I use RSS (still a holdover from the olden days) and love it

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

This is all lies, and I don’t know what else I can add: Human beings are being dehumanized as “disorder” to be managed, punished, or disappeared.

This guy is just unbelievable. Chutzpah to the max

Hmm, let’s see … (*reviews list*): Red state, red state, red state, red state, red state, red state, red state, red state, red state. All red states. It’s as if red-state policies are bad for human health — which, spoiler alert, is flatly true.

Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze a way to boost it - via @The19th

Really badass graffiti spotted in town

so inhumane

I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/i...