After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc...

Visualized.

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Taylor Swift Adds Additional Wedding Dates In L.A., Miami, Boston

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Ukraine celebrates America's 250th Independence Day Anniversary.

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Concrete example: Many have drug testing in mind, where the "RCT or bust" logic is the strongest. But there the external validity problem is presumably less severe, because biological mechanisms are pretty stable and genetic differences between populations often negligible. In economics, ...

Thinking about this today for reasons.

I’ve been marching for LGBTQ+ rights since Pride was considered a protest. And I’m proud to keep marching as a celebration of hope in our state today. The LGBTQ+ community has a proud ally in the Governor’s Office 365 days a year.

New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

One funny thing: some of our local MN activists hate me because I spent a lot of my career fighting racial segregation in housing and schools, and those activists are quite literally pro-segregation.

Indeed a very cool chart. I'm also somewhat surprised at how productive Edinburgh is relative to cities like Barcelona, Madrid, or Manchester. Not a knock on Edinburgh at all, lovely town.

I love our team @hiddendoor.co and we're all big readers -- we had so much fun sharing our favorite queer book recommendations and I hope y'all love them, too!

Technically, they’re Remains now.

'Went twice' lol

America’s Economic Anxiety Is Rising Up the Income Ladder www.wsj.com/economy/amer...

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

I used to think number of app downloads was the most useless vanity metric until token maxxing.

Who said it best?

Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.

A real page on the White House website

The current AI buildout only makes sense if it delivers massive productivity gains. The biggest US tech firms are on track to spend ~$755B on AI capex in 2026, up from $155B in 2022. At this point, AI is not just a tech story. It's a macro bet.

You know some folks said hardly anyone would ride this line … It is beyond gratifying to see so many people get use out of it so quickly. 🚊☀️🎉 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....

AI CEOs whenever another big tech company announces it’s doing layoffs due to AI.

Your UberEats bill explained.

It’s ridiculous to claim that Trump doesn’t represent some break in trend for American or modern politics. No, we didn’t really have guys like this running around national politics as viable presidential contenders.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

I don't know if @aoc.bsky.social's told this story about orientation before, but I've never heard it

I think a big part of what drives so much of the refusal to understand or accept Republican agency is that once you do, you face the fact that your fate lies in the hand of deeply evil people whose conduct you have no influence or power to impact, and that's a deeply disconcerting thing to realize.

BREAKING: FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE! Gov. Mikie Sherrill announces a plan to redistrict New Jersey to add two more Democratic seats and offset new right-wing gerrymanders in the South!

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER!