i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

There may be a few good reasons to switch away from 1Password, but these days by far the most annoying thing for me is that I have no way of telling it that no, the passwords for foo‌.example.com is not at all relevant for bar‌.example.com, please stop suggesting it. Sincerely, a self-hoster.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Do not comply in advance.

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

thanks

Am I distracting myself from ~~>the situation<~~ by buying shit I don't need? Maybe! Is it working? Kind of.

Got a dbrand skin for the Apple pencil pro and immediately remembered why I gave up the last time I tried to use a skin with an Apple pencil 🥲 The alignment is extremely precise and it's basically impossible not to see a seam Also for the pro the dot for the end bit is too small? Why?

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?

The thing about reposting this vile shit on here is that I am 100% certain it will not change a single person’s mind on here as nobody who needs to be convinced of this being an atrocity is going to be reached by it. I’m just making myself angry for zero gain. Why am I still on here.

I still remember thinking „so this ggplot package has been around v0.9 for some time now“ many moons ago, they grow up so fast 🥲👴

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

Oh no, dogecore has a clearance sale and I have yet again failed to develop mental fortitude.

Guess it’s a good time to start playing the original hollow knight now because I kind of skipped that.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

It's just, objectively, inarguably, absolutely clearly better that if we're all required to put something into our bodies it's the thing that is vastly more likely to help us, not the thing that is documented only to cause us harm.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

That these platforms now feel comfortable creating financial incentives around the death of the same president whose deregulatory agenda enabled their rise represents a dark irony of Trump’s dismantling of regulatory oversight.

Okay September is full folks. Don't plan anything else for September please. It's full. Please consider second-September (aka October). It's haunted but also available for meetings and schemes.

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2?

OMG, someone else reported this too! We can't figure out how to make it happen: github.com/posit-dev/po...

#Positron #rstats folks: Anyone else experiencing and issue where very once in a while, for some reason, ⌘+C to copy test no longer works from the editor, terminal or console? ⌘+V works, and manually selecting, right click -> copy also works. No idea how to debug or reproduce this. Restart helps.

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Saw this comic 11 years ago and I still think of it every now and then; thanks @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. Sauce: medium.com/the-nib/not-...

Breaking news from Iceland: Finally there seems to be a consensus forming among the people of Iceland on how to pronounce and spell the Icelandic word for "hot dog". Wether it is pulsa or pylsa has been hotly debated for decades, but new research indicates that the majority now call it "pylsa".

Day 792 of being annoyed about Apple Music on my Mac not showing me what I'm listening to on my phone, let alone letting me control it.

I started sponsoring the author of dawarich, a self-hostable location tracker with corresponding iOS app, on GitHub, because I really want something like this to a) exist b) not be shit c) not cost me an arm and a leg github.com/Freika/dawar...

This is so fucked up I cannot even explain the depths to which it is fucked. I know this metaphor for LLMs is not quite right but this is like rewarding an autocorrect for fixing typos, rewarding your GPS; rewarding Siri. There is no there there to receive the “treat.” It has no wants or needs.

I’m reading the (incredible) Laura Loomer deposition and I truly do not know what emoji they’re talking about here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Follow me! phd level expert in stats memes in your back pocket ✌️

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

the only sentence I keep coming back to when thinking about the current state of the Democratic Party elite

if you cannot win an election over 3 years away against the most loathsome people in the US while they are doing things like *kidnapping the fucking ice cream man off the street in broad daylight* without a ritual sacrifice of at-risk people, you are not the future of humanity. dream bigger, better.

This is a good sign, and it puts me in mind of the time I got booed off Twitter for saying that Matt Gaetz was happy to pay $500 to play a golf tournament because he knows $500 for 18 holes is a great deal

Stated watching Dept. Q despite better judgement after repeatedly falling Netflix‘ traps and while I haven’t even finished the first episode I’m already checking if they’ve cancelled it yet.

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

season 1 vs. season 7

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

i used to resist the whole “death cult” characterization but between this and destroying USAID i am convinced