Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

this has got to be the image of our generation, right?

Striking how the people most likely to believe there’s a little guy in there (about AI) are the same ones most likely to struggle applying a working theory of mind to actual human beings.

he thinks this makes him look good lol

Watched the first few episodes of Paradise and I’m kind of surprised it wasn’t really on my radar. Seems to be very much in the ballpark of Silo, in many ways. Hope they don’t fuck it up.

How did this show make it on network television in the 90s? In episode 3, the give an elephant an enema, a family friend and teacher dies of a brain tumor, and a woman has to reflect on her unwillingness to continue dating a little person. That’s… extremely dense? trakt.tv/shows/picket...

shit do I have to be a taylor swift fan now

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

Btw, I solved gerrymandering in 2013 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-0... (in all seriousness, capping the ratio of perimeter to area seems pretty straightforward to me?)

logging on

What a great photo for a caption contest

Should this be rated NSFW? COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/standard PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Days since I read a paper where people tune the number of trees in random forests: 0 *Tapping the sign* (the sign being Probst et al. (2019): jmlr.org/papers/v18/1...

I'm pretty sure this is how Stoicism works, just more douchey. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dreams-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Ideal relationship dynamic

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

The other day I scrolled past someone complaining about backblaze no longer automatically backing up local cloud storage folders (e.g. Dropbox etc) and .git folders. Had to chuckle because these are the things I had to make sure to exclude from my backblaze backups years ago when I set it up.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

a lot of people whose work I like is substack, and they'll never get a dime from me until they move somewhere else.

holding a post-it that says "doordash grandma" over the "stages of capitalism" chart and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Right now the #Artemis II capsule is engulfed in hot plasma as it plunges through the atmosphere and will be out of communication for another 3 minutes. Holding my breath.

Look it’s me in my favorite show. And again I must stress: I am NOT doing this show because of Jason. I was a fan before him. Thrilled to be on my favorite show with people I genuinely love. Alex is there as well. youtu.be/oRfHA2d3DhM?...

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

I agree that it’s silly to claim that LLMs Can’t Do Anything (obviously they can do many things). I also think it’s silly to claim LLMs Can Do Everything (obviously they can’t). regardless of how one feels about that, this is a very scary time to need a job and people are reacting accordingly

increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Sorry no insulin for Grandma, we are busy giving Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s more extremist son control of the Strait of Hormuz

“…a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster.”

A few years ago I made a joke about the US having the world's biggest political shitshow, and a bunch of people from Eastern Europe and South America mocked me. Who's laughing now? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Der neu gewählte Bürgermeister von Paris, Grégoire, will tausend neue Straßen zu autofreien Zonen erklären und zehn große Boulevards in Parks für Radfahrer und Fußgänger umwandeln. Derweil kämpfen Politiker hierzulande für Verbrennerautos und gegen ein Tempolimit www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

I mean it was right there www.theverge.com/report/90181...

This is, quite literally speaking, a white supremacist, anti-feminist patriarchal project. If women must look and behave a particular way to be granted the status of womanhood, compliance with those standards is required to participate in society.

Liberal responses to this, while well meaning, often make me sick. “Well just piss on the floor then!” “This is a distraction.” “What will their reaction be when a passing woman enters a mens bathroom, that will sure show them.” Like none of this makes it better. It’s not funny, it’s not a gotcha.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

was mir in letzter zeit auf dieser plattform und auch auf vielen anderen auffällt. menschen posten screenshots von headlines, videos, oder bildern im netz, um sie zu thematisieren, aber ohne link zur originalquelle. das ist eine von algorithmen antrainierte soziale unart, die bekämpft gehört.

Fassungslos. Was für ein Albtraum. Es ist so viel schlimmer als die Überschritten suggerieren.

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

#Positron and #VScode #rstats folks who have muscle memory of creating reprexes from highlighted code in RStudio: I made an extension to do basically the same thing, with HTML preview and all: open-vsx.org/extension/je...

how many times a week do i have to say we are not making lists of marginalized people. why doesn’t anyone listen to me. no more lists of people!!!! no lists!!!!!!

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Wisst ihr noch früher, als Politiker auch mal zurücktreten mussten?

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

The bombings will continue until morale improves