The amount of drivers who absolutely lose their shit when asked to keep pedestrians safe is infuriating. You're driving fucking tanks that can obliterate the human body. You should be held to far higher safety standards than currently exist, and you're still whining. Grow the fuck up.

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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

I'm sorry, but I'm going to need to see the data, along with the effect sizes.

I'm here *trying* to enjoy autumn, the best season, but the rampant fascism is really FUCKING UP THE VIBE

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

My family members and I have done some sort of Disney trip about once every 3 years or so since I was 5 years old. We always stay at Disney properties too. We just canceled our planned trip in December.

But the key elements of the "polite request for reassessment" are: 1. Remind the doctor of your specific Weird; 2. Identify the link between your Weird and the symptoms; 3. Provide a (brief!) summary of why you think they should pay more attention to the thing they're ignoring;

I keep feeling that a big part of the push for AI and robotic assistants, especially those that have faces and/or imitate humanity, really just stems from people’s desire to legally have slaves without any accountability.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Can't wait until you describe the process in horrific detail during an emotionally devastating scene in your next book.

This may be a personal setback for them, but you build political capital to burn political capital. This is, in fact, the way.

for the love of all that is good, someone please primary marcy kaptur.

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.

The vigil was started by activist William Thomas to promote nuclear disarmament and an end to global conflicts.

oh noooo

We have a lot of bases in this exact layout too.

Last weekend’s assignment was “Trump is Dead” jokes and you all did great. This weekend’s challenge is: “Trump was an FBI informant” jokes, get cracking

Today is the 12th day that Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data & other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation. The site was temporarily offline on Aug 30.

nothing more freeing than pushing absolutely terrible nondescript commit messages to a private repo only you are in

A 🧵 of my favorite sparkling wines. No reason.

Portugal honour Jota by passing his number 21 jersey to close friend Neves reut.rs/41was86

I’m gonna ask this guy who is favorite character is until he answers me and then judge him on either the righteousness or fault of that answer as the sole criteria for his politics. And you can say oh that’s wrong, oh that’s shallow, but what if he says Neelix…what if he says Neelix?

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

What Data Management looks like in the real world 😊 Researcher: Here’s some data, can you wrangle it? DM: Sure! Do I have everything I need? Researcher: Yep! The next 6 months: A series of back and forth emails about missing files, unclear values, and why things are the way that they are.

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

Can anyone point me to quick guides for Ohio/Cleveland on how to respond if ICE comes to the workplace or what to do if someone is detained? For both immigrants and allies. I’d like to post them for my coworkers, as our workplace may be targeted.

so if the new research proves AI is actually not using a lot of energy then why are AI companies so worried about not having enough energy is a question i am mulling to myself

"Why doesn't my R code work?" and Other Sad Stories: a Memoir

Fishes can readily “bounce back” from challenges in their environment. While this resilience is often portrayed as beneficial for their welfare, its pursuit in aquaculture settings raises serious ethical concerns. faunalytics.org/fish-resilie...

okay well, I would like to be clear that I am accusing Israel of genocide.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

We really need to get Japanese vending machines over here man. American vending machines suck so bad. I need like one of these on every street corner.

🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/ NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

I think that one of the problems of LLMs is that the real world was never meant to be exposed to SaaS. Real people are not conditioned to be sold awkward, half-functional software that sucks unless you spend hours tweaking it, at which point it sort of works and you're meant to love it

$297,880 of your taxpayer dollars on the vehicles alone. Here are the purchase orders.

people have used drugs including meth in self-destructive ways. if a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the meth to reinforce that.

if youve never shared a bathroom with a trans person in 50 years that means youve only pissed at home for 50 years

it is very curious to me that windows, a company that mostly does its work in offices, seems not to understand that their product, which makes its money by being used in offices, should be designed in such a way to maximize its usefulness in an office environment

EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

I hope everything turns out okay, but let me tell you, the replies do not disappoint.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Ok so hear me out. Now that Gold Standard Science is becoming institutionalized with a second EO, here's our opportunity to set alpha to 1 for each and everything hypothesis test. Guaranteed 100% reproducibility, communicates uncertainty, falsifies every null hypothesis. Embodies the Gold Standard!

cars should just hook onto a track on the freeway so you don’t have to drive people could share spaces in their car they could make cars big enough to hold like 100 people maybe with a dining car

This is religion, except by comparison most organised religions have more rigorous beliefs than this. Nerds found their own toxic masculinity where they sniff their own farts and talk about how likely it is the computer would murder them

“Oh no, not Bill Clinton” I say as I ready the trebuchet I specifically built to launch Bill Clinton into an active volcano.

“Rodriguez said the woman is pregnant for a third time and asks the court to bar Coeytaux from mailing abortion pills to anyone.”

Katie Mingle 4EVA

WHITEBOARD 🚨 🚨 The only reason they can illegally gerrymander Ohio this year is years of lawlessness by a hyper-corrupt statehouse. Don’t ever let it me normalized. WATCH and RT