Peak 2026 is when you choose your preferred burrito taxi according to who has the less terrible customer service chatbot.

Mondays, amirite?

butlerian community planning hearing

Two new posts from us at @pewresearch.org today (links in replies). First, it is generally the case that higher income countries are less likely to say their political system needs big changes. But the U.S. is an exception. This post shows how the U.S. both does and does not stand out on this.

Campaign people. If one (or perhaps several) of the national voter files incorrectly have my phone number associated with someone else's record, is there a way to get that fixed? Asking for a friend who's really tired of getting all these texts...

Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study. #MetaSci #PhilSci

I had been planning to skip this one but now maybe not.

#30daychartchallenge Day 11: Physical Based on Royal Kennel Club registration data from 2016 to 2025, I give you 10 years of the most popular dog breeds in the UK, a crocheted slope chart. We have Year on the X- and popularity ranking on the Y-axis, as well as a handmade legend.

There a no better sign that a track is an absolute banger than “Feat. Busta Rhymes”.

So how does one get an invite code for @attie.ai?

This is really, really good.

Presenting: The Queersar Not An Award for 2021! 10 (+1) examples of top-quality queer SFF. Brilliant fantasy cities, some great SFF romance, anti-Brexit Epic Fantasy, dark fantasy mystery, space opera, gonzo slipstream, a great spin-off with a particular spotlight on a throwback of the best sort.

I found function similar to human feeling in my calculator.

You guys @carlislerainey.bsky.social has a free textbook online and it seems really useful pos5747.github.io/notes/

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

It’s not too late

Is this anyone’s dog? Found in Brookland, DC, 17th and Hamlin

For anyone else who needs some hand-holding to experiment with AI coding for the kind of data work that I do, this series of posts is *incredibly* helpful.

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

This is a fantastic paper

Going to start recommending this to my friends with kids.

While we’re doing this, it’s pronounced “lick-ert”. Not “like-ert”.

Cool little package on CRAN for adding a download data button into html files created from your Rmd. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Was just informed that the only food our 19 year old cat will eat has been discontinued so I’m over here planning my own rice truck saga but with whatever leftover stock I can get my hands on.

This seems like a very good heuristic. Honestly, I need to do this for every room in the house.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

NEW JENNY NICHOLSON I REPEAT THERE IS A JENNY NICHOLSON DROP

Don’t Do Difference In Differences (DDDID), cheers, guido

Lazy #caturday playing some video games with Charlie.

A very nice overview of PPI, which is closely related to the AIPW estimator from missing data and the even older model-assisted estimators from survey sampling.

Kagi is hands down the best $10 I spend every month.

This is amazing but also perhaps too subtle for 2026. OP is going to get yelled at by Butlerian Jihadis and also sincerely offered VC funding (which she should accept)

Nice list of papers on survey response rates over time.

Glastonbury, 1994. General Levy, backed by M-Beat, has the crowd in the palm of his hand. All of a sudden, is that... PETER FRAMPTON?!?

Every single one of these was burned into my psyche in middle school

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel! #SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards

Saw @gavinverhey.bsky.social in drag on Spell Slayers which was v fun and also learned about this card which is a great demonstration of the St. Petersburg Paradox! This creature has an average power equal to infinity, and yet is realistically much smaller than measly 10k-power Jumbo Cactuar

Remember Labubus? That was a weird couple of weeks…

I had avoided Marathon after reading some of the early reaction but this review has me thinking I should pick it up.

We are now recruiting participants for a series of upcoming focus groups that will discuss the impacts of AI on health and well-being. If you or any friends/colleagues are interested, please visit the study site: umhealthresearch.org/study-team/s... All focus groups will be 100% online (via Zoom).

Live and lapply()

The sapply() who loved me

You know what I'm gonna give this one to her. 10/10

Watching S1E1 of The Pitt. It’s gotta get better right? Is this just the usual crappy pilot after which they bring in a showrunner that knows what they’re doing?

One of those legendary pieces of online statistical lore that everyone needs be aware of.

With very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization, and with LLM’s we can generate very large numbers of n’s, so I think all of science is solved by now. I don’t see any problems with this.

Can. Not. Wait.

“average monkey asks 3 questions a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average monkey asks 0 questions per year. Curious georg, who lives in cave & asks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted