dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

the other 15 percent... are that annoying coworker

I remain shocked by how much work was done after Katrina (subj of my diss) on evacuating pets in disasters relative to evacuating people without cars, or with disabilities, or with poverty, or elderly, or, or, or

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask. Please unfollow him and do not repost. Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.

One thing the last few years have taught us, and the Epstein files have only reinforced, is that the people behind Silicon Valley have no respect for the idea of consent.

perhaps WaPo will become the new pdf

hmm

Once again there are way better options out there than Substack. Which one works for you depends on your goals. But if you don't want to support the company that supports Nazis, there are plenty of options.

Lolz github.com/anthropics/c...

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

This is an especially good article about why the Epstein files matter so much.

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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

"In this precarious situation, middle managers often appease leadership requests to implement AI automation even when there is limited value in it, pretending that their error-free draft was written by an AI tool that actually failed to deliver them a single coherent copy."

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

i'm not surprised the ruling class is so pilled on AI. after reading several of the Epstein emails it's clear they can't write a single well-formed sentence. AI output is trash tier and it is nevertheless a tier miles above these dudes.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I’m just saying, I haven’t seen a single drag queen in the Epstein files.

You're not gonna find Labov in the Epstein emails and that, I think, proves who ultimately won that whole thing

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I saw someone post an image of some dipshit Trump supporters and the alt text said "if you're blind you're lucky" or something like that. No description of the image. Are you kidding. What is wrong with you.

relatedly, this summary from AP news is infuriating. any clear eyed person can tell the political leaders reaching conclusions that aren't supported by the video are fucking lying to justify extrajudicial murder. the news media is too afraid to get sued to say what's evident to the rest of us.

People can only be compelled to think illegal immigration is an actual problem for them because it can be rhetorically made to resemble the unchecked capitalism that actually makes their life precarious. I can never decide if this is so obvious it's not worth saying or not.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Carbon monoxide deaths spike during power outages. Many times, this is due to portable generators being placed too close to people's homes or run indoors. Make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Run your generator outdoors, at least 20ft away from your home.

i really can't stand this dude defector.com/gavin-newsom...

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care. Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

let 2026 be the year we stop attributing all bad behavior to mental illness. many bad behaviors, including those making headlines lately, stem from feelings of entitlement and resentment that come with privilege. let this be the year we stop punching down and start holding the powerful to account.

Dear exp linguist, for my advanced stats class, I am looking for articles that - are experimental linguistics-ish - report on linear mixed models that did not converge with the intended random effect structure (using lme4) - published open data and scripts Please @ me, I would appreciate it!

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

i've definitely noticed myself making more typos and i kinda think i'm noticing more typos generally from others. not sure if all our fucks are gone, if it is a side effect of the constant horrors, or something else. whatever the cause, i think we are now in a typocalypse.

the average minnesota politician is like "have you no decency mr trump sir, i am so mad, i will send out a fundraising email that says f*ck" the average normie minnesotan is like "this is stalingrad this bakhmut all your children will die in the ice"

Even the linked article continues to reproduce the conservative fantasy that traditional universities are places where they are regularly canceled as opposed to places where their ideas do not go unchallenged.

It’s a test of whether or not they truly believe in bodily autonomy. It tells you if they deep down believe that society should be organized like a tyrannical family. It tells you if they believe in a politics of feeding the disfavored to the wolves for short term gain.

“ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.“

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I've reached my lifetime quota for "interesting times." Give me bland times. Boring times. Normie times, one could even say. Times that are both dull and unexciting. Load me up with times that feel stale and uninspiring. That's the good stuff right there.

Fascists are pathetic: defector.com/fascists-are...

The reason I go on about self-driving cars is that it's like watching somebody spend 20 minutes using a thimble to fill a kettle and them saying "I can't wait for the glorious day when I'll have a robot to carry this thimble for me"

This progression was inevitable and yet many of us who warned this would happen were called alarmists

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

Seems like when you are a woman, anything you are in addition to being a woman becomes a thing that will be weaponized against you because you are a woman, even if that thing is otherwise tolerated or even celebrated by those same groups. Huh! Interesting!

This is my blood

She's here to save your life.