The drones in Copenhagen have been a painful reminder at completing the preparations recommended by the 🇩🇰 government in case of sabotage to critical infra. Last items: water for three days, emergency radio. If you haven’t done it already, it is a good time to do it now!

Sssh, do not break the bubble of the American pundit class, “the Europeans might enjoy decent healthcare, social safety nets and basic human rights, but they are lazy while we work a lot” is all they have left

Well, preparing roe deer stew with the main ingredient grazing just out of the window is a first

I wrote something for The Nation about how Republican style has changed over the last fifty years. But first, let me tell you a short story. 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, UKRAINE 🇺🇦 34 years ago, we chose us. All of us - East and West, Lviv and Kharkiv, Crimea and Donbas. We chose each other. Not division. We chose unity, identity, and the promise of a shared future. 1/3

Announcing Textplot - bringing data visualization directly to your SQL queries! Create bar charts, density plots, and sparklines without leaving DuckDB. Try it out: query.farm/duckdb_exten... #DuckDBExtension

* No de jure territorial changes * US and EU security guarantees * Increased military production * Sanctions * No limitations on Ukraine’s military. Neither on their numbers, their own military production nor on weapons shipments from its Western allies.

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I am a fan of the “right tool for the right task” analogy for coding with AI. I also see it as a very powerful tool for three use cases: 1) simple boilerplate functions I code rarely and are always the same. Think “make a decorator for functions that prints the function name + its running time”

I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies. Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare) Check out the revised Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies

Parenting win: behavioral science defuses sibling device battle Me: whoever uses the device 1st gets 3 minutes less time than whoever uses it 2nd Kid 1 (thinking; loss averse): no, but how about whoever uses it 2nd gets 3 minutes more than whoever uses it 1st? Me: ok Kid 2: deal!

It is a product made by Americans for Americans 🤷‍♂️ Checks out

BREAKING: new study just dropped that shows compelling evidence that cell phone bans cause student grades to modestly increase. Grade increases are largest among low performing students.

In Denmark, new mothers are quasi-randomly assigned to mother groups by nurses. This new paper shows that being assigned to a group with a depressed peer decreases mothers self-reported mental health + increases mental health care uptake. Fascinating!

Enjoying your summer vacations? Here's a Data Engineering #Roadmap that helps you learn the basics to be a data engineer. The schedule is three weeks; it's very ambitious, but you can schedule at your own pace.

Det her IQ-race-nonsens dukker også op på den danske del af X. Det "data" der ligger bagved er ikke kun bras. Det er bevidst udvalgt og behandlet til at give dårligere resultater. Det kan ikke bruges og det siger ikke noget rigtigt om verden. bsky.app/profile/whst...

this reply is complete poster's madness but I was genuinely curious if I could answer this easily (been wanting to try jupyter)

The US reached the “Oro Alla Patria” stage 🫠 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro_all...

You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid. I'll show you why. 🧵

Europe has replaced the lost US aid to Ukraine in 2025.

Heya #EconSky #DataSky Moving from Stata to duckdb (thx @alemartinello.com for the push) Wrote my 1st substack post about it (and share code). Read for free and please suggest how I can make it faster. Thanks! hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/moving-to-...

Vi finder i dette studie 1) Piger født tidligt på året, og altså relativt ældre i klassen, sjældnere får ADHD medicin end klassekammerater født senere på året 2) Vi finder ingen effekt for drenge 3) Hele effekten på piger er fra piger i lavtindkomstfamilier. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

About 110 Russian drones are already in Ukraine's airspace. Our night begins.

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

Cool paper providing evidence for something I have often heard as a hypothesis: subtitles as a boost to English skills.

𝐏𝐲𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬𝐭 0.30.1 is on 𝐏𝐲𝐏𝐢 and I am extremely happy with this release, mostly because of two 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: a Rust back end for all performance critical parts and quantile regression.

Can we take a few minutes together to dig into the economics of immigration? This video is a little longer, but hopefully trades out a bit of heat for a bit more light.

I'll give this a shot. 🧵

Earlier this week, I asked which tie knot you think looks better. Of course, you can wear whichever you like. But here's the social history behind both knots and why some people consider one better than the other. 🧵

The chatbot loves to "Yes, AND..." in the bleakest and stupidest ways imaginable. We NEED to teach people to not trust the bullshit machines. This is going to absolutely ruin some credulous and vulnerable people. I just... no clue what to say here. This made me very sad. For all of us.

Il Big Beautiful Bill che sta per essere approvato in Senato è un concentrato del peggiore trumpismo. Toglie ai poveri per dare ai ricchi, toglie ai bambini per dare agli anziani, taglia l'assistenza sanitaria e l'assistenza sociale ai più vulnerabili, mentre arricchisce ulteriormente l'1%. 1/4

Aaaaaaargh. The pain!

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

Truly an awful attack on my native Kharkiv. Civilian homes and apartment buildings. Beyond disgraceful. Russia is a terror state.

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5 With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...

“Do your own research” 🙃

🧵 Guardate questi grafici, sono impressionanti. Il primo, basato su dati Studyportals, mostra che, negli Stati Uniti, le ricerche online per selezionare un PhD cui fare domanda di ammissione sono radicalmente cambiate rispetto all’anno precedente. 1/7 #EconSky

I've started to work on a quantile regression implementation for pyfixest. There's a basic PR that implements the Frisch-Newton solver in numpy + a quantreg interface. Still plenty of things to do (standard errors, performance improvements), so please let me know if you want to contribute!

25 May 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Edit Spitzer, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

lol why would they admit what time the change was made. who the fuck else is up at 3 am crying about white genocide in south africa

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Tonight I slept on a couch with a 6m old waking up every 40 minutes btw 1am-4a, then without 4am-7am. The living room looks towards east, sunrise is at 5am. At 6:20 the other kids woke up and started playing into the next room. And it was the best sleep in a week. My envy truly has no bounds 😫

I have gone perhaps too far. Now you can incorporate parallel trend violations and factor loadings correlated with treatment timing. You can see when unit-linear trends and a synthetic DID estimator fixes the new problems. Stop me before I add more buttons to the control panel.

We agree more than we think we do Democrats and Republicans both think people in the other group disagree with them on immigration much more than they do Summary—> behavioralscientist.org/the-divide-b... Research by Michael Pasek & Samantha Moore-Berg in @pnas.org —> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Yeah, so we reside on the foothills of a Mordor, live on a wall with a land of alwayswinter, a river border with a decaying Empire. So what. Also, A) unlike earthquakes &hurricanes, Russia can and is deterred, by NATO, by Europe, by us, by brave Ukraine that is not even in NATO (yet).

Evolutionary SQLisation

just over the last 5 weeks, Trump has helped swing elections (against him) in Wisconsin, Canada, Australia, and the Vatican.

Ratio => ration. All the freaking time. So much so it’s almost muscle-memory that writing “ratio” is r a t i o n backspace Yes, I have also just done it twice on mobile right now