my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.

Diagrams in Claude with Excalidraw and draw-io blog.stephenturner.us/p/diagrams-c...

core part of the ostensible economic justification for mass deportation was that Americans would rush in to take all the jobs immigrants left, but now unemployment rates for native born Americans are rising and the admin is sending people out to do damage control

That's a crazy improvement for such a frequently used function

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says London Centric's investigation shows the need for greater regulation of the algorithms on sites such as TikTok to stop "bad faith actors spreading hate for clicks". "Accounts are talking London down because the algorithms reward them for doing so," he says.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

From: stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-d... x %notin% table newly in base is an idiom for !(x %in% table) and provided almost entirely for convenience and code readability, from an R-devel suggestion, after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages, including in R's tools package.

Did someone say negative in, like %notin%, was coming to #rstats in a future release, or did I imagine that?

Incredible light

Still remember the guy in São Paulo who answered his phone at the urinal and had a video call

Art by Lar DeSouza…

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

What drives me mad about Huberman is his presenting himself as a rigorous scientist while making big claims off one or two studies with tepid results.

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

as someone who used to be a really, properly huge fan of Kanye this feels......encouraging? not by any means the answer to everything, or good enough to go "ok cool yeah let's just brush past the last few years", but: encouraging! (more readable version of the text here archive.ph/yQ9FW)

ex-tories explaining why they’re joining reform

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

January

The Gettysburg Address was a “this isn’t us” speech. Much of MLK Jr’s rhetoric was “this isn’t us.” He and Lincoln were well aware of history. They were also aware of how argument works.

Get the feeling we’re in for another round of “this isn’t us” v “it’s always been us” which will be as sterile as always. Different rhetorics exist for different purposes and different audiences. A normative exhortation isn’t trying to do the same work as an academic analysis.

Polling roundup: New Abolish ICE polling and the end of the Trump “realignment” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-coal...

John is a part-time teacher on £18,000 and is on Universal Credit. This is the only income for a family of 4. For every extra pound he earns, he takes home just over 30p, an effective tax of about 67%. Strangely, this sort of example never seems to get in the papers

1 million people: this thing happened 1 right wing nutter: no it didn't BBC journalist paid £350k a year: with varying reports, it is impossible to tell what's happened

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

They shot him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew

bsky.app/profile/anja... nonviolence is a strategic choice, and it's also a highly risky one *for participants*

"how's your non-violence working out Mr. Gandhi" is...not actually a burn

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

So because the answer is way too further down, hepatitis B vaccine is recommended to be given within 24 hours of birth but the American study wanted to withheld giving it for a few weeks to see the difference with giving within 24 hour of birth. Guinea-Bissau rightfully said nah.

Fun graph. I'm wondering how to do it in #ggplot2

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Good point. In China 22% of new trucks are electric, and this is said to explain part of the ca 11% decrease in diesel consumption www.evshift.com/362960/china...

I've been learning power query over the last few days and it makes me about 50% less frustrated Excel isn't R tidyverse

Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.

I consider myself good at ggplot but this is something amazing that I didn't know

Good week for a reminder about the confederate battle flag Minnesota refuses to return to the south

the endless ground of your own deep pulse, Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. David Young

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Returned to the gym recently and I already feel better. I’m so mad this shit works

We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

This is false. Deportations reduce housing demand, but they shrink housing supply even more as the construction sector loses workers. Trump's deportations will make housing less affordable.

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

I feel like we should introduce these terms to circulation as we see the introduction of this position to every strategically important industry

"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?" Now that's a Christmas movie. From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968). With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

‘Tis the season to remember this classic tweet

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.