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Measurement folks, is there a literature on validation by proxy? E.g. you have a dataset in which you can validate measure A against gold standard, and another dataset containing measure A and measure B. Can you infer measures of validity for B? Some sort of network validation ... #episky #statsky

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

the CDC has recommended that instead of eating vegetables try "sucking on a chili dog outside the tasty freeze"

Korea added ANOTHER 7 years to President Yoon's sentence this week. He's already in for life but there's constantly new trials to set precedent for every single thing he did wrong to be worthy of punishment. Elsewhere, political standards are so lax no one can even check if a dude's dead or not.

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

if my flight instructor just fucking jumped out the training plane without a parachute i would simply put the plane in a dive and catch up to him and chop him up with the propeller

One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.

Here’s a crazy idea: if a corporation wants to build a data center, they should also be required to construct renewable resource mechanisms to operate it—not funded by the public, but from the mountains of wealth they already possess.

Where I grew up, daddy longlegs were everywhere! And yet, no one seemed to know a damned thing about them. In fact, the one thing everyone "knew" -- that they're the most venomous spider on earth but can't bite people -- turns out to be not just wrong, but wrong in like 3 separate ways! 😂🧪

Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.

🔭 Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten ap260706

My spirit asteroid

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Someone recommended I write a clearer thread for the GFM (to help people understand why I'm sick/stressed/the need), so I hope all of you don't mind the additional context. *trigger warning, mentions of abuse* In February 2025, I was violently attacked by an ex. He was 440 pounds, I was 137.

How fast can heat kill you? Well, 16 teenagers were hospitalized after 20 minutes on a bus with no A/C in NY. The heat index was 111. 20 minutes. Teenagers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/n... #SummerIsComing

An attendee at the Great American State Fair says none of the booths had air conditioning so she had to go to the baptism pool in one of the tents

my friend is so mad at me for telling her she doesn’t ‘qualify’ for a rabies vaccine

these giant satellite constellations are a bane for astronomy, and are terrible for the planet on multiple levels. And they're bad economics! I hope this craze ends, these constellations deorbit, and we go back to a more rational utilization of space as a resource

They like Trump. They want to help him rule us like a king

It's once again time for me to extol the virtues of the "Laura Palmer," a refreshing blend of lemonade and cold brew coffee. In all my travels I have yet to find a better beverage for a hot summer morning. It's also the best method I have personally found for accidentally consuming 400mg of caffeine

this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Somebody pony up the cash to build a N hemisphere one as well. Total coverage 😎

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

To fuck up the big bash for the 250th anniversary of one of the most popular holidays...

The decision is not a relief. It is a final warning.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

Barely a win on a massive frontal assault on the plain words of the Constitution

Too weird to live, too rare to die

You never hear about parallel entrepreneurs.

This is actually a jackelope that has been photo to look like it has jackrabbit ears

do you wanna tell math-based ghost-stories, or is the poor little baby 2²

If statistics are real, then how come every time I try to get a fork out of the dishwasher that’s 1:1 forks and spoon, it’s always spoon spoon spoon spoon spoon

Here's the Goofball Round I'iwi looking even more Goofy and Round. :) (Just kidding, little one, you're beautiful!) #birds #borbs 📷🌿🦉

Look at these pics, then look at the source video in the thread that was "enhanced". The ai system is fabricating this completely all this aside from how farcical it is anyway

Smee!

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Honestly the fact that we have a whole special section of law for trees, with really nasty penalties for fucking them up, is one if those things that make me smile.

This is Sonny. He's excited to announce that summer is officially here. And more importantly he found a really cool stick. 12/10 the best news (IG: itssonnytheberner)

You rarely see a perfect headline in the wild like this

The void child calls, do you answer?

Have the cops tried filtering the algae out with their teeth

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror