Me overhearing my daughter, playing with her Barbies: "Ok girls. We're not talking about stealing these shoes... we're talking about stealing the WHOLE STORE" Which one of y'all showed her Ocean's 11 😂

Not that kind of doctor, but my impression from my exposure to the medical field is that very few people who are wheeled-in for an MRI can be said to be in "exceptional physical health." It's not typically the kind of thing doctors do for funsies.

Adding this to every presentation I make with a model I'm less-than-thrilled about.

Decided to try out this new IDE I kept seeing on my TL

Happy #N7Day to those who celebrate. 🫡

I just blew my 5 year old's mind with what my high school track and cross country jersey number was:

You know those shirts that say "only the best dads get promoted to grandpa"? If I'm lucky enough to have grandkids one day, I want my copy of the shirt to say that, but with this image underneath:

Traveling for a conference. My view from this morning's run.

This some straight-up Torment Nexus bullshit

I've, regrettably, driven a fair amount through large cities over the last few years. And, upon reflection, I'm astounded that we so frequently design metro areas that are heavily car dependent but that ALSO have such inscrutable street layouts as to make driving deeply unpleasant!

I wrote a whole dissertation about video games and politics. I have thousands of hours clocked across the Halo franchise. I use GenAI for work and am one of the experts in it for my team. So I can confidently say, across multiple fields of expertise, that we are in the stupidest fucking timeline.

Corruption is one of the top issues (if not THE top issue, depending on the survey) people feel is facing the country right now. Democrats don't even need to do all that much to frame this in a way that taps into that AND Kitchen Table™️ issues. The fact that so many won't even try is stupifying.

Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...

Stab in the dark: But I'm going to guess that the person who implemented the Fire Stick parental password input where the passkey numbers are clearly visible to everyone watching does not, in fact, have children of their own.

Ah yes. Famously, the last time America had a King, a hallmark of his reign was his ability to prevent any demonstrations against his rule.

I will not refactor our modeling processes just because of a new cool stats paper I found I will not refactor our modeling processes just because of a new cool stats paper I found I will not refactor our modeling processes just because of a new cool stats paper I found I will not refactor our modeli

[Exit King.]

I don't have favorites, except for my beloved GLMM's.

Goddamn, what a deeply unserious government. My 5 year old has better tact.

Only one of these verified agency/department accounts isn't actively violating the Hatch Act---and it isn't the one you'd expect. (It's the TSA) bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'd like to nominate Harry Frankfurt as the most influential Philosopher of the 21st century if for no other reason than he gave us all an amazing excuse to toss-in a couple instances of "bullshit" into our serious professional writings.

Taylor Swift can encourage people to register to vote, so I guess it shouldn't surprise us that she can get people to learn about Shakespeare. Wikipedia page-hits for "Ophelia" spiked following the drop of the tracklist for "The Life of a Showgirl" as well as the album itself. #databs

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this. That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

"Warning: boundary (singular) fit"

See, this is something I would normally applaud this (or any) administration for pursuing---but I think all the pepper-spraying of priests domestically kinda erodes our moral authority and credibility on this. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: "Regression ran by ChatGPT"

I've said/amplified this a million times: We've all got to start posting more pets, foods, vacations, hobbies, and silliness. If you want your message to expand to others (and improve folks' sense of efficacy via diminishing dread), Bluesky has to become more than just a place about Trump.

Me, coming across a niche Sci-Fi reference in a stats textbook that I'm reading for fun: "Huh, I'm beginning to think that the author of this statistics textbook is some kind of nerd"

Not gonna lie, working at a theme park can be pretty sweet most days.

Finishing @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's "Everything is Tuberculosis" and then, coincidentally, re-reading Poe's "Annabel Lee" on the same day is sure underscoring the truth in the title of the former.

GameStop's response to one of their stores still having a 'Halo 3' mural from 2007: "We'll take it down when something better comes out"

Spooky Pizza night! 👻

I tested having different AI models transcribe my chicken-scratch handwriting. Bing Chat: 85% of the words correct, mangled some concepts. GPT5: 90% of the words correct, less mangling. Gemini: Basically as good as GPT5 but also said "your handwriting isn't that bad", so we have a winner.

Working at a theme park is awesome, where else in the world can you see a car with "Jesus Saves", a kim possible decalled car a car with "goth mommie", and another with ahegao faces plastered on its windows all within the same floor of the employee parking lot? Truly, the multiplicity of humanity.

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A problem with GenAI code is that you'll often get something that seems good but will fail. That's why I'm proposing ANOTHER AI that will perfectly analyze your code and tell you, every time, exactly when that first program will terminate. I accept venture funding in the form of blank checks.

Unsettled (Disturbed) Maize (KoRn) Bowline (Slipknot) Saucepan (Skillet) Clumsy Ben (Breaking Benjamin) (That last one is actually pretty much how the band got its name, actually)

Some may protest that we can conclude instead that the Rapture didn't happen at all---but that would require you to incorporate *priors* into your analysis: checkmate, frequentists.

Theory: The Rapture will happen today, and the holy shall ascend into Heaven. Hypothesis: We should see people floating into the sky. Observation: No one is floating into the sky. Conclusion: The Rapture happened, but God saw all our search histories so we're all stuck here.

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Thinking about adding a question to my surveys like this except for "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and immediately disqualifying anyone who says "yes" as being a bot or a liar.

To "yes---and" this: I wonder what happened on January 6th 2021 that precipitated all of these platforms to suspend his account while he was still President 🤔

Ok but, also, why are they visualized to look like discount Stardew Valley?

Daily reminder to all the reply guys to polling results on this website who are shocked and appalled that any normal person could dare be unsure how they feel about various political questions these days

To square this circle: I don't think any young guys are listening to your message about tariffs unless you're capable of talking like the guy kind of guy they shoot the shit with in a game lobby in between matches.

If Democrats want to continue to erode Trump's support with young men, they should be trumpeting about how his tarrifs are making their video games more expensive, I'm not even joking

To crassly riff off George Fox: there is only One before whom I Quake---and it sure as fuck isn't Donald Trump.

People can say any horrible thing they want about Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump or anyone else. And the government is forbidden from taking retaliatory action against them.