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When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Today on my blog: some thoughts on the best data management strategies for collaboration: dataabinitio.com?p=1204 What's your best data tip for collaborative research?

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

Coming soon! The Data Management Workbook by @kbriney.bsky.social 📖 Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3bkdjce6 #datamanagement #dataanalysis #statistics #researchdata

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If Biden had said even one-tenth of this, he’d have been impeached and removed as a dictator. What is wrong with our elites? They’re paralyzed by their fear of looking unsavvy or biased against MAGA. They’re going to keep pretending everything is normal until the bullet passes through their face

Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.

Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

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GPT-5 has been hyped for years as the next step towards AGI. Sam Altman promised a "PhD-level intelligence on any topic." It's not even close. On the terms OpenAI itself laid out for its own product, any fair assessment must conclude that GPT-5 is a failure. Now the question is: Will it matter?

It's a good thing that a significant portion of what we call "open science" isn't utterly and completely predicated on the continued existence of GitHub. haha we what?

About a year ago I was at a conference at which a speaker confidently said the US government would never exercise its Bayh-Dole Act march-in rights because it would destroy all licensees’ and investors’ confidence in licensing federal-funded research-based patents

this is simply extortion and theft of state monies

If you're affiliated with a university, check to see if your library has PBS. Mine does. I can watch all of NOVA etc through work. The subscription helps provide funding and your usage of your library helps them argue to maintain their budget

I'm just struck by this because man, nothing says "your state is failing" quite like "no one appears to be in charge of dealing with rotting human body parts strewn around"

faculty in these states: stop scrolling and fill out this survey, pls

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine -Johnny Cash

The tsunami warning yesterday was a good reminder to have an emergency plan, whether it's your house or it's your library or lab. What would you take with you to safer ground? Here's what I took home from Miller Library ... 1/ 🌊🦑📚

Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav...

Arrested for asking to see a warrant. The fascism is here, y'all. What will you do when fascism comes to America? It's whatever you're doing.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in all of American history, & well, then, 👇🤷‍♂️🎯

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

lol at people blaming the pilots for the current air travel safety issues. The average person has no idea how much of the world that they just take easy advantage of is made up of incredibly complicated systems that our government is just lighting on fire. Pilots aren't gods. They rely on ATC.

A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

A general truism about automation/AI: You, the user, are not who it’s for, not who it helps, not who it protects. It might fail to prevent a crash, but it absolutely will not fail at the “disengage” task.

Predicting such storms is at the cutting edge of science right now, and the stakes are rising in a warming world in which they are intensifying. Yet this is precisely the kind of research that NOAA/NSF have funded in the U.S. over decades that is at imminent risk of disappearing.

This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."

i mean, also a blow to those of us who would like to be told about impending hurricanes

I think it's a mistake to *only* consider high-tech/high-skilled solutions to data management problems. I continue to encounter people collecting data, who are not necessarily tech-savvy (and don't have the budget to hire anyone) who still need low-tech procedures that lead to better data.

Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump’s war on science. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I think maybe it's hard to see what's wrong with this, because obviously the government already HAS your social security data. The problem is that in 1974 we anticipated the ill effects of conjoining data to create detailed, granular dossiers on individuals. That's why the Data Privacy Act is a law.

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

Can Librarians Stop Filling in the Coding Intro Gap? This is an incomplete thought that I bounced off of Andromeda and Kristin recently. It's incomplete because (a) I don't do this kind of instruction (b) I know the answer is no for a variety of reasons at least for now (c) my ability to write…