The media needs to call out illegal means when Trump uses/threatens them instead of taking the racehorse perspective. Americans don't give a shit b/c the media tells them this is normal, and their education/indoctrination told them we have ample checks and balances (now circumvented largely)

Clemson football looked good against BC in the first half. Defensive execution leaves opportunities for improvement but can't complain too much. Kinda wish I was down in Boston* for the game. Usually a fun matchup & fans are respectful on both sides! Go Tigers!

"Autistic people and other neurodivergent individuals are not burdens—they are early warning systems. They feel when the structure is cracking long before the cracks spread to everyone else. To ignore them is to choose blindness" - @bumblingbard42.bsky.social www.hivegeist.us/2025/09/23/n...

Happy weekend everyone! It is a beautiful day, and the authoritarians can't take that away

I didn't know about this, and now i've got about 100 uses for it. denodell.com/blog/html-be...

It's crazy how the younger generation is advised to not use websites ending in .gov as a reliable source for their writings in school now

Trump has always taken the term "winner-take-all system" completely literally!

I find it really funny how quickly the media and UNC alumni have turned against Bill Belichick. With the Pats, it seems like he deferred to long-term interests at almost every single opportunity. Hiring him was never going to be a quick fix!

Life would probably be easier if I closed editor tabs in PHPStorm and RStudio when I'm done with them lol

"Hey ChatGPT, please help me tear a pec" This ChatGPT ad on YT is clearly promoting it as a fitness/health tool. Yuck.

So far I really like ggplot2 4.0.0 a lot, but the color blending with ink/paper means you can end up with too little contrast in your axis text. Luckily, you can easily detect this with {colorspace} to prevent accessibility issues. see blog for more info kraieski.dev/ggplot2-40-i... #Rstats

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014. ◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers ◆ Zero downtime deployments ◆ Team terminal sessions ◆ Free on-forge domains ◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

If you have state-level data and you want to add columsn for US Census regions or divisions, you can use {tigris} to build a lookup table and join it in #rstats (gist here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Does SCOTUS have any credibility left?

The MAGA gang has really been bending over backwards to pretend the FCC didn't stick its nose somewhere it doesn't belong!

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“.. We have a term: ‘groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food. It’s a pretty accurate term, but it's an old fashioned sound — but groceries are down."

{cfbfastR} deserves a shoutout for living up to its name in terms of being fast! The classic American pastime of criticizing/praising your school's football coach is best with data! cfbfastr.sportsdataverse.org #RStats

Wasm 3.0 seems like a big step. It will be exciting to see what people do with 64-bit address space. The new GC feature is interesting too. webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

AI agents for RStudio are "coming soon" @jcheng5.bsky.social tells #Positconf2025 . Support for accessing Anthropic LLMs in Positron via Copilot, AWS Bedrock and other providers is also coming soon.

I found a cool API to try out for a hobby project. So I hit it and get a 200 back. Payload is a full stack trace for an uncaught PDOException: "Access denied for user xxx to database zzz in ..." 🤦

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I'm kinda kicking myself for messing with reproducibility by turning a screw I didn't mean to on my guitar, but I guess I kinda learned that guitars are bayesian. We are constantly updating our beliefs about the sweet spot. Hopefully I didn't fuck up the posterior distribution of this guitar!

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular. "Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered." (with A+ co-authors)

Is there still journalism out there worth paying for? Seems like paywalls for news are more prevalent than ever, but most of these outlets are way too friendly to incumbents and the powerful!

Renaming the DoD to the War Department while you're trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize is kind of bonkers. Pick a lane, dude

Waiters Databases 🤝 Serving tables

This is some of it. Orwell in 1942 analyzed this impulse by intellectuals to support fascism. He ascribed it to power-worship, to a desire to avoid thinking about the consequences of fascism (war, death, collapse), and to factional struggles. So, yes.

It seems like there's a ton of Russian bot traffic online that is loudly trying to normalize Trump using the National Guard against our own cities and amplify speech praising it. I hope people don't fall for this crap.

CSS is probably the hardest part of DIY music streaming, honestly. There's some Mozilla-specific styling stuff I need to handle with my volume slider. But overall, I was surprised how few gotchas there were adding an mp3 player to my personal website

I gave the keynote at Cascadia R Conf 2025: “25 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R.” R isn’t just for stats — it’s great for visualization, mapping, automation, and more. Watch the talk + get all the resources here: buff.ly/6svaIME Hope you learn something new! #rstats

Had some fun building a music player and music API for my website. It's not like I really expect anyone to listen to my music, but that's just what I do. I build publishing infrastructure. I think I have some weird obsession with being as full-stack as possible about my hobbies lol

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

"When reviewers thought a woman had used #AI to write code, they questioned her fundamental abilities far more than when reviewing the same AI-assisted code from a man." 😮‍💨 hbr.org/2025/08/rese...

Fantastic point in this essay on south park. Why *are* people giving up? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...

#rstats #statistics I've released my new open source book, "Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science," at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA.... Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.

Some asshole on here just told me that I'm a disgrace to real advocacy and I should quit Do I intend to? Hell no, I'm doubling down. And yeah, I'm new to it and learning, but a big part of ableism is that it isolates you from the knowledge and people that can help fight it. We can try to learn tho

OK, no sorry, there is a healthy and growing resistance to authoritarianism in the United States. Yes, some elites have caved, but there are plenty of people out there throwing subs. Doomerism is neither empirically justified nor helpful at building a movement.

Sports Betting, Thy Name Is Frustration medium.com/@gggarrison/... #G3Projections #Sportsbetting #BettingTips

Meta is a bunch of sickos. Attempting to satisfy demand for human connection with any sort of alternative to humanity is immoral and will only compound real loneliness and suffering in this world.

The problem with "only teaching STEM" is that science & the humanities are more entangled than people think. For example, can you have a STEM program without any discussion of the philosophy of science? Or the open science movement? What about ethical questions when designing chemicals/biohazards?

I guess we really are entering the next era of gerrymandering as a full-contact sport. Nice. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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It's really obnoxious how the guitar industry went in the direction of needing every amp it makes to be a computer. Last thing I want to do is deal with other people's tech debt when I'm just trying to play music.

Please pay no attention to the 13 new AI data centers we're building. Now get rid of your picture of the last time your mom held your baby before she died.

The evidence is pretty weak IMO that crime in DC is even trending upward in the long term or short term. Many forms are down from a peak in 2023. Any nominal growth in homicides is not statistically significant. Let's be honest, Trump's DC takeover is about imposing racism, not reducing crime.

With OpenAI moving to ChatGPT 5 and discontinuing GPT-4o, I have been seeing a ton of people on Reddit say that it broke use cases that helped them with neurodivergence, PTSD, and other conditions. Sadly, this was predictable; closed-source AI companies shouldn't be trusted not to rugpull on users

This is important as if we can't measure, we can't speak to inequality. We can't make the case disabled and neurodivergent groups need better support or outcomes.

Consuming readiness™️ to support the security theater fever dreams of POTUS.