100% my take. There was never any special risk to an elected official here -- this isn't an assassination story -- its a story about the outrage and fear some elites are feeling when they actually have to deal with what so many communities have.

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

no more thought experiments

Similarly, I compared Sawa's splits to race records for the distances I could find. He's remarkably close to the record for a lot of these distances!

It’s not a security breach that he didn’t sleep in a sterile area; it just wasn’t the security plan. And the designed security did in fact stop the attack without it. The demand embedded in this piece that it become the plan is exactly how the one way ratchet of a burdensome security state works.

I was writing jokes for Amber Ruffin when she was supposed to host the White House Correspondent's Dinner last year, but then she got fired for saying bad things about Donald Trump. I think tonight, I shall post a few of them here.

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

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Making consistently correct decisions is hard. That’s why it’s remarkable that this gov has somehow identified 100% of the correct decisions by doing the opposite every time

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

More deliberate attacks on medical personnel. This is a monstrous state www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Every online getting company has exactly the data they need to identify people with gambling problems, and the technology and know-how to maximally enable that problem. They also know exactly how to spot the rare skilled gamblers and ban them from playing. Zero economic value. It's basically theft.

1/7 Clinical trials should preregister analyses. But even careful plans leave room for defensible alternatives, and problems often arise that create decisions no one anticipated. Instead of picking just one defensible option, what if you ran them all? New paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social

AI seems to be the topic of the year — nearly every conversation I have in my role as academic lead for good research practice touches on it in some way. I’d like to lay out my developing thoughts for conversation and critique. (1/7)

My two most joy-evoking things on the internet these days are the bald subreddit (Reddit.com/r/bald; possibly the most wholesome place on the entire internet) at #1 and this account at #2

1/7 The Reliable Change Index is supposed to be a common ruler for deciding whether a patient truly improved. But what if that ruler changes size from study to study? Recent paper in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology: doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2585286

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

Landmark gathering of nation’s leading mathematicians to determine whether president can declare 2+2=5 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When drawing links between health and the gut microbiome, the obvious explanation that should be ruled out first is always disease—>diet—>microbiome (or M—>diet and disease—>microbiome). Microbiome—>disease is the least likely explanation by a light year www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-l...

University teaching role breakdown -Pre AI: 90% educator, 10% cop -Post AI in-person classes: 70% educator, 30% cop -Post AI online classes: 10% educator, 90% cop

Not sure who this person is, but I’ve been thinking about him a lot. What would it be like, psychologically, to be so publicly THIS wrong…more wrong than anyone has ever been since perhaps the covid days

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Immediately scrapping the “Epstein Barr and ms” data i use to teach chi-square, which I like a lot, to use this

Here's the floor plan for the new ICE concentration camp in Georgia. Look familiar? Let's take a look at some similar blueprints throughout history.

[looks at other countries punishing sex trafficking] MUST BE NICE www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40. Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

“Nazgul, who is a very good boy, is yet to comment on his performance.”

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

New Epstein files say that Steven Pinker was paid $10,000 to help Epstein’s defense (even though Pinker previously said he wasn't paid).

I was one of those who left at Step 3

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Vigil in St. Paul, Minnesota. -7 F outside. We are a peaceful, loving people, and our spirit will not be broken.

“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz

Children recording in horror as their father is abducted/disappeared while coming home from work on his birthday (Minneapolis. 1/20/26)

I can’t find any flaws here

A more charitable version might be: an airplane, built by prominent plane critics who have no actual understanding of how planes or flight work, crashes

The tl;dr: an airplane, built by donkeys who hate flight, crashes www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Ouch, but also, not wrong

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

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