Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill https://theonion.com/defeated-man-too-tired-to-fight-new-14-99-fee-on-phone-1847501796/

One week from today is the first of the 2026 Ihaka Lectures. Kieran Healy will speak about "Trustworthy Data Visualisation" It's in Science bldg 303, opposite Albert Park. Refreshments 6pm for 6:30pm start (NZST, UTC+12). There's live streaming and a recording later.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

USDA Fills Key Advisory Role With Prominent Chewing Skeptic https://theonion.com/usda-fills-key-advisory-role-with-prominent-chewing-skeptic/

It's Proust's birthday so I must share this photo again!!!!!

I made a free tool to help people write their comments re: OMB proposed rule change. Please use it before July 13 bsky.app/profile/drru...

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Relatedly, math departments have set themselves up for failure in the LLM-age by allowing themselves to be suckered by Texas Instruments to teach with decades-old tech at an incomprehensibly large markup instead of keeping up with actual computational approaches

Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

See! And now ’tis up again.

data visualization is my passion.

further evidence that being healthy means that you are healthy

Cat butt photo bomb. Photo from my collection. 1955.

There’s always at least one part of each World Cup game that reminds me of the Simpsons youtu.be/442NF5cZhyc

45 years ago.

Our lab guide now includes an explicit AI usage policy: www.poldracklab.org/labguide/res...

Another example of how useful {geomtextpath} can be, imho. This is from the item category probability plot in my {easyRasch2} package. Most psychometric papers within the factor analytic tradition seem to disregard evaluating how the response scale works, which I find difficult to understand.

Tau Day! 6.28[...] the true circle constant! Tau (the letter)'s relatives or possible relatives include T, ت, ᛏ, 𐩩, ተ, ת, त, ត, Ⱅ, ᠲ, 𐱆, ... (all these make /t/ or /ta/ sounds)

Looking for a postdoc? Interested in infectious disease modeling? Love causal inference? Want to work with @mlipsitch.bsky.social? Come do a postdoc with us at Stanford! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

If you create slides in #Quarto, or WANT to, you should really attend @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's upcoming 2-hour slidecrafting workshop. I don't think anyone in the data world has created more reavealjs-friendly slide stuff lately than Emil. ABSOLUTELY DO IT. #rstats #databs pos.it/slide-wrkshp

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Happy to finally announce the CRAN release of {debrief}, a new package to let AI agents better interface with the output of the {profvis} package Making it so you can work with you AI agent more efficiently to profile and write faster R code! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... #rstats #dataBS

This was me while I was reading this paper:

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

from "noto fonts"

Let me tell you, I had shingles, and it was the single worst pain I've ever experienced. Plus it tried to take out my ear drum. Get the shot if you can!

Organizing a community data science event or workshop? Posit wants to help! If you need event funding, awesome swag, social media signal boosts, or guest speakers/mentors, please reach out. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...

Quarto Typst Render 0.18.0 ships 'format: html'. '{typst}' blocks and inline maths render as native HTML via Typst 0.15: selectable prose, accessible MathML, not a flat image. Write equations in Typst syntax with 'math: typst'. github.com/mcanouil/quarto-typst-render #quarto #typst #a11y

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Ahem.. www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Want to programmatically build presentation slides with #Python? Meet Quarto! We wrote a lil post on how to use Quarto to combine your code, text, output into beautiful slides, perfect for @scipyconf.bsky.social or your next conference 😊 Check it out: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 16,1958

the next version of Python is going to have a built in sampling profiler!!!! this is so exciting to see docs.python.org/3.15/library...

it is Extremely Important to my emotional health that Cape Verde win a match at this tournament. they can do it!

The native pipe has finally become the default in new RStudio installs! 🥳 #Rstats github.com/rstudio/rstu...

That nice-looking plot might be R, Python, Typst... or even, SQL!? Join us tomorrow with @thomasp85.com , where he will introduce ggsql, a new package that brings the grammar of graphics (a framework for composing plots) to SQL. Join the ggparty here: pos.it/dslab

Is it carbon monoxide

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

regular reminder: most of the USAID/DOGE deaths you're seeing in the news haven't happened yet. they are still preventable. to do that, the emergency must be at the top of the list when democrats take power—even as critical domestic issues flood the calendar, and even if there's no trifecta (yet).

The world's first trillionaire did this

🚀 T-Lang 0.52.2 is out! 🔍 debug_node(), drop into an interactive Python/R/Julia REPL straight from T to debug pipeline nodes with real upstream data 📊 build_log_history() + node_diff(), track how your pipeline outputs change across builds 1/2 #RStats #DataScience #ReproducibleResearch

I'm so fascinated by this project