Now bring back Difficult People and we've got a stew going!

Yeah like straight up more than 1 in 5 people I voluntarily spend frequent time with are trans women and that’s a flex that has no relationship to the extremely correct point that Dani is making here. But I do recommend it. They’re quite fun.

i cannot stress enough that this has nothing to do with minorities, trans people, politics, or anything of the sort. that exact effect can be replicated in *any* domain. when you ask people to provide a probability judgment, you will get a curve of that shape that pushes the numbers to the middle

ah. that’s why this crossed my timeline. no, they don’t. the survey is badly designed and the numbers mean nothing. signed, a trans woman who actually worked in that fucking field.

Wild horses couldn’t drag this out of me.

“How did I find dignity in a book that seems so determined to strip dignity away from its characters, especially its gay characters? Where did I find affirmation in a book so enamored of the abyss?” @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on affirmation in art harpers.org/archive/2025...

This video rips. There's a damn reason the club in Avengers Academy is called "The Invisible Light." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4c...

I feel like the evolution of twunk from “he used to be a twink but now he’s twunk” to a “twink hunk” has really diluted the twink brand.

Netflix's regional localizations are getting out of control

Never forget youtu.be/_AyU_EbgFlc?...

Everything is so bad but Cole Escola has a Tony and Jeff Hiller has an Emmy, so a couple things have, against all odds, gone right.

EMMY WINNER JEFF HILLER

Wake me up when AI can put my duvet cover on my duvet. Until then I simply don’t see the point.

Today has mostly just affirmed my opinion that Overleaf is a giant steaming turd of a website that makes collaborating on a document actively fucking worse and I get to just not use it because I don’t that shit anymore and that’s wonderful

A whole new volcano experiment

The temptation to write a section called “Queering pre-registration” is HIGH

So @avehtari.bsky.social and Andrew have been plugging away on the workflow book. I’m doing some edits

oh i’m sure

Masquerade was certainly a night that I spent standing next to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He did WHAT www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The tremendous Morgan Bassichis show "Can I Be Frank?" at Soho Playhouse has added a show tomorrow at 9pm! Everything else is sold out out OUT Bassichis is the funniest and most entrancing comic performer out there; if you don't take that last ticket, I'm gonna www.sohoplayhouse.com/see-a-show/m...

At the risk of stretching the imagination beyond the limits of human endurance, the reader is asked to pretend that the author is interested in splines #rstats

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

blog post: connections between survey statistics and experimental design. split-plot designs are analogous to cluster sampling. blocking is analogous to stratification. featuring an experiment by Arjun Potter and colleagues at NM-AIST !

Anohni’s disco diva turn will never be beaten. youtu.be/9Trw75d5R-4?...

All I will say is that your life will be blessed as your life includes more trans people and you will hopefully have it rammed home that every one of these arguments is about real people who are really fucking fantastic or a bit shit. But no less deserving of rights and dignity.

It’s a surprisingly common stance I see among cis progressives on Bluesky. Trans people are expected to support politicians who despise us and advocate for our exclusion from society, on “lesser evil” grounds. I don’t see any reason why trans people should be expected to acquiesce to this

my boyfriend, Scam Likely, calls me everyday 🥰

This song is so good. What a set of lyrics. And also the Joni Mitchell quote on _this_ song. Art. youtu.be/lr599FgX0-g?...

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

the worst shit happens when physicists start having opinions on shit that isn't physics. every fucking time

I’ve been on holidays for a couple of weeks (and pro tip: make your first day back at work a Wednesday because then it’s a chill week) and a) I quite like my job and b) I quite like that I’ve so far put several PRs in two different languages and neither of them are fucking Python.

I mean y’all know that New Orleans has fabulous food. But also. Peche. That is all.

This is a very specific feeling related to, but not the same as, seeing a baby rat and saying “awww so cute. It’ll be a looker when it’s older”

“Spending as little tuition as possible on educating students, and (instead) investing in start-ups ... This is why I say the University of Chicago’s leadership and trustees run it as a tax-free technology incubator.“

“The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The cost of servicing its debt is now 85 percent of the value of all undergraduate tuition. (This is not normal. No peer institution has a debt-to-asset ratio greater than 26 percent.)”

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

Concluding paragraph:

The right wing understands this.

Anyway here’s a goat from an Amish dairy.

For everyone waiting to binge Book One of The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social’s first campaign - the Finale is HERE! Umora is my love letter to the worlds I grew up loving, and it is the honor of a lifetime to have gotten to tell this story with these people.

All I can say is that some of us are gonna need footnotes when this comes back.

A little Laurie Anderson

Visiting DC for the first time and it really is sedate here. Like I’m assuming this is off season because it’s just quiet.

People occasionally still ask me if I miss being an academic. Would you believe I’m fine with it?

Unrelated

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Just a standard reminder that statistics is a stand-alone discipline because it’s really hard and it is very easy to get catastrophically wrong. (This example is p-curves, beloved of the reproducibility/scientific fraud warriors, absolutely indefensible in practice)