This is an excellent essay. “Gold standard science” is a label designed to undermine science, by withholding the label from any science deemed inconvenient to the profit or power of monied interests.

The number of times I have wanted to write “this has been talked about extensively you’re just 21” on a student’s paper cannot be calculated in human numerals.

thanks to FartButt87 for correcting a couple basic and stupid oversights

The fundamental test of birthright citizenship is this: if someone illegally trafficked people to this country and forced them into bondage and then those people had children, would those children have rights to object to continued servitude? If you answer isn't "yes, they have rights" you lose.

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

Oooh this is hitting good before boxing class open.spotify.com/track/7hZ4Zf...

Supreme Court is loaded with clowns trying to pervert the plain text of the 14th Amendment.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Quite the meltdown on the postliberal right today....

old playlist WHAT WAS ELECTRONICA? 1996-1999, showcasing the era when electronic music - big beat, trip hop, drum & bass, etc - was marketed to the alternative audience Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/02Z... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

emails written in fluent clauddish are very offputting. there's a genuine seam there, and i won't gloss it -- i don't like it.

I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.

I try zone 2 runs but get bored and just do runs where I try to make each lap around the pond faster than the last. But I’m not a frequent runner

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

she blocked me for this btw

This is sweet open.spotify.com/track/7rpW9v...

@noiserockdad.bsky.social what are we noise rock dadding to today?

using codex tokens trying to get its .libPaths() to work

... yeah, actually I think this is quite accurate

it’s more than 14.2 hands tall

windows’ ROBOCOPY /CREATE can mirror a directory tree but use empty placeholder files. I am using it to make a placeholder copy of a 300gb corpus at home that I can inspect and validate the structure of before doing a proper rename/move

These are three different apps with completely different functionality. *ban clouds in app icons now*

I’m gonna listen to the guy who made my IDE theme, okay youtu.be/ml3jZ4YFB_g?...

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

Back on my bullshit (ranting about estimands)

people have no idea what poptimism means.

bit.ly/4vuZyfP Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has upset Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District.

would it kill them to explain how to search on the search page in the app

But they were all of them deceived, for another genre was made

I think we gotta bring this one back after this week

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

it's so beautiful

from the june 2026 issue of the zine

vibe coding with posit skills an r package i always wanted

i dont have anything smart to say

Have you used Bayes factor to test point-null hypotheses in Hierarchical models and wondered: 1. Bridge sampling (BS) or Savage-Dickey density ratio (SDDR)? 2. If SDDR, which density estimation method? 3. How many MCMC samples? 4. What's the cost-benefit trade-off? This may be of interest to you.

I got to this study because I saw a NYT headline and I was like ".....how on earth would you study this" Always ask "how on earth would you study this" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

boo at excel for removing leading zeroes from my 5-digit random ids

It’s the place with the polar bear sign next to the Culver’s on Cottage Grove Road. Get yourself some cheese curds after taking the picture. (Street view image)

I'm not saying pollutants or pesticides don't exist but people who are actually concerned about those things don't call them "toxins". the only people who say "toxins" are health cults and supplement MLMs

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

collapse_n <- function(xs, n, collapse = ", ", pattern = "[%s more]") { l <- length(xs) if (l > n) { end <- sprintf(pattern, length(xs) - n) xs <- c(xs[seq_len(n)], end) } paste0(xs, collapse = collapse) } collapse_n(LETTERS, 2) #> [1] "A, B, [24 more]"

I think what is happening, is that AI is devaluing the entire concept of truth, knowledge, and craftsmanship we're probably in for an informational dark age of absolutely unprecedented mass alienation and detachment from society

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.