Tariffs apply to goods, not services. Zero in on the goods-producing sector, and you'll discover that it's hemorrhaging jobs. Indeed, the start of the trade war marks the peak in that sector, and it's been in recession ever since.

The three worst English harvests in order - 2020, 2025, 2024 One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...

#Aurora in VT. Really neat to see it, even with the clouds.

This “deal” is a bad deal for Americans. These pinky promises from Republicans won’t save anyone’s healthcare. We can’t just surrender and leave working people worse off. It’ll be a no from me.

802: @welch.senate.gov's voicemail box is full (good sign that people are reaching out), but you can still send an email.

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, what are you doing about this?

Not every month will set a new record, but the warming trend is obvious. This graphic shows #Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through October 2025... 🧪 + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Just read this post about Mr TIFF (Stephen Carlsen) by @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social and found it both interesting and moving. I really appreciate the efforts of people who are preserving the history of makers and doers (as opposed to movers and shakers), which is so often lost.

Elder millennials remember this

More trains, please.

I have a linguistics degree. This is bullshit.

If the delimiter is a pipe or tab, why are you calling it a csv?

It makes sense that gopls-current doesn't support older go versions, and it's nice the error message says my go version is too old. But finding the compatible gopls ver is annoying. I had to go to github releases to get ver nums & work backwards. Maybe specify compatibility in the release notes?

Electric Lady

In case you were wondering we are now entering the age of retreat. www.theguardian.com/... And here is a list documenting retreat globally. en.wikipedia.org/wik... This has all happened as we approach crossing 1.5ºC permanently. What happens at 2ºC, which will be crossed in the next 15-20yrs?

ai is like cars

Zow. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

A trustworthy personality assessment would ask if you make funny faces in group pictures.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Plato: The state should be ruled by a philosopher king. Also Plato, a philosopher: Let's do castes! No education for lower castes. No intermingling between castes. Eugenics is good. Slavery is good. Women are degenerates.

World series means world series

Just saw Come From Away at the Northern Stage, and it was SO GOOD. The show is just lovely. Just full of humanity. The production was big city quality. Musicians, actors, crew: 😙🤌 This run is sold out, but if you ever get a chance to see it anywhere, or see any show at the Northern Stage, go.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Plato was a neckbeard

Sign the letter. It takes less than a minute.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whenever I hear or read a construction like, "all X aren't Y", I have to translate it in my head to, "not all X are Y". "all X aren't Y" literally says there is no overlap. No Xs are Ys. But it's the more popular way to say "some, but not all, X are Y". Maddening.

I love an educational sign. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_C...

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Still one of my favorite blog posts: simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-0... #datascience #StatsSky #statistics #Academics

Required reading if you aren't already familiar with media bias

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

Superman (2025) is as good of a [non-subversive] superhero movie as I've seen. The right amount of silly. Has an emotional core. Doesn't get bogged down as an origin story. Stands on its own. Cleveland makes a great Metropolis. Nice historical nod shooting it there. And there's A DOG.

At first I thought the main conceit of The Diplomat is, "What if a conflict -seasoned career diplomat got a plush donor-class appointment?" Then I realized it's, "What if everyone were exes?"

Got sick; Binge-watched stuff

Something I noticed from day one here is that there are a lot of anons. #atproto does a good job making sure the post comes from the account, but does very little to ensure that an account is tied to a real person. 1/

Can anyone explain to me how causal inference counterfactuals are a valid #stats approach? You're literally making up data.

Vermont’s women’s soccer story continues... 🏔️ Vermont Green FC has announced that the club’s women’s team will compete in USL W League as a founding member of the league’s Northeast Division.

A sorry record. This is one reason I don’t care for the Nobel prizes. Three others being: 1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity. 🧪

Very informative video with some things in there that were surprising to me.

Well done to the Warming Stripes La Rochelle team! Starting climate conversations in France! 👏

Is it out of line to think if you're leading an organization and any time you say anything, an extremely upset group responds by reminding you about the thing they're upset about, the problem isn't that they're off-topic?

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

This reminds me of an app idea I had, which went to where they all do, the magical world where I have time and money at the same time. UBI, people.

@microsoft.com, emoji email reactions sound fun, but the reality is awful. I send email Response: 👍 I don't see 👍 unless I go to my Sent folder, so I don't know it happened. But don't fear, there's a daily digest email of reactions! It's great because people expect half day email delays...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

My millennial heart

Y’all they’re bringing back Reading Rainbow with Mychal the librarian!!!!