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Christopher Peters
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Dad, Partner. Statistician-Econometrician-Engineer. AI Developer. Decision theory. Game theory. #autisticpride #9 at Zapier, first DS

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 3d
A2S3 doesn't apply to breaking the law.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 3d
"None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to prevent a Member of the House of Representatives or a Senator from entering a facility... for the purpose of conducting oversight."

Section 527, Division C, Public Law 118-47 (138 Stat. 460, 619)

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 3d
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 3d
If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 4d
> Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says

www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/b...
Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says
‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class
www.independent.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d
Get Palantir out of the UK.

Protect our NHS.

Protect our country.

www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands
ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in…
www.thenational.scot

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 5d
> Ruemmler also leads the firm-wide conduct committee, is co-vice chair of Goldman’s reputational risk committee

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Goldman Defense of Lawyer’s Epstein Ties Provokes Unease at Bank
The top partners at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were expecting to celebrate its soaring stock price and trading bonanza at their annual gathering in Miami this week. Instead, many are girding for a diffe...
www.bloomberg.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6d
At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 8d
He was just an iid sex offender.

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Christopher Peters, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 8d
As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways.

www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...
“People don’t understand what this job is,” he said, adding, “You cannot pick and choose, because among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people. Capitalism is a rough system.” In defending his pursuit of Mr. Epstein and candidly describing the burden of raising money, Dr. Botstein gave insight into how the need to attract dollars can appear to run headlong into an academic institution’s stated values. Mr. Epstein gave prolifically to many charities and universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., and the Wall Street Journal report showed that his network of contacts was wider than had been thought, including prominent figures like the linguist Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard. Dr. Summers sought money for a poetry foundation, led by his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor. Mr. Summers declined to comment. “Would we accept money from Jeffrey Epstein today? No,” Dr. Botstein said, describing the former donor as a “monster” and “truly evil man.” “We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 9d
The nations of the world have decided that Israel-US-UK-EU's never-ending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is acceptable. That it is acceptable to continue a genocide after agreeing to a ceasefire. Our technologically advanced global civilization is morally degenerate.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d
Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16d
Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 16d
Minnesota is the best of us.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 16d
Same region since 1854.
Global average temperatures don't show the regional extreme rates of warming.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22d
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 23d
Of course, men can get pregnant. Males no, men yes. 🌟 Examples aren’t hard to find.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 24d
> Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, US safety board report says

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, report says
An aircraft that crashed in November had a structural flaw that had been identified by Boeing 15 years ago, investigators say.
www.bbc.com

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 26d
> Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap

Love having a president that doesn't understand economics. 🤡

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap
Citigroup Inc. Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason said the lender wants to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s affordability push but doesn’t support his proposed cap on credit card fees.
www.bloomberg.com

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 26d
> Russia’s allies complain Putin was nowhere when it mattered most

Of course, he’s been weakened by all his bad and evil decisions.

He’s probably next.

www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
MSN
www.msn.com

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 26d
Jeanine Pirro defends her decision to investigate the Federal Reserve during a return to her former network

www.foxnews.com/video/638769...
Jeanine Pirro addresses critics of Fed Reserve investigation | Fox News Video
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro addresses what led to the investigation into the Federal Reserve on 'Hannity.'
www.foxnews.com

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Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social · Jan 8
1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.

This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Jan 8
Good point. Well, I guess we’d be sold out to fascism less.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Jan 8
> Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax

He ain’t no Mackenzie Scott!

www.thetimes.com/us/business-...
Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax
Billionaires are loosening their ties with the state over fears that they could face a one-off 5% tax on their assets
www.thetimes.com

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Jan 8
A bridge builder doesn’t need to denounce every evil in the world to be moral, but they better say something about the guy who keeps building bridges that topple over

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · Jan 8
Statistics rant follows - feel free to tune out.

The Vaccine Efficacy scale is one of the silliest scales in the whole epidemiology. Formally it is just 1 - RR (relative risk), and while the RR is a personal fav of mine when comparing event rates, the 1 - RR is an idiotic Frankestein:

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Kaitlin Kal Lee💜 @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · Jan 6
You are what you accept.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Jan 6
> Alaska Airlines pilot says Boeing blamed him for door plug blowout

www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
Alaska Airlines pilot says Boeing blamed him for door plug blowout
The Alaska Airlines pilot flying Boeing’s 737 MAX that lost a panel midflight has sued the aircraft manufacturer, accusing it of casting blame on him and other parties.
www.seattletimes.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Jan 6
Here's a graph of monthly Arctic sea-ice *thickness* from January, 1979 through December, 2025, with the 12-month running average in black.

Note the record low monthly thickness set just this last October (in red).