Baddatatakes
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I wrote about how the Ohio GOP is going to gerrymander the state. They will not find it hard to do so because the rules incentivize a partisan GOP gerrymander
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The GOP is going to Steal Ohio's Congressional Map
And it's not even going to be hard for them
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July 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I wrote about how the Ohio GOP is going to gerrymander the state. They will not find it hard to do so because the rules incentivize a partisan GOP gerrymander
open.substack.com/pub/baddatat...
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I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.
July 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.
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incredibly funny that the NYT acted to protect this guy's name because he leaked a hacked college app that wasn't accepted from a guy who is not even mayor yet
Wow -- The Guardian has already reported this guy's name.
"the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics... boosted or engaged with dozens of times by Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates."
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"the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics... boosted or engaged with dozens of times by Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates."
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July 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
incredibly funny that the NYT acted to protect this guy's name because he leaked a hacked college app that wasn't accepted from a guy who is not even mayor yet
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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
Mass murderer.
(gift link)
(gift link)
Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
oh SHIT
💡 Very excited to announce new features: better interactive maps! 🗺️
– Enhanced country/region selection with several sorting options and a bar chart preview
– Selecting a country highlights it and shows its value on the map
– Zooming to your selection brings up a 3D globe view 🌍
– Enhanced country/region selection with several sorting options and a bar chart preview
– Selecting a country highlights it and shows its value on the map
– Zooming to your selection brings up a 3D globe view 🌍
June 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
oh SHIT
Risk of guacamole more like
Notable risk for large hail in the Denver metro area today - IF we can get some clearing this morning. Risk is a bit higher today compared to yesterday.
Definitely have those cars in the garage today.
Notable tornado risk for SE Colorado as well today.
#COwx
Definitely have those cars in the garage today.
Notable tornado risk for SE Colorado as well today.
#COwx
June 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Risk of guacamole more like
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If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.
Not dunking here, but we gotta be better about Abundance criticism. If the tradeoff is San Fransisco level homelessness or (generally good) regs then we may have to accept that the regs must go.
Attack Abundance over saying that medical science has stalled! Or their utopianism!
Attack Abundance over saying that medical science has stalled! Or their utopianism!
I'm not doing anything. What I said was true: denying people vital air filters to keep getting sick or die is fucked, period. Since you've now made it clear you're good with that, were done
Power isnt worth letting kids die for fucks sake. Muted now
Power isnt worth letting kids die for fucks sake. Muted now
June 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Not dunking here, but we gotta be better about Abundance criticism. If the tradeoff is San Fransisco level homelessness or (generally good) regs then we may have to accept that the regs must go.
Attack Abundance over saying that medical science has stalled! Or their utopianism!
Attack Abundance over saying that medical science has stalled! Or their utopianism!
I support many of the particular abundance policies, but its more helpful as a way to push my conservative friends left than anything else
i think this new york centric worldview helps explain why these people see national politics the way they do. parochialism of thinking that politics everywhere is the same as it is in manhattan.
Josh Barro: "When I look at policies in New York that stand in the way of Abundance, very often if you look under the hood, you eventually find a labor union at the end that's the driver"
June 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I support many of the particular abundance policies, but its more helpful as a way to push my conservative friends left than anything else
we need to defend the statistics
This is very bad
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast
Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
we need to defend the statistics
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The next step is juking the stats. Pretty soon we're all celebrating another record grain harvest.
“.. The politically inconvenient data prompted administration officials to block publication of the written analysis normally attached to the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.” 🤡
@politico.com
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@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
June 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The next step is juking the stats. Pretty soon we're all celebrating another record grain harvest.
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No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
June 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Had an AI training today that was basically encouraging this
May 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Had an AI training today that was basically encouraging this
Excel tried to crash on my but I saved my file.
The company is spared
The company is spared
May 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Excel tried to crash on my but I saved my file.
The company is spared
The company is spared
Trump white house poly drama wad not something I had on my bingo card
Oh I am not shitposting, folks.
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Meanwhile Stephen Miller is furiously subtweeting Musk on X
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Trump white house poly drama wad not something I had on my bingo card
I need to start a company doing "brand health" where all I do is say if logos look like penises and butts
They're definitely speaking to some kind of orifice... velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
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May 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I need to start a company doing "brand health" where all I do is say if logos look like penises and butts
Part of the problem is that the framing around issue polls is that they give you an idea of what people think at a given moment. They are pretty weak at that. What they are pretty good at is telling us if trends are shifting or if ideas are changing. Just not totally how/why/to what
The other thing about this is ISSUE POLLS DON’T ACTUALLY TELL YOU THIS. The outcome of issue polls is almost completely dependent on framing. If the framing changes - in the poll or in society - the poll results will change.
if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
May 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Part of the problem is that the framing around issue polls is that they give you an idea of what people think at a given moment. They are pretty weak at that. What they are pretty good at is telling us if trends are shifting or if ideas are changing. Just not totally how/why/to what
These come straight from the intellectual emptiness on the right. They have an extremely limited view of slavery that has zero historical context and think of it in Us v Them, zero sum terms. The idea that Africans enslaved Africans is novel to them because it feels like exoneration
Presenting "africans were active in the slave trade" as some kind of harsh truth is such fucking garbage. No one on the left denies that this in true, we deny that it's relevant!
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
These come straight from the intellectual emptiness on the right. They have an extremely limited view of slavery that has zero historical context and think of it in Us v Them, zero sum terms. The idea that Africans enslaved Africans is novel to them because it feels like exoneration
Interesting how the weaselly phrase "race has some biological reality" has wormed its way into conservative ideology. You see it everywhere.
It's perfect. You press them and they fall back to the ambiguity inherent to "some" while they build their entire platform around "biological reality"
It's perfect. You press them and they fall back to the ambiguity inherent to "some" while they build their entire platform around "biological reality"
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Interesting how the weaselly phrase "race has some biological reality" has wormed its way into conservative ideology. You see it everywhere.
It's perfect. You press them and they fall back to the ambiguity inherent to "some" while they build their entire platform around "biological reality"
It's perfect. You press them and they fall back to the ambiguity inherent to "some" while they build their entire platform around "biological reality"
Excel would never call the cops on you for the reports you make your entry level employees fake
welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops
(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
May 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excel would never call the cops on you for the reports you make your entry level employees fake
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Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
www.bls.gov
May 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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