A very dark signal for Bluesky: I installed an app blocker to block all my social media except blue sky and I still don't check out all that often
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A very dark signal for Bluesky: I installed an app blocker to block all my social media except blue sky and I still don't check out all that often
What is Blueskyism?
And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
www.natesilver.net
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Shower thought: I wonder how many tenured professors would trade tenure for better job mobility.
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Shower thought: I wonder how many tenured professors would trade tenure for better job mobility.
My neighbor has what I can only describe as "Big Umbridge Energy"
July 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My neighbor has what I can only describe as "Big Umbridge Energy"
Has anyone figured out a good way to work with copilot tab completion vs positron tab completion?
July 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Has anyone figured out a good way to work with copilot tab completion vs positron tab completion?
I regret to inform you that textured vegetable protein really is the best breakfast cereal.
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I regret to inform you that textured vegetable protein really is the best breakfast cereal.
So far the best use for AI that I've found is "describe modelling problem -> get hyper-specific Bayesian regression model for just such a use case"
June 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So far the best use for AI that I've found is "describe modelling problem -> get hyper-specific Bayesian regression model for just such a use case"
June 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look I know it was a mistake to turn Haliburton and Fox into the norcal Bulls, but I think a series of nationwide protests is really kicking Sacramento when it's down.
June 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Look I know it was a mistake to turn Haliburton and Fox into the norcal Bulls, but I think a series of nationwide protests is really kicking Sacramento when it's down.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen
June 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen
The thing we need to survive the current time is a new season of Silicon Valley about Gavin Belson going to Washington.
June 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The thing we need to survive the current time is a new season of Silicon Valley about Gavin Belson going to Washington.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP
I started reading Twitter like a min 2010s blogging platform where I follow no accounts but just open individual people's pages. Surprisingly good!
June 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I started reading Twitter like a min 2010s blogging platform where I follow no accounts but just open individual people's pages. Surprisingly good!
A year after leaving Posit I still can't believe how ridiculous it was that that job didn't work out.
June 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A year after leaving Posit I still can't believe how ridiculous it was that that job didn't work out.
Here's a @mattyglesias.bsky.social substack post idea:
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
June 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a @mattyglesias.bsky.social substack post idea:
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
A really good way to maintain your R sensibilities as a Python dev is to get really twitchy and upset when people don't use list comprehension.
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A really good way to maintain your R sensibilities as a Python dev is to get really twitchy and upset when people don't use list comprehension.
R isn't dead, but it is SAS
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
R isn't dead, but it is SAS
Underrated source of male loneliness: women tend to form close relationships through parenting, but men generally don't. As men spend more time parenting they tend to shift time away from relationship-forming activities.
April 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Underrated source of male loneliness: women tend to form close relationships through parenting, but men generally don't. As men spend more time parenting they tend to shift time away from relationship-forming activities.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA