Amanda French 💙
amandafrench.net
Amanda French 💙
@amandafrench.net
PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @researchorgs.bsky.social at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net
I’ve had the Slow Horses season premiere on my calendar for weeks! Can’t wait
September 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Anyone assuming that any data is perfect is revealing that they know nothing about data
September 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Gotcha, thanks!
September 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Does "private" in the graph title mean that this data is only for private industry? I'm hearing a lot about job losses and hiring freezes in the education sector, and of course much of that is "public" (govt-run)
September 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
SAME for AirPods
September 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I adore Shattered Glass. The DVD commentary is awesome, too, because it has the director talking with the real Chuck Lane.
August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Everything is wrapped in two spans and has inline CSS?? Bwahahaha
August 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My cousin used to work at a Game Stop next to a Crumbl so he brought me some and I tasted one and had exactly that thought: How do you fuck up a COOKIE?
August 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m actually thrilled to learn from this that other people hate Crumbl cookies too! I thought I was the only one. To me they just taste full of chemicals, way more so than even chemical-rich things like Skittles and Little Debbie cakes, both of which I think are delish
August 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Brayed laughing out loud
August 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The point he makes in that video that (US) index funds aren't nearly as diversified as they once were reminds me a bit of Warren pointing out in 2005 that mortgage defaults aren't nearly as rare as they once were
August 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thanks for sharing! I learned about index funds from Elizabeth Warren's personal finance book (2005, basically predicts the housing crash) and have put my money there ever since. In February, worried about US economy, I moved 2/3 of my money into international indexes and the rest into US mid-cap.
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ooh I think I read that edition
August 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So amazing! I've long wanted university libraries to put the subscription costs of databases and journals on interim screens as you load them but sadly it's usually verboten by contracts to say how much they cost anyway
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I think too that “hiring people to do whatever” can easily coexist with UBI. Hire people to go take pictures for the National Archives or something fun and useful like that
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM