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Slouchy @slouchy.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

As we enter the final season of the world I strongly recommend just ignoring the blatant plot holes in reality, that stuff is gonna drive you mad if you think about it too much

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

The rest of the world looking at their social media feed coming from the US.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Friends don't let friends fail to adjust for prognostic pre-treatment covariates* and needlessly fail to increase the precision of their experimental estimates trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... *especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The risks and rewards of covariate adjustment in randomized trials: an assessment of 12 outcomes fro...

Background Adjustment for prognostic covariates can lead to increased power in the analysis of randomized trials. However, adjusted analyses are not often performed in practice. Methods We used simula...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 11/01/2024

At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

perennial peeve Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care. Debate moderators: How will you pay for it? Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment. Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

On a very deep level, many in the media elite and punditry simply refuse to accept that Dems/liberals have defeated or dramatically outperformed Trump/MAGA in the last three national elections. This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.

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Bill Gardner @billgardner.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

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Bill Gardner @billgardner.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

If enforcing eligibility requirements for president is in question: What's actually to stop a two-term president from running again, notwithstanding the 22nd Amendment?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

What else can you call this but fascism? What would you say if you saw it in another country? www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/p...

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Bill Gardner @billgardner.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

University administrators vs House Republicans is the Olympiad of bad faith.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/12/2023

I posted on Threads about how the CDC said 1000 people a week are dying of covid right now and people were like “well way MORE people were dying before” and it’s like yeah, I wanted you to care more then too

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

We are on track to lose more lives to Covid this year (In the US) than AIDS claimed in the worst years of that epidemic. This is a nightmare world.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 09/12/2023

No. But unions could.

Headline asking "Could AI lead to a four-day week?"

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Bill Gardner @billgardner.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Starting my fourth round of cancer treatment. It’s a nil-nil match so far. I hope the refs will add a lot of extra time.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I only heard Derrida talk once, at Harvard, where he said he had visited as a graduate student and was assigned to the category ‘Special Auditor’ which, he charmingly remarked, is what he’d really been for the rest of his life.

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Alex Barron @alexrbarron.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

New study finds that from 1999 to 2020 "A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5". This is on the same order as deaths due to opiod overdoses (645,000, from 1999-2021). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation

From 1999 to 2020, about 530,000 deaths in the Medicare population were attributable to US emissions by coal burning for electricity generation.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 28/11/2023

Today Bill Gardner informs me of Orwell's Dictum: "In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be 'This book is worthless ...' " billgardner.substack.com/p/should-i-b... 🙃

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