Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I can only vouch so much for the data and methodology since I'm a programmer, not a statistician, but I vibed up a tool that lets you slice incomes in the US by various things. #ClaudeCode corey.sciu.to/am-inc-exp/d... 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026My grandparents' household in #LowellMA in the 1950 Census 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026With the rise of AI and its intrusion into The Discourse, it's fun to think back to one of the first pieces of Fake News. The Good Guys (Paul Revere here) drew a photo of an orderly line of soldiers firing into a defenseless crowd. Not at all what happened. 100
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Fun game. Name these four states by tax burden, and no cheating! 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The current insufferable ChatGPT phrase construction is... 020
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025BTW, censusreporter.org is really cool. Tract 44 at the far extreme is Stuy Town. The next most populous is in Washington Heights, but this isn't directly density. 010
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Yeah, it's hard to decide what data to use from OpenStreetMap. Originally, I was looking for things like wide roads, lots of parking, not lots of housing, but then Times Square got nearly a zero and strip malls did well. So, I settled on intersection count. You have ≈ 4,000 people in eight blocks! 100
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Today's vibecode: Do any Applebees actually exist in neighborhoods? H/T OpenStreetMap 100
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I know you know this but markets vary. A lot. How do we think about the superstar effect here? I didn't blow into Boston from Des Moines, I'm from the metro. Fortunately, I'm a (generational) tech worker so the market here was possible. Fewer jobs for me even elsewhere in New England. 110
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Got a cork stuck on a tiny bottle. Used that engineering degree for something today. This is largely a joke, but it did work! 110
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025'Memba in the Mid-90s Massachusetts learnt about bagels and went nuts? 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025What is the range of the Medfordite? onthemap.ces.census.gov 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Social Security Discourse always gets me going because I think it points to a national disease (and timely): The American psyche recoils at the idea that the government is a helpful entity, so we've disguised entitlements as earned benefits, or make them completely invisible. 200
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I searched for "West Medford" trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with the signals at High and Canal an hour ago and this post came up. Now, I'm just out of sorts. Anybody who describes this area as "country" and is upset about paint needs a serious head exam. 010
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Say what you want about the future of AI but #PizzaCube would've taken me days to research and program on my own. 030
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Just having a nice chat this morning with ChatGPT about home repair. 050
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I'd say it's one of those days but it's always one of those days 030
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I ordered a Steak Bomb from a place in Medford last night but that's not what they called it. Apparently that's a Northern New England thing? 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I think Urban New Englanders are trained to be extremely distrustful of somebody/somebot who is being this nice to you instead of at least sometimes saying "this code faaakin sucks, dude." 040
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If Sam Altman can complain we're too nice to these things, These models shouldn't give me a paragraph up front each time about how smart I am for asking brilliant questions. I told it to speak straight and normal (and in Bostonian, which is that) and I'm not sure this is better. 010
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I've had this one saved for years. Glad to see a lot of the rest of them here after nuking my account on The Bad Place. 011
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Apparently, AI is not at the "draw a traffic jam at Wellington Circle" level of sophistication yet. 010
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I don't know why I think Wellington Bear is such a funny idea but the MBTA could hire an actual artist and make some money here. (This is obv. AI slop) 020
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025In my adult life every election has basically been won by a thin margin and in half of the cases in my entire life, the winner won with under half the pop vote. Yet the two parties are pulling apart ideologically, and this chart stops over a decade ago. What was the worst that could happen, right?! 010
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Redlining map of Lowell just dropped, recognizing at least TWO grades for French Canadians. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red... 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Variations on a theme (four early 19th century factory cities with functionally identical layouts across three New England states) 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025So, not only is MA--as is frequently the case--the largest single-party delegation in the country, but it borders three other ones. The combined population of our blue block is slightly higher than that red block. (≈ 12M ea) 020
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This is mean and snotty but I don't care. When Romney said that 47% of Americans pay no Federal income tax and he took a big ding for it he wasn't lying. That number today is a bit over $50k/yr. 1/2 100
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Yeah, "structural inequality" and individualist, colonialist countries are so at-odds heads are going to explode: What do we say about why anybody experiences inequality (worse in US than AUS) when only some are perceived as structural in origin? 120
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free" “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" "Think globally, act locally" "All politics is local" 020
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I asked Google Gemini about DOGE and it asked for a link because it's too behind. I sent one from Al Jazeera. The response I got was: 030
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Confession: I've been keeping an eye on the National Map to see if and when they update the name of the Gulf. 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I wanted to check if we'd be checking across the pond to see if England was in the business of renaming the Irish Sea to the English Sea yet but I think USGS has bigger issues. 210
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025(heh, apparently we were set to repeal it way back in 1977 [I also found an attempt in the 1930s when it was actually being used against Socialists] and an Italian-born well-known zealot somehow got it killed.) 000
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Ideally, sure, but hard with a map that looks like this! (srchttps://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1gl630u/a_mostly_complete_map_of_counties_in_the_2024/) 100
Corey @coreypsc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I grew up on SomethingAwful so I really don't care what people say. I care what people do. And a big part of that is echo chambers of misinformation. Social media's business model almost requires it. 010
