Reposted by Alice LastnameQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3hLMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model 1423149
Reposted by Alice LastnameJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 27/09/2026Here are some #tidyplots use cases for data journalism 🔥 Complete with data and code 🚀 tidyplots.org/use-cases/#data-journ… #rstats #dataviz #phd 071
Reposted by Alice LastnameRobin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/09/2026I know I’ve hardly been shy about talking about my new book, but wanted to share some more nice things that people have said about it. 1358
Reposted by Alice LastnameKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well 946889
Reposted by Alice LastnameGiles @gdeejay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#AI *improving* #rstats ranking on the index wasn't on my 2026 bingo card. 😲 2133
Reposted by Alice LastnameThomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 18/09/2026Pediatrician in Ohio poses with all of the vaccines he has given amid recent rise in vaccine preventable diseases. 1016630
Reposted by Alice LastnameJeff F @jfeej.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bang-up job by all those keffiyeh-wearing campus poseurs. I hope they at least got some good hookups on the quad campsites 1121
Reposted by Alice LastnameElectionCord @electioncord.com · 05/09/2026What was the most Democratic area in 2024 in the country? Kind of depends on your perspective, but the 100K District with the most Democratic votes and biggest raw margin for Democrats was WA-3 in Seattle. 58,000 people voted for Harris out of 84,000 people over 18. (1/3) 2115
Reposted by Alice LastnameTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U.... 722151751
Reposted by Alice Lastnamepost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026the GOP did almost exactly this with gay marriage in 2004-2006– made a meal out of it in 2004, went back to the well heavy in 2006 when they didn’t have other issues to run on— and got their dicks kicked in 281492191
Reposted by Alice LastnameDavid Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 17/08/2026Using three hyphens instead of an em-dash to signal both that my writing is human and that I love markdown 0603
Reposted by Alice LastnamePaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 17/08/2026➕➕➕ New Working Paper ➕➕➕ Fixed effects are the workhorse of management and economics for dealing with unobserved confounding. But what if they themselves create bias? 😲 A short thread 🧵 1/6 610636
Reposted by Alice LastnameCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NYT follows: “.. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u... 2211414417
Reposted by Alice LastnameDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"You got some MF who's made over $251B being a United States citizen that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the United States of America, and giving us a f**** Heil Hitler along the way" - Hunter Biden on Elon Musk 424352
Reposted by Alice LastnameSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 08/08/2026By UNANIMOUS consent, the Senate adjourned for recess until Monday, September 14 without passing the SAVE America Act. Nobody objected to the request, or asked for a roll call vote. 982323494
Reposted by Alice LastnameDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/07/2026CEOs after hearing there’s a new AI model that can replace their entire workforce without asking how much it costs or if it works as advertised. 11028
Reposted by Alice LastnameLoukas Theodosiou @bioinformatician.bsky.social · 19/07/2026After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc... 216940
Reposted by Alice LastnameBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" 13563811409
Reposted by Alice LastnameThe Onion @theonion.com · 06/07/2026Taylor Swift Adds Additional Wedding Dates In L.A., Miami, Boston 493110398
Reposted by Alice LastnameIgor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 04/07/2026🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Ukraine celebrates America's 250th Independence Day Anniversary. 2134774
Reposted by Alice LastnameJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.cnn.comUS service member arrested at Capitol after calling for Trump’s impeachment | CNN PoliticsA US Air Force major was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday after delivering a speech calling for the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 14742551190
Reposted by Alice LastnameHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”. 32252391283
Reposted by Alice LastnamePaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 02/07/2026Concrete example: Many have drug testing in mind, where the "RCT or bust" logic is the strongest. But there the external validity problem is presumably less severe, because biological mechanisms are pretty stable and genetic differences between populations often negligible. In economics, ... 252
Reposted by Alice LastnameJeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Thinking about this today for reasons. 15557134
Reposted by Alice LastnameGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/06/2026I’ve been marching for LGBTQ+ rights since Pride was considered a protest. And I’m proud to keep marching as a celebration of hope in our state today. The LGBTQ+ community has a proud ally in the Governor’s Office 365 days a year. 352984428
Reposted by Alice LastnameTyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 27/06/2026New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse GH: github.com/tylermorganw... 24310
Reposted by Alice LastnameWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/06/2026One funny thing: some of our local MN activists hate me because I spent a lot of my career fighting racial segregation in housing and schools, and those activists are quite literally pro-segregation. 4592569
Reposted by Alice LastnameGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 26/06/2026Indeed a very cool chart. I'm also somewhat surprised at how productive Edinburgh is relative to cities like Barcelona, Madrid, or Manchester. Not a knock on Edinburgh at all, lovely town. 118510
Reposted by Alice LastnameHilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 25/06/2026I love our team @hiddendoor.co and we're all big readers -- we had so much fun sharing our favorite queer book recommendations and I hope y'all love them, too! 172
Reposted by Alice LastnameSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Technically, they’re Remains now. 414208563861
Reposted by Alice LastnameCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026'Went twice' lol 434854814
Reposted by Alice LastnameJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 20/06/2026America’s Economic Anxiety Is Rising Up the Income Ladder www.wsj.com/economy/amer... 0143
Reposted by Alice LastnameGil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...fortune.comSon of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | FortuneLux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million. 34246602010
Reposted by Alice LastnameDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I used to think number of app downloads was the most useless vanity metric until token maxxing. 519431
Reposted by Alice LastnameHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Who said it best? 871589459
Reposted by Alice LastnameJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life. 111221
Reposted by Alice LastnameW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026A real page on the White House website 17948941128
Reposted by Alice LastnamePaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/06/2026The current AI buildout only makes sense if it delivers massive productivity gains. The biggest US tech firms are on track to spend ~$755B on AI capex in 2026, up from $155B in 2022. At this point, AI is not just a tech story. It's a macro bet. 2256
Reposted by Alice LastnameClaudia Balducci @kccclaudia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026You know some folks said hardly anyone would ride this line … It is beyond gratifying to see so many people get use out of it so quickly. 🚊☀️🎉 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comSeattle’s daily light rail ridership jumps to No. 1 in U.S.An expert called Sound Transit's 58-mile, two-line system the busiest light rail in the U.S. Sound Transit noted the system acts like a subway in places. 21929187
Reposted by Alice LastnameHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/06/2026This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....open.substack.comWhat is an agent?Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more! 35215
Reposted by Alice LastnameDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/06/2026AI CEOs whenever another big tech company announces it’s doing layoffs due to AI. 2644
Reposted by Alice LastnameDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Your UberEats bill explained. 47917
Reposted by Alice LastnameWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It’s ridiculous to claim that Trump doesn’t represent some break in trend for American or modern politics. No, we didn’t really have guys like this running around national politics as viable presidential contenders. 2344244
Reposted by Alice Lastnamederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/05/2026unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better 399125241968
Reposted by Alice LastnameBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/05/2026I don't know if @aoc.bsky.social's told this story about orientation before, but I've never heard it 171285267
