Hilary Parker
@hspter.bsky.social
Data Science advising / consulting. Formerly startup CTO, Data Science Biden 2020, Stitch Fix, Etsy. PhD JHU Biostar. Co-host Not So Standard Deviations podcast. 🥳😴🧘🐈⬛
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I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email
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Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...
www.rawstory.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
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Senior military leaders are, overall, very smart
Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs.
They have learned to judge character. And honesty.
Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs.
They have learned to judge character. And honesty.
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...
www.rawstory.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Senior military leaders are, overall, very smart
Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs.
They have learned to judge character. And honesty.
Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs.
They have learned to judge character. And honesty.
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Everything is so stupid.
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Everything is so stupid.
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Pep rally for war crimes. What a disgrace.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pep rally for war crimes. What a disgrace.
Are people playing Pips? I'm kind of obsessed... Wish there were more than 3 a day
Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. Even though the game is timed, there’s no way to lose. nyti.ms/4mtUkM6
September 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Are people playing Pips? I'm kind of obsessed... Wish there were more than 3 a day
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It’s really all we should be talking about today.
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
You guys how is this their launch email? HOW?????
When you click through it's a cute little video showing the feature actually working (and with sundresses)... Why was that not in the email???
I feel like I'm losing my mind????
When you click through it's a cute little video showing the feature actually working (and with sundresses)... Why was that not in the email???
I feel like I'm losing my mind????
July 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
You guys how is this their launch email? HOW?????
When you click through it's a cute little video showing the feature actually working (and with sundresses)... Why was that not in the email???
I feel like I'm losing my mind????
When you click through it's a cute little video showing the feature actually working (and with sundresses)... Why was that not in the email???
I feel like I'm losing my mind????
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Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.
July 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.
My cold dead heart might be getting a slight adrenaline injection over this one... Trying to keep my expectations low, but this seems pretty bad for him 😈
July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My cold dead heart might be getting a slight adrenaline injection over this one... Trying to keep my expectations low, but this seems pretty bad for him 😈
I wonder what Shopify is up to 🤔
July 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I wonder what Shopify is up to 🤔
16 years of providing a warm lap to this fluffball 🥰🥰🥰
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
16 years of providing a warm lap to this fluffball 🥰🥰🥰
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when i tweeted this eight years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
May 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
when i tweeted this eight years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
Mountainhead is good and eerily accurate.
June 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Mountainhead is good and eerily accurate.
Sitting here with COVID (which I had on my 40th birthday 2 days ago 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼), thinking about how much I hate this timeline.
Honestly, it's easier to just have your head in the sand these days.
Honestly, it's easier to just have your head in the sand these days.
This is absolutely terrible news.
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sitting here with COVID (which I had on my 40th birthday 2 days ago 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼), thinking about how much I hate this timeline.
Honestly, it's easier to just have your head in the sand these days.
Honestly, it's easier to just have your head in the sand these days.
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We in the press need to do some real soul-searching over our failure to talk more about Biden’s memory lapses. In the meantime, we’re going to completely ignore Trump’s obvious advanced dementia and even more obvious personality disorder.
May 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We in the press need to do some real soul-searching over our failure to talk more about Biden’s memory lapses. In the meantime, we’re going to completely ignore Trump’s obvious advanced dementia and even more obvious personality disorder.
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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
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This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.
Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.
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Nothing justifies murder. If you think working for the Israeli embassy, or worse being Jewish, justifies these heinous murders please go ahead and block me now to save me the trouble
This is a time for moral clarity. "But Isr..." no, but nothing. We condemn their murders because no one should be murdered because of their identity or their beliefs. That's the long and the short of it.
Also, I appreciate all the people who have shown their true faces this morning so I can block them
May 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nothing justifies murder. If you think working for the Israeli embassy, or worse being Jewish, justifies these heinous murders please go ahead and block me now to save me the trouble
America's ability to recruit top talent from other countries is one of the most important things keeping us a superpower in the world. Like how is this not extremely obvious to literally everyone? WTF.
May 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
America's ability to recruit top talent from other countries is one of the most important things keeping us a superpower in the world. Like how is this not extremely obvious to literally everyone? WTF.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money
Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."
April 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money