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Andrew Heiss

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Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. andrewheiss.com Signal: andrewheiss.01

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Sep 28

Kleya Marki in Andor 🤝 Me during 2nd half of pre-tenure clock

Kleya Marki from Andor: I don't have lately. I have always. I have a constant blur of plates spinning and knives on the floor and needy, panicked faces at the window, of which you are but one of many.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15h

I have my students watch this now-classic video to get them to come to office hours for intellectual vibing (but so few come 😭)

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19h

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 1d

Great post by @andrew.heiss.phd on animating #rstats {dplyr} operations

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations | Andrew Heiss

Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19h

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Picture of text on top and image meme on bottom.

Top: "Hey man, you wanna eat 6 boiled eggs in a row?"

"Nah, I'm good."

"We'll mix the yolks with mayo and mustard and put them back into the boiled egg whites and then cover it with paprika."

Bottom: Image of animated cartoon character in yellow shirt. He's saying, "You son of a bitch. I'm in."

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 1d

This government’s hatred and disdain for its employees is astounding

Breaking News
2m ago
Federal workers are not entitled to back pay after shutdown, White House budget office argues in memo

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

The fundamental tension of the Second Trump administration is between the people who want to use the government to do fascism and the guys who don't want there to be a government at all, and it's worth noting how the guys who don't want a government are a goofy little bulwark against the fascists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 2d

uh oh

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, they’re coming for my goddamn pasta now?!

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 2d

Click on the title of the picker and it’ll switch between hex, RGB, and HSL!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d

I did that here (but before I discovered the paper setting) andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-websi... - see code here: github.com/andrewheiss/...

The background is off white and without dev-args: bg: "transparent" in the frontmatter, I was getting white bgs in the plot

Colophon – Quarto websites

andrewheiss.github.io

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d

big news

Facebook Messenger notification that says Attorney General Pamela Bondi sent me a friend request

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d

Expanding my fabric arts skills during #ldsconf with crochet that actually worked this time (I tried a couple years ago and my first square turned into a lopsided triangle somehow)