insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Not a lot of people know this but the MC in MC Hammer stands for master carpenter

Conditional on somebody being a more senior scholar active in replication initiatives, they are less likely to be known for their own highly visible scientific achievements.

In other news, conditioning on the outcome reliably makes it very hard to understand how the world works.

Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr

urlaub bedeutet schönere umgebung bei schlechteren matratzen

While commentators obsesses about how young men are moving to the right as important is young women moving to the left. Sam considers the evidence and implications. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

I'm pretty sure it's possible to calculate almost the precise number of votes every tweet like this hands directly to Nigel Farage.

Opportunities for interpretable statistics for large language models
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/11/o...

people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now.

Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.

Connected by trains, maybe?

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

🤬 Russian drone deliberately targeting a residential building in Kyiv.

"We know from history – and from the present in countries like the USA: The erosion of democracy often begins with the disregard for the rights of refugees."

20-30% i det vindue hvor jeg normalt prøver at lytte…

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega: "African connectivity has long been framed as a scale game: whoever reaches the most people wins. Starlink is making a different bet: infrastructure-light consistency, distributed across enough countries, might be just as powerful."

www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

Today the @iccl.bsky.social is applying to the High Court of Ireland to launch a class action lawsuit against Microsoft targeting its very large “Real-Time Bidding” data breach within Microsoft’s advertising system www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Paper arguing that accuracy of the "reasoning" traces in reasoning models is surprisingly unrelated to accuracy of the final results.

Great :-) I wasn’t aware of that. I really enjoy tidyplots, both for publishing and (not least) teaching - so thanks for the effort!