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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5h

This is pure teenager shit.

"Ratio me. Please."

Yeah, no, go away.

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5h

I love the 1990s, but the mistakes made by sociologists during this time are quite something...

We haven't recovered yet.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 8h

very funny stuff on the creation of the NATO phonetic alphabet
youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 19h

Three days of editing have resulted in deleting a whole section.

This is literally how I approach writing these days 😭
youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y?...

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale

YouTube video by RichardGaleFilms

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 21h

Has anyone gotten an H-1B since that Executive Order? Has anyone been asked for the $100k?

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Jordan Nafa @jordannafa.bsky.social · 1d

The single strongest endorsement of Bayesian estimation is that we don't have any of those cursed "which statistical test should you use" flow charts.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

😍

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

wonderful
youtu.be/UGm3t1KgIHw

Charly García, Sting - In the City (Official Video)

YouTube video by CharlyGarciaVEVO

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

chapó

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 3d

big JLM vibes here

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm thinking something like this

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 3d

This should be relatively straightforward with the new purrr, right?

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 3d

Habeas Corpus is Latinx, obviously

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 4d

The best version of this song is not in Spotify. You're welcomed.
youtu.be/OQKyMZ8gsPI?...

The Damned - Jet Boy Jet Girl

YouTube video by whammo64

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 4d

There’s always gonna be the temptation to rely on some kind of visual prop that does the thinking for us.

The “stargazing” stuff with statistical tables is another example!

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5d

That’s not what the word book means

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5d

It's fine that universities ask for research statements, but they should also ask to see the folder of random half-baked projects that everyone has.

That's were the real potential is 😉

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 6d

This besides the point, but there is too much hot dog energy in this title: "Harvard students skip class and still get high grades, faculty say"

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, no, you're right. I'm just using "iconic" in the more narrow sense implied by John Mohr in 1998, which I think carries over to "cultural cartography."

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 6d

For example, word embeddings are not "iconic," they’re not supposed to “look” like what they represent.

It’s impossible to visualize a K-dimensional vector space.

And very few articles these days strive to present a 2-dimensional map of "culture" and then proceed to interpret it.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 6d

IMO, one of the big differences between early and contemporary formal analysis of culture is that we are starting to move away from visualization as a form of explanation.

What John Mohr called "iconic."

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 7d

"The definition of the definition of the situation" is an article I would read 😅

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 7d

"The guts of institutions is that somebody somewhere really cares to hold an organization to the standards and is often paid to do that."

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7d

We have institutions in place to address both of these problems, but they require people who swore oaths on Bibles to the country & Constitution to do their damn jobs.

Bart at board: The institutions are not self-enforcing

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Fidel Cano Correa @fidelcanoco.bsky.social · 7d

Quien dialoga, lejos de negar la humanidad de su opositor, entiende que ambos hacen parte de una misma comunidad deliberativa y que gozan de iguales derechos: Rodrigo Uprimny www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...

Polarización, discusión, desacuerdo y democracia

“Lo valiente no es polarizar, sino dialogar con quien piensa distinto”: Rodrigo Uprimny

www.elespectador.com

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