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Explosions in Kyiv.
We’re under attack.
What else to say?
I charged everything,
edited photos – just in case I don’t get another chance (sorry, dark humour)
We’re under attack.
What else to say?
I charged everything,
edited photos – just in case I don’t get another chance (sorry, dark humour)
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Explosions in Kyiv.
We’re under attack.
What else to say?
I charged everything,
edited photos – just in case I don’t get another chance (sorry, dark humour)
We’re under attack.
What else to say?
I charged everything,
edited photos – just in case I don’t get another chance (sorry, dark humour)
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#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
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We lost a great person, statistician, teacher, thought leader, writer, and open source software contributor in John Fox. I will always miss him.
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We lost a great person, statistician, teacher, thought leader, writer, and open source software contributor in John Fox. I will always miss him.
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My absolute favorite was a keynote speaker who not only used AI-generated images in his slides, but also accidentally showed us his AI search history which included “dietary principles for visible abs”.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My absolute favorite was a keynote speaker who not only used AI-generated images in his slides, but also accidentally showed us his AI search history which included “dietary principles for visible abs”.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico.
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico.
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
This whole article is a stunning illustration of how data centres are incentivising new fossil infrastructure:
eastdaley.com/daley-note/p...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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You might like another view of the Snoqualmie River, east of Seattle, WA, USA. I did.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
You might like another view of the Snoqualmie River, east of Seattle, WA, USA. I did.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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The Trump regime is literally allowing this stuff to be sprayed on our food.
Wild turkeys off the menu in Maine after ‘forever chemicals’ found in birds
Contamination of wildlife with Pfas, which can increase risk of cancer, a growing problem in US
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The Trump regime is literally allowing this stuff to be sprayed on our food.
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16.
She was 16.
Killed.
She was 16.
Killed.
26 November 1925 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Isakow, was born in Chaumont.
On 20 July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
On 20 July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
16.
She was 16.
Killed.
She was 16.
Killed.
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well there is my very long video about splines if you wanna grasp the C2 and B-spline part!
dual quaternions are a little more complicated but it's basically a weird way to represent rigid poses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...
dual quaternions are a little more complicated but it's basically a weird way to represent rigid poses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...
The Continuity of Splines
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
well there is my very long video about splines if you wanna grasp the C2 and B-spline part!
dual quaternions are a little more complicated but it's basically a weird way to represent rigid poses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...
dual quaternions are a little more complicated but it's basically a weird way to represent rigid poses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...
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The United States government has ordered its employees not to speak at any events for World AIDS Day or promote them on social media.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The United States government has ordered its employees not to speak at any events for World AIDS Day or promote them on social media.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
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Listen up, Dorks, we need to talk.
Science is political and we all need to get in the game. But--and I'm going to hold your hand through this--trainings, attending planning meetings, and reading substacks isn't enough.
YOU MUST TAKE ACTUAL ACTION...
Look at your action to sitting ratio!
1/
Science is political and we all need to get in the game. But--and I'm going to hold your hand through this--trainings, attending planning meetings, and reading substacks isn't enough.
YOU MUST TAKE ACTUAL ACTION...
Look at your action to sitting ratio!
1/
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Listen up, Dorks, we need to talk.
Science is political and we all need to get in the game. But--and I'm going to hold your hand through this--trainings, attending planning meetings, and reading substacks isn't enough.
YOU MUST TAKE ACTUAL ACTION...
Look at your action to sitting ratio!
1/
Science is political and we all need to get in the game. But--and I'm going to hold your hand through this--trainings, attending planning meetings, and reading substacks isn't enough.
YOU MUST TAKE ACTUAL ACTION...
Look at your action to sitting ratio!
1/
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Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
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‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
“The court cannot help but […]
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
“The court cannot help but […]
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m.ai6yr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
“The court cannot help but […]
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
“The court cannot help but […]
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Fast track to runaway climate change, economic crash, and likely Idiocracy.
Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Fast track to runaway climate change, economic crash, and likely Idiocracy.
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"...dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership"
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"...dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership"
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Am I nuts, or does this say we'll put all of our scientific papers into a big data warehouse, let a bunch of people working on"AI" train some new LLMs, and then magic will happen. The AI will start generating and testing hypotheses until it solves humanities problems? What a load of crap. Money grab
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Am I nuts, or does this say we'll put all of our scientific papers into a big data warehouse, let a bunch of people working on"AI" train some new LLMs, and then magic will happen. The AI will start generating and testing hypotheses until it solves humanities problems? What a load of crap. Money grab
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Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
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So the USA plans to fabricate their science going forward? If they do, they'll really be able to behave as if they fully don't need scientific evidence anymore. They can just pump out pseudoscience, like antivaxx articles "made by LLMs".
See doi.org/10.31234/osf... for the case in psychology.
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See doi.org/10.31234/osf... for the case in psychology.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
So the USA plans to fabricate their science going forward? If they do, they'll really be able to behave as if they fully don't need scientific evidence anymore. They can just pump out pseudoscience, like antivaxx articles "made by LLMs".
See doi.org/10.31234/osf... for the case in psychology.
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See doi.org/10.31234/osf... for the case in psychology.
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