JD Long
@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com
CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
Terrible idea, brilliantly executed. These are my people.
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Terrible idea, brilliantly executed. These are my people.
We kidnapped a kid. But his parents didn’t do exactly what we asked so we fed the child. As you can see, we, the kidnappers, are clearly the good guys. We will not take any questions.
ICE spokesperson Marcos Charles: "My officers stayed with the child. They cared for him. Took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again, my officers did that, not his father ... his family refused to open the door and take him back"
January 24, 2026 at 2:39 AM
We kidnapped a kid. But his parents didn’t do exactly what we asked so we fed the child. As you can see, we, the kidnappers, are clearly the good guys. We will not take any questions.
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Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
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Judging by the poor quality of biomarker research I see reported in biomedical journals, my article "How to Do Bad Biomarker Research" must have been hugely influential: www.fharrell.com/post/badb/in... #Statistics #StatsSky #EpiSky
How to Do Bad Biomarker Research – Statistical Thinking
This article covers some of the bad statistical practices that have crept into biomarker research, including setting the bar too low for demonstrating that biomarker information is new, believing that...
www.fharrell.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Judging by the poor quality of biomarker research I see reported in biomedical journals, my article "How to Do Bad Biomarker Research" must have been hugely influential: www.fharrell.com/post/badb/in... #Statistics #StatsSky #EpiSky
Tonight I opted to sip bourbon and listen to to an album straight through. I chose Mark O’Conner and the New Nashville Cats circa 1991. Excellent choice.
open.spotify.com/track/58xqCv...
open.spotify.com/track/58xqCv...
Spotify – Web Player
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January 23, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Tonight I opted to sip bourbon and listen to to an album straight through. I chose Mark O’Conner and the New Nashville Cats circa 1991. Excellent choice.
open.spotify.com/track/58xqCv...
open.spotify.com/track/58xqCv...
One of the hardest thing for humans to do consistently is get risk factors in the correct order. Confusing primary effects with third order fourth order or fifth order effects is shockingly human.
This kid is now over 20… I wish some reporter would do a follow up story
This kid is now over 20… I wish some reporter would do a follow up story
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM
One of the hardest thing for humans to do consistently is get risk factors in the correct order. Confusing primary effects with third order fourth order or fifth order effects is shockingly human.
This kid is now over 20… I wish some reporter would do a follow up story
This kid is now over 20… I wish some reporter would do a follow up story
“Don’t fight it. Just let it happen. You’re only making it worse for yourself by fighting it.”
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Bessent: "Everyone take a deep breath. Do not escalate. Do not escalate. President Trump has a strategy here. Hear him out and then everything will be fine."
January 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
“Don’t fight it. Just let it happen. You’re only making it worse for yourself by fighting it.”
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This is like a tense scene from a techno thriller where the director wants to establish absolutely that the government authorities are the baddies and lack humanity as well as morality.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This is like a tense scene from a techno thriller where the director wants to establish absolutely that the government authorities are the baddies and lack humanity as well as morality.
Execs spend a lot of time thinking through problems or drafting responses… stuff LLMs are already great at. Staff work, like reconciling spreadsheets row by row and prepping data for the GL, is more procedural and harder to map cleanly onto an LLM.
January 22, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Execs spend a lot of time thinking through problems or drafting responses… stuff LLMs are already great at. Staff work, like reconciling spreadsheets row by row and prepping data for the GL, is more procedural and harder to map cleanly onto an LLM.
At least Hitler could keep Poland and Denmark straight while ranting. It’s pretty clear the very special boy is out of his mind, right?
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
At least Hitler could keep Poland and Denmark straight while ranting. It’s pretty clear the very special boy is out of his mind, right?
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Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
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I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.
three ducks wearing sunglasses are standing in a line
ALT: three ducks wearing sunglasses are standing in a line
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January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.
I watched a guy in a Vikings puffer and another in a bathrobe sling at least 10,000 verbal assaults each. So I think maybe the illiterate ICE goons are bad at counting. Just a theory.
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I watched a guy in a Vikings puffer and another in a bathrobe sling at least 10,000 verbal assaults each. So I think maybe the illiterate ICE goons are bad at counting. Just a theory.
Dolly Parton turns 80 today. I will never stop being in awe that she wrote “Joleen” and "I Will Always Love You” the same week.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
January 19, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Dolly Parton turns 80 today. I will never stop being in awe that she wrote “Joleen” and "I Will Always Love You” the same week.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
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People who run an AI dev environment on top of an Obsidian vault, do you use source control on it? In any other context I have AI working I'll have git in the mix. But when I use it on Obsidian, I duplicate the repo before goign to work. Should my Obsidian vault be a git repo?
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
People who run an AI dev environment on top of an Obsidian vault, do you use source control on it? In any other context I have AI working I'll have git in the mix. But when I use it on Obsidian, I duplicate the repo before goign to work. Should my Obsidian vault be a git repo?
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The official message of the U.S. government to ICE is if you kill an American citizen while trying to deport brown people, not only will we cover it up but we will try to jail their spouse instead.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
January 19, 2026 at 1:33 AM
The official message of the U.S. government to ICE is if you kill an American citizen while trying to deport brown people, not only will we cover it up but we will try to jail their spouse instead.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
This ain’t right. This ain’t wholesome.
Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground and detained by ICE agents, suffering cuts and bruises to her face and legs
Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
During her two days in immigration detention, a St. Paul woman who was born in Minnesota said she “put her faith in God” and prayed after suffering what appeared to be a stress-induced seizure and bei...
www.yahoo.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:41 AM
This ain’t right. This ain’t wholesome.
Maryland DOT is not fooling around.
January 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Maryland DOT is not fooling around.
Leica owners understand the severity of the situation 😮
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Leica owners understand the severity of the situation 😮
My wife hung this on the kitchen cabinet. I feel threatened.
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
My wife hung this on the kitchen cabinet. I feel threatened.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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I have been playing around with knowledge-graphs and ontologies recently, is there software to visualize/query/debug them that is not made for power users and with charm from the 80s? What is the datasette of KGs? #databs
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I have been playing around with knowledge-graphs and ontologies recently, is there software to visualize/query/debug them that is not made for power users and with charm from the 80s? What is the datasette of KGs? #databs