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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2d

When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions | PNAS

Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 12d

No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 17d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 16d

Love it!

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 16d

Here is the King Protea, South Africa's national flower, just now coming to bloom this season. As seen in Kirstenbosch botanical gardens. Enjoy 😊

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 18d

Congrats! 🎉

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 25d

Amazing! You are a ⭐! Congratulations 🎉

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 28d

Not the point at all, but Pew doing their best to uphold the Asian perpetual foreigner stereotype with that footnote. Would it not be true of all respondents? Why not just give the % non-response?

Relatedly, the hidden missing / uneven length bars <100% and in one case >100% are aggravating 😭

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 29d

What is wrong with that comment section!?

Collective Soul, Mat Kearney, Eric Hutchinson, there is talent all the way down that roster!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 25

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 25

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump.

It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 25

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · Sep 24

I spent Tuesday night at a vigil for Datch in Hong Lim Park. Years ago, Singaporeans could gather outside Changi Prison for vigils for death row prisoners. These days, no matter how small the gathering outside the prison, people will be subject to police investigations and risk criminal prosecution.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Sep 23

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 23

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · Sep 21

“There are >3x as many people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease as cystic fibrosis- yet CF receives 10x more research funding, a disparity long fueled by race and visibility. This inequity doesn’t persist by accident; it reflects a collective comfort with certain kinds of suffering and dying.”

My Patient Is Fighting For His Life — And There’s A Border Patrol Agent Camped Outside His Hospital Room — HuffPost

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 21

American Born Chinese catching strays 😭

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Sep 21

Clothing store, Upper West Side.

A window full of "FUCK ABC" T-shirts, and one reading "ABC is State TV." Kimmel's face substitutes for the "U."

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 20

One of the best movie soundtracks of that era hands down

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 20

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · Sep 15

Remembering four little girls killed on this day. September 15, 1963 – Denise McNair,
Carol Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 15

I don't consider myself to be naive to the history of state violence against minorities here (or in Singapore). And in fairness, I probably occupy a slightly lower socio-political class here in the US, despite having fewer "rights" as a foreigner overseas.

But still the apparent irony is wild.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 15

I gotta be honest, having just spent 5 years living & working in Singapore and regularly criticizing gov actions online as a foreigner, I did not have in my bingo card that I would feel a more palpable threat from my own gov (and its informants) being back home in the US...

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · Sep 12

I mean look at the guy

Stop pretending

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · Sep 12

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.

But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts

Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

www.denverpost.com

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