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John Harrold
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· May 15
I've started doing something similar for fun. In this paper with a vector image I embedding a picture of my son with a balloon. It's faint but if you zoom in you can see it (you have to download the PDF). It's open access though.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Is this too long for a tattoo?
yeah i think ultimately the rationalists were right to be afraid of reason, because they swam optimistically into the dark and promptly got devoured by an eldritch horror called scientific racism
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Is this too long for a tattoo?
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🎉 Celebrating a fresh and pioneer notebook in EDS book using the targets R package for reproducible data workflows
🌊 Authors from @cuahsi.bsky.social utilize the package to explore diverse environmental datasets, examining Hurricane Harvey's floods
🚀Launch
edsbook.org/2dd74dfa-d87...
🧵(1/n)
🌊 Authors from @cuahsi.bsky.social utilize the package to explore diverse environmental datasets, examining Hurricane Harvey's floods
🚀Launch
edsbook.org/2dd74dfa-d87...
🧵(1/n)
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎉 Celebrating a fresh and pioneer notebook in EDS book using the targets R package for reproducible data workflows
🌊 Authors from @cuahsi.bsky.social utilize the package to explore diverse environmental datasets, examining Hurricane Harvey's floods
🚀Launch
edsbook.org/2dd74dfa-d87...
🧵(1/n)
🌊 Authors from @cuahsi.bsky.social utilize the package to explore diverse environmental datasets, examining Hurricane Harvey's floods
🚀Launch
edsbook.org/2dd74dfa-d87...
🧵(1/n)
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Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
My experiences at the MassDMV were generally good, but this is exceptional.
Was waiting at MassDMV. Woman ahead of me had two little kids with her. DMV worker whispered to the woman there was a warrant for her arrest, missed court appearance. Told her to just leave, she didn’t want to call DCF for the kids. “Call a lawyer and get it handled fast.”
You can be human.
You can be human.
tfw the immigration officer is crying too ...,
"We were saying, like, you know, ‘Is there any way for this not to happen? Because, you know, we've got the baby,’” she recalled. 'The USCIS supervisor was in tears herself because she's a mom and she said there was nothing that she could do.'"
"We were saying, like, you know, ‘Is there any way for this not to happen? Because, you know, we've got the baby,’” she recalled. 'The USCIS supervisor was in tears herself because she's a mom and she said there was nothing that she could do.'"
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
My experiences at the MassDMV were generally good, but this is exceptional.
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growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
The noisiest Dem primary so far is probably Maine Senate, and here for instance I think it’s useful to see that despite all the bad publicity Platner still appears to be the favorite:
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
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An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
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It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
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these folks do good work
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December 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Instead of picking an actor I really like I’d pick a really prolific actor who has been in lots of movies with other good actors. Someone like Kevin Bacon.
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Instead of picking an actor I really like I’d pick a really prolific actor who has been in lots of movies with other good actors. Someone like Kevin Bacon.
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Here’s the thing: if you treat all soldiers as intrinsically war criminals, you rob the notion of “war crime” of any meaning. It’s all simply war - which is exactly how people who order war crimes want you to think.
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here’s the thing: if you treat all soldiers as intrinsically war criminals, you rob the notion of “war crime” of any meaning. It’s all simply war - which is exactly how people who order war crimes want you to think.
I'm normally critical of @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com on the hardfork podcast, but I think it's good to point out when folks do well. I'd encourage everyone to listen to their interview of the Roblox CEO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm normally critical of @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com on the hardfork podcast, but I think it's good to point out when folks do well. I'd encourage everyone to listen to their interview of the Roblox CEO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
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I wish I had made my own #rstats package sooner. It's absurd how effective a guardrail it is against user... code creativity... borking things up
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I wish I had made my own #rstats package sooner. It's absurd how effective a guardrail it is against user... code creativity... borking things up
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nlmixr2 is becoming an R Consortium Working Group!
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
nlmixr2 is becoming an R Consortium Working Group!
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Libertarians amirite?
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Libertarians amirite?
If you want to give to the fundraising campaign, that's great. But also go to www.liberalcurrents.com and subscribe as well.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you want to give to the fundraising campaign, that's great. But also go to www.liberalcurrents.com and subscribe as well.
@andycraig.bsky.social I'm curious what you think of this.
missed this. dems should do it regardless of the motivations. plurality single-winner primaries are dumb www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@andycraig.bsky.social I'm curious what you think of this.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
@404media.co did a really good series of articles about how all this works.
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@404media.co did a really good series of articles about how all this works.
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
Can someone ask grok who receives better: Elon musk or the goatse receiver. Then post the response for me?
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Can someone ask grok who receives better: Elon musk or the goatse receiver. Then post the response for me?
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People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon