Andrew Heiss
@andrew.heiss.phd
Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids. #rstats forever. andrewheiss.com Signal: andrewheiss.01
Paid lawn care guys to come and clean up the yard and maintain it until we sell the house and holy moly we should’ve done this years ago, it’s never looked better
Guy who hates AIPAC because they assume it's AI PAC
Discovered this neat Mail Archiver project mail-archiver.org, a web app (that you can run through Docker) that gives you a read-only searchable view of email archives, so I downloaded/imported all my GSU emails et voilà—my archive is not lost
Y’all, this book is *so good* so far. Sci-fi dressed up as a western
"AI wILl dEmOcRaTiZe dAtA vIsUaLiZaTiOn!", I see some people claim... www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
I am now curious how many more people will watch the 2000 film O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU because of all this discussion about Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY because I am certainly inclined to watch it now.
lol we’re down to 1 bed, 8 folding chairs, and 3 folding tables in this empty house
It’s an actually incredible thing and it sucks.
Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · last wk.Like, never before have we been able to look directly into the twisted psyche of a world leader. This is as close a view of we'll ever get into why the Great Roomba does what he does. He's not "putting up signs on the Smithsonian" he's "preventing the past from changing" and "saving history."
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
* TASNIM NEWS AGENCY SAYS OIL TANKER EXPLODES AFTER HITTING NAVAL MINE IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ, LEFT PATH DESIGNATED BY IRAN @reuters.com
We cant keep doing this TACO framing when he could be back at it in like 3 weeks
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago🌮 Breaking NYT: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon’s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors...
while we're doing gift links, here's one for my piece about how Netflix broke TV's most important promise. slate.com/culture/2026...
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about why Netflix is a bad TV friend.
Alison Doody (Elsa Schneider from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) in *RRR*!
Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm fascinated by the (often not great) white actors who find themselves in secondary roles in non-Anglo films Y'know, the British colonial officer or the loud American tourist in Arab or Thai movies How did they get there? What do they think about their career paths? Is this niche lucrative?
lol so corny but so perfectly star trek, 10/10
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 2w agostrange new worlds time
Recommendation time! I quit following Egyptian/Lebanese/ME music back in 2010 when we moved back to the states (except Mashrou’ Leila), so my knowledge is stuck at Amr Diab, Nancy Ajram, et al Who should I be listening to?!
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.