ICE picking up legal observers today in Minneapolis, swarming through the city like we haven’t seen in months. Very aggressive: watched a heavily armed platoon take an observer, then ran into a four-car convoy that kept intentionally veering in front of me on the highway. STAY SAFE MN PEOPLE

I have no idea how to end this thread, so I'll just say this: There are a lot of completely miserable people on here, and they will tell you, earnestly, that you owe it to them to be just as miserable as they are. Please do not listen to them. You are loved, and you deserve your joy.

T-tests / PCA / Machine Learning

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tarrytown / East Austin / South Congress

I don’t buy the idea that libraries will go away since everyone can just write their own now. Maybe for small internal company use-cases. But libraries are not just code, they’re time invested in edge cases, they’re hundreds of hours of human eyes. I don’t want to replace that.

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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Causal inference when you condition on the mediator:

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

It would be very helpful for Democrats to establish now, IN ADVANCE, that future Democratic administrations will allow any relevant criminal proceedings to go forward, and that decisions made by military leaders today could have life-changing consequences for them in the future.

The biggest problems are organizational problems It’s like we are all parallel computing with our brain processing units, struggling to communicate and sync up If that’s true, maybe ai will not be as big of a deal as the internet.

AI is going to make writing so good. Becky and Tom in HR and the rest of us plebes get clean (appropriately boring) prose. And great writers all get biggest chip on their shoulder. THEY are gonna write some damn good stuff

My annual March 14 suggestion to move π Day to July 22 since 22/7 is closer to π than is 3.14.

“We live between two silences.”~Mark Strand I’m not just interested in the room, I’m interested in the room beyond the room. “Gayle, Holly’s Room”, oil on 24”x48”, private collection. 🔴

the infinite sequence of ai expansion… humans want to use ai. Ai can’t do everything. So, whatever ai needs humans for, humans will provide it. Great trade! And then the ai keeps that as training data and next year won’t need humans for that step.

roses are red violets are great we need Census data to properly weight

impeachment has to be next up

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Google Search Has Been Quietly Poisoning Your AI Skills decision.substack.com/p/google-searc… #AI #context

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

That sounds painful

If you haven’t been following… ICE presence in Minneapolis is still very heavy. Despite media attention elsewhere… the resistance is still overwhelming ICE on the ground:

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One ICE guy stopped in the middle of a road in the middle of a block and turned on his lights, and it was thrilling to watch a whole fleet of commuters pull up one by one, parking at the top and bottom of the block, ahead, behind, covering all the exits, a kind of police standoff in reverse

A (city) block is both a measure of length and area

i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.

Madison folks: Talk tomorrow! I built a tool for document coding and data extraction. Looking for users! Thursday 1pm (tomorrow!), Morgridge Hall. Come see our new building!

Terrorists

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No that was the Civil War

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

1. Shoot people like dogs 2. Unrest 3. Martial law The plan is that transparent. Don’t let them

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

No, stop. We cannot win this way. It’ll only destroy us.

Song for the Day: Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash & Young youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?...

Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011

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The whole of Congress should be descending on Whipple right now.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?