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I'll go first: MANOVA

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

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Economists get to yell at each other about the linear probability model, why can't we?

Oh yeah, we bring shame on ourselves by letting grifters and buffoons run show hearings on TV where they attack the people who actually did something

Covid killed more Americans than WWI and WWII combined. We still engage in collective mourning and remembrance of those wars through national and local memorials, holidays, media, and more. What do we do for Covid?

(“We” as in collective mainstream discourse that directly reckons with that fact. Obviously there are people who do outside of that)

Over a million Americans died and we hardly talk about that

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Guns are socially corrosive. They diminish the potential of a community. They drive a wedge between us and our values. Just the possibility, their presence in the world, is enough to do that. No pundit or politician can be taken remotely seriously unless they reckon with that 4/4

What will the response be? Will there be metal detectors at future events? More police and security? Those are the usual things. But they directly contradict the role of a community space. Openness, inclusion, and connection should be the core values driving how it is used 3/

Seattle Center is famous among tourists for the Space Needle. But it’s also an important community space for Seattle. I’ve been to rallies and protests here, high school sports at Memorial Stadium, gotten coffee at KEXP 2/

I walked through the Seattle Center on my way to work this morning. My usual route takes me right through the site of Sunday’s mass shooting. There was a memorial, and a news crew was recording a segment 1/

“Doesn’t the classicist want to sell a lot of books?” My brother in Christ no, that’s why she became a classicist

I opened that Emily Wilson review and it said right at the top it's over 4000 words. I'm just in it for the drama so I think I'll stick to the discourse on Bluesky, The Sports and Literary Criticism App

SEATTLE friends: Cat-in-real-life alert! I am in Seattle this week and decided to host a small (limited spots) Psychology of Software Teams happy hour this thursday July 30th, 4-6pm. RSVP here for location & to secure a spot: luma.com/lxcmtn68

Horrific news of a mass shooting at Bite of Seattle. Ban guns now www.kuow.org/live-updates...

I usually watch videos and move on. This one with Ed Yong I re-watched every few months. It's about why he quit his job (burnout) and how he moved away from defining his self-worth as based only on what he produced at work. For burnout, see esp. 28:28 forward.

(or to be a little more nuanced, the method is undiagnostic in post-pub data. I actually thought the variance decomposition was a good idea, I'd love to see it applied in a better dataset)

Posted about that elsewhere. This method is undiagnostic. (This is a preprint, so as a micro test, let's see if peer review catches that...) bsky.app/profile/sanj...