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Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com

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Always nice to have another measure of relative disciplinarity.

10.03.2026 10:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We cannot afford a Shahed Gap

09.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LaTeX does the typesetting; Quarto uses R and Pandoc to produce the tex file from Markdown and R sources.

09.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rapidly-rising probability that by this time tomorrow bsky will be consumed with furious Newcomb’s Problem threads / QTs / dunks / angry cancellations

09.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50
This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50 YouTube video by Veritasium

Ha, Kenny Easwaran is featured in this Veratisium video on Newcomb’s Problem. That’s great! (Too bad he is a lunatic one-boxer.) Bonus appearances (in paper form) by Lewis and Gibbard.

09.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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Using Quarto to Write a Book I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a c...

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

09.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Excuse me, that should be β€œTed Carter resigns over The inappropriate relationship”

09.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

The subject of my upcoming piece, β€œStop convincing your mother to write the newspaper”

09.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Stop Wiping Your Glasses on the Bottom of Your
Shirt
Sorry, but You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets
Enough
Stop Throwing Out Old Clothes. Repurpose Them Instead.

Stop Wiping Your Glasses on the Bottom of Your Shirt Sorry, but You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets Enough Stop Throwing Out Old Clothes. Repurpose Them Instead.

The increasingly large hectoring section of the newspaper

09.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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Reading Schelling in Tehran: 1 Technically, in Doha

Good stuff from @professormusgrave.bsky.social, as usual. musgrave.substack.com/p/reading-sc...

09.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean who knows, it could happen. I just wouldn’t pay very much money for charts like this on any basis other than β€œI strongly desire to be told in a soothing yet confident tone of voice that everything is going to be fine”.

09.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Outstanding work from Goldman here; that’s why they pay those analysts the big bucks.

09.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

I hope they are pushing it and making drum pad noises

09.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A fine school, a fine school

09.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In a miss for the writers, β€œBrent Crude” is surprisingly not the name of a minor Trump Administration official.

09.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Ugh

08.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s wearing his branded baseball cap.

08.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It does seem that way, yes.

07.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe gladiators of Italia have slain their white whale at last!” is some quality Colemanball-level commentating

07.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I - TAL - IA!

07.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a fair point.

07.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to beat the sound of a stadium spontaneously in full song.

07.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Second half also quite copacetic.

07.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

What rough beast is it, you ask? It’s not my job to educate you.

07.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I’ve always liked that, as with Londres, Edinburgh is old enough to have its own name in French and that it sounds satisfyingly Gallic. Γ‰dimbourg.

07.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

On the Scots. Send them homeward tae think again.

07.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have you considered the recent track record of British politicians when it comes to possessing anything resembling good judgement

07.03.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
2 Compare the malicious joke: 'Mr. Z claims to have found a counterexample to my theory. But he has misunderstood me, he has not interpreted my words as I intended.
For I intended that there be no counterexamples.'

2 Compare the malicious joke: 'Mr. Z claims to have found a counterexample to my theory. But he has misunderstood me, he has not interpreted my words as I intended. For I intended that there be no counterexamples.'

It’s also in Lewis’s β€œPutnam’s Paradox” (1984) where Lewis characterizes Putnam as trying this.

07.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At NC State.

07.03.2026 04:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And done.

06.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0