Peter Licari

at the risk of a hot take, I believe it is per se a good thing to gather quantitative data, as accurately as possible, to help the public better understand the contours of the world and society we live in

Ultimately, all the folks who said "he'd run the US like a business" turned out to be right.

The problem is that he's running it like one of HIS businesses: Don't like the numbers? Cook the books.

The difference is that ALL OTHER businesses will suffer too without independent economic data.

Virgin non-parametric vs Chad linear regression Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/virginvschad/comments/c4xdxg/virgin_nonparametric_vs_chad_linear_regression/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Lots of solid recs in the replies!

Honorable mentions for non-social science books:

"A City on Mars" by Weiner; "More Everything Forever" by Becker; "The Week" by Henkin; "Immune" by Detmer; "4000 weeks" by Burkeman; "The Gene" by Mukherjee

"The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory" by Alberta; "Strength in Numbers" by Morris; "Paved Paradise" by Grabar; "Myth America" Kruse and Zelizer (eds). (2/2)

All are audiobooks!

"The Generation Gap" by Munger; "Political Choice in a Polarized America" by Zingher; "Recoding America" by Pahlka; "Wrong" by Young; "A great disorder" by Slotkin; "Power and Progress" by Acemoglu and Johnson; "Bernoulli's Fallacy" by Clayton (1/2)

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*In rapid speech*: Side effects may include learning the names of all the dogs in your neighborhood, increased knowledge of celebrity couplings, improved knowledge of your local geography, dirty hands from touching grass, and slight weight gain from overeating the free cookies at bingo.

*weeb, damn it.

"K-Pop Demon Hunters" is making it easier to raise my daughter into a week, God bless Huntr/x

Lowkey, I'd play this horror game

Converse (1964)

Everything about this is like a bad mafia movie

See also the GOP congressmen who wanted to have the NIH investigate "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental health issue plus the whole "national registry of people with autism", etc.

What are these outlets even doing, apart from stenography, if they cannot put these events into context?

Ngl, I'm pretty fucking pissed that mainstream news outlets are either unable or unwilling to link Trump's EO on forcibly institutionalizing homeless and mentally ill people with RFK's statements echoing "life unworthy of life", and are instead adopting framing sympathetic to the administration.

*Giggling voice from the other side of a closed door*: "Guess who it is!"

Me: "Hmm, I'm going to guess Rosalina."

*Voice, giggling harder*: "No, it's Mommy!"

Looks at source:

"Product Engineer at Bedazzle"

On this, our 6th relisten to "Party in the USA", I'm suspecting it may, in fact, be someone else's favorite.

5 year old: "Daddy, let's listen to Party in the USA!"
Me: "Sounds good!"
5YO: "Yeah, because I know it's your favorite."
My emo-black-nail-polish-wearing-ass: "Sure kid."

Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship | CNN Politics President Donald Trump reignited a decades-long feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell Saturday, taking to his Truth Social platform to write he was considering revoking her citizenship.

If any other President claimed to be "seriously considering" revoking the citizenship of a natural-born citizen (O'Donnell was born in NY) over merely critiquing the government, it would dominate the news for weeks and there would be bipartisan calls for resignation.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/p...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unailenable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

China hit brakes on TikTok deal after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs, AP source says President Donald Trump says he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days.

Sources for the above:
[1] apnews.com/article/trum...

[2] apnews.com/article/tikt...

No prob! The law that required TikTok to be banned in the US (passed by Congress, signed by Biden, upheld by SCOTUS) allowed a single 90 day extension. Those 90 days have elapsed but the President has, through executive order alone, extended the deadline further to avoid the blowback of a ban.

I know that it's pretty low on the priority list, but a reminder that every day TikTok remains available in the US is a day that the President is committing an impeachable offense.

I gave my model the sign off, but I hope that the stakeholders recognize that it's "not there yet" (it only lives in a Jupyter notebook).

Quoth the Raven (2024).

Me: "Hmmm. Slow morning today. Maybe I'll duck out for a few minutes to pick up a prescription. Best take my work phone just in case."

"Oh look! An email. I'll respond. Good thing I brought my phone."

Phone, sneakily: "-Get Outlook for IOS"

Me: "Phone you fucking snitch"

This is so incredibly crucial. I really appreciate that this man for doing this work.

If we want any hope of salvaging this country, we need to have a path out of MAGA and we (on the left) need to allow reconciliation.

Importantly, he identifies breaking out of the misinformation bubble as key.

Not Disney, but the How to Train Your Dragon remake was really good