Nur Shahir, PhD

Adding alt text to figures in quarto with Claude Code Alt text is a very important thing to make sure you do right when making websites. Using AI agents such as Claude Code can help with a lot of the heavy lifting.

Wrote a new blogpost on how to use Claude Code to help generate alt text in quarto projects.

alt text is very valuable and should always be a priority, AI agents help you get 90% of the way there!
emilhvitfeldt.com/post/claude-...
#quarto

🚨 federal workers need you! 🚨

Please comment. This admin is removing protections for workers so they can decimate agencies.
You WANT your federal workers happy and serving the public, not this crap.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

DO YOU MISS OLYMPIC CURLING? I have amazing news for you: There's more.

www.nbcolympics.com/schedule/spo...

It is useful, and prudent, to make a distinction between vaccine hesitancy and vaccine resistance. For example, there are many reasons why certain racialized and minoritized communities might hold onto questions about vaccines because of their histories with the state and colonization.../

“A request for a restraining order shows Palacios’ ex-wife also accused him of assault, pressuring her for sex, and kicking in a door in her home.”

"Water consumption fears are false and overblown."

Turns out...

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

If we are being honest: Claude didn't do any of those things.
People USING Claude as an excuse for greed extraction are.

• Claude didn't choose to work for the military.
• Claude didn't build data centers.
• Claude didn't defund mental health.
• Claude didn't refuse security protocols.

Humans did.

Watched for the first time just last year and every single one of its 23 episodes made me just sit with it for a while cause, yeah, it's so very real.

Maybe I need to review my English, my native language, because I would assume that If you want different people to run the country, that means you want a regime change?!??

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Every single Democrat voted to confirm this guy

Thread of current state of the NIH 😐

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perplexity doing this also manages to erase human women computers yet again LMAO what fucking clowns

if you need to see what and why, see: olivia.science/ai/#pygmalion; full pdf here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

neuroplausible: I Hate Matlab: How an IDE, a Language, and a Mentality Harm This blog post is inspired by a few Matlab-related tweets of mine, which turned into days-long discussions with fellow science and non-science tweeps. Those tweets of mine in turn are motivated by two...

Every time I am forced to use Matlab I can only conclude it is a language designed by and for sociopaths

Shout out to this @olivia.science blog post that I sent out on a neuro listserv back in grad school, that a prof there is apparently still mad about

neuroplausible.com/matlab

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

Meet the Blacktip Reef Shark! #LetsChangeThat

holy fuckin shit lmao

a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE

eh. coding agents? what could go wrong

We need better Democrats.

Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Maybe stop making TikToks and doing AI crimes

I totally missed the news that the cheat-on-everything app, which was poised to radically disrupt higher education and job interviewing 9 months ago, “has since rebranded itself as an AI-powered meeting note-taker.” Bit of a climb-down there.

🎉 CONGRATS

Also linking to the previous thread by our co-author Sarah Zweifel @sarahbrotman.bsky.social on 'AdipoExpress', one of the meta-analysis eQTL studies compared here.

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Great to see this work out, led by Jon Rosen and co-supervised Karen Mohlke @klmohlke.bsky.social!

Connecting to some recent threads here:

Indivisible send an email endorsing the impeachment of Kristi Noem at 1:46, 5 minutes after Trump announces her firing

Truth social post from Trump firing Noem at 1:41 Et

Email from Indivisible at 3:22 saying "we are so powerful, what a coincidence"

Screenshot of Kalshi bet placed on Noem's departure by 2:11 pm ET (by 2:05 on website)

All four screenshots in order to make comparison easier. @ezralevin.bsky.social, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social super curious to hear what you have to say about this.

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Typing too fast because I am so irritated that this is the stupid stupid timeline we're in and irate at the abysmal state of our "opposition party"

Y'all want to oppose something, join @citizensimpeachment.com If you want to support something, support the candidates at couragefordemocracy.com

Everything else aside, is the older I get and the more we live in a dystopia the harder it is to ignore that Firefly is fundamentally a lost cause narrative.

I don't want to root for the confederates.