Dan LaBar

Dan LaBar

@embiggendata.bsky.social

Data Science is my thing. Fan of FOSS. A good day is writing code in R (#rstats) with no meetings and nary a Microsoft product in sight. Introvert, appreciator of excellence. Should update avatar to have a gray beard now... @embiggendata@c.im on Mastodon

126 Followers 268 Following 60 Posts Joined Jan 2025
1 day ago

Yes, and let’s not forget that Trump is illegally confiscating Venezuelan oil and depositing the money in a Qatari account (or maybe a Treasury account now), and that he lifted sanctions on Russian oil. The two biggest beneficiaries in all this are his two favorite people—Donald and Putin.

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1 day ago

Thomas Fugate’s appointment to head the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at DHS has raised some pretty serious eyebrows.

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1 day ago
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Is he attempting to recreate this? youtu.be/6YjLYwmKL7Y?...

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1 day ago
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

It’s probably just a coincidence that the Trump boys are making millions off their involvement in drone companies, right? www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

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1 week ago

Maybe that’s how they’re spelled by Russian native speakers?

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3 weeks ago

Imagine plotting Olympic medal counts by country over time. Is it easier to “tell ggplot” “this column is the count for Country A, this one is for Country B, this one is for C …” or “this column has all the country names and that column has all their medal counts”?

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1 month ago
Black and white photo of outdoor patio furniture. The table bears a slab of more than a foot of snow. Even more is piled in the chairs. Barren trees observe silently, in the background.

#SilentSunday #snow

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1 month ago

An intermediate stage will probably involve an AI video of him doing something like dropping $#!+ on the folks of Greenland from a fighter jet

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1 month ago
Grid of 9 images of Indiana University head football coach Curt Cignetti. The first eight have a caption of happy, sad excited, angry, winning, losing, sleepy, and proud. The image is actually the same for each, and Coach has his trademark “Resting Cignetti Face” (i.e. a slight scowl). In the last image, with the label “cracking a cold beer” (his trademark phrase for how he’ll celebrate a monumental victory), he’s grinning ear to ear.

Congrats #Indiana #Hoosiers!! What an amazing season!!! #IUFB

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1 month ago
A golden flag with a banner at the top with the title “Trumpistan”. The middle features arms hugging a pile of money, with the obscured individual wearing a crown. Something like an American flag is draped at the top left and right.

New flag incoming…

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1 month ago
Screenshot from the NBA app touting the matchup between the Pacers and Pistons. They have a headshot for the best player from each team. Jay Huff is representing the Pacers, while Cade Cunningham is the champion for the Pistons.

I’m a big Jay Huff fan, but you know the #Pacers are having a bad season when he’s our marquee player for a matchup!

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2 months ago
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AMC/AMC+ Unveil First Look at The Audacity, the Highly Anticipated Drama from Emmy® Award-Winner Jonathan Glatzer NEW SERIES SET TO PREMIERE SUNDAY, APRIL 12 ON AMC AND AMC+ The Audacity Features a Star-Studded Cast Led by Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, and More  Do...

They really need to produce a new season of Silicon Valley!

I’m looking forward to The Audacity, in the meantime.

www.amcnetworks.com/press-releas....

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2 months ago

He ends most of his “Truth” Social posts with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

I think every article describing his latest terrible deed should end with something like “The ‘grab ‘em by the p***y’ president strikes again!”

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2 months ago

Does this mean 99% of the Epstein documents include Trump?

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2 months ago

Good luck with that

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2 months ago

It’s equally funny/depressing when company leaders say “we’re going to leverage AI to gain an advantage over our competitors”. Sure, venture capitalists have pumped >$1T into a free of charge Magic Autocomplete Wand, and only you know the Special Spells of Awesomeness.

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2 months ago

Don’t forget the Trump “gold card” and the national park passes (and waived entrance fees on Dear Leader’s birthday)

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3 months ago

Let’s just be thankful it’s something relatively benign like “Rush Hour 4”, and not horrific like “Home Alone 8: Mar A Largo Masseuse”

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4 months ago
Ms Casey from Severance says: Your outtie’s Pacers are so healthy, strong, and undefeated that the NBA has granted them multiple easyship exemptions. Please enjoy all Pacers games equally.
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4 months ago
Boxes of documents (many probably containing classified information) haphazardly stacked in a marble plated bathroom at Mar-a-Lago

I’ll bet there is a golden marble bathroom at Mar-a-Lago stuffed full of currency from tariff collections. You know, the place where he keeps all things related to national security disasters he illegally causes.

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4 months ago

The #Pacers couldn’t quite pull it off unfortunately (Giannis is Giannis), but it was entertaining and Pascal was solid as always!

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4 months ago
Elon Lightyear holds a terrified Sheriff Peter Pride as they fall through the air

Here’s Elon demoing his “flying” (without style) car for Peter.

Wow, Thiel really resembles a famous cartoon cowboy.

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4 months ago

Someone will use AI to make a video “correcting” all the moon-landing-was-fake “proofs”, post it on TikTok, and claim that the conspiracy was the real conspiracy. Kardashian-sized brains will not know what to do.

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4 months ago

Is anyone keeping a database of documented abuses committed by the Trump administration?

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4 months ago

Is anyone keeping a database of documented abuses committed by the Trump administration?

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4 months ago

Reporters should prep for the next press conf. When Johnson lies & plays dumb about the latest affront to our Constitution, the reporter who asked the question should say, “That’s a surprise! Lucky for you I have a video clip explainer. Would everyone like to watch it now?” Then force him to answer.

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4 months ago
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Trump White House ballroom financed by Big Tech and these other corporate donors Big Tech and other publicly traded companies are helping to finance the $300 million White House ballroom planned by President Donald Trump.

Yes, it’s clear that destroying part of the White House and building a ballroom for the mad king is more important to these companies.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...

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4 months ago
Colors from the Zissou1 palette of the R package, wesanderson

I love the {wesanderson} package and have built so many things using `wes_palette("Zissou1")` over the years!

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4 months ago
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Trump on if he'd consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: 'I'll take a look at it' YouTube video by Associated Press

He “played” dumb in a similar fashion a few weeks ago when they asked him about pardoning Ghislane Maxwell. What a corrupt lying clown!!

youtu.be/WLy9Ma8jo_g?...

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4 months ago
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I want to see the claw I respect quality software and the people who write it. And, I’ve invested years of my life in working on becoming one of these people (even if the journey...

Absolutely wonderful from @vickiboykis.com - newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-wa...

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