James Leckie

OTOH people watch Fight Club and aspire to be explicitly the thing that's critiqued. So, I'm okay

I feel like major readers will reread the same books like 5 times, and I feel like a poser because I read it once and think about it in passing before moving on

And I assume maybe in a large series of data sets, you'd need to be very specific in the data cleaning part of the job? And make sure it understands the type of tests you are doing?

Like say doing a two part model that's a probit then an OLS that goes into a DID.

A friend of mine thinks Claude will make data science largely about asking Claude the right question, knowing what data to give it, and knowing how to kick the tires.

Screenshot of an X post from Headquarters quoting figure skater Alysa Liu speaking about noticing faults in the U.S. government and supporting immigrant rights. The embedded image shows Liu smiling during an interview, wearing a Team USA jacket with a U.S. flag patch, seated against a backdrop with stars and red, white, and blue colors.

What a remarkable young woman.

I guess this boades well for whenever I need to teach myself how to code more languages than just Stata. Or at least to help troubleshoot.

Body dysmorphia

"I haven't watched it but this other guy did and I don't like him so clearly the doctors are being presented as noble and the patients as parasites." What?

My wife and I watch the Pitt. I can't imagine reading it as holding suffering people in contempt. If anything I find it a bit too didactic and in your face woke at times.

It was still crazy!

Go to the Spa, Bota Bota!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

This hockey game is stressful...

New reports reveal that ICE killed a U.S. citizen in March 2025 and never disclosed it until now.

Ruben Ray Martinez was shot multiple times in South Padre Island, Texas, just five days after turning 23.

Worth a watch if you have missed a lot of the Olympics like me

Bust of a Young Man by Dalou

It's crazy they did this in 90 minutes!

Bahai House of Worship

Went to the Bahai House of Worship while in Chicago.

I haven't read the book, my wife has.

But she hated it more than I did. Like other adaptations, it merged characters and didn't talk about the 2nd half of the story.

I feel like it would have been better as an intentional parody

Well at least Wuthering Heights had a good soundtrack

Sincerely, wtf?

But also, why not?

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Insane and infuriating story about the US orphaning an Afghan child and then a US court taking her from her adoptive refugee family to be given to an American couple

This, but I like Lady Gaga.

A true rock star

Elijah Wood would be good

This is just incredibly normal

It's nice

I will be cheering for the Canadian hockey team

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

I had friends get married there. You have excellent taste!