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dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap `genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

10 protestors see prison sentence time reduced by 2 - 6 months by HK appeals court, judge says original sentence lengths excessive; upholds verdict for 2 found guilty in trial.

I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.

Republicans used a massive propaganda bullhorn to exploit the electorate's fear and ignorance about trans people

the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights.

The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass

time.com/3962142/hong...

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

1/ NEW REPORT: “We Say You Want a Revolution” - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime. We call it PRISONBREAK. Keep reading to find out why.

THREAD 🧵

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Julia Roberts in a tweed jacket

Andrew Garfield in a denim shirt

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

مؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان - Killed in Cold Blood A new report of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights titled “Killed in Cold Blood”, which reveals for the first time, the existence of a mass grave in North Sinai that was overseen and concealed for ...

Sinai Foundation for Human Rights & @forensicarchi.bsky.social released a groundbreaking report today detailing, for the first time, details on a mass grave in North Sinai where the Egyptian military buried hundreds most likely killed in extrajudicial killings. sinaifhr.org/show/627

10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices - CDM Create Digital Music Forget what you know about drum machines. You're about to open up a browser tab and listen to a drum machine made with a bouncing DVD logo, or a game of Minesweeper, or seismic data, De Bruijn sequenc...

Whatever you're doing, take a few minutes to distract yourself with this. Great to see people twist the whole concept of what a drum machine can be.

what if the glasses could always replace zuck's face with an emoji 🚾

the China studies version of this is a story about the leadership that you hear from somebody in DC who vouches for it because they got it from a source in China who read about it on a Taiwanese tabloid who copied the story from the Epoch Times who made it up in New York state.

there's also a belief that something you've heard in person is more 'authentic,' even when the person you've heard it from is repeating something they heard at a conference from someone else who heard it from someone else who got it from a New York Times column.

The Neglected Security Gaps in the Global Race for Sovereign AI Global data center demand is expected to triple by 2030, but crucial security vulnerabilities are being overlooked.

The race to achieve “sovereign AI” is overlooking critical security vulnerabilities in the very data centers that power the AI models, Seungmin (Helen) Lee writes.

China youth unemployment nears 19% as new grads struggle August data shows economy's lack of capacity to handle surge in educated workers

Almost back to where it was when they changed the methodology in 2023. Safe to assume it would be several points higher if using the old approach.

For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong.

One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”

Don't forget that the Democratic party is responsible for this. It happened due to a bill coauthored by Democrats, passed under Democratic control, and signed into law by a Democratic president.

It started as Trump's idea, but that just makes it all the more embarrassing that Dems fell for it.

Harper's letter signatories: please take a bow

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next

Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics

Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel

ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel

Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada Author’s great-grandfather on his first trip back to China to marry. Note the poor quality of the microfilm image and especially photograph. “Wong Guey Yem,” Department of Employment and Immi…

Today’s post, by June Chow, explores the preservation of Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada. It is a sequel to a previous post by Chow published in March.

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.

The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

No Laughing Matter: Comedy and Censorship in Putin's Russia An angel and two demons live inside President Vladimir Putin’s brain.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/08/08/n...

ah, well

Classical Chinese for Portents:

天既訖我殷命，假人元龜，無敢知吉...今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至』？

Heaven has revoked its Mandate. No diviner dares read good omens in the plastrons...There is not one commoner who doesn't long for your ruin. They say "Why doesn't Heaven send down its might? Why hasn't its Mandate come?"

I mean it wasn't like plenty of experts and people who have fled authoritarian countries / dozens of documentaries have warned exactly how this was gonna go down for the pundit class to insist those people were hysterical and overreacting 🤷🏽‍♂️

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’ The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Trump’s Buddies At Andreessen Horowitz Want To Help Buy TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space We’ve noted more times than I can’t count that the push to ban TikTok was never really about protecting American privacy. If that were true, we would pass a real privacy law and craft s…

I spent five years pointing out how the TikTok stuff was never about privacy and national security, it was always about wealthy U.S. authoritarians wanting to control information flow, and integrate the country's most popular short form video app into their growing propaganda operations

If u fear everything, the regime has already won. But there isn't zero risk either. Everyone's risk profile gonna be different. Besides your protest activities elsewhere, anyone who's not a white cishet natural-born citizen may have slightly higher risk

Just use a burner email address if u need to