Sanjay Srivastava

Part of a book page, with references to Hilton hotels and Braun coffeemakers.

Honestly this guy called so much I should be mining the book for stock tips. “William Gibson says Hilton and Braun are going to be around in the dystopian future? Good enough for me, I’m putting in my retirement”

I just started rereading Neuromancer, and if you didn’t know any better, it wouldn’t be hard to think it’s a contemporary book full of cliches.

Cyberspace? The Sprawl? The matrix? God this guy is just ripping off the last 40 years of culture

On April 30th, Josh Smith of Montana Knife Company said you won't have to worry about tariffs if you buy American.

In the video, he holds up an egg to represent the zero dollars you'll have to pay if you purchase his made-in-USA knives.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Dude seems pretty into priors

oh the smug assholes I was thinking of were students. I got a lot out of classes that presented points of view that were at odds with mainstream positivist science. Despite those classmates ;)

All my core college memories of smug assholes in classrooms are from humanities and social sciences

(If I'm being honest though, the most likely outcome of my teaching was "make them eligible to continue through the program by checking off a requirement")

Having taught ethics to psychology PhDs (STEM-ish I guess?), what I hoped to accomplish was to give them ways of reasoning about ethical dilemmas. "Make them better people" was not a learning goal. I'd like to believe it did that; but it's just as possible I made them better at arguing loopholes

A one-touch goal hit in the air off a 40 yard pass. Insane

The silver lining to watching from home is you can watch Pedro hit that final banger over and over on replay

Holy shit! Sounders just beat Cruz Azul 7-0, all 7 scored in the second half. Game ended on an absolute banger of a 7th goal, ref called mercy

That’s a record, first time Sounders have scored six goals in a half.

NOUHOU!!!!!

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This Sounders game is off the hook

1 like = 1 meta-joke about not following through

Better methods for doing reverse causal inference (given an outcome Y, was X the cause)

Once when my son was a toddler we had to leave the playground to go home, and he got very sad and asked to at least stay for “two more mittens,” and to this day my wife and I call minutes mittens

The Sameer Project is doing on-the-ground mutual aid. Lots of other worthy places to donate in the thread

Every time someone posts about burrito taxi, I imagine some kind of amazing Richard Scarry pickle car but a burrito and a taxi and then I'm mad it isn't that.

You don't know pain until you call your insurance company to add your teenage son to your auto policy

I just verified my age by saying I’m underage. NOT

ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

“Everybody’s Working For the Weekend” but I’m playing it Monday morning

a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face . ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .

First pass: Oh it’s another way of doing covariate adjustment

Second pass:

Yup, and the whole you brought this on yourselves thing is super gross

I hope all the ‘anti-woke’ comics are happy about pushing this all through. The big question is when will they shut up about trans people, intellectually challenged people, immigrants, the disabled and minorities. I mean, they won. The policies they were supporting (whether they knew it or not) are happening. All the language and law that protected the vulnerable and marginalized and gave them a leg up have been destroyed. History is being erased and rewritten to support Christian Nationalism. Creativity, tolerance and the path to equality squashed. I hope it was all worth it so you can say the R-word again. I hope you are proud that all the policies you were championing are happening. I hope you can now stop playing the victim and just enjoy the amazing lack of diversity and diminishment of human rights and collective fear you have supported, because it’s here.

Marc Maron to anti-woke comics: “I hope it was all worth it so you can say the R-word again” www.wtfpod.com/dispatches/t...

If you’re explaining this to folks, also relevant to point out that not just anybody can apply. You have to be at an institution that does research, like a university, and have demonstrated your qualifications to run a lab.

So that’s not 4% of all comers. It’s 4% of established cancer researchers

A Jumbotron showing “Cal Counter: 39”

Big Dumper is at it again

This is for causal models of 3 observed variables, the problems only get worse after that www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/52...