Andrew Schechtman-Rook

And they don't half-ass it either. Mike Breen shows up a day or two beforehand to get facts about the players in your after-work basketball game. Gary Lineker hosts the halftime show for your over-30 soccer league. Melissa Stark does sideline interviews for your intramural flag football team.

I want a contest where the prize is that a full tv crew and the best announcers in the sport of your choosing show up to broadcast your local rec league game.

If you are considering writing an orchestration tool that must serialize all data to disk (or worse, remote storage) before passing it between each step, I beg you to reconsider your life choices

That would be great but I would really kill for a Switch Rock Band, I've wanted to do "family band" since our kids were old enough to play games

If anyone _has_ figured it out, please let me know!

My number one tip for learning how to design better data analysis and modeling software? Spend a decade writing bad code, and then later having to refactor that code. I've found a lot of shortcuts to learn other data science skills but I've yet to find a way to truly short-circuit this one

You know, saying "you can either floss your teeth or get this needle stabbed into your shoulder" might actually get my kids to start flossing

It lightly fictionalizes the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs but most of the characters are real people including folks like the Egyptian-American geologist Farouk El-Baz

There's the obvious "actually the space program had a ton of foreign-born contributors" and also the "some of those contributors were actual Nazis" responses here, but I just want to add that if you're at all interested in the space race I highly recommend the miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon"

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

When I ask people how it's going and they respond "can't complain," to me that just means they're not trying hard enough

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We have talked a couple of times recently about the curious fact that (1) quantitative investing, (2) building large language models and (3) managing professional soccer teams are all approximately the same job. Also that job is approximately “astrophysics.” It is approximately the case that there is a general data-science-y skill set that is coming to dominate all of these apparently disparate fields, and that skill set is largely taught in certain hard-science graduate programs.

@matt-levine.bsky.social coming in hot with an amazing explanation of a common #databs career arc in today's Money Stuff (bonus points for using astro🔭 as the example)

The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."

It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.

Thank f*cking Christ

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely on a sweepin...

Repeal the Alien Enemies Act. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...

Analysis | Tariffs are taxing GOP unity In today’s edition … Trump throws support behind Sununu Senate run … daughter of Grijalva leads the field in election to replace her late father.

Don't forget: at any point Republicans could stop the tariffs by simply voting to revoke the authority they gave the president to set tariffs. They're as complicit as the Executive branch in this wapo.st/3FW3Gk1

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Trump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrant The government blamed “an administrative error” for the deportation of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant married to a U.S. citizen. Officials say they’re unable to return him to his family.

This is some fucked up shit right here: wapo.st/42dW9Vd

This is the way.

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"

I called my senator who had not committed to a vote on Wednesday. I had to wait on hold for 20 minutes because so many people were calling. The person I spoke to said they were getting a lot of calls about it, and the next day the senator came out as a "no". It does work!

Analysis | Democrats’ impossible choice on the shutdown Gaming out the pros and cons of a very difficult vote for the blue side.

I dunno, "I Don't Vote For Anything The President Wants As Long As The President Is Doing Blatantly Unconstitutional Things" seems like a pretty easy choice to me.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE

All I want to do is talk about neat data stuff, but when shit like this keeps happening that feels so naive and useless. Call your congresspeople!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I called both my senators and my congressman today and it was super easy. In some cases you can just leave a voicemail, but the person I did have to talk to was super helpful and nice!

State school finances are pretty public, you can actually go look up just how painful it will be. OSU's financial plan says they get about half a billion dollars in federal grant money *per year*; I can't imagine there won't be a lot of pushback