Benjamin J. Figura, PhD, D-ABFA

You know what counts as internal bleeding? A bruise.

Booooooo!

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"Shitted Hen" may be the funniest line on a show I've heard in a long time. #Loot.AppleTV

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Extra credit for getting rid of four?

Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management – Quarto Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates.

🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!

Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:

🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment

quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

So much good wrapped in a single person.

L'État, c'est moi

Good movie. Animation is not quite at Polar Express uncanny valley levels, but close.

HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE.

In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.

#ShameOnUS

Nei fondali delle Eolie i manichini abbandonati dopo le riprese del film Altri scheletri di plastica rinvenuti da due sub romani: si mette in moto la Capitaneria di porto per imporre la bonifica alla società che ha prodotto il kolossal “The Odissey”

Three months after filming ended for Christopher Nolan's new film "The Odyssey" in the Aeolian Islands, divers continue to find dummy skeletons that were evidently dumped in the sea after filming finished.

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

"The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing."

A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead

Identification in these types of cases is tricky. It should be viewed as a purely humanitarian effort led by medical examiners, not law enforcement.

Great assessment of the Ive-Altman / io-OpenAi (OpenIO?). My thoughts exactly.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social • 1h Going to become "the bad boy of Jeopardy" and by that I mean "I'm going to use my phone to look up the answers" until "Ken Jennings beats my ass" 9 • 176 Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social You mean look up the questions.

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Behind a Museum Door, These Beetles Are Eating Flesh for Science

Great story about the dirty work performed by dermestids!
#forensky #science

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...

Announcement for the latest version of RStudio (2025.05.0) and Posit Workbench, highlighting new features likely related to console output and package management, as illustrated by the console screenshots showing warnings, informative messages, and package installation details

We’re excited to announce the release of Posit Workbench and RStudio 2025.05.0!

The latest release includes Quarto 1.6 support, genAI integrations, better errors/warnings in the console, and other improvements.

Read more in the blog post: posit.co/blog/rstudio...

#RStats #Python

The package logo, a small cute elephant holding a quill and writing promptdown

Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming.

See and edit the full prompt each turn.

No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.

Still early alpha, feedback welcome!

github.com/t-kalinowski...

This is fantastic.

😂

Polygraphs are complete BS. It's nothing more than an intimidation tactic that relies on a person's belief that it works.

Polygraphs are completely unscientific and are nothing more than an interrogation tactic that relies on the interviewee's belief that they work. They are an excuse to intimidate people and will result in too many false positives and careers ruined.

Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.

Wow. This is terrible violation of the trust between the decedent and their families, and the University as the custodian of their remains.

Announcing Video Abstracts

journals.lww.com/amjforensicm...

#4n6 #forensicpathology #forensicmedicine #forensics

@mmasnick.bsky.social your humor is drier than the Gobi. Fantastic.