Bjorn Markeson

MIT rejects Compact

"The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone...America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking....Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach"

Kavanaugh stop

Their boys just want to go to Chicago, see a show, and eat hot beef!

Look, we need to see what Mr. Corpus did before deciding whether to suspend him.

I am not into rankings, and really not into city rankings, which often use bad methods, but during this very important federal-Texas invasion week, it's worth boosting this one.

www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best...

9 times in a row for best big city in US.

And Portland is #4 this year.

relationship diagram showing different spatial interaction structure(s) underlying alternative concepts of spatial correlation and the Moran's I coefficient, as shown in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/24694452.2024.2326541

cool news from PySAL world: the (imminent) next release of the `esda` module will have (1) spatial correlograms and (2) (more importantly) @levijohnwolf.bsky.social's partial Moran's I estimator described in

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

(both already in main if you can't wait 😎)

Where and when was that photo taken, @cnn.com? By whom?

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Professors have been vibe coding (RA's) forever

I have about 800 GB of body cam footage from a protest at UMass Amherst in May 2024 that I can no longer justify the drive space for. If you have an opinion on how I should archive the metadata, or perhaps have a use for the video footage lmk.

STRANGE EPIPHANIES by Peter Bell

“Bell is not a purveyor of pure horror, but of something much more interesting.” Wormwood

“Bell has a talent for finding isolated and less known corners.” Ghosts & Scholars

“Poetic in style and emotionally intimate.” Hellnotes

swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/st...

Best advice I have received all year!

Photo of manhole cover with the word “Fire”

#manholecovermonday

Maybe the Pope should visit his hometown.

Ladies and Gentlemen . . . John Coulthart!

I bought this one, and loved it.
Good ghost stories, includes an interview with the author, and a short biography - and really enjoyed reading both.
It helped me understand the author's headspace when coming up with the settings for the stories featured.

And yet Google Maps is allowed to keep telling me that police are ahead

‪From “THEY’RE VIOLENTLY CAMPING OUT, SEND THE SWAT TEAM” to “where are the young protestors doing peaceful civil disobedience to stop authoritarianism 🥺‬”

"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen."
Louis D. Brandeis, who died on this day in 1941

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Please lord provide us with some footage of hapless ICE agents running after naked hippies on bikes. Nothing would better expose this whole farce for what it is.

Life goals

NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.

This is all you need to know about Hegseth’s speech this morning.

Here we go. Quick thread of American food critics of the 1950s surviving what they call "exotic" foods

esda v2.8 is live this morning :)

bsky.app/profile/knaa...

So, is there a Corollary to the Kavanaugh Stop…the Kavanaugh Evasion…where it is fine to run from police-like entities since they can make a brief effort to find you later?