Kieran Healy

At NC State.

And done.

Thanks! Yeah it’s kind of motivated by wanting to give a nod to the tidyr world of wrangling functions, but I should put a marginal note in about srvyr::interact()

Step aside on the wing there Louis Bielle-Biarrey, it’s time for Loose Beer-Barrielle.

lol “Baloucoune moving faster than the price of oil” says the commentator.

U.S. Gas Prices Jump Again as Oil Tops $90 a Barrel for First Time in Years

Obviously the solution is to impose tariffs on the countries responsible; that way we’ll make a profit on this whole thing.

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Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Baumol’s Cost Disease, they used to call it. Now it’s known as Baumol’s Cost Immunization.

You truly have no idea how perfectly targeted this observation is right now—and in precisely these terms—to people very near and dear to me.

Special Envoy for Pridwen, Shield of the Pendragon

Special Envoy for the Salmon of Knowledge, Consumer of Hazelnuts

Special Envoy for Billion Auto Chevrolet of Sioux Falls, Your Home For Silverado, Impala, and Malibu; By Grabthar’s Hammer, What A Savings

Harry Maguire is the only one who isn’t good at football.

Mr Kipling makes exceedingly poor fakes

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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OpenAI’s reference implementation using a metric fuckton of tokens

On the one hand, boy that’s impressive. On the other hand, I too love to consume ~40 million tokens across ~20 presumably high-end agents every one minute and 54 seconds.

The future continues weird. This is a nice example at the now common intersection of “It’s remarkable that this is even possible”, “You can see the vistas it opens up”, and “Pretty sweet for the company to have people use their service in this very pay-as-you-go resource-intensive way”.

What Are Your Prom Dinner Plans?

I assume this is the title of Brooks’s 3rd Yale lecture in his series

Brooks' next talk, scheduled for March 31, is entitled "How to be Ambitious Without Being a Jerk."

I assume the answer will be “Wait for Bill Buckley to visit Yale and then write a column in the campus newspaper that ends ‘Some would say I'm envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?’”

During the lecture, Brooks traced the history of philosophers whom he admired, including Edmund Burke, Alexander Hamilton and William Buckley Jr. '50.

David Brooks gives his first talk in his new role at Yale and, just as one would hope, it’s a bathos-soaked banger. yaledailynews.com/articles/dav...

Here is a photo of the woke sharia court that now decides things like mandatory windmills and recycling and gender in the UK.

[Me, sagely] Two things can be true at the same time

[Audience, appreciatively] You are so wise; this is the wisdom content I crave

[Me, with feeling] But ONLY two things

[Audience] Wait, why would y—

[Me, messianically] And ONE of the true things is about fruit pastilles specifically

Meanwhile his indestructible vanity and imperishable avarice interact in a volatile way with his steadily-declining capacities, and the members of his coalition—Conmen, Influencers, Eschaton Immanentizers, and Nazis—constantly pitch him on what today will juice either the bribes or the vibes.

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

Rich fantasy life fueled by the purest triple-distilled resentment

"We're going to hold ourselves accountable as well," Hegseth said in the video. "As a final message to our warriors, the Ivy League faculty lounges may loathe you, the so-called elite of academia may mock your patriotism and disdain your sacrifice, but never forget that we the War Department have your back."

Fuck you, Pete. I’ve taught social theory to career officers whose shoes you aren’t fit to shine.

How much shit will America eat.

The dumbest, most degraded death cult.

I do not avoid Ivy League Professors, Mandrake. But I deny them my essays.

How humiliating. There’s no other word for it, really.