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In six weeks, we have gone from 'Dead people are collecting Social Security!' to Social security falsely declaring people dead.

I'm attending Abdul for U.S. Senate's event, “Knock Out the Vote Canvass Rally with Abdul | DOWNRIVER” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/abdulforsena...

Notable weakness in today's #jobs report for this morning. Payroll employment grew by 29,000 while downward revisions to both July and August totaled 60,000. July is now recording losses. The job growth in September (29,000) is slower than the prior 12 months (45,000). #EconSky

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

A study published in JAMA Network Open found that the covid-19 vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter. The study had been blocked for publication in the CDC’s MMWR. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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Peter Thiel made a false claim about the War on Cancer being a failure.

Wait, why the fuck is Popehat/@kenwhite.bsky.social suspended?

Has Ken White (Popehat) been banned from Blue Sky?

I just filled out a job application at myworkdayjobs.com. I have a masters degree in Industrial Engineering. That is not in their list of jobs, so it can't be added. They do have 'Equine Studies'.

"ADMINISTRATION REGISTERS RECORD GROWTH" wapo.st/4vWAPAW

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A friend of mine is trying to help an immigrant family hurt by the ICE raids in Minnesota this year. Please join me in donating if you’re able to spare a few dollars. If not, just boosting the Go Fund Me helps too! Thank you. gofund.me/982017cea

The US and Iran have overcome every obstacle to peace except one small remaining disagreement: who won.

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I Just finished the LinkedIn course “Excel: Power Pivot for Beginners” by Joshua Rischin! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/learning/cer... #microsoftexcel #powerpivot.

FREE WORKSHOP! PDHP Workshop: Causal Inference In Observational Studies (June 19th, 9am-1pm ET)

A man who has blocked all but a few people from replying comes over to Blue Sky to accuse people here of being in a bubble. Also see: www.xennialmemes.com/journalists-... (image shows journalist delightedly frolic on racist/nazi twitter, then being outraged over Blue Sky)

I just attended a presentation by the R-Ladies group on Meetup, by Dariia Mykhailyshyna (of 'Workshops for Ukraine'): 'From Dictionaries to LLMs: Text Analysis in R' meetup.com/rladies-rome/e vents/314511787 The slides and code are at: github.com/dariia-m/r-l... I strongly recommend it!

Apropos of nothing, go fuck yourself RFK Jr

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

Just finished the course “Automate Boring Excel Tasks with Power Query” by Mynda Treacy! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/learning/cer... #microsoftpowerquery #microsoftexcel #automation.

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This Thursday, the Ann Arbor R Users' Group will have a presentation on AI in Positron (Posit's new IDE). It's hybrid, free and there will be pizza! www.meetup.com/ann-arbor-r-...

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

There is a loooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg list of right-wing 'influencers' who have sharply shrunk or gone out of business when Obain lost control of the money.

Just finished the course “Excel and ChatGPT: Data Analysis Power Tips” by Chris Dutton and Maven Analytics! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/learning/cer... #aiforbusinessanalysis #aiforbusiness #artificialintelligence #microsoftexcel #chatgpt #statisticaldataanalysis.

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There is a new scam on Meetup - people sending messages saying that your account is frozen. This fraud. It would help if I could find the page on Meetup to pay for my account; I blunder around and can't find it.

I bought a French duck I was going to cook in a Cantonese-style barbecue sauce; but the duck escaped, covered me in the glaze, and forced me into the oven. I was hoisined by my own canard

Just finished the course “Using AI for Data-Driven Insights”! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/learning/cer...

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

The Ann Arbor R Users' Group will be having a meeting on May 14, covering AI in Positron (Posit's new IDE). It will be hybrid, free and with Pizza! www.meetup.com/ann-arbor-r-...

I was playing with making a chart from web data using Anthropic's Claude. This is for monthly jobs gains/losses. I could not post the pdf here, so here is a link: drive.google.com/file/ d/1XQ1sTOc-4iu104_p_QP1qKsN5s8cbT3k/view?usp=drive_link

I'm going to the Michigan SAS Users' Conference: michigansasusersgroup.regfox.com/msug-2026-co...

Reminder: The Ann Arbor R Users' Group is having a meeting tomorrow evening, April 9, on 'Positron and AI' (www.meetup.com/ann-arbor-r-...) The meeting is hybrid, with pizza beforehand! The meeting will start at 6:30 PM, with pizza at 6 PM. It will be in SPARK (annarborusa.org/https://anna...)

Three weeks into the conflict—in mid-March—White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles forced a meeting of the president’s inner circle urging them to stop feeding him a rose-tinted interpretation of the conflict. trib.al/DONZ4sG

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

The reason the question, settled for 128 years, is now at the Court and might appeal to some Justices isn't because of that scholar and one or two others; it's because one of the two major parties in the U.S. is now all-in on an argument that was, until yesterday, rightly dismissed as frivolous. [2]

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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Just finished the course “Hands-On Data Analysis with Claude” by Avery Smith! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/learning/cer... #aiforbusinessanalysis #dataanalysis #artificialintelligence #anthropicclaude.