Rogue HCI Guy

"I did the calculations in my head and found 18 well-fitting clusters"

Not to mention the genocide they aided and abetted.

The number one predictor of software success is, in any case, usability.

NEU: Monatelang erklärte die Union, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz müsse aus Sicherheitsgründen eingeschränkt werden. Sie weigerte sich aber, Belege zu liefern. Wir verklagten also das Innenministerium, um eine Auskunft zu erzwingen. Ergebnis: Es gibt einfach keine. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/klag...

Do not engage. Do not engage. Do not engage. Do not engage.

"All boxes are the wrong but some are useful" (George Model)

Love actually for tax purposes

The ivory tower must have invented anti-gravity because it's unfathomable to me how people without any spine could walk otherwise.

Die Deutsche Bahn hat im offiziellen Katalog 65 Verspätungsgründe („Reparatur an einem Signal” etc.). Mir waren die zu konkret. Deshalb gibt es jetzt das „Bahnhoroskop”: Man trägt die Verspätung ein und bekommt den Grund, berechnet aus der echten Sternkonstellation zur Abfahrt. bahnhoroskop.ggor.de

vampir: kann ich reinkommen herr benn (mein mathelehrer aus der 8. klasse): ich weiß nicht kannst du? vampir: äh...ähhhh...ÄHHHHHH

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

This thread has a nice twist.

I will once again adhere to enforcing my policy of blocking people who post twitter screenshots here. I just can't stand the ragebait anymore.

Dope thread

Having an anonymous account really taught me how much people value faces and names over facts.

A fun image in my mind is a scientist getting into trouble for plagiarising Wansink or Stapel.

The issue with AI is autonomy, not intelligence. It takes hundreds of agents to do the thing one human could. They ain't that smart. Agents breaking a sandbox is like hurling hundreds of toddlers against a door to get in. Yes, it will break, but there'll be lots of ouchies along the way.

Köln: Bauarbeiter finden Fliegerbombe aus dem Römischen Reich www.der-postillon.com/2025/09/blin...

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

Peinliche Panne: Merz halbiert versehentlich falsche Partei www.der-postillon.com/2026/09/cdu-...

Die Polizei Chemnitz fordert Thomas Gottschalk wiederholt („DRINGEND“) zum Stellen eines Strafantrags wegen eines Satirevideos von @politicalbeauty.bsky.social auf, verbreitet bundesweit eine Anleitung, wie man den Adenauer aus dem Verkehr ziehen kann, und führt auch sonst einen gruseligen Kreuzzug.

Not knowing too much popular culture, memes and what not is a bliss to me.

The professor's discovery that ever since we descended from the trees the female-presenting members of our society were inevitably destined to operate the Hoover would seem to settle the longstanding question of Nature Versus Nurture. And yet: Nature abhors to vacuum.

Quite frankly, I'm a bit disappointed that there's no affiliate link to Pinker's book in that open letter.

Incel academics can and should eat shit. I'll gladly provide the spoon.

Homer Simpson disappearing into hedge (in Lego) Credit to Jason Allemann & Kristal / @jkbrickworks

lolol just got locked out of my WhatsApp account for 24 hours because I was chatting with a music store about ordering an organ pedalboard

I think I could make a decent living in finance, my skillset fits the needs in that industry quite well. It just seems incredibly boring to me. I'd rather work at an assembly line.

Greek. The most "meh" of Mediterranean food. Imagine needing anise liquor to tolerate the ecosystem of creatures that had to die for your plate.

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

Has everyone uttered their OSF obituary? Is it safe to browse again?

The fun part about this is that only a small minority is using adblock, or at least effective AdBlock. Ever since the new manifest version, effective adblock on Chrome is kind of impossible, and that's the lion share of the browser market.

this changes everything

If something breaks out of your sandbox, your sandbox sucks. And if you let the thing to be contained design its own sandbox, you deserve every consequence you suffer as a result.

Hey look at us. It happened to us too.