Kevin Watanabe-Smith

Bluesky is dying and there's only ONE way to save it, and that's for everyone to check out this new video from me about Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - an anime show about people in the 15th century who are trying to prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

I, for one, am looking forward to every Blazers food court vendor testing Nori-enhanced offerings this next season

Wag the Dog (1997) was based on the presumption that you had to progress the story of your sham war, because starting and stopping two dozen times would be implausible

Every high-tier team I draft has either Oscar or Wilt

Kash Patel has huge Tom Haverford from Parks & Rec energy, and I'm not just saying that because they're both Indian. You can really see Kash launching his own line of FBI fragrances. "I call this one Stakeout."

Scoot Henderson wins playoff game before Victor Wembanyama, confirmed.

Need someone to splice this into Too Many Cooks

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...

Do not let this incredible day for American sports go by without listening to this beautiful story about Rony Seikaly—DJ Rony Seikaly—stepping up for Magic Johnson when he needed it the most.

More people need to watch Orb My pitch of "subtitled anime in 15th century Poland, citizens trying to prove heliocentrism while being chased by church inquisitors" always leads to glazed over eyes before I get to how phenomenal it is

Maybe training AI on decades of text from bros faking it til they making it was an error

Easy peasy, cancel Hilton honors in 3min and they even have a box for you to leave comments why

OHSU researchers have discovered a promising new drug combination that may help people with #AML overcome resistance to one of the most common frontline therapies. “Of the 25 drug combinations tested, venetoclax plus palbociclib was the most effective.” - Dr. Melissa Stewart, lead author

Tired: Blue Owl doesn't like Oracle Wired: Blazers ownership group needs more capital than a hockey team will sell for

lately I have been thinking about the Paramount bid for Warner Bros. mostly I have been thinking about how it doesn't make any goddamn sense www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Wilsonville, OR #NoKings

Personnel News thef5.substack.com/p/personnel-...

Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats

🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨 Cascadia R Conference kicks off this Friday in Portland! Amazing talks, hands-on workshops, and a community that loves R as much as you do. 🗓️ June 20–21 📍 Portland, Oregon 🔗 cascadiarconf.org Who’s ready?! #RStats #DataScience

After setting up the required infrastructure on CRAN with several packages providing static libraries, I finally have some new #rayverse features on the way! Shown here: dynamic sky generation for a given lat/long and time of day, based on the Hosek-Wilkie radiance model. #RStats #rayrender

Timothy "Trump" Ratliff

Research. Failing. She left me funding by the stairs Surprised the NIH still cares