Kieran Healy

https://kieranhealy.org

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Data Visualization Book: https://socviz.co
1995 Version: http://tilde.club/~kjhealy

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2024-09-11 18:06:19

If you didn't want her to tick every box, you should have made some of them radio buttons instead.
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2024-09-11 12:20:03

The idea that there’s a substantial contingent of “undecided” voters watching the debate, listening to Trump go on about cat-eating immigrants, thoughtfully stroking their chins, and remarking to their spouse that they should like to hear more “fine print” from Harris on trade and energy policy is quite delightful, really.

2024-09-04 21:31:38

I see it’s time to post this again. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2019/08/03/rituals-of-childhood/

2024-08-30 13:44:29

<Turns to neighbor in church pew> “This new Lay Reader is smart and charming but this definitely isn’t the version of The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes that I remember”
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2024-08-28 23:34:08

Finally getting my home office the way I like it.
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2024-08-26 18:21:44

The key slide for Day 1 of Modern Plain Text Computing
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2024-08-22 23:19:03

Gearing up to teach Modern Plain-Text Computing, which I’m pleased to say is now required for new grad students. A real barrier to successful PhD research—a “hidden curriculum”, to coin a phrase—is knowing how to use your computer properly for technical work, which no-one teaches. Except now we do.

2024-08-21 01:10:09

MAR—Missing at random MCAR—Missing completely at random
MDTR—Missing don’t tell reviewer
MBAG—Missing bad at Git
NMUF—Not missing unfortunately faked
MINTATIA—Missing I’m not typing all that in again
MIWHCAF—Missing it would have cost a fortune
MLOMWYMAD—Missing look on my work ye mighty and despair

2024-08-18 14:01:26

I want to hear Trump ramble at length about Sraffa’s neglected legacy, the Cambridge Capital Controversy, Neo-Ricardian theory, and unexpected reswitching dynamics in seemingly simple models of an economy consisting of iron, corn, and labor inputs.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/983/387/790/624/372/original/bd3f0354067a4227.jpeg

2024-08-17 15:29:30

This is so funny.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/15/burning-man-tickets-resale-low-prices/
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2024-08-16 00:03:17

I have to say, the one good thing about Zuckerberg is the way he acts as a repeated and decisive rebuttal of the notion that the world would be a better place if only the techbros had some sort of education in Classics and the Humanities more generally. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx29e0w3gkvo

2024-08-15 15:53:50

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Lolol
(That line is the one that fully cements the claim that Hamilton is the world’s most successful after-school special)

2024-08-15 15:31:40

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Yeah, I picked Mark just because he's generally thought of as the main source for Matthew and Luke (along with the mysterious Q)

2024-08-15 15:28:10

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It’s in Mark, Matthew, and Luke.

2024-08-15 15:18:47

—You know that Lincoln didn’t really mean “We should find common ground”, in that speech, right? He meant “This is either gonna go all one way or all the other, there's really no middle ground”
— But I saw it on a “Civility” billboard
— Also, when he opened with that line, the people listening would have known he was quoting Mark
— Mark? Mark who?
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2024-08-13 20:35:00

I have acquired a new candidate First Day Of Class t-shirt, designed for the way we live (and do assignments) now.
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2024-08-12 23:02:41

Apple in Don Fanucci mode with Patreon.
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2024-08-10 18:40:57

English Journalists, please learn the difference between a modal infinitive and the perfect tense. Thank you. The first President *to have worked* at McDonald’s.
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2024-08-06 14:48:22

TIL Walz keynoted the Esri User Conference last month in San Diego. Looking forward to a GIS Nerd admistration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8BrT0-6gM
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2024-08-04 23:20:27

Funny how the expected successful career length of elite women athletes has increased in a range of sports where it’s become less acceptable for coaches to be pedophiles. The validation of this observation is left to an enterprising Economist with a panel dataset and a plausibly exogenous IV.

2024-08-03 18:17:19

Meanwhile, the newest Olympic Eggcorn from athletics commentators is “Repercharge”, because you presumably have a chance to “repair* your position in the standings by *charging* ahead of the other losers.

2024-07-31 13:43:37

I know last semester’s campus protests caused problems for its administration, but is Harvard *quite* sure it wants to unilaterally ban using chalk or writing or drawing on any University property? I can imagine several, uh, plausibly educational use-cases.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/7/30/harvard-campus-use-policies-draft-document/
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2024-06-21 19:38:45

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Aw, hearing you talk about that book was how I learned of your existence in the world! https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/03/08/content-strategy-and-the-birth-of-occupations/

2024-06-21 19:38:45

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Aw, hearing you talk about that book was how I learned of your existence in the world! https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/03/08/content-strategy-and-the-birth-of-occupations/

2024-06-19 20:44:15

My LLM assistant will polish my text to a high sheen of professionalism so that your LLM assistant can then summarize it down to a short paragraph; this is all very sensible

2024-06-03 17:24:30

This seems like both a personal cry for help and an indication that you work for a dangerously dysfunctional organization
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2024-06-03 11:55:18

It's fun that people come up with truly clever little hacks like the udm14 trick for Google search and find ways to integrate it into their setups, but I can't help but feel that it has the same vibe as those allegedly heart-warming news stories where a kid runs a lemonade stand to raise money to pay off their classmates' school lunch debt or their Mom's medical bills. Like, that's nice but why the hell are we even in this situation in the first place?

2024-06-02 13:43:33

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2024-05-24 15:16:07

The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me
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2024-05-09 21:59:31

YouTube continuing to algorithmically serve vulnerable people dangerous and radicalizing content
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2024-05-08 23:32:17

Be the Change you want to see in the World—Graduation Speaker
Change the Bee you want to see in the World—Genetic Engineer
Want the Change you see be in the world—Numismatist
See the Bee you want to change in the World—Field Entomologist
Change the See you want to be in the World—Pope Francis
Change in the World? You want a Seabee—Chester Nimitz

2024-04-25 19:35:32

John Adams: … to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Supreme Court: Unless the President would like to kill someone for personal gain
John Adams: Unless of course the Pr—wait what

2024-04-25 14:15:36

Looking forward to a rash of this shit as AI tools find their place in society https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/

2024-04-09 02:16:32

Today's events stitched together from a series of JPGs courtesy of the GOES-EAST Weather Satellite.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/238/853/325/245/014/original/bdb6c04a20fcb9ec.mp4