Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight.io poll: Trump approval falls to 35% as rating for handling prices hits a record -46
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...
What is a mundane mushroom?
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴
Sorry for your loss.
Greetings all. I'm looking for a podcast producer to help do a (much) more regular BLOOD IN THE MACHINE show. I thought I'd start by reaching out here, and to the broader BITM community. If this sounds like it's up your alley, details are in the link below:
New Tom Waits with Massive Attack. Devastating.
youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...
*That’s* where I left them.
LOL this is five minutes from my house
Happy Ruination Day to all who celebrate
I kept waiting for the audience laughter at the end only to realize this wasn’t an SNL fake C-SPAN voiceover
Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person
Virtual Event April 16 // 1 pm ET NEW EVIDENCE ON REPRODUCIBILITY ACROSS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH Moderator: Tim Errington Speakers: Katrin Auspurg, Abel Brodeur, and Andrew Tyner
What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility
cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
ORBÁN CONCEDED
What is Ithaca, New York?
The Edge of Sentience (print edition) is released TODAY in North America. And the online edition will remain free forever at academic.oup.com/book/57949. It's been great to see the ideas already generating lots of discussion and commentary.
A panel of experts from multiple social science data archives—including the ARDA, @icpsr.bsky.social, @qdr.bsky.social, and @ropercenter.bsky.social—shared about resources that are widely available for teaching and learning about data. A recording of the workshop is available at the link below.
I can only imagine how this all looks from across the pond. It's mind-boggling here.
What is @themerl.bsky.social's "Absolute Unit"
I like it
Somehow I hadn't connected in my head that Thomas More who wrote Utopia was the same person as the guy from A Man For All Seasons.
There’s an impeachment resolution out as of April 6th. Now my thing is if they’re actually gonna go through with this on the House floor
If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”
WTF
remember those other branches of government
I am excited to announce the beta release of @verasight.io’s Free AI Survey Programming Tool: Doc2Survey, that automatically converts any survey drafted in a Word or Google Doc to a programmed Qualtrics survey (.qsf file). We are making Doc2Survey available for free! www.verasight.io/doc2survey
