![🧑🍼🐬: Note on “motherly dolphin” project name
Because project titles change all the time with revisions, rewriting, and peer review, we used {codename} to generate a NICKA-style internal-to-us project name that won’t change.
library(codename)
codename_message()
#> code name generated by {codename} v.0.5.0. R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14).
codename(seed = "990 rdd trust", type = "nicka")
#> [1] "motherly dolphin"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2zcfjzyocp6kapg6jc4eacok/bafkreifgk6b6uqghxu6tj4t43nqrhwdmzsnogunni2t4ydjtywcmcsumsa@jpeg)
Yes among the problems with the "let the voters decide" cop-out is that Donald Trump is the last person on earth who is interested in observing the will of the electorate
Very excited for people who don’t understand how Bayesian statistics work to discover this means there will be literally 10M+ false arrests per year
The New York Times’ lengthy, bitter campaign to make itself invulnerable to satire is reaching a fever pitch
Just a reminder. Authoritarians use weaponized despair, fear, uncertainty, and doubt and claims of inevitability as a method to solidify their control and freeze the population in place as they do so. we do not have to be resigned to a fascist takeover no matter what the media tries to sell us.
It's become undeniable that Trump has a clear path to full-blown authoritarian rule in the United States. This has led some to predict that a Trump dictatorship is inevitable. However, I think this level of fatalism is a serious mistake. 1/ (free link) wapo.st/3t2SsUG
How the wrong kind of fear of Donald Trump could lead us astray.
Nothing has changed, we're still doing "TRUMP: (SOMETHING INSANE AND NOT TRUE)" like he's a credible actor who is simply voicing an opinion that is just as true as something Biden would say
I can't even imagine how different the world would be if she hadn't stopped the count. That timeline must be incredible.
Happy Whamageddon to all who celebrate, except to the Swedes, who choose violence this month. whamageddon.com
Avoid 'Last Christmas'. Join the fun. Last until Christmas. Become the envy of your friends and family. Enjoy being a Christmas grinch.
Behind the bitter and boring fights about telling the public to keep voting harder to save democracy, there's the fact that the people we vote for chronically, systematically refuse to use their actual powers to defend the republic
