Ellen Evers

Not a dutch musical star

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@fvd_tilburg Neemt de gemeente de vergunning af of is ze gewoon een hele lunchroom begonnen zonder vergunning te hebben?

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@QualiaQuanta @RalphStefanWeir You could screen record opening a 2020 last saved file and throw it in Pangram?

[🐈‍⬛🎃America Is Musty🎃🐈‍⬛ @DragonflyJonez]

Racism and classism is hilarious (derogatory) bc before getting to the end of reading this post, you would think her issue would be with an exploitive, heartless healthcare system that will literally let you die if you can’t cover your expenses but nope. The villain in her story where her husband almost died and they had to drain all their savings to keep him alive is a black kid who got to look at some koalas for $9.

[Marc Bowman @MarcWBowman]

When I was in college I sold computers retail. There were two of us on commission one day when a woman came in and was looking at laptops. The other salesman sized her up and decided she didn’t have any money. I had been telling him you never know who has money and you should help everybody equally. I went over and showed her the laptop computers, and then she wanted to look at the desktops. After about 20 minutes, she said she needs 27 PCs and laptops. It ended up being my largest sale.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Norway's controversial 2021–2024 reforms nearly doubled the tax on business wealth. Firms of affected owners did not invest less, and outmigration was limited to the very top, from @Mariusring https://t.co/keQcBoXwSk

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

I want to talk about Patrick Collison.

Let’s start with a simple acknowledgment: he is one of the most impressive philanthropists right now:

- When Covid hit, he and Tyler Cowen launched Fast Grants and got money to scientists within days.
- He helped launch the Arc Institute, so biologists could do science instead of drowning in paperwork for grants.
- And Stripe, under Collison’s leadership, built Frontier: a super ambitious pledge to guarantee a market for carbon removal tech.

This is all really awesome! Few billionaires have thought harder about how to do a lot of good with their money.

But now we have to talk about what the hell Patrick Collison is doing in California.

He has given $15 million to ‘Building a Better California’, one of the most cynical political campaigns I’ve seen in a long time. It's the main vehicle fighting Prop 40: a one-time 5% tax on the state's ~200 billionaires (to make up for federal cuts to healthcare for low-income Californians).

And look at how this group does it:

- It’s funding an extremely aggressive "No" campaign (opponents are outspending supporters roughly six to one).
- It also put two decoy measures on the same ballot. Prop 41 *seems* to be about good governance. Prop 42 is sold as ‘protecting your retirement savings’. But both contain a clause: if either gets more votes than the billionaire tax, the tax is cancelled.
- Meanwhile, the retirement story is total nonsense. Prop 40 already exempts pensions. CalMatters calls the deluge of ads misleading and the SF Chronicle calls Prop 41 a ‘cynical poison pill’.
- The sad reality is that all this misinformation is working though. Polls show small majorities backing the billionaire tax and the measures designed to kill it. You can vote yes on all three and cancel out your own vote. Most people don’t realize this.

Through all of it, Collison HASN'T SAID A WORD about why he's funding this slimy campaign.

This is a public intellectual who writes thoughtfully about progress. If he believes Prop 40 is bad policy, he should do the honorable thing and make the case! And tell us what he'd rather do about extreme concentrations of wealth and power, or explain why he thinks they aren't a problem for our democracy and civilization.

Instead we get silence + $15 million for a campaign built on misinformation and shady political tactics.

@patrickc, what are you doing?

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

just as an hypothesis: if in seemingly romantic or quasi-romantic circumstances at 11 PM a young woman indicates "consent" with a partner that does not rule out that, abruptly at 1 AM, when the circumstances have changed considerably, & are no longer even quasi-romantic, she can't "withdraw consent"; it is only reasonable to think that if circumstances change even more grimly, by 4 AM, if the young woman, now coerced, treated brutally, is desperately pleading to be let go, her stated or implied "consent" at 11 PM is now rescinded?

would guess that variants of this distressing experience happen often to girls & women & the consequence is that "blame" seems ambiguous, so the victim retreats in silence, abused, humiliated but unwilling to even talk about it let alone press charges.

.

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@InHerGushy @the_goldweaver @AntonSCh66 @rarestbarbie Non representative samples are not an issue per se, you just need to understand what you can and cannot conclude from that kind of data.

I'm sure some research uses non-representative samples but I doubt all of it makes the same basic statistical errors to the same degree.

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@InHerGushy @the_goldweaver @AntonSCh66 @rarestbarbie Sample size is not the same as selection effects.

If you want to know how much the general population likes camping and you only recruit people through REI it doesn't matter if you ask 20 people or 4000 people, your results will be biased by who takes your survey.

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@ignaziano @lakens wrote a blog discussing alternatives: https://t.co/AJpPyKulaL

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@royllovians I downloaded the codebook yesterday for some reason and weirdly in it they themselves indicate millinery as a wrong answer.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

for years now we've been deluged with opinion pieces & full-length books about how young men are so sad/isolated/afraid to approach girls & women/oppressed by feminists & #MeToo/victims of a cruel anti-male culture ad nauseam; yet, as we see here, these entitled young men at Cornell had not the slightest hesitation or the mildest anxiety about committing a group rape of an intoxicated young woman, a classmate of theirs.
please spare us any more of those pathetic opinion & books pieces about sad young men pining away in loneliness & fear of girls & women.
& especially, please spare us blaming girls & women for their being so sad & oppressed.

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

excellent, morally imperative piece by the Cornell Daily Sun’s editorial board, eviscerating the university’s cowardice, hypocrisy, lack of transparency, and pattern of failing to adequately address the growing issue of campus sexual assault.

https://t.co/Q8GBvWOiql

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@chickrnlittle @EoinHiggins_ @NateSilver538 When I was a kid I overfed my Tamagotchi and it showed a <death> tag, am I a murderer?

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@TadhgHickey It's a fake racist troll account

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@cmi1302 @VermeylenS @BBCTwo Dolly "9 to 5" Parton?

[Ellen Evers @squig]

@TyroneAmaz21179 @eneribehave @gimmexpander @radical_jam_ The specific spot in that vid is "de wallen" where they just arrested 3 guys for exploiting dozens of women: https://t.co/GJDUCjBRIJ

[Don Quijote de la IA @IA_Quijote]

Así se hace un anuncio ESPECTACULAR

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Absolutely the funniest sentence in this otherwise very sad article is, "In a separate meeting, the author of one paper tried to describe the methods they used for analysis, but inadvertently ended up describing an entire p-hacking workflow."

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

if you’re a grown man and you’re still saying stuff like “peanus horts” and “big chungus” on the internet…you need to come to my house for dinner tonight. there’s about fifteen of us and we’re all 52 years old and Professors at elite universities