Archive

May 2026

May 13, 2026
How Big Muddy runs
May 12, 2026
Hantavirus and the next pandemic
May 11, 2026
Fun words: Chisme · ↗ en.wiktionary.org
May 10, 2026
My recent essay on the state of the Internet got sucked into the AI slop machine
May 9, 2026
Canada plans to ban crypto ATMs · ↗ www.cbc.ca
May 8, 2026
Canada to create specialized police force for financial crimes · ↗ www.readtheline.ca
May 7, 2026
A few more prediction market stories
May 6, 2026
New York Times correction: Pierre Poilievre not so fiesty as initially reported · ↗ www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2026
DAEMON Tools has been compromised for almost a month · ↗ securelist.com
May 4, 2026
US FDA launches pilot of "real-time clinical trials" · ↗ www.clinicaltrialsarena.com
May 3, 2026
The best is over
May 2, 2026
OpenAI announces subscriptions can be used for OpenClaw
May 1, 2026
A hub for writing on prediction markets · ↗ onprediction.xyz

April 2026

Apr 30, 2026
Dependency cooldowns are now supported in the latest version of pip · ↗ ichard26.github.io
Apr 29, 2026
Technology and the quaintification of politics
Apr 28, 2026
Excalidraw Whiteboard · ↗ excalidraw.com
Apr 27, 2026
New Zealand and Australia are really far apart
Apr 26, 2026
How a nuclear power plant became a haven for wildlife · ↗ www.smithsonianmag.com
Apr 25, 2026
Causation does not necessarily imply correlation
Apr 24, 2026
Eroom's law · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
Apr 23, 2026
Maduro raid soldier arrested for insider trading on Polymarket for $400,000 score · ↗ www.cnn.com
Apr 22, 2026
Even the most expensive law firms are filing AI slop · ↗ www.lawyer-monthly.com
Apr 21, 2026
ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL · ↗ opensource.posit.co
Apr 20, 2026
Japan's Phillips curve looks like Japan · ↗ qed.econ.queensu.ca
Apr 19, 2026
Encouraging results for mRNA therapy for pancreatic cancer · ↗ www.nbcnews.com
Apr 18, 2026
Is the pendulum swinging back on free-range childhood? · ↗ bigthink.com
Apr 17, 2026
The surprising origin of the citation system controlling academia · ↗ davidoks.blog
Apr 16, 2026
Fake stars are rampant on GitHub · ↗ arxiv.org
Apr 15, 2026
Why you can't just subsidize demand to end Canada's housing crisis · ↗ www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
Apr 14, 2026
McDonald’s used to put the vaccine schedule on tray liners · ↗ www.propublica.org
Apr 13, 2026
An example of vote (in)efficiency in Quebec
Apr 12, 2026
Adjusting for recalled past vote in political polling · ↗ abacus-weighting.com
Apr 11, 2026
How do pollsters get different results from the same data? · ↗ www.nytimes.com
Apr 10, 2026
Scientists invent a fake disease, AI picks it up, other scientists cite it · ↗ www.nature.com
Apr 9, 2026
A data point against the idea that AI will freeze/homogenize culture · ↗ arxiv.org
Apr 8, 2026
AI makes it easier to generate fake papers, too · ↗ tylervigen.com
Apr 7, 2026
What is a public opinion poll without the public? · ↗ www.nytimes.com
Apr 6, 2026
Social media is a freak show · ↗ www.natesilver.net
Apr 5, 2026
How effective are Amber alerts? · ↗ www.mcgill.ca
Apr 4, 2026
The definition of "agent"
Apr 3, 2026
The triumph of the data raccoons
Apr 2, 2026
Andrew Gelman's blog schedule
Apr 1, 2026
Testing ZeroClaw, Part 2.5: ZeroClaw is alive!

March 2026

Mar 31, 2026
Testing ZeroClaw, Part 2: ZeroClaw is dead?
Mar 30, 2026
One important fact about for-profit plasma donation
Mar 29, 2026
How to avoid cognitive surrender to AI · ↗ alexpanetta.substack.com
Mar 28, 2026
Opt out of very new Python package versions with uv
Mar 27, 2026
Colorado advances ban on algorothmic price and wage discrimination · ↗ coloradonewsline.com
Mar 26, 2026
How SARS-CoV-2 variants get named on GitHub · ↗ github.com
Mar 25, 2026
Prediction markets are coming to Canada · ↗ www.theglobeandmail.com
Mar 24, 2026
Will AI help Canadian police counter a tsunami of fraud? · ↗ theijf.org
Mar 23, 2026
Vandalism of OpenStreetMap · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
Mar 22, 2026
Properly the work of federal public health agencies · ↗ covidtracking.com
Mar 21, 2026
For map nerds only: An atlas of world history · ↗ www.oldmapsonline.org
Mar 20, 2026
Fight club at the bird feeder · ↗ www.allaboutbirds.org
Mar 19, 2026
Make buses faster and more reliable by having fewer stops · ↗ worksinprogress.co
Mar 18, 2026
Manitoba introduces bill to ban algorithmic price discrimination · ↗ www.cbc.ca
Mar 17, 2026
Prediction markets incentivize bad behaviour · ↗ www.timesofisrael.com
Mar 16, 2026
Some insight into writing a book using Quarto · ↗ kieranhealy.org
Mar 15, 2026
Using Claude Claude for cross-package statistical audits · ↗ causalinf.substack.com
Mar 14, 2026
Getting citizenship just got a lot harder for those of Italian descent · ↗ www.cnn.com
Mar 13, 2026
geoBoundaries: An open database of political administrative boundaries · ↗ www.geoboundaries.org
Mar 12, 2026
Open banking comes to Canada · ↗ www.forbes.com
Mar 11, 2026
The other half of the ATM–bank teller story · ↗ davidoks.blog
Mar 10, 2026
What will the paper of the future look like? · ↗ i4replication.org
Mar 9, 2026
Changes in acetaminophen use after the White House Tylenol briefing · ↗ www.thelancet.com
Mar 8, 2026
Canada exports a lot of coal, but not for power generation · ↗ thehub.ca
Mar 7, 2026
Open By Default: A database of access to information requests to the Canadian government · ↗ theijf.org
Mar 6, 2026
The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database · ↗ github.com
Mar 5, 2026
Editors hate this one weird trick
Mar 4, 2026
Homeownership rate doesn't mean what you think it does · ↗ x.com
Mar 3, 2026
The productivity shock coming to academic publishing · ↗ causalinf.substack.com
Mar 2, 2026
Testing ZeroClaw, Part 1: Setup
Mar 1, 2026
Some examples of just-build-things-ism

February 2026

Feb 28, 2026
Will you peruse this post? · ↗ www.merriam-webster.com
Feb 28, 2026
Big Muddy turns one month old
Feb 27, 2026
It's incredibly easy to game Twitter's trending news algorithm
Feb 26, 2026
These academic journal AI policies aren't going to last
Feb 25, 2026
Agentic engineering patterns · ↗ simonwillison.net
Feb 24, 2026
Comparing the Claw-like agent ecosystem · ↗ clawcharts.com
Feb 23, 2026
LLMs automate the erosion of online anonymity · ↗ arxiv.org
Feb 22, 2026
Oral texts · ↗ havelock.ai
Feb 21, 2026
Film recommendation: Bugonia
Feb 20, 2026
The increasingly inevitable social media ban for kids · ↗ www.afterbabel.com
Feb 19, 2026
A brief history of chocolate in the army · ↗ www.mcgill.ca
Feb 18, 2026
Democratizing voice cloning scams · ↗ github.com
Feb 17, 2026
Don't let AI do your thinking for you · ↗ blog.cosmos-institute.org
Feb 16, 2026
In the multiverse of forking paths · ↗ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Feb 15, 2026
Regulatory uncertainty threatens biotech innovation · ↗ www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
Feb 14, 2026
US Medicaid data gets DOGE'd · ↗ opendata.hhs.gov
Feb 13, 2026
More on vibe researching · ↗ joshuagans.substack.com
Feb 12, 2026
An end-to-end AI pipeline for policy evaluation papers · ↗ ape.socialcatalystlab.org
Feb 11, 2026
There is only one statistical test · ↗ allendowney.substack.com
Feb 10, 2026
The case for sharing clinical trial data · ↗ www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
Feb 9, 2026
Why a Canadian news site just launched an AI publishing tool · ↗ thehub.ca
Feb 8, 2026
A handful of composers created most classic RPG soundtracks
Feb 7, 2026
How do you regain access to your computer if you lose your memory? · ↗ news.ycombinator.com
Feb 6, 2026
Anthropic's statistical analysis skill doesn't get statistical significance quite right · ↗ github.com
Feb 5, 2026
The CIA World Factbook has been memory holed · ↗ simonwillison.net
Feb 4, 2026
Guinea worm one step closer to eradication · ↗ www.cartercenter.org
Feb 3, 2026
msgvault: A personal email archive and search system to watch · ↗ wesmckinney.com
Feb 2, 2026
The Divergent Association Task, a measure for creativity · ↗ www.pnas.org
Feb 1, 2026
A/B testing for advertising is not randomized · ↗ flovv.github.io

January 2026

Jan 31, 2026
Total electoral wipeout · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
Jan 30, 2026
Twyman's law · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
Jan 29, 2026
Remember that a lot of numbers are fake · ↗ davidoks.blog
Jan 28, 2026
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