Also, controlling for percent Evangelical based on Pew survey data does not undo this relationship (in fact, percent Evangelical loses conventional statistical significance in a multivariate regression with testosterone searches).
September 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Also, controlling for percent Evangelical based on Pew survey data does not undo this relationship (in fact, percent Evangelical loses conventional statistical significance in a multivariate regression with testosterone searches).
It's hard to overstate the significance of the families of the Israeli hostages joining the anti-government protest bloc. Until yesterday they were largely separate, and primarily based in Tel Aviv. As such, as Avishay notes, this protest occurring in Jerusalem is of huge symbolic significance!
Israeli protest organizations have called 4 days of protests in Jerusalem this week, "demanding elections now". This is a serious test of their power, and how many people they can bring out. Also, symbolically important bc in Israeli politics, Jerusalem is usually where the right demonstrates.
March 31, 2024 at 8:56 PM
It's hard to overstate the significance of the families of the Israeli hostages joining the anti-government protest bloc. Until yesterday they were largely separate, and primarily based in Tel Aviv. As such, as Avishay notes, this protest occurring in Jerusalem is of huge symbolic significance!
To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
May 26, 2026 at 4:15 AM
To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.
waow based based based but i don't think my white women audience will understand the significance
September 23, 2026 at 1:31 PM
waow based based based but i don't think my white women audience will understand the significance
I miss America’s Dad.
March 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I miss America’s Dad.
Also a heart is a fluid pump made of muscle fiber. It has no moral significance. We’re enacting life-wrecking policies based on scientific illiterates taking poetic metaphors literally.
It's important to understand that the "heartbeat" you hear in early ultrasounds is actually created by the machine, not the embryo.
But crisis pregnancy centers lie to patients about this.
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
But crisis pregnancy centers lie to patients about this.
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
July 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Also a heart is a fluid pump made of muscle fiber. It has no moral significance. We’re enacting life-wrecking policies based on scientific illiterates taking poetic metaphors literally.
My favorite pundit delusion is the idea that voters a) remembered & understood the significance of the positions Harris took in the 2019 primary, b) compared those positions to her current platform, & c) formed an opinion on her based on the comparison. Lol.
January 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My favorite pundit delusion is the idea that voters a) remembered & understood the significance of the positions Harris took in the 2019 primary, b) compared those positions to her current platform, & c) formed an opinion on her based on the comparison. Lol.
What’s wild to me is that Frost/Nixon became a hit movie, based on an interview, whose primary decades-long significance is that it got the president to admit that he habored a belief that is now *commonplace* on the right.
The reason that moral philosophy spent millennia arguing about the nature of “good” is that Donald Trump hadn’t yet been born, so they had no absolute frame of reference
June 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What’s wild to me is that Frost/Nixon became a hit movie, based on an interview, whose primary decades-long significance is that it got the president to admit that he habored a belief that is now *commonplace* on the right.
It’s quite sad that so many voters will have no idea the significance of this picture
September 29, 2026 at 11:22 PM
It’s quite sad that so many voters will have no idea the significance of this picture
what we have to shake in this country is the idea that something only has political significance and demands action if Newscorp is in a lather about it.
someone really oughta think about leading from a point of moral principle not based on outrunning a hostile media.
someone really oughta think about leading from a point of moral principle not based on outrunning a hostile media.
September 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
what we have to shake in this country is the idea that something only has political significance and demands action if Newscorp is in a lather about it.
someone really oughta think about leading from a point of moral principle not based on outrunning a hostile media.
someone really oughta think about leading from a point of moral principle not based on outrunning a hostile media.
Saving this for the next time (if ever) I teach intro to biodiversity. The last time I had students use phyloT to generate a tree based on the ingredients in their favourite dish and write a short paragraph about the origins and cultural significance of one ingredient.
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
October 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Saving this for the next time (if ever) I teach intro to biodiversity. The last time I had students use phyloT to generate a tree based on the ingredients in their favourite dish and write a short paragraph about the origins and cultural significance of one ingredient.
The point is, based on these two videos, Sargodah/Kirana Hills nuclear weapons storage facility had something come down near it, but hit nothing of significance.
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The point is, based on these two videos, Sargodah/Kirana Hills nuclear weapons storage facility had something come down near it, but hit nothing of significance.
man, to be an academic in the 1960s: publishing sweeping conclusions of statistical significance based off an n of 10
July 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM
man, to be an academic in the 1960s: publishing sweeping conclusions of statistical significance based off an n of 10
Solidly researched.
Evidence based.
Incontrovertible.
"An astounding 90% of autistic children consumed either breast milk or formula...ignoring potential confounders, control groups and statistical significance."
Hats off to @integralanswers.bsky.social for the fine work.
Evidence based.
Incontrovertible.
"An astounding 90% of autistic children consumed either breast milk or formula...ignoring potential confounders, control groups and statistical significance."
Hats off to @integralanswers.bsky.social for the fine work.
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Solidly researched.
Evidence based.
Incontrovertible.
"An astounding 90% of autistic children consumed either breast milk or formula...ignoring potential confounders, control groups and statistical significance."
Hats off to @integralanswers.bsky.social for the fine work.
Evidence based.
Incontrovertible.
"An astounding 90% of autistic children consumed either breast milk or formula...ignoring potential confounders, control groups and statistical significance."
Hats off to @integralanswers.bsky.social for the fine work.
The 2025 Met Gala dress code is ‘Tailored For You’ based on the theme ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.’
Vogue says the theme is designed to “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy."
Vogue says the theme is designed to “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy."
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The 2025 Met Gala dress code is ‘Tailored For You’ based on the theme ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.’
Vogue says the theme is designed to “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy."
Vogue says the theme is designed to “explore the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities, focusing on the emergence, significance, and proliferation of the Black dandy."
Sex differences are often claimed based on faulty comparison of statistical significance status rather than direct comparison.
That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817
#stats #neuroskyence
That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817
#stats #neuroskyence
May 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sex differences are often claimed based on faulty comparison of statistical significance status rather than direct comparison.
That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817
#stats #neuroskyence
That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817
#stats #neuroskyence
in fantasy settings its common for magical weapons to be imbued with power and significance based on the prestige and spiritual prowess of the creator. this isn't true with real life weapons but it IS true with sex toys you buy on Etsy
January 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
in fantasy settings its common for magical weapons to be imbued with power and significance based on the prestige and spiritual prowess of the creator. this isn't true with real life weapons but it IS true with sex toys you buy on Etsy
On the subject of 'Choosin Texas's confusion, it's probably important to note that, because of streaming, the Billboard charts are based on much more ambiguous and manipulable data than before, which isn't to say that they were perfect metrics for cultural significance in the past
September 27, 2026 at 1:21 PM
On the subject of 'Choosin Texas's confusion, it's probably important to note that, because of streaming, the Billboard charts are based on much more ambiguous and manipulable data than before, which isn't to say that they were perfect metrics for cultural significance in the past
It would be fairly straighforward to write a plugin to pull IMDB data and calculate a "Genocide Apologist Score" for any movie or TV show — based on the number of genocide apologists who worked on that show and the significance of their role.
Absolutely shameful behavior from these signers variety.com/2024/film/ne...
Over 450 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing the Oscars speech from "The Zone of Interest" director.
variety.com
March 19, 2024 at 5:26 AM
It would be fairly straighforward to write a plugin to pull IMDB data and calculate a "Genocide Apologist Score" for any movie or TV show — based on the number of genocide apologists who worked on that show and the significance of their role.
cool study (with clever experimental design) about the evolutionary significance of individuals choosing habitats based on their own phenotypes. 🧪🌍 #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Performance-based habitat choice can drive rapid adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation
Theory predicts that performance-based habitat choice1,2,3—where individuals select environments based on their local performance—should be widespread…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:40 PM
cool study (with clever experimental design) about the evolutionary significance of individuals choosing habitats based on their own phenotypes. 🧪🌍 #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pattern matching isn't thought, especially when the thing that does the matching literally cannot understand the significance of the patterns. It just matches them based on how likely those patterns occur in the copyrighted material its coders stole.
Humans tag the material, because it can't.
Humans tag the material, because it can't.
May 22, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Pattern matching isn't thought, especially when the thing that does the matching literally cannot understand the significance of the patterns. It just matches them based on how likely those patterns occur in the copyrighted material its coders stole.
Humans tag the material, because it can't.
Humans tag the material, because it can't.
Top 10 largest pyramids in Mexico, based on volume, height, and cultural significance.
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Top 10 largest pyramids in Mexico, based on volume, height, and cultural significance.
Facts don’t speak for themselves and never have. People have always relied on others to interpret the deeper significance of events they have witnessed or experienced.
Unfortunately the opinion forming classes of the country had by that point decided that Nazism was based and heterodox.
Unfortunately the opinion forming classes of the country had by that point decided that Nazism was based and heterodox.
The thing to understand is that we are in this mess because a great deal of this country refused to believe Trump tried to commit an insurrection, despite it being televised.
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
February 15, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Facts don’t speak for themselves and never have. People have always relied on others to interpret the deeper significance of events they have witnessed or experienced.
Unfortunately the opinion forming classes of the country had by that point decided that Nazism was based and heterodox.
Unfortunately the opinion forming classes of the country had by that point decided that Nazism was based and heterodox.