Kieran Healy

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2026-02-05 13:09:58 UTC

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/018/183/802/142/810/original/0a4328a96be3d88b.mp4

2025-12-30 16:30:33 UTC

It’s between December 26th and January 4th. A liminal time. Things are unhurried, indeterminate, tranquil. Just the moment when, in the stillness, you will decide to start messing around with your home network “setup” for no good reason. It is working fine. What are you doing? You pull on a cable; push a button; adjust a setting. Now everything is broken; the kids are mad at you; no-one asked for this. You settle in for a satisfying afternoon undoing the consequences of your own stupid actions.

2025-12-24 14:05:05 UTC

Somewhat relatedly, this sort of approach is a good way to assess what really matters to any organization from the point of view of the people who run it. For example, starting from the front page of any university website, count how many clicks it takes you to get to a page showing the faculty members who teach in any specific department (Physics, English, Civil Engineering, Sociology, Chemistry, it doesn't matter, just pick one).
https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115774835699332691

2025-12-21 20:30:18 UTC

If your artifact’s rather obtuse
With a purpose you can’t quite deduce
You’ll always be able
To write on the label
“Most likely for ritual use”

2025-12-11 23:43:50 UTC

Everyone loves nostalgic eight-bit gaming until they have to play the worst eight-bit game ever devised, i.e. bibtex.

2025-11-21 00:55:17 UTC

Ha! Compiled Zork from source with zilf and zapf (https://zilf.io/); running in Yazmin (https://github.com/dcsch/yazmin/releases/tag/v1.0.2). Nice.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/584/959/348/670/571/original/778158212d58e69b.png

2025-10-20 17:42:24 UTC

Always worth taking sentences that use “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

2025-10-13 20:20:12 UTC

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/13/parking-signs/

2025-09-25 10:53:37 UTC

An instructive contrast here. When it comes to EU policies it thinks are bad for business, Apple has no trouble making full-throated, detailed, public statements like this, because it—correctly!—judges it’s dealing with a government that can be pressured in a conventional way. When it comes to the US, however, it's all kiss-ass humiliation dinners and gold trophies. A good illustration of how debased governance has become in the US. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/the-digital-markets-acts-impacts-on-eu-users/

2025-08-23 17:36:01 UTC

The most compact, informative, and useful introduction to the Philosophy and Sociology of Science remains Kovar (2001), “Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass”.
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2025-08-19 15:28:01 UTC

Semester starts next week; people starting to show up around the place.
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2025-08-08 00:25:57 UTC

I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/08/07/blueberry-hill/
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2025-07-16 01:03:43 UTC

@npub1e0x…xqda Chesterton's Fence is only the beginning.
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/06/26/razor-gun-fence/

2025-07-12 21:49:38 UTC

I see it’s time once again to break this out of storage.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/842/466/702/106/113/original/b23a094df9f9e4dc.jpeg

2025-06-28 20:41:10 UTC

I became a U.S. citizen this past Friday. I wrote a thing about it.
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/06/28/american/

2025-06-26 12:14:29 UTC

The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/749/608/123/519/699/original/8a1e712320fd86df.jpeg

2025-06-12 23:09:58 UTC

You might ask, “What could be more American than someone whose parents moved from Mexico and met in LA, who went to MIT, worked as an engineer, got into politics in response to immigrant issues, and eventually got elected Senator?” And the answer is “Reactionary nativists and their henchmen.”

2025-06-09 13:03:09 UTC

The LAPD Tactical Donut shot works quite well as a cover for all kinds of classics, tbh
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/653/539/445/091/528/original/a04a053c8030419d.png
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2025-06-09 01:35:17 UTC

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with current “Very large numbers of Americans live in big cities, that’s one of the main reasons why they are big, you see, it’s just, like, science man”, discourse, with real Census data and everything.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/650/835/409/355/858/original/02713114e5a283bf.jpeg

2025-06-07 20:22:15 UTC

RIP Bill Atkinson. “-2000 lines of code”
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

2025-05-20 15:49:42 UTC

The long-sought pinnacle, the very apex, of a well-rounded education, the platonic ideal of the life of the mind, is to become a full-time fact-checker and nonsense-detector for devices that extrude plausible-sounding slop for the benefit of people who are trying to get away with something.

2025-05-20 15:32:43 UTC

AI Slop “content” package (an advertising vehicle) appears in the Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere. Summer Reading list includes mostly real authors with mostly confabulated titles. Recipes include quotes from an imaginary food anthropologist at Cornell. Also an imaginary nutritionist and her imaginary book. https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/
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2025-05-14 12:44:39 UTC

They conkered them, obviously; Jesus Christ do I have to do everything around here
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2025-05-08 02:45:29 UTC

Viable Post-LLM Pedagogical Strategy:
– In-person, active learning only
– One-on-one instruction
– Examination via practical tasks
– No lectures, just enigmatic remarks
– Classes offered only in Swamp
– Breaks for intensive physical exercise
– Hit obstreperous droid with walking stick

2025-05-04 16:05:36 UTC

Nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/30/world/us-travel-decline.html
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2025-05-02 11:12:49 UTC

Nature reports that the NSF has stopped funding awardees entirely, “until further notice”. This administration is determined to destroy the country’s scientific research infrastructure by choking off funding and taking a wrecking ball to the merit review system.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

2025-04-20 19:58:28 UTC

Happy Easter from Britain and Ireland’s most tortured 19th century hip-hop artist. (Quite seriously. That is what sprung rhythm is. Try it.)
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2025-04-18 01:00:58 UTC

I like how if you are discussing some large amount of money via text—like, a house price, or a federal grant or something, it doesn't matter—and you write out the number, then no matter what the number is Apple Pay will helpfully pop up and be like Hey! You need to send this cash to someone???
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/356/260/309/677/643/original/3e8f8756e6ff00ab.png

2025-04-13 01:37:47 UTC

“Hi it’s Elon. Can we be friends? Will you be my friend? I’ll give you a cybertruck I promise.”
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/

2025-03-12 16:59:49 UTC

Here’s a graph based on data from the Digest of Education Statistics, derived ultimately from IPEDS, both of which are overseen by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a federal agency that traces its roots to legislation passed in 1867, which been collecting data on U.S. educational enrollment and attainment since 1870, and whose staff were apparently all fired yesterday.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/150/525/224/009/943/original/56c76d6f4296db32.png

2025-03-02 13:21:34 UTC

I assume this is a direct translation from the Māori that the surveyor wrote down thinking it referred to a feature of the landscape.
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2025-02-24 02:48:58 UTC

Very helpful and accurate answer from Google AI to a search about how many episodes are in this season of Severance. Carefully reasoned.
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2025-02-05 17:45:27 UTC

Should probably make a habit of just reposting this.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/952/523/711/649/162/original/6d31ebca069cfe64.jpeg

2025-02-05 13:20:09 UTC

I made this graph just now—sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee—with free software and a subset of the four million data points provided for EVERY DAY since late 1981 publicly and without restriction by NOAA just on this measure alone. Now I wonder how much longer it will be possible to do this.
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2025-01-31 22:36:55 UTC

Jesus Christ
https://www.census.gov
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2025-01-29 12:20:49 UTC

After a day spent fighting with R about fonts, preventing the rise of authoritarianism in the US seems like a reasonable and achievable goal.

2025-01-10 16:21:41 UTC

This Thiel Op-Ed is really nuts. I mean, truly. His focus of attention is like a pinball careening around in a machine where every bumper and paddle is a noisy, flashing conspiracy topic. I get more measured and carefully-reasoned emails on these topics every other week from mentally-ill cranks.
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105

2025-01-03 18:10:15 UTC

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Aw, Meta deleted its terrible weird bots with great speed already. Obviously now we need some sort of leading-edge tumblr-like uwu smol bean hot take from e.g. a Bot Ally who is SOBBING at the elimination of their ai fren they had been using as a therapist.

2025-01-03 15:33:31 UTC

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Oh look, these have been around for a while https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/social-profiles-for-metas-ai-characters/amp/

2025-01-03 15:05:51 UTC

On Instagram, this “Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” who is “Your realest source for life’s ups and downs”—it’s a bot created and managed by Meta—posts amongst other things about making imaginary charitable donations, complete with picture of imaginary boxes of coats.
Oh, Jean Baudrillard, how the rock-kickers sneered at you back in the day.
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2024-12-29 15:24:33 UTC

Casting Muppet Ulysses. Kermit as Bloom, Piggy as Molly, Gonzo as Stephen. Fozzie as Buck Mulligan. Link Hogthrob as Blazes Boylan. Wanda as Gerty MacDowell. Statler and Waldorf (both) as The Citizen. Sam as AE. Janice and Denise as Mina and Lydia. Rizzo and Pepe as Compton and Carr.

2024-12-21 11:17:41 UTC

The Dead of Winter
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/12/21/the-dead-of-winter/

2024-12-18 18:10:35 UTC

Really quite partial to these covers designed in the 1960s and early 1970s by Erwin Poell for n+m, Naturwissenschaft und Medizin, the in-house magazine of German pharma company Boehringer Sohn.
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2024-12-13 13:01:08 UTC

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Small example of a useless New Zealand academic research project (with strong Māori representation) expressly designed to not directly be commercially viable and not innovative insofar as it copied an existing product on the market.
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2024-12-13 04:17:56 UTC

New Zealand scraps all research funding for the social sciences and humanities.
https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences

2024-12-07 00:27:00 UTC

Hey everyone, it’s Little Bobby Tables’s cousin, Annie Actions https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/18027

2024-12-05 16:47:48 UTC

An Elfad is just an Elfoid in the category of Elfofunctors

2024-11-28 14:11:33 UTC

A superb argument against the existence of ghosts from 1st century CE Chinese philosopher Wang Chong. https://iep.utm.edu/wangchon/
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2024-11-24 17:56:18 UTC

Hot damn, David from Usagi Electric finally got the Bendix G15—a vacuum tube digital computer from 1958—up and running. He’s been fixing it for the past 18 months, doing everything from repairing frozen bearings to fixing the paper tape reader to testing thousands of germanium diodes. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe1wYwGcjlo

2024-11-15 00:22:48 UTC

Having an anti-vaxxer whose bullshit caused children to die of measles be appointed as HHS Secretary is beyond disgusting. The history of Public Health is sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccination. Everything else is improvements at the margin they created. Here’s 200 years of mortality data.
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2024-11-11 13:27:29 UTC

Good stuff as usual from @npub1fzn…nnyk
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/11/09/why-are-we-using-llms-as-calculators/

2024-11-07 13:49:30 UTC

Nice image from JBM. This sort of comparative perspective tends to rule out a lot of US-centric, highly contingent explanations for why things turned out as they did.
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2024-11-01 10:53:07 UTC

Google’s methods are opaque enough that I’d hesitate to draw any particularly strong conclusions, but opening a Private Browsing window and searching for “Can my husband …” and “Can my wife …” certainly produces some striking contrasts in the autocompletes.
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2024-10-31 15:51:20 UTC

One thing I appreciate about Apple product videos is they way that, when they focus on the usefulness of their laptops for research, they really get the details of my life as an academic researcher just right. Like when I am writing my jellyfish paper in the lab filled with jellyfish, and other random fish, and test tubes, and mood lighting, and am looking for just the right jellyfish and/or blue whale illustration to drop in my paper.
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2024-10-25 19:35:28 UTC

When a billionaire owner’s effort to avoid negative attention about fascist appeasement by directing his editorial board to not endorse a candidate inadvertently draws far more attention than simply letting the newspaper follow its normal process would have, this is known as the Reichstand Effect.

2024-10-15 02:03:54 UTC

In a funny way, Chotiner has the same superpower as Trump, which is that for some reason he can make everyone he deals with think that they’re gonna be the one to finally handle this guy, get what they want from the interaction, and come out of it looking pretty good, unlike all those other chumps.

2024-10-12 21:28:54 UTC

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Sometimes I do it e.g. like this.
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2024-10-12 21:10:56 UTC

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Yeah this is a common issue with facets of this kind—made worse here by the fact that there are twelve of them. When I am doing stuff that's a little more polished I often move the equivalent of the month-labels inside the panels, to avoid this sort of confusion. (The reason the panel labels are above the panels by default instead of below them is that if they were below the bottom panel would conflict with the x-axis label.)

2024-10-12 20:48:41 UTC

Halloween Data Cleaning. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2024/10/12/halloween-data-cleaning/
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2024-10-09 23:49:24 UTC

Watch Erin’s <@npub1sac…kcpe> XOXO talk from earlier this year and then have a look at what she's in the process of ramping up at https://www.wrecka.ge/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwM8HdOY-A

2024-10-06 13:54:34 UTC

A working Turing Machine made out of Lego. Posted to Lego Ideas in the hope that Lego will make a set of it, I think. Detailed video of operation at the link. Absolute madness. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7/updates#content_nav_tabs
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2024-09-11 18:06:19 UTC

If you didn't want her to tick every box, you should have made some of them radio buttons instead.
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2024-09-11 12:20:03 UTC

The idea that there’s a substantial contingent of “undecided” voters watching the debate, listening to Trump go on about cat-eating immigrants, thoughtfully stroking their chins, and remarking to their spouse that they should like to hear more “fine print” from Harris on trade and energy policy is quite delightful, really.

2024-09-04 21:31:38 UTC

I see it’s time to post this again. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2019/08/03/rituals-of-childhood/

2024-08-30 13:44:29 UTC

<Turns to neighbor in church pew> “This new Lay Reader is smart and charming but this definitely isn’t the version of The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes that I remember”
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2024-08-28 23:34:08 UTC

Finally getting my home office the way I like it.
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2024-08-26 18:21:44 UTC

The key slide for Day 1 of Modern Plain Text Computing
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2024-08-22 23:19:03 UTC

Gearing up to teach Modern Plain-Text Computing, which I’m pleased to say is now required for new grad students. A real barrier to successful PhD research—a “hidden curriculum”, to coin a phrase—is knowing how to use your computer properly for technical work, which no-one teaches. Except now we do.

2024-08-21 01:10:09 UTC

MAR—Missing at random MCAR—Missing completely at random
MDTR—Missing don’t tell reviewer
MBAG—Missing bad at Git
NMUF—Not missing unfortunately faked
MINTATIA—Missing I’m not typing all that in again
MIWHCAF—Missing it would have cost a fortune
MLOMWYMAD—Missing look on my work ye mighty and despair

2024-08-18 14:01:26 UTC

I want to hear Trump ramble at length about Sraffa’s neglected legacy, the Cambridge Capital Controversy, Neo-Ricardian theory, and unexpected reswitching dynamics in seemingly simple models of an economy consisting of iron, corn, and labor inputs.
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2024-08-17 15:29:30 UTC

This is so funny.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/15/burning-man-tickets-resale-low-prices/
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2024-08-16 00:03:17 UTC

I have to say, the one good thing about Zuckerberg is the way he acts as a repeated and decisive rebuttal of the notion that the world would be a better place if only the techbros had some sort of education in Classics and the Humanities more generally. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx29e0w3gkvo

2024-08-15 15:53:50 UTC

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Lolol
(That line is the one that fully cements the claim that Hamilton is the world’s most successful after-school special)

2024-08-15 15:31:40 UTC

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Yeah, I picked Mark just because he's generally thought of as the main source for Matthew and Luke (along with the mysterious Q)

2024-08-15 15:28:10 UTC

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It’s in Mark, Matthew, and Luke.

2024-08-15 15:18:47 UTC

—You know that Lincoln didn’t really mean “We should find common ground”, in that speech, right? He meant “This is either gonna go all one way or all the other, there's really no middle ground”
— But I saw it on a “Civility” billboard
— Also, when he opened with that line, the people listening would have known he was quoting Mark
— Mark? Mark who?
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2024-08-13 20:35:00 UTC

I have acquired a new candidate First Day Of Class t-shirt, designed for the way we live (and do assignments) now.
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2024-08-12 23:02:41 UTC

Apple in Don Fanucci mode with Patreon.
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2024-08-10 18:40:57 UTC

English Journalists, please learn the difference between a modal infinitive and the perfect tense. Thank you. The first President *to have worked* at McDonald’s.
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2024-08-06 14:48:22 UTC

TIL Walz keynoted the Esri User Conference last month in San Diego. Looking forward to a GIS Nerd admistration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8BrT0-6gM
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2024-08-04 23:20:27 UTC

Funny how the expected successful career length of elite women athletes has increased in a range of sports where it’s become less acceptable for coaches to be pedophiles. The validation of this observation is left to an enterprising Economist with a panel dataset and a plausibly exogenous IV.

2024-08-03 18:17:19 UTC

Meanwhile, the newest Olympic Eggcorn from athletics commentators is “Repercharge”, because you presumably have a chance to “repair* your position in the standings by *charging* ahead of the other losers.

2024-07-31 13:43:37 UTC

I know last semester’s campus protests caused problems for its administration, but is Harvard *quite* sure it wants to unilaterally ban using chalk or writing or drawing on any University property? I can imagine several, uh, plausibly educational use-cases.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/7/30/harvard-campus-use-policies-draft-document/
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