Kieran Healy

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Last Notes

2024-08-06 14:48:22

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

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

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

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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2024-07-27 14:21:57

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I'm reminded of a remark by the noted social theorist of gift exchange Fred Rogers: “And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child, the gift is really self”. The gift is really self, you Google AI weirdos.

2024-07-27 14:14:06

Good Lord, how depressing is that Google Gemini ad about getting the AI to write your kid’s fan letter to her hero athlete? Why not get Midjourney to make a picture to enclose as well? What do they think it means for a child to write a fan latter, or for a recipient to read one?

2024-07-26 01:02:51

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I taught him theory when he visited Duke for a bit!

2024-07-24 21:37:13

The one and only entertaining thing about NBC Olympics coverage is when they pick out a sob story or narrative arc about Overcoming The Odds or Redeeming Past Failure or Fulfilling One’s Destiny or whatever and reality stubbornly refuses to cooperate and some rando the commentators don’t know wins.

2024-07-22 15:11:33

This is of course a comically stupid take but reminds me the opposite is what’s actually true. A tremendously useful feature of democracies generally is that leaders get to exit to a comfortable retirement on their estate rather than waiting nervously for a rival or former associate to murder them.
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2024-07-19 11:34:56

But it just doesn't make any sense they said; it's a useless old relic they said; you should simply switch to our centrally-managed solution fully protected by CrowdStrike they said
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2024-07-18 12:25:26

There was a time not too long ago when snake fighting was confined to advanced PhD-level training, but now, thanks to the diffusion of technology, everyone is expected to do it themselves.
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2024-07-07 13:37:50

Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards.
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2024-06-21 19:38:45

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Aw, hearing you talk about that book was how I learned of your existence in the world! https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/03/08/content-strategy-and-the-birth-of-occupations/

2024-06-19 20:44:15

My LLM assistant will polish my text to a high sheen of professionalism so that your LLM assistant can then summarize it down to a short paragraph; this is all very sensible

2024-06-03 17:24:30

This seems like both a personal cry for help and an indication that you work for a dangerously dysfunctional organization
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2024-06-03 11:55:18

It's fun that people come up with truly clever little hacks like the udm14 trick for Google search and find ways to integrate it into their setups, but I can't help but feel that it has the same vibe as those allegedly heart-warming news stories where a kid runs a lemonade stand to raise money to pay off their classmates' school lunch debt or their Mom's medical bills. Like, that's nice but why the hell are we even in this situation in the first place?

2024-06-02 13:43:33

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2024-05-24 15:16:07

The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me
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2024-05-09 21:59:31

YouTube continuing to algorithmically serve vulnerable people dangerous and radicalizing content
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2024-05-08 23:32:17

Be the Change you want to see in the World—Graduation Speaker
Change the Bee you want to see in the World—Genetic Engineer
Want the Change you see be in the world—Numismatist
See the Bee you want to change in the World—Field Entomologist
Change the See you want to be in the World—Pope Francis
Change in the World? You want a Seabee—Chester Nimitz

2024-04-25 19:35:32

John Adams: … to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Supreme Court: Unless the President would like to kill someone for personal gain
John Adams: Unless of course the Pr—wait what

2024-04-25 14:15:36

Looking forward to a rash of this shit as AI tools find their place in society https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/

2024-04-09 02:16:32

Today's events stitched together from a series of JPGs courtesy of the GOES-EAST Weather Satellite.
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