Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Delighted to share that will be in Washington DC for #aps23dc where I'll be giving a workshop on our paper "Data visualization using R for researchers who don't use R" so if you ever wanted to learn #rstats from a #PsyTeachR in person, now's your chance!

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/2023-aps-annual-convention/2023-workshops

Original paper at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25152459221074654

Also pls send DC recs for things to do (especially super queer ones)

#dataviz

Laptop Brands with GNU/Linux Preinstalled

Boost is very appreciated.

Lenovo https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/

Dell https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems

Purism https://puri.sm

Kubuntu Focus https://kfocus.org

System76 https://system76.com

Slimebook https://slimbook.es/en/store

ThinkPenguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com

Star Labs https://starlabs.systems

Tuxedo https://www.tuxedocomputers.com

Nitrokey https://shop.nitrokey.com

LWL https://laptopwithlinux.com/

MintBox https://linuxmint.com/store.php

#GNU #Linux #Laptop

tidyverse 2.0.0 is out now! https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/tidyverse-2-0-0/ — main change in this release is that lubridate is (finally!) part of the core tidyverse and is thus automatically loaded #rstats

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Today’s thinking music: Stardew Valley Piano Collections #NowPlaying #music

https://songwhip.com/concernedape/stardew-valley-piano-collections

The fun thing about management by fucking around is that only later do you bother to figure out what you did wrong, long after you made a mess...

It's #tax season, so #TurboTax is once again advertising just about everywhere.

Remember:
• TurboTax spent decades fighting to stop Americans from filing taxes for free:
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

• There are ways to file for free without TurboTax:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-taxes-for-free-without-turbotax?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Taxes #IRS #Intuit #Badvertising

It is difficult to describe just how incredibly, stupidly, frustrating it is that Gigi Sohn had to withdraw from her nomination to the FCC (because a few heavily lobbied Democratic Senators blocked her).

At the end of the Trump years, the Senate rushed through Nathan Simington in a few weeks to be an FCC commissioner despite a near total lack of experience or skills for the job.

Meanwhile Biden took 9 months to even nominate Sohn and then never provided the support she needed.

Suppose your preferences are to max

Q of Econ department
x
Q of sport climbing in 50km radius

What’s the best US department?

Asking for a friend?

🎉 We're really excited to be fully rolling this out: As of today, our #Mastodon instance me.dm is fully open to all Medium members!

If you're a Medium member, read on to learn how to quickly and easily get your @me.dm account up and running: https://blog.medium.com/join-mastodon-with-medium-e2d6d814325b

My wife and I went to Barnes and Noble in Brookfield, Wisconsin yesterday to get pictures of "Mastodon for Dummies." The staff person who helped us find the shelf had me sign the book. Afterwards she said she'd add an "Author signed" sticker to the cover. That was fun!

New, from me: The Wisconsin state Supreme Court race may be the most important election this year. It will affect access to abortion in the state and possibly also the 2024 presidential election.
It may also be decided by a billionaire donor family that has been an aggressive funder of election deniers.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-most-important-election-this

Back in 1996, I archived Prince's own first-person narrative of why he changed his name, which he briefly published on his website and then quickly pulled down. After his passing, I brought it back online for the first time in two decades.The long-lost "Message from The Artist": https://medium.com/@anildash/message-from-the-artist-c611535da21c

"I was beyond frustrated with my lack of control over my career and music."

Heartbreaking news. The university and the profession have lost a brilliant mind, an extraordinary leader, and a fine person. https://apps.umark.wisc.edu/lighthouse-letters/letters/2113/preview?auth=bfcd91cf918b25afe5030ff515fd7352

R's S7 (formerly R7) new object-oriented paradigm is coming.

It's goal is to replace the lightweight and easy S3, and presently functional but slightly more complex S4 OOP systems with yet-another R OOP system that is intended to be the one encouraged for default use using moving forward.

You can start to learn how to use S7 here: https://github.com/RConsortium/OOP-WG

The working group is asking R Core for language changes (& providing patches) to enable better language integration.