Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

SCOOP: In July 2022, #Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Senator Angela Paxton, took a mysterious multi-country trip with a protective detail from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Now, in this exclusive story, #Politics Reporter @justinmiller reveals the Paxtons' ties to an obscure shell-company run by their friend James Frinzi, a lobbyist-turned-businessman: https://www.texasobserver.org/angela-ken-paxton-frinzi-multiband/

#impeachment #news #politics #Kenpaxton #USpol #corruption #TXlege #Republicans

Vivek Ramaswamy acquired the rights to a failed Alzheimer's drug very cheaply, reworked the failed trials to show improvement, and hyped the potential on Jim Cramer's investment show.

The IPO raised the most ever for a biotech company, and the stock skyrocketed, allowing Ramaswamy and his inner circle to cash out their shares. But when phase 3 trials were conducted, the drug flopped again, causing the stock to plummet 99% in one day.

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/vivek-ramaswamy-enriched-himself-while-costing-small-investors-their-life-savings-must-watch-5-min-video.html

New #Twitter privacy policy will allow it to "collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement..." https://twitter.com/en/privacy#x-privacy-1

Tell me I should delete the Twitter app from my phone and never upload anything to it ever again without telling me that.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4181120-x-formerly-known-as-twitter-will-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history/amp/

Just realized that the new, 2nd edition of the "R Packages" book by @hadleywickham and @jennybryan is already on sale!! 😀

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/r-packages-2nd/9781098134938/

The free online version is located at
https://r-pkgs.org/

#rstats

"Over and over again, Wright seems to think that his clearly admitted to pattern of behavior to seek out his female students and start sexual relationships with them was solely the result of consensual adults agreeing to have a relationship, with no recognition of the power indifference, and the influence both of them knew he had over their future careers.

- @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/30/if-your-108-million-defamation-lawsuit-basically-admits-to-everything-people-are-horrified-by-you-might-have-just-filed-a-slapp-suit/

Tomorrow’s UNC Daily Tar Heel.

As provided by its managing editor, Caitlyn Yaede.

Brilliant.
And heart wrenching.

Another great changelog @Gargron

Podcast with Claudia Goldin (about 24 minutes): Careers, Families, and Women’s Journey towards Economic Equity https://econofact.org/podcast/careers-families-and-womens-journey-towards-economic-equity

@cabel https://youtu.be/wzR9HwhhlkA (via @mhoye)

I'll repeat it again: Every country has mental illness, but it’s America that has the epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings.

It’s the damn guns.

The Russells published the result in the journal “Radiology” in 1952.

Since most women aren’t aware they are pregnant in those first weeks, the Russells suggested that radiologists restrict diagnostic x-rays in women of childbearing age to the 2 weeks following menstruation, as a precaution.

Ref: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/58.3.369

A couple of batards for #brekky. These are 100% AP, 85% water, 15% “harvest grain” seed mix from King Arthur and 50% starter (100% water). Baked in a very large cast iron pot (big rectangular thing) at 450F, 15min lid on, 18min off (actually I bake on the lid, upside down). #Sourdough #BreadBaking #baguettes

Ok I figured it out:
Twitter is for jocks
BlueSky is for theater kids
Mastodon is for nerds
Threads is for cheerleaders

Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program.

Credit: Steve Breen
Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/steve-breen/story/2020-02-24/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-dies-at-101

The bad news: our main campus library just announced it's cutting hours because of budget cuts and reduced student demand.

The good news! Our brand new 3,000 square foot E-sports center with 55 new MSI Trident gaming computers, 3 65" and 3 86" screens for livecasting games is now open!

What budget crisis?! Gotta keep looking on the bright side! #highered #academia @academicchatter

It's weird, I work at a software company and I get to influence new features literally every single day, but I'm more excited about this Mastodon rolling out and seeing people love it, knowing that I played a part in it getting created ❤️

https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/110944303575006245

I am surprised this paper received so little attention. It dramatically reduces RAM requirements for very big #statistical #generalizedlinearmodels while offering #computational speed ups ~x500. A #recommender system used it in a #neuralnetwork with #tensorflow to get substantial time & memory savings.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13080
Languages with #array/ #tensor features should take note, as this is a serious contender to sparse matrix computations #datascience #machinelearning
https://mstdn.science/@ChristosArgyrop/110934217550435224