Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Mojang, the studio behind MineCraft, is exiting Reddit and abandoning is 7 million user strong subreddit after the way the company has handled the API clampdown and ensuing protests.

It’s truly incredible to me that their CEO saw what Elon did to Twitter and said, hold my beer.

https://www.pcgamer.com/minecrafts-devs-exit-its-7-million-strong-subreddit-after-reddits-ham-fisted-crackdown-on-protest/

Pixelfed is what Instagram used to be, and I love it.

#Pixelfed #Instagram

Speedrunning is kinda cursed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQWT9rSkfM

Did you know this? Apparently if you bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the US, depending on when you bought it the "bros" in the logo is either aligned left on the label or right.

*If the logo on your cart is aligned right, you can't get a world record under current strategies.*

And until *last year*, nobody realized this was a problem. It was believed the versions were functionally identical.

(image source reddit user stang189)

MRAN shutting down? Migrate to Posit Package Manager.

Access historic package snapshots from CRAN, Bioconductor, and PyPI. #RStats #Python

Check out our blog post for all the details: https://posit.co/blog/migrating-from-mran-to-posit-package-manager/

BREAD/International Growth Centre online PhD course on environment and development Designed for PhD students, but all are welcome. Sep 14 to Nov 9, 2023. Registration free.

Lectures by Michael Greenstone, Esther Duflo, John van Reenen, Nick Ryan, Ben Olken, Reed Walker, Clare Balboni, among others.

https://www.theigc.org/events/bread-igc-virtual-phd-course-environmental-economics

When you listen to The Verge's podcast and they're legitimately saying Mastodon is a "no girls allowed" club? And we don't want Facebook here because Instagram will bring women here?!

What the fuck is wrong with these American tech pundits? Mastodon is the gayest, transest, most feminine social network I've ever seen. There are so many more outspoken, smart, odd, and downright weird women here than I've ever seen on any other social network. It's fucking great.

During one of the last concerts of the Purple Rain tour, Prince welcomed Madonna (on tambourine) and Bruce Springsteen (on guitar) onstage in LA for a nearly-20-minute-long version of Baby I'm A Star: https://soundcloud.com/user-389440360/la-forum-baby-im-a-star-feat-madonna-bruce-springsteen At 7:03, listen for Prince asking, "Bruce, you wanna play something?"

Excited to share that a note I wrote with @endahargaden is forthcoming in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector quarterly.

We find that in a highly artificial lab environment, shares of "income" donated to charity follow a nonlinear "U-shape," mirroring an empirical oddity from the observational literature. This means that relative income may have nonlinear causal effects on giving.

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"Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/obituaries/harry-m-markowitz-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ME: Make the paragraph go here
MICROSOFT WORD: No
ME:
MICROSOFT WORD:
ME: I'd like to speak with the paperclip

9 in 10 Americans think the Supreme Court should have a formal ethics code, bipartisan majority supports term limits https://twitter.com/AGTheodoridis/status/1671987990799822850?s=20

"Never laugh at someone for being interested in something you find weird or boring. That just means you don't know enough about it yet."

Something my (now sadly deceased) mum said to me when I was a teen.

Always stuck with me.

Truer now, in the era of social media, than ever.

RT https://twitter.com/CavaliereGiu

Hi #EconTwitter! Interested in expanding your knowledge on 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 #econometrics? The top statistician Aad Van Der Vaart (@tudelft@twitter.com) has some great notes covering the mathematical theory of time series. Recommended before getting into estimation and inference!

Link to pdf https://t.co/yqoSezoDW7

Earlier this year a former inmate came to me w/a USB drive of surveillance videos another inmate had picked out of the trash at Men's Central Jail & sold to him for $50 of dope

He hid it INSIDE himself for mths then smuggled it out

Here's what was on it: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-24/fights-beatings-and-a-birth-videos-smuggled-out-of-la-jails-reveal-violence-neglect

Arlington County ran a proportional preferential voting system for the Democratic Party primary for two Board seats. One candidate from each voting block was elected. Likely that the traditional method would have given one block both primary seats. There was no mention of the proportionality part prior to the vote. Lots of talk about the preferential part. Apparently this was one of the first ever use of proportional preferential voting in the US. https://vote.arlingtonva.gov/Ranked-Choice-Voting #voting #Arlington #RCV

I absolutely adore the whimsical #art of 3D sidewalk chalk artist David Zinn. https://zinnart.com

Zinn creates delightful “works of ephemeral pareidolic anamorphosis” inspired by weeds, sewer covers, traffic cones & nearly everything he encounters around his Ann Arbor community.

Nevermind ya'll, it was just a parade