- Andrew Gelman: Similarities and differences between stage magicians purporting to do close reading, and p-hackers purporting to do real science. An excellent post about what’s in the headline, spurred by a five-hour video which I haven’t seen. Note that this is on Gelman’s substack newsletter which purports to be merely a summary of what’s on his blog and early access to some of the articles which he plans to post there, but no, much of the original content is unique to the substack. Have we learned nothing from Twitter et al.?
- Mr. Market (pseud., clearly): What the Fuck Happened to Nerds. How we got from Jobs and Woz to Altman and Musk. His other posts are also quite good.
- Mike Masnick: And Now Basically Everyone In This LEGO Dispute Looks Sketchy. An update from last week’s Thursday link on the great LEGO heist. The more you know, the blurrier everything gets.
- Brennan Kenneth Brown: Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb. For a few days this week most posts on bubbles.town were about the great coffee controversy, spurred as these things often are by a curmudgeonly take on “Buy me a coffee” buttons. I largely agree with Brown — these requests are unobtrusive and satisfy the people’s need to help each other out.