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    <title>Time for a &quot;Land Acknowledgement&quot;! - by Brad DeLong</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shorter BDL: "This attack helicopter really identifies as a land acknowledgement".  ]]></description>
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factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.
We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation
records, should they arise."

--- Should ask C.M. whether this is really fair.
--- ETA: he says it's completely fair.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Bookmarking this because it (thoughtfully) includes a full version of the now-retracted paper, so that posterity can appreciate JAK JAK JAK.
--- This was, of course, a peer-reviewed paper in a journal indexed by all the usual suspects.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Too good to excerpt, in a we're-fucked way.]]></description>
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    <title>On the origin of psychological research practices, with special regard to self-reported nostril width – The 100% CI</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-01T21:44:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Polygenic Score prediction of Gross Domestic Product using Arabidopsis thaliana GWAS</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-15T15:02:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://github.com/andrewkern/gdp_pgs/blob/master/araThal.ipynb</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This was born out of an undergraduate course on Computational Genetics, in which I teach about GWAS. As GWAS is a technology that is built on correlative relations I like to try to do bad things with it. As always-- correlation does not equal causation. Recently the use of Polygenic scores (PGS) has become a popular way of doing phenotypic prediction from genotype data. PGS, at their most basic, are a sum of GWAS estimated effect sizes for an individual's genotype.
"In this notebook I develop a PGS predictor of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country of origin of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. I do this by treating GDP as a phenotype and then performing GWAS for that phenotype using a set of Arabidopsis genomes. I will make no attempt to correct for population structure at first-- this is the point of this excercise. All of the data for this comes from the 1001 Genomes dataset, its associated metadata, and GDP data that I gleaned from here."

--- Note that even after "correcting" for the top 10 principal components of genetic variation, he gets an out-of-sample R^2 of 0.14.  
(To check: were the held-out samples accidentally included in calculating the PCs?)  Hence the last tag.]]></description>
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    <title>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social</title>
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    <dc:date>2019-10-23T21:26:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tompepinsky.com/2019/10/08/the-idea-of-power-in-american-culture/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>anthropology funny:malicious us_politics pepinsky.thomas</dc:subject>
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    <title>Rogue Works Progress Administration on Twitter: &quot;Fear leads to anger Anger leads to hate Hate leads to 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 https://t.co/VWub479QnO&quot; / Twitter</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:because_its_true social_media to_teach:data-mining blogged</dc:subject>
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    <title>How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain – Terence Eden's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-14T15:47:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/</link>
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    <title>Move over, Sokal Hoax — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-04T06:25:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2018/10/03/move-over-sokal-hoax/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:academic funny:malicious funny:because_its_true economics kith_and_kin farrell.henry academia us_culture_wars</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theonion.com/article/twitter-introduces-red-x-mark-verify-users-its-oka-56527">
    <title>Twitter Introduces Red X Mark To Verify Users It’s Okay To Harass - The Onion - America's Finest News Source</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-03T14:13:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/article/twitter-introduces-red-x-mark-verify-users-its-oka-56527</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:pointed social_media networked_life twitter re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://extranewsfeed.com/the-noise-miners-cffe6c14b626">
    <title>The Noise Miners – Extra Newsfeed</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-29T15:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://extranewsfeed.com/the-noise-miners-cffe6c14b626</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious satire data_mining social_science_methodology bad_data_analysis to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
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    <title>Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis utilizing the theory of Alternative Facts | Conjecture</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious mathematics</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I was wondering what else Feminist Hell contains, when, at the midpoint of my life, I found myself lost in a wood so dark that the path ahead was blotted out. I felt a terrible fear, heard immense wailing and there was a big sign overhead about Abandoning Hope Of Having It All, Ye Who Enter Here.
"Fortunately, Feminist Virgil was nice enough to give me a tour. (This was regular Virgil but he had fixed the Dido parts.) "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-12-09T02:46:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). Across multiple studies, the propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief). Parallel associations were less evident among profundity judgments for more conventionally profound (e.g., “A wet person does not fear the rain”) or mundane (e.g., “Newborn babies require constant attention”) statements. These results support the idea that some people are more receptive to this type of bullshit and that detecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims. Our results also suggest that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity."

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<dc:subject>to:NB cognitive_science rhetoric natural_history_of_truthiness funny:geeky funny:malicious social_life_of_the_mind</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa528b737cfd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/129400298906/398ppm-and-all-that">
    <title>Biased and Inefficient - 398ppm and All That</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-21T02:27:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/129400298906/398ppm-and-all-that</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No summary could do this justice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate_change conspiracy_theories china:prc natural_history_of_truthiness running_dogs_of_reaction funny:geeky funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming lumley.thomas to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f1055caace7c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://the-toast.net/2015/01/23/tell-high-fantasy-novel/">
    <title>How To Tell If You Are In A High Fantasy Novel</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-25T00:16:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://the-toast.net/2015/01/23/tell-high-fantasy-novel/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Funny, but really this is a criticism of extruded epic fantasy product, rather than high fantasy proper; it's about mistaking Poughkeepsie for Elfland.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious literary_criticism fantasy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ce44da4007ac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://xkcd.com/1450/">
    <title>xkcd: AI-Box Experiment</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-12T17:25:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://xkcd.com/1450/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious rapture_for_nerds to:blog artificial_intelligence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:72825692ae92/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://catandgirl.com/?p=4711">
    <title>Cat and Girl » Archive » Cavemen and Dinosaurs</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-12T01:31:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://catandgirl.com/?p=4711</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious the_wired_ideology via:absfac</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:10ef5db75b1b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241">
    <title>A Summary Of The Gamergate Movement That We Will Immediately Change If Any Of Its Members Find Any Details Objectionable</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-23T01:04:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As always, _The Onion_ is America's only source for news.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:geeky funny:pointed nerdworld misogyny networked_life social_media have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bd1ebd4ad2b1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/shit_rbtc_says">
    <title>Shit /r/Bitcoin says (shit_rbtc_says) on Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-20T12:57:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/shit_rbtc_says</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious bitcoin the_wired_ideology via:unfogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:39a0e8e9f92d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-place">
    <title>A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World | Fast Company | Business + Innovation</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-20T15:10:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-place</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Observation 1: This seems like an example of what Steve Laniel calls "business porn", but it's one where the titilation comes from seeing everything go horribly, horribly wrong.  What should we call this?  My 2nd tag is not a very good effort in this line.

Observation 2: We have here a situation where a glib ideologue with no relevant expertise caught the ear of some powerful people and wasted vast economic and human resources trying to realize their abstract vision, only to achieve nothing.  If this had happened in the bad old days, it would be a textbook chapter in why we shouldn't leave everything to the central planners.  What makes this better?]]></description>
<dc:subject>cars business_disaster_porn funny:malicious the_wired_ideology corporations have_read via:? to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c0a26294b8bf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/05/another-one-bites-the-dust-neo-bee/">
    <title>Five Red Flags that Preceded Neo &amp; Bee's Collapse</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-06T21:10:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/05/another-one-bites-the-dust-neo-bee/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The story is so fantastic that if I made it up, editors would reject my novel because it'd be too unbelievable."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious bitcoin fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e0a87c2b1a2d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2014/03/yet-another-bauble-from-my-files.html">
    <title>The Philosopher's Stone: YET ANOTHER BAUBLE FROM MY FILES</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-12T18:25:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2014/03/yet-another-bauble-from-my-files.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:academic satire cultural_criticism bloom.allan bellow.saul wolff.robert_paul university_of_chicago neoconservativism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416">
    <title>Language Log » &quot;Hemingway&quot; on Hemingway</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-04T17:01:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious evisceration writing_advice liberman.mark</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:eaecd137bae5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://asecondmouse.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/the-war-on-yule/">
    <title>The War on Yule | asecondmouse</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-21T16:01:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://asecondmouse.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/the-war-on-yule/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As we mark the solstice, and the beginning of return of the sun to the north, I wish to reflect briefly on how thoroughly we seem to have lost touch with the origins of this holiday.
"Yes, the outward signs surround us: the evergreen wreaths on doors, the houses and streets festooned with lights against the darkness of December, the ubiquitous gaily-decorated trees—aluminum, plastic, occasionally real, all invoking the world-encompassing Yggdrasil—and festive gathering of friends and family [1] before the blazing Yule fire [2] to feast and drink mulled wine. Even that ever-present “Santa”: obviously an odd synthesis from many cultures, but coming out of the northern skies in a sled pulled by reindeer and accompanied by elves. The signs of Yule are everywhere.
"But this has become shallow amid the crass materialism, the anodyne references to “the holiday season” and the confusion of social obligations. Where has our appreciation of the true Yule gone?: the blessings of the wisdom of Odin, the protection given us by Thor, the abundance bestowed by Freya? Recognition that with the passing of another year, the guardians of Asgard have again held off the Frost Giants [7], Ragnarok is again deferred, and in a few months the light and warmth of summer will return?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious funny:because_its_true christmas parody via:xmarquez</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/26/karl-marx-or-pope-francis/comment-page-1/">
    <title>Karl Marx or Pope Francis? — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-26T18:42:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/26/karl-marx-or-pope-francis/comment-page-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pope Francis’s new Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, has been getting some attention today, mostly thanks to its reiteration of some long-standing Catholic doctrine on social justice and the market. So, here is a quiz to see whether you can distinguish statements by Pope Francis from statements by Karl Marx. I figured someone was likely to do this anyway, so why not be first to the market? It’s fair to say that the Pope and Karl Marx differ significantly on numerous points of theory as well as on what people asking questions at job talks refer to as the policy implications of their views..."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:academic catholicism marx.karl socialism healy.kieran</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://bahfest.com/">
    <title>BAH! | The Festival Of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-05T15:24:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bahfest.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (BAH!) is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect evolutionary theory. It is put on by Zach Weinersmith (cartoonist of SMBC), breadpig (publishers of SMBC and XKCD), and MIT's Lecture Series Committee. It is sponsored by the EvoS Consortium and This View of Life magazine (Editor-in-Chief David Sloan Wilson). We are also proud to be part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
"It will be held in MIT's Kresge Auditorium on the evening of October 6th, 2013."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious evolutionary_biology evolutionary_psychology bad_science via:john-burke</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:60ba72c9e402/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/we-already-tried-libertarianism-it-was-called-feudalism">
    <title>We Already Tried Libertarianism - It Was Called Feudalism | Next New Deal</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-11T17:32:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/we-already-tried-libertarianism-it-was-called-feudalism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>libertarianism feudalism liberalism political_philosophy funny:malicious</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1a2bfd1b7801/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://eagerpies.com/close-the-bars-down/">
    <title>Close the Bars Down | Eager Pies</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T23:58:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://eagerpies.com/close-the-bars-down/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vicious_parody funny:geeky funny:malicious visual_display_of_quantitative_information via:statschat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1f1f2336f1fd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-not-you-its-quantitative-cost-benefit-analysis#.URO1r9JCDZA.twitter">
    <title>McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Not You, It’s Quantitative Cost-Benefit Analysis.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-07T17:13:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-not-you-its-quantitative-cost-benefit-analysis#.URO1r9JCDZA.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>decision_theory funny:malicious funny:because_its_true practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information via:kjhealy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:02b64af71073/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://m.pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/689.full">
    <title>Perspectives on Psychological Science: DSM-5 Task Force Proposes Controversial Diagnosis for Dishonest Scientists</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-29T15:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://m.pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/689.full</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:academic funny:malicious hypothesis_testing psychology neuroscience via:matthew_berryman statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:85ae47460129/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hypothesis_testing"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:neuroscience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:matthew_berryman"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://anton-p-nym.livejournal.com/464530.html">
    <title>anton_p_nym: Argh, plot bunny: free to a good home</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-25T12:41:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://anton-p-nym.livejournal.com/464530.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1923, Felix Dzerzhinsky of the Soviet Union's new State Political Directorate (GPU, which evolves into the NKVD and eventually into the KGB) decides to accellerate the collapse of capitalism and thereby hasten the triumph of socialism by launching a long-term agitprop campaign.
"A young and impressionable history student in Petrograd, expelled from university when it was purged of bourgeois influences, is offered a chance to resume her studies under secret GPU auspices; upon graduation in 1924 she is granted admission to the State Technium of Screen Arts to study filmic techniques, and then sent into the United States in 1925 in order to subvert the burgeoning American film industry..."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:54ab227b3e7e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientist-human-race-becoming-dumber,30382/">
    <title>Scientist: Human Race Becoming Dumber | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-16T03:06:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientist-human-race-becoming-dumber,30382/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Citing mutations in genes that determine intelligence, as well as the fact that modern-day humans don’t have to rely as much on intellect in order to survive and reproduce, a study by Stanford geneticist Gerald Crabtree suggests people are growing dumber. What do you think?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious human_genetics human_evolution iq</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6c3ce8937296/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://isnatesilverawitch.com/">
    <title>Is Nate Silver a Witch?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-07T19:22:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://isnatesilverawitch.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Probably"]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:geeky us_politics silver.nate social_science_methodology statistics prediction why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:77cfb8020ddf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:prediction"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/pauls-letter-to-the-unskewers/">
    <title>Paul’s Letter to the Unskewers « Code and Culture</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-07T13:59:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/pauls-letter-to-the-unskewers/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["CLT never faileth: but whether there be speculations, they shall fail; whether there be talking heads, they shall cease; whether there be punditry, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we expound in part. But when the election actually happens, then that which is observed in sample shall generalize to the population. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish ideas that polls were deliberately biased. For now we see as through a homophilous social network; but then directly observe the population: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as my secret ballot remains unknown. And now abideth parameter, error, CLT, these three; but the greatest of these is CLT."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious funny:because_its_true affectionate_parody statistics us_politics evisceration social_science_methodology rossman.gabriel why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d7729099f348/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rossman.gabriel"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://mark.reid.name/iem/who-is-ml-hipster.html">
    <title>Who is ML Hipster? ← Inductio Ex Machina</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-24T11:37:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mark.reid.name/iem/who-is-ml-hipster.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ML Hipster really is great.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious machine_learning hipsters</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:50a8a8bf602e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:machine_learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hipsters"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb21/motologie/mitarbeiter_seiten/ls/storks.pdf">
    <title>Storks Deliver Babies (p = 0.008)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-11T21:38:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb21/motologie/mitarbeiter_seiten/ls/storks.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article shows that a highly statistically significant correlation exists between stork populations and human birth rates across Europe. While storks may not deliver babies, unthinking interpretation of correlation and p-values can certainly deliver unreliable conclusions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious statistics regression bad_data_analysis birds to_teach via:tslumley</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:84911b40c767/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:birds"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2012_10.php#019481">
    <title>Bookslut</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-08T15:59:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2012_10.php#019481</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is time for your weekly anxiety-riddled OH MY GOD, DOES CRITICISM EVEN MATTER I MEAN WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING WITH OUR LIVES?!?!?! roundtable.
"I would write up a little introduction to the piece, but you know what's in it by heart already."]]></description>
<dc:subject>literary_criticism criticism_of_criticism_of_criticism funny:malicious funny:because_its_true</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de0f00f68966/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://kitwhitfield.blogspot.com/2012/09/damien-hirst-meet-thomas-kinkade-i.html">
    <title>Kit Whitfield's Blog: Damien Hirst, meet Thomas Kinkade. I think you'll find you have a lot in common.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-07T20:07:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kitwhitfield.blogspot.com/2012/09/damien-hirst-meet-thomas-kinkade-i.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Thomas Kinkade, meet Damien Hirst: the Thomas Kinkade of the One Per Cent."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious art</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d8f44f324fac/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nlpers.blogspot.com/2012/09/sure-you-can-do-that.html">
    <title>natural language processing blog: Sure, you can do that....</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-26T23:22:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nlpers.blogspot.com/2012/09/sure-you-can-do-that.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let me write down a simple Markov Chain:
"1. Download some data from the web
"2. Call part of that data the input and part of it the label
"3. Train a classifier on bag of words and get 84% accuracy
"4. Submit a paper to *ACL
"5. Go to 1
"...
"For me, personally, this goes back to my main reviewing criteria: "what did I learn from this paper?"  The problem is that in the extreme, cartoon version of a data porn paper (my 1-4 list above), the answer is that I learned that machine learning works pretty well, even when asked to do arbitrary tasks.  Well, actually I already knew that.  So I didn't really learn anything."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious academia machine_learning</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c3642a525980/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/econotrolls-illustrated-bestiary.html">
    <title>Noahpinion: EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-25T22:58:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/econotrolls-illustrated-bestiary.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Except, of course, that heterodox economists _have_ been purged from various departments...]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious economics blogging smith.noah</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a0aab4dcc22d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:geeky"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:blogging"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/dict.html">
    <title>Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-21T13:37:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/dict.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This page is a fragment of a dictionary of received ideas of statistics. Most of the entries were composed one conference evening after too much wine. It is obviously modeled after Flaubert's famous compendium but inevitably is only the palest shadow of the work of Le Maître."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious econometrics statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e55036590328/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:econometrics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=420680">
    <title>Times Higher Education - Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T19:44:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=420680</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As a contribution to intellectual debate, Digital Vertigo isn't even slightly engaging. Its argument is vague, its editing shoddy, its prose execrable. As an example of adaptation to a given environment, however, it is somewhat more interesting. The book shows strong evidence of selective pressures, as well as more than a little evolutionary drift. A chitinous carapace of superficial erudition protects an interior with little meat, less nervous system and no brain worth speaking of. I suspect that it isn't quite well adapted enough for Keen to scuttle backwards into the lobster pot of internet fame as he would obviously like to, but I could very possibly be wrong."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious book_reviews networked_life farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3fba789e555f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.yiddishcursesforrepublicanjews.com/#">
    <title>Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-24T13:29:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.yiddishcursesforrepublicanjews.com/#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["May you be reunited in the world to come with your ancestors, who were all socialist garment workers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious us_politics judaism via:krugman running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4d0fab2187d3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:judaism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/beloit-college-mindset-list-1918">
    <title>McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Beloit College Mindset List: 1918.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-22T03:38:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/beloit-college-mindset-list-1918</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>academia funny:malicious via:unfogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:40f0d6e6d4ba/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/13/after-taking-beyond-the-relational-paradox-of-bringing-it-back-in-seriously-revisited/">
    <title>After Taking Beyond the Relational Paradox of Bringing It Back in Seriously, Revisited — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T14:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/13/after-taking-beyond-the-relational-paradox-of-bringing-it-back-in-seriously-revisited/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:academic academia healy.kieran &quot;towards&quot;_is_feeling_left_out</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6184331fce53/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna">
    <title>Evgeny Morozov: The Naked And The TED | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-10T15:16:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I must disclose that I spoke at a TED Global Conference in Oxford in 2009, and I admit that my appearance there certainly helped to expose my argument to a much wider audience, for which I remain grateful. So I take no pleasure in declaring what has been obvious for some time: that TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.
"Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.” "

And, later: "Brevity may be the soul of wit, or of lingerie, but it is not the soul of analysis."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious book_reviews cultural_criticism our_decrepit_institutions natural_history_of_truthiness natural_born_cyborgs utter_stupidity even_the_liberal_new_republic morozov.evgeny via:arthegall</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Brad DeLong: Parallel Universe Blogging: This Morning in Sleet</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-06T14:05:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/07/parallel-universe-blogging-this-morning-in-sleet.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are, of course, two issues:
"1. Does forbidding workers to choose an option they do choose and making no other changes make workers better off? No.
"2. Does strengthening workers' bargaining power by requiring that all employers meet minimum standards of decent treatment--by forbidding employers from requiring/workers from offering their kidneys up on a platter and limiting the sphere of potential commodities up for sale in certain ways make workers better off? Certainly yes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming utter_stupidity class_struggles_in_america yglesias.matthew delong.brad vicious_parody evisceration &quot;evisceration&quot;_tag_somewhat_more_literal_than_usual</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-is-why-they-keep-kids-away-from.html">
    <title>Hullabaloo: This is why they keep kids away from book learnin'</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-06T12:13:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-is-why-they-keep-kids-away-from.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Tim Burke once said, "We are stealing their children".]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction you've_got_to_have_sympathy_for_the_kid on_the_other_hand_he's_getting_media_attention_again</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://lisaschweitzer.com/2012/06/21/what-teaching-college-is-like-sometimes/">
    <title>What teaching college is like sometimes « Urban ethics and theory</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-21T15:43:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lisaschweitzer.com/2012/06/21/what-teaching-college-is-like-sometimes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:academic funny:malicious muppets you_might_think_that you_might_very_well_think_that i_couldnt_possibly_comment academia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/06/16/dramatically-titled-neuroscience-story/">
    <title>Dramatically titled neuroscience story « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-17T03:02:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/06/16/dramatically-titled-neuroscience-story/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Question about your life. Introduction to a thematically related tragedy. Promise of hope.
"Over-simplified premise. Mention of a brain part and an inadequately explained technology in the same sentence.
"Dramatic claim of a breakthrough.
"Researcher and affiliation. Description of motivation related to a minor personal detail.
"Overly-technical account of experiment.
"Contrived analogy.
"Rhetorical question?
"Allusion to a controversy.
"Quote from the researcher. Quote from another researcher.
"Caution about over-interpretation. Over-interpretation. Mention of future work.
"Genuinely insightful point.
"Unintentional irony.
"Earnest but misleading conclusion. Optimistic ending."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:academic funny:malicious funny:because_its_true neuroscience bad_science_journalism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mollymuses.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/mormon-flow-chart-for-your-soul/">
    <title>Mormon Flow Chart for Your Soul « Molly Muses . . .</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-26T16:12:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mollymuses.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/mormon-flow-chart-for-your-soul/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious religion mormonism via:james-nicoll not_that_any_other_religion_really_makes_more_sense</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2011/12/29/a-modest-yet-brave-proposal-alabama-whites-are-genetically-inferior-to-massachusetts-whites-for-realz/">
    <title>A Modest Proposal: Alabama Whites Are Genetically Inferior to Massachusetts Whites (FOR REALZ!) | Mike the Mad Biologist</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-12T12:47:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2011/12/29/a-modest-yet-brave-proposal-alabama-whites-are-genetically-inferior-to-massachusetts-whites-for-realz/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious iq via:? mental_testing re:g_paper</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/20283245682/the-feline-mystique">
    <title>LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Feline Mystique</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-01T15:37:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/20283245682/the-feline-mystique</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Being a review of Paula Merriman's _Mungojerrie: A Brief History of the Cat Corset_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:malicious cats eliot.t.s. affectionate_parody literary_criticism sfw practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume12/v12i4/rats-12-4.pdf">
    <title>Stock Market Behavior Predicted by Rat Neurons</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-29T17:04:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume12/v12i4/rats-12-4.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We here report for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, rat motor cortex neurons predicting the behavior of the American stock market. We implanted the motor cortex of the brains of rats with silicon electrodes. Using the correlation technique, we monitored the activity of neurons in our rats while simultaneously tracking the activity of stocks in the U.S. stock market."]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read to:NB neuroscience finance statistics prediction multiple_testing bad_data_analysis funny:geeky funny:malicious via:mejn to_teach:undergrad-ADA blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=2556">
    <title>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The Life Cycle of Physicists</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-21T14:34:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=2556</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(Via http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/03/life-cycle-of-physicist.html)]]></description>
<dc:subject>cartoons funny:geeky funny:malicious funny:because_its_true physics complexity to:blog via:jon_wilkins funny:sad i_resemble_that_remark</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/03/toxoplasmosis-extravaganza-ride.html">
    <title>Lost in Transcription: Toxoplasmosis Extravaganza: Ride Complete!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-16T15:19:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/03/toxoplasmosis-extravaganza-ride.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can't believe Greg Bear hasn't used this plot yet.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics kith_and_kin evolutionary_psychology parasites funny:geeky funny:malicious the_singularity_is_nigh</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2012/02/us-news-root-of-all-evil.html">
    <title>Stephen Budiansky's Liberal Curmudgeon Blog: U.S. News, the root of all evil</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-08T04:52:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There's a special place in hell for the perpetrators of this, where I hope the gods of mathematics and reason are devising some exquisite tortures for them—perhaps in the form of endlessly reading Introduction to Statistics and doing the same problem sets over and over through eternity . . ."]]></description>
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    <title>TopatoCo: A Softer World Valentines</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T22:50:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=ASW-VALENTINES&amp;Category_Code=ASW</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tempting to get these and leave them in random places.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-01-18T03:07:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/013466.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Motion Picture Association of America, chief sponsor and financier of SOPA and PIPA, addresses Wikipedia, Reddit, and other major sites going dark tomorrow, accusing them of “abuse of power.” “It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.” In related news, the mutilated body of Irony was found washed up against a pier in the East River. She was pronounced dead at the scene."]]></description>
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