Falling asleep next to the ocean and dreaming that I had dinner with Mark Eitzel and he gave me a magical ostrich that produced 90s live bootlegs.

Not joking. The (checks notes) department at UNSW did not love this.

I mean. The Queen.

This was my twitter header for a long time. And then someone was like “hey you’re on the job makes you should change it”

Also surprise EoE draft was fun, even if I am bad at magic.

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

A long time ago I even wrote a post about how applied statisticians and people doing statistics in science are programmers and how we should accept that. It also had far and away the most unhinged conclusion I ever wrote (not screenshotted) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/13/w...

Sometimes a book is too Toronto.

Every time someone turns 60 I give a talk. They get stranger and stranger the further I get from the material

Andrew’s 60-ish birthday workshop has been nice.

Tarra Conner Jones, people. Tarra. Conner. Jones.

The New York Times has broken new ground on how to refer to a papal encyclical

The thing is, this doesn’t quite work. Data is about what you measure and how you interpret it. By basically removing the first thing (throw it all in) and the second (interpretation without context or expertise) AI doesn’t even necessarily look backwards.

Ok so Varla Jean Merman is phenomenal.

Sometimes i forget that i have a very different base of cultural references to my colleagues. I needed to give notes after a presentation.

It does this

Nothing will ever be funnier than this.

I whispered in his ear “I will murder you in your sleep”. He said “I love you”. It doesn’t change my plans.

Saw my friend @alexhanna.bsky.social (in sharpie drag because commit to every bit!) and her co-host Emily Bender (who was glorious) tape a Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 podcast. Main topic was www.vox.com/future-perfe.... (Second photo is 3/4 of a short dnd campaign I ran [alert: boyfriend on main])

Truly one of the all-time great comedies. Italian Piñata will never not make me laugh.

2x sealed and a draft. Not pulling bad.

Actually cackling at “academic productivity”.

I know this is only funny to me. I don’t care.

Goddamn it Reba. You knew I was going into preproduction for my unauthorised gay porn parody of Gypsy and the name “One Night In Tulsa” was spoken for. You knew it.

My dnd table asking “what if a beach episode but the beach is drama”?