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Beside the {report} package (yesterdays note) there are more tools in the easystats collection. #rstats

GitHub - easystats/easystats: :milky_way: The R easystats-project
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Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Disney memo to staff: the YouTube TV blackout remains for now, and "unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place" (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney-YouTube Blackout Set to Continue Through Weekend
“When will ESPN and ABC be back on the service? We wish we could give you that answer today, but unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place,” the memo from Disney executives reads.

Humphrey's Executor: SCOTUS weighs Trump's power to fire (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/what-is-humphreys-executor-scotus-trump-ftc-firing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p60#a251208p60

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
https://

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.

ich werde mir auch so einen schriftzug übers klo häng
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/weisses-haus-donald-trump-tuerschmuck-gold-reaktion-li.3335208

Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p65#a251208p65

SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p134#a251208p134

How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/471611/supreme-court-trump-slaughter-unitary-executive
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p111#a251208p111