Steven V. Miller

@svmiller
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Political scientist in an EH/IR department. American in Sweden. All my friends are joining this. I just want to be cool and popular. Usually posts stuff about #rstats or cats.
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"Here we have the glorious alchemy of originalism in full view, where the “original meaning” of the same words in an identical context changes depending on which policy is preferred by the originalist."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/freedmen-race-neutral-supreme-court-affirmative-action-clarence-thomas/674641/

What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking?

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

The Atlantic
Sure, this is bad. But is it as bad as Cracker Barrel putting a rainbow on their paper placemats or a trans person getting a special can of the only beer I can spell?

"We need you to teach students on merging data."

"Oh, that's no probl-"

"They've never used R before."

"Oh, right. Good time as any to learn Shiny."

https://svmiller.shinyapps.io/merge-o-matic76/

Merge-o-Matic '76

New #rmarkdown article template, for your consideration. This template mimics what Elsevier requires its own class to do and may be useful if you encounter journals that insist on author *addresses* on the first page of the manuscript.

I came so close to a native LaTeX solution using datatool for processing duplicate author-affiliation entries, so I'd love to standardize that information down the road.

http://svmiller.com/blog/2023/05/a-third-rmarkdown-article-manuscript-template/

A Third Academic R Markdown Article/Manuscript Template

I have a series of templates for R Markdown. This post talks about a third academic article/manuscript template I made.

Steven V. Miller
hacky but workable
Peter Boghossian in 2018 - the academy is bankrupt because it'll publish any old bullshit - https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-studies-sokal-squared-hoax . Peter Boghossian in 2023 - the academy is bankrupt because it won't publish MY bullshit https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1654254754934173696
The controversy around hoax studies in critical theory, explained

The “Grievance Studies” or “Sokal Squared” hoax aimed to discredit gender and critical race studies. Did it work?

Vox

From Scientific American: We don't rely on randomized trials for seat belts or parachutes, so why are some people cherry-picking bad data from bad trials to discount the obvious and longstanding benefits of masks?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/

You already know the answer...

Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't

New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

Scientific American
I mean, I don't think any other American president started **two** wars that we ended up losing.
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RT @WalshMike84
Still the most elite foreign policy team in history.
https://twitter.com/WalshMike84/status/1652509748623818753
Mike Walsh 🇺🇸🐘 on Twitter

“Still the most elite foreign policy team in history.”

Twitter
Heading toward a surreal event horizon

Two thi gs have become extremely clear over the past few weeks: (1) Do ald Trump is faci g several forms of serious legal jeopardy, both crimi al a d civil; a d (2) Short of what is statistically a highly u likely health-related eve t of some sort, he is goi g to be the Republica omi ee for [...]

Lawyers, Guns & Money

“Libertarianism is an unpopular view. And it takes particular personality types to be open to taking unpopular views,” explains Kevin Vallier, an associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, who writes for the blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians. “Some of these personality types are people who are open to new experience, love the world of ideas and have a disposition for independent thought. However, some of these personality types simply enjoy holding outrageous and provocative views, who like to argue and fight with others, who like insult and… shock.” Vallier continued, “The worst flaw in the contrarian trap is that it makes libertarians open to views that deserve to be unpopular and despised, including the thinly-veiled racism of the sort Hans Hermann Hoppe trades in from time to time.” (Note: Some see Hoppe’s support of what he calls a “pro-European immigration bias” as an example of “thinly-veiled racism.”)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-alt-right-pipeline

The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline

Is it just a phase they go through—or is there something about libertarianism that attracts, well, uh, you know, racist kooks?

The Daily Beast