Notices by Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)

Karekare beach. (The one from "The Piano”.) And Piha beach, next door.

Absolutely outstanding design work here. Amazing.

Nerd Entertainment, if you like litigation between two big companies: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.1.0.pdf

While I don’t think this essay quite finds a solution, the problem it identifies is real. “What bit of the division of labor will *you* symbolically reject to create your special identity?” is the personal version of social theories that fantasize about rejecting the division of labor while somehow keeping all of its benefits.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand

I dug up my first r-help post, sent late on a Friday night in December of 1999. Plus ça change.

In a few weeks I’ll be giving one of this year’s Ihaka Lectures. This is a big honor for me, I have to say, as I’ve has benefitted so much from R and learned so much from its community of developers and users over the years. This year’s other lecturers are @nrennie and @robjhyndman.

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/ihaka-lecture-series-2026-tickets-1991653429020

First words of presenter on panel: “I’m not a linear thinker.”

[proceeds to ramble for 25 minutes].

I guess I can’t say I wasn’t warned.

You could do all the usual Catholic things with Father Demo but if you wanted him to save anything you had to pay fifty bucks.

“These daily usage limits on image generation may seem harsh, but you should remember two things. First, Image Playgrounds relies on powerful server models which cost a lot of money to run. Second, if you begin regularly using Image Playgrounds in the way we showed in the demo, these limits will also be the main thing standing between you and all your friends starting a group chat you're not a member of.”

Opinionated Siri organizes your tabs into groups like “Time-Wasting”, “Stuff You Don’t Need”, and “Brain-Rotting Trash”

@RecDiffs @hotdogsladies you are of course welcome to save it for prison, but I am obliged to mention the RTÉ version of Ulysses. Recorded in 1982 for the centenary of Joyce’s birth, it’s an unabridged, full-cast recording of the book with many subtle sound design elements. It’s amazing. It brings out the auditory and musical elements of the book and it makes a lot of the techniques—like stream of consciousness—immediately accessible. You can get it as a podcast. https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/series/32198-ulysses/

That thing where you’re restarting your Mac for a software update or whatnot and, as the updater quits all your running applications one by one, a small collection of crash reports, What’s New announcements, and other assorted things reveals itself to have been living for god knows how long underneath all the other windows, like insects in a pile of wood chips.

Graphs you kinda can’t fix.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/05/21/zero-sum-problems/

Me and @drdrang like

Where TV shows shoot on location in Manhattan vs where movies shoot on location. Strictly speaking this is where their trailers and trucks and vans *park* during shoots, but still. Based on ~7,300 TV permits and ~2400 film permits over the past three years.

Andrés’s work is great, btw. https://acastroaraujo.github.io

Nice shot of one of the best parts of my job.

Anytime I make the computer do something like this I imagine a big old Hans Zimmer BWWOOOOOONNNNKK chord

Ten years in the flour jar vs Ten years in the sugar jar.

Hourly average net flows through NYC Subway stations, or, I just made 424 animated pie charts and I’m not sorry.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/04/25/hourly-subway-station-flows/