Time for Closing Tabs, vol. 2, in which I once again dive deep into the hundreds of open Safari tabs on my phone and unceremoniously close them. Today’s offerings to the cache gods:

• Ethnographies of Datasets: Teaching Critical Data Analysis through R Notebooks by Lindsay Poirier, UC Davis.
• Modern Plain Text Computing, another very good resource from Kieran Healy
• Several best-of lists of board games to check out:
  • The Best Board Games of 2024 Will Excite Players of All Ages | Smithsonian
  • The best board games of 2024 so far | Polygon
  • The Best Board Games of 2024 - Paste Magazine
• Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Your Life With Pasta
• This great piece modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics:

One of the other options Omniverse suggests for moving off of its service is self-hosting, which is akin to telling me to go fuck myself. Self-hosting is great if your hobby is self-hosting things. Mine is not.

• ggview, which helps generate canvases of the right size for ggplot output

Closing Tabs, you don’t have to get read but you can’t … stay … here.