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going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

I hate being nostalgic for years that, at the time, I thought were bad.

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Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

Does anyone know if any genAI companies are involved with GIFCT? Or divisions of broader tech companies (like Microsoft or Meta)? Randomly occurred to me that it might be possible to use the hash database to get rid of some garbage training data…

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Academic mutuals! I'm looking for some historians of televangelism/right-wing evangelical christianity for special reasons - if you know anybody that fits the bill, I'd love to get pointed in their direction!

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One of the more maddening parts of the generative AI bubble is that, for it to make sense, it would have to have the combined value of both the smartphone market (around $500bn) and enterprise software (>$250bn) market...combined, and that's effectively what they're promising! Total flimflam

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If you know anyone who is in the California National Guard or 2/7 Marines who are deployed to Los Angeles, @taskandpurpose.com would like to hear from them. What the last week has been like, what their conditions are, if they're getting BAH, etc. They can reach me on signal @ nslayton.12

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Boelter is apparently facing federal charges. Which opens to door to a presidential pardon if convicted (if not before). There should be a state prosecution here to make sure justice actually gets served (and so evidence re motive is not selectively presented to conform to predetermined narratives)

submitted 3 days ago • 342 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

In basements all over the country, information warriors are furiously prompting AI to generate synthetic images of massive crowds cheering on a military parade in Washington D.C.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The leader of the so called “constitutional sheriff” effort - who has spent the last 15 years organizing county sheriffs in resistance to the federal government - came on CNN a week after Oklahoma City to defend the militia movement. This all has been festering for too long.

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I drove past the No Kings in Albany a little while ago. I’m bad at guesstimates, but I’d say a few thousand people!

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The tragedy of it all aside, this is also a clear illustration of how contempt for norms destroys democracy and a free society more generally. It is rational now for every US citizen to doubt whether the person claiming to be a police officer is, in fact, genuinely a police officer.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 7 days ago • 392 comments

I'm seeing a lot of Bundy talk today. [sigh, this is my burden in this life isn't it, God?] about all the egregious shit the family has gotten away with... and continues to. I implore you to listen to Bundyville. We really hit on something there. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

What points would you add to our Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Protest Edition from 2018?

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Was talking w a reporter this morning (i hope I’m not scooping you, Noah), and the convo helped me think through a couple things. He asked me what the precedent was for “this”, and I was like, it depends on what “this” is. As I cycled through the possibilities, two points occurred to me. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Every article about the inevitability of AGI

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

Alex Jones spent the last 30 years being like "MARTIAL LAW IS COMIN BECAUSE THE DEEP STATE JADE HELM ILLUMINATIIII" and now it's here and his place could not be more in favor of it.

submitted 11 days ago • 113 comments

Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Given the rapidly escalating situation, here’s a primer on presidential authority over domestic use of the military written for @goodauth.bsky.social w/ @profjessblankshain.bsky.social @dburbach.bsky.social @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social @theomilo.bsky.social.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 13 days ago • 840 comments

Join us for the ECPR Extremism & Democracy conference where I’ll be discussant for the brilliant panel on food and the far right 🥛🥩🥚 with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social

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i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

submitted 15 days ago • 396 comments

My first semester as a PhD student, in a very positivistic research design class, my final paper was a proposal that situated the NRA, GoA, and Oath Keepers as three points (in that order) on a mainstream-to-extremist spectrum. It was a flawed premise in lots of ways, but also

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Parsing Reddit data is difficult. I've been stuck in nested json hell for days....

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 21 days ago • 106 comments

Can't wait to tell everyone I meet that I don't consent to being surveilled. Real-life cookies dialog.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Our team at the UW Center for an Informed Public is recruiting for our next class of Community Fellows (for the 2025-2026 school year). Learn more about the program, apply, and/or pass our call along to folks you think might be a good fit for our next cohort!

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After the next big round of TGS interviews we’re going to be looking for some more field-leading scholars to chat to in either or both of the following subject areas: - pre-18th century - anywhere other than Western Europe & the US Please do get in touch if that sounds like you/someone you know!

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

every time I speak to a journalist about social media & politics or social media & journalism, I point this out. It's a far-right, white supremacist platform -- what reason could anyone who doesn't identify in that way to be on it?

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The brand fizzled, but the content won

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The heavy push by tech companies to frame always on surveillance wearables as the next big consumer item can best be understood as the companies’ explicit and full alignment with fascism. In this essay…

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Too many Republicans want to return to 1950--or some idealized version of that era. I worry too many people in the anti-Trump camp want to return to 2013---pre-Trump, pre-Sanders campaign, pre-BLM. I would prefer 2014 to 1950. But both were far from perfect. And neither is coming back.

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Oh wow: "in 1993 a New York Times reporter revealed that the army had staged a 1984 missile defense test by planting a remote-controlled explosive on the target missile so that it would blow up whether or not the interceptor actually hit it" inkstickmedia.com/a-former-sta...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

$17 million ChatGPT subscription 🤮

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