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Note how the passive voice is used to describe Trump twice, once in the hed (who created this "debacle"?), and once in the subhed (the relationship "curdled," as if that's something that just happened, not something driven by Trump's conduct). The only actor with agency here is Zelensky, who failed.

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To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I stand with Ukraine. Every decent person should. It’s not just a strategic interest. It’s a moral imperative. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

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The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

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Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.

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Unless Trumpism is removed completely from American politics, we will never have diplomatic influence again. Even if the Democrats are able to regain power, countries will know everything will be undone the moment a Trumpist regains the Presidency. You simply can't trust the US.

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ICYMI: Call for Extended Abstracts, Frictional AI Workshop sites.google.com/view/frictio... Join us in Pisa, Italy in June. Also, please spread the word.

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"First Amendment analysis of age assurance requirements entails a careful evaluation of how those requirements burden speech. That type of evaluation is highly factual and depends on the current state of age assurance technology." epic.org/wp-content/u...

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"They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

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Adding to queue. Could be useful in class next week when we discuss human-focused Turing tests as method for framing and evaluating how supposedly smart techno-social tools (eg AI) shape human behavior and capabilities. Possibly leading to humans behaving like machines

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The foundation of return to office mandates is the desire to exert strict control over workers’ bodies and time.

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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases (June 10 2025, Pisa, Italy - co-located w/ Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI25) Details: sites.google.com/view/frictio... Join us! Spread the word. Share the Call

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The order to email Elon Musk five things you did last week or else you’re fired appears to be illegal. More here.

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Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

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Commerce Secretary Lutnick is still out there claiming that he wants to replace income taxes with tariffs. My response: "The problem with that is that it's quite simply impossible." The only other problem is that it's also a bad idea. Let me explain.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Very dark stuff from David Super. “Revolution” is, I think, the right word for what the reactionaries are trying to achieve. But I would name the target more directly: Reconstruction. Both the first and the second. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/02/emer...

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Is this a new phenomena or the same type of fine grained ad tech profiling thats existed for many years on many digital platforms?

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Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

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If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.

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February 18, 2025

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"How Much Would Buying the Sudetenland Cost?" Chancellor Hitler wants to acquire the territory from Czechoslovakia, which says it's not for sale. Dealbook asked experts how they'd approach the deal

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Oops no more Yosemite.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

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Hey @evanselinger.bsky.social

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6

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New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

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Excellent reading (and listening too I suppose)

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When Shakespeare's villain says "First, let's kill all the lawyers," it's not a joke - it's because lawyers are society's key defense against tyranny. (Henry VI, Part 2).

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Those currently in power are “among the very worst human beings this 🌏 has ever produced—the most uncaring, the least intellectually curious, the most disconnected from their own humanity, the most gleefully malicious + deliberately destructive, with an all-consuming greed @ the ctr of their being”

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Dear @nytimes.com, you don't have to publish obvious bullshit to claim you're being fair and balanced. You're supposed to report truth. And you have great reporters on staff who are all harmed when you publish blatant, obvious regime-driven propaganda bullshit

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Roses are red Violets are blue

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Yikes. I hadn't seen this video yet, only read about it. It's legitimately the two of them laughing on the most watched cable TV news channel as Homan directly calls out the "agreement" they came to, even as the DOJ is inisting there's no agreement. This should be filed in court...

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New post just out: "Technology vs Democracy" On the origins of Muskworld's ideology, which it's so much more dangerous than merely stupidity or corruption, and what might stop it. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Nothing from Schumer. Nothing from Jeffries. Nothing from Hochul, who has the power to remove Adams.

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Thank you, DOGE, for clearly visualizing what incredible value the American people get from their national parks. 17,700 permanent employees making an average of $81,000 a year serving 325 million visitors annually. Is there a better value in the entire federal government?

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After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

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