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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

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worth noting this kind of thing has been one of the central boogeymen of the US anti-government movement for decades

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The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a quarter million people 🧵 on some highlights...

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The Department of Energy just rescinded 24 grants worth $3.7 billion. @emilypont.bsky.social has the full breakdown of impacted projects ⬇️

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nothing less than the end of modern science in the US

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The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

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and moralizing frames are particularly persuasive, especially general moral appeals! doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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every now and then a dem staffer breaks ranks, scrambles over an embankment, and gets a shot off across the lines of the information war

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AI is sold as a cool trick that can help you fool others into thinking you actually worked on something, but in effect distrust becomes more ubiquitous and "proof of work" becomes part of all work, making it all that more laborious and inefficient www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

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hey, I’m an American scientist in Switzerland, come on over 🧀 🐄 🇨🇭 🍫 🏔️

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The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

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no more golf courses. those are parks now. you can golf in hell

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distributional incentives >>> content every time. with the right incentives and network structure, content get pitched against each other until something sticks and takes over the network. it's a way of manufacturing both salience and effective frames at the same time.

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Four years ago I read Chandran Kukathas' argument that immigration control ultimately relies on the surveillance and coercion of citizens. Soon after I read Joseph Heath's very minimal argument that in principle there ought to be a ceiling on immigration. I wanted to put the two in conversation

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Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

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During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

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pure, uncut SWE brain right there

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interesting. more polling about influencers please!

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so it's still not a great idea to fly into Newark right now, correct?

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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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i hate that i'm almost certainly going to read 2-3 papers at ISA next year that try to turn this nonsense into a Serious New Foreign Policy Framework

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My book is out today!

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The single most active contributor to X's "Community Notes" fact-checking program is a user by the pseudonym "Hilarious Ridge Hoopoe." @mantzarlis.com tracked them down and it's not who you might expect. indicator.media/p/the-top-co...

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“international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion and supported 378,175 jobs to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year.” Look up impact by state and congressional district here: www.nafsa.org/policy-and-a...

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if the OpenAI device looks like this i might consider letting it surveil me

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here's the science: when audiences overlap across online communities and influencers compete over their attention, those communities radicalize. not just the influencers, but the audiences as well. my paper presents evidence of this effect within Qanon and manosphere online spaces osf.io/xra56

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if we start the clock at the Vaswani et. al. paper (2017), how much is LLM development delayed if corporate and institutional actors take the time to legally obtain ill-gotten training data?

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over at @liberalcurrents.com we've been exploring the meaning of trump's imperialist fever dreams. today we've got @matthewdownhour.bsky.social on what this new age of interstate anarchy means for nuclear nonproliferation hint: nothing good. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-coming-n...

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good interior thread on leading/following vis-a-vis polls:

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my prediction is that any device like this -- and again, all we have are rumors -- will be a security nightmare that leads to crypto-esque robberies of its users

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caught some sort of flu on a plane despite wearing a mask, and i gotta say 0/10 not a good time

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Out now and open access in Aggression & Violent Behaviour, our latest paper examines the overlap between intimate partner abuse and susceptibility to violent extremism, available here - doi.org/10.1016/j.av...

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Day four of Community Notes being down on X. leadstories.com/analysis/202...

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It's not just the MCP stuff (that one is extremely badly built though) but so many other pieces of that stack and the models. "AI" as an "industry" has basically no regard for engineering. Which is why all the talk about "safety" is utter nonsense.

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roving bandit says asking it to become stationary would kill the short-term extraction industry

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good thread that makes accessible a lot of the social science around harmful online community network dynamics:

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i continue to locate the blame for this kind of thing in the maladaptive political networks that developed off certain parts of the social internet, which have grown well beyond their capacity for welfare-enhancing peer-sanctioning

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i am beset by software

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Maybe today is a good day to (re)read Latour’s essay on “Matters of Concern” — which reflects on how critiques of science have been weaponized to undermine and delegitimize science. www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/defaul...

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