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

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

pure, uncut SWE brain right there

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

interesting. more polling about influencers please!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

submitted 6 days ago • 269 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

probably the most succinct summary of the current political era. we're currently re-running this experiment in the opposite direction, where material harm to lives from economic/state disruption is expected to vanish within the information environment. i do not expect promising results.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

as i like to say, all of us are 15 minutes of unwanted attention away from getting Gamergated by the US government

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

me watching Q-style syncretic cultists fight the techno-gnostics

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

day two of being personally targeted by a Slurm workload manager

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users deserve a better tech press than these inheritors of Swisherist hagiography

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welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops (this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

submitted 7 days ago • 170 comments

In 2025, fandom is complicated. Music is at nearly everyone's fingertips. Concert ticket prices are through the roof. Some fans take devotion to new extremes. What do we owe to the artists we love? By @annkpowers.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

a truly incredible century-long run of scientific discovery is about to come to a screeching halt

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments