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political scientist, PhD via Vanderbilt // researcher @ UZH Zürich // studying the unfolding dystopia // platforms, political violence, extremism, etc. research & writing: henryhenryhenry.com land of enchantment
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this @kashhill.bsky.social piece is a wild read imo the true cogito-hazard of LLMs aren't the models themselves, but the chat UX. no one thought about the colossal externalities of chatbots because big tech product managers and UX designers never do www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkk this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just published: "The Implications of Loper Bright for Bureaucratic Human Capital" We argue the reversal of Chevron will degrade bureaucratic human capital. In a survey experiment, we find no evidence for short-term effects, but speculate about potential long-term effects doi.org/10.1177/0095...

"defilement" doesn't feel quite strong enough to describe this:

This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

almost hit Harry Styles with my car

the official immigration posture of the US government borrows language from both the Tree of Life and Christchurch attack manifestos. it is unalloyed ethnic cleansing. www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/u...

my god, i've got another review request for a copy of this exact paper

this piece on AGI — or more specifically the labor, power, and political economy of technology — from @jwherrman.bsky.social is fantastic nymag.com/intelligence...

📊New research in #SPPS reports that Americans living in politically diverse communities show less animosity toward the opposing party. Cross-party contact appears to be the key mechanism at work. Read more: ow.ly/JS1E50W8oEf Authors: @asmiley.bsky.social‬ and Cheryl R. Kaiser

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

i will never not be mad that the Biden admin wasted 4 years doing nothing to dismantle this revanchist security state. they couldn't even be bothered to soften the blow. and now all of the people that staffed this failure have podcasts or teaching appointments or media jobs.

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This poll reminds me of something I've meant to post. It's widely observed in authoritarianism studies that popular autocrats are the most dangerous because other powerful actors will comply rather than obstruct them. So Trump's unpopularity might seem to weaken him...but for US institutions...

excited for the NYT live blog of their colleagues being dragged out of 620 Eighth Ave next month

What will you do when authoritarianism comes to America? Because it's here. Right now.

this piece on AGI — or more specifically the labor, power, and political economy of technology — from @jwherrman.bsky.social is fantastic nymag.com/intelligence...

if you start to think only metrics and data make things real, you need to put yourself under more and more intense surveillance to believe that you have a self that's real

i've reviewed so many papers this year that are just "here's a codebook + here's why ChatGPT, specifically, can code data" and, like, you need to do more than that

"The poll finds the public rating Trump’s immigration policy — including deportations — negatively by a 15 percentage-point margin, 52 percent to 37 percent, an issue that was a strong point for him a few months ago" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

one of the problems with the information environment outside the RWE horrorsphere is a lack of mid-level influencers working as a kind of filtration system testing frames against each other. party elites and movement leaders are missing the essential connective tissue to potential narratives.

Where we are as a country: ✅ Personality cult authoritarianism ✅ No functioning policy process or, you know, laws ✅ Just weirdos doing stuff to fulfill the whims of the mad king

good stuff, can’t wait:

National Guards troops and Marines deployed to Los Angeles are “deeply troubled” about the assignment and feel like they have become “political pawns.” They’re sleeping on concrete floors with no beds, not enough toilets, no funds for food or water, and morale is low.

“Even with the high-profile arrests of suspects by masked immigration agents and the plane loads of migrants swiftly ferried out of the U.S., President Trump was falling short of the number of daily deportations carried out by the Biden administration in its final year.” That’s some lede.

"Our support and solidarity with people who are struggling for human dignity and justice should not depend on their knowing anything about us! Solidarity is not a market exchange. It’s not, you need to give us your love and we’ll give you ours!" black-ink.info/2020/01/16/s...

my nightmare situation, which may unfold just this weekend, is US troops kill a bunch of regular people and the information environment swallows it whole. if this happens, all bets are off for the near future

"accustomed to remaining free" is definitely a euphemism for the era

Troops are now patrolling Los Angeles. This is a disaster waiting to happen | Kenneth Roth

I’m upgrading this to “end of June”

White supremacist groups have started using the term “accelerationism” to describe their actions to create social chaos leading to a race war and the destruction of democracy, paving the way for a white ethnostate. buff.ly/e9hLd4a By @artjipson.bsky.social @universityofdayton.bsky.social

This is the bubble they wish Bluesky was

ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights! ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent." "They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."

I cannot stress enough how much the anti-ICE protests are an overwhelming win for Democrats on social media. I’m seeing Instagram influencers who stayed silent on politics for the past year loudly sharing support for immigrants. I’m seeing podcasters who interviewed Trump talk about how wrong ICE is

NEW: I stayed in my lane and covered how the conspiracy theorist community, and QAnon in particular, is handling the LA protests. Unsurprisingly, they think the storm is finally upon us - and that the National Guard deployment proves Q drop #1 correct. themikerothschild.com/2025/06/11/l...

note that absolutely nowhere in the legacy media will you see condemnation of targeted violence against press. the editors and managers of prestige TV and print media in the US do not care about their workers and will not defend them against even the worst political violence.

It’s literally impossible. Even when the police are shooting AT JOURNALISTS, journalists make it seem like it’s the protests’ fault, and refuse to even state who actually caused the injuries. The media MUST improve how they report on the ppl w the guns and the teargas.

Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke