jongreen.bsky.social
Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
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that's kind of what I'm saying
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Blake isn't the first NYC-based candidate with a newsworthy bagel preference! www.bonappetit.com/story/cynthi...
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by not knowing to shuck the tamale, Ford demonstrated that he was unfamiliar with Hispanic culture. by knowing that his bagel combo is gross and defending it, Blake is demonstrating fluency (and also guaranteeing the interview is shared widely)
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fun implication that, like Musk, a non-trivial share want their current party to be replaced with a different/better version of that party
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mark me down for is/neutral, fwiw
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the beef is about jockeying for power within the Democratic coalition (as the post you're QTing implies, you don't really need to read the book to participate in the beef!)
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it's amazing to me how people who use these models all the time think they can just prompt them with a plain-English description of what they want and it'll spit that out
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Even if you accept the premise that we should be using large language models to evaluate government contracts, *this is a really lazy and error-prone way to do it*
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the workflow here seems to have been "prompt an off-the-shelf OpenAI model for zero shot classification with no validation set, make the prompts increasingly ad-hoc and elaborate to correct for specific mistakes. only use the first 10k characters to stay within the context window"
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I get the impulse to assume that, because it's funny and stupid, it must be a planned distraction from substantively bad stuff about the budget bill, corruption, etc. But their fight is also *about* those substantive things. It can be funny and stupid and also important.
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*Murphy's own post* highlights the winning message here: "two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils"!
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Murphy's *own post* shows how easy it is to tie it all together ("two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils")!
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I'm really not sure what Bluesky is supposed to do differently as amateur Democratic postsoldiers. This episode is both funny and easy to tie in to politically advantageous narratives. I don't see how it's ~savvy~ to scold internet randos over their lack of message discipline here.
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Musk's position is that he bought the 2024 election fair and square, and is therefore entitled to draconian entitlement cuts. Trump's position is that Elon Musk is a creep who's only gotten this far on government cheese.
These all seem like perfectly fine arguments for Dems to keep in the news.
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I put together a page on my website memorializing my five years in the trenches trying to teach American government in the era of Trump, might be of interest: kevinjelliott.net/teaching-ame...
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honestly this is a worse showing for survey-takers than that one with the % of men who think they could beat a goose in a fight
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it's a pretty bold strategy, professionally, insofar as announcing that you are the kind of person who would formally and loudly leave the Democratic Party immediately after being press secretary for a Democratic administration *is evidence that you were a bad press secretary*
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I get the temptation to say that everyone who voted for Trump voted for a draconian immigration policy. it's Trump's most committed policy stance, he was not subtle about it. but if you insist that they did, you're way overestimating how popular deporting moms is. in spite of the evidence