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kevinfoley.bsky.social
PhD candidate in political science. Political speech, authoritarian politics, language models, China, here
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The media is calling it a "shouting match," not what it plainly was: an ambush, where the only ones who shouted were the president and vice president.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"What the Trump administration is doing is far more than just bad behavior; it’s a direct threat to the rule of law—almost as much as defying court orders would be." Via "One First," me on the White House's intimidation campaign against lawyers and law firms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-126-...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

The heritage foundation should be picketed

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Real subway flasher energy

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

How absurd that the US has spent so much time thinking of itself as Russia’s opposite when they’re so similar: vast distances, terrible infrastructure, aboveground power-lines, swaths of underresourced rurlandia w/ exhausted & undereducated populace, now autocracy. Ice storms bring this into focus

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

equality

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So while messing around with deepseek-r1 and seeing people pretty easily get it to circumvent its censorship limits, I had a thought: Will Chinese users download the open model, run it on their own machines, and have an unusually free tech experience? If so, what will their govt do next? 1/

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

if you're mad about the TikTok ban and posting 'Long live China' on your socials like Taylor Lorenz, boy do I have some exciting news for you about social media in China!

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

Bracing for another round of everyone getting angry about APIs. Transparency on social networks is so important for social science, and for understanding misinformation, bots and fraud. The AI hype has really poisoned the well for computational social scientists. www.404media.co/someone-made...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The guy from Awakenings outsquatting Conan, incredible

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

bliss

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

“The clocks will move backwards tomorrow” do you even hear the absolute end-of-dynasty omens coming out of your mouth

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

Glenn Kessler fact check let's goooooo

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

the last 10 years in the US have been exquisitely designed to drive people who study totalitarian regimes and genocide absolutely weasel-shit insane

submitted 151 days ago • 36 comments

Huh it’s as if the Send in the Troops op-ed meant exactly what everyone who wasn’t a smarmy idiot understood it meant

submitted 320 days ago • 15 comments

This is one of the primary goals of "AI" these days: to create an empty chair that takes the blame for corporate misconduct. We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.

submitted 380 days ago • 64 comments

If the OpenAI board incinerates their very much present-harm-causing company because they are worried about it moving too fast in the direction of completely imaginary future harms that will be extremely funny

submitted 470 days ago • 1 comment