maga racists can be as relational as they want once they’re serving out their prison terms
Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · 18h agoIt's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · 18h ago
Remember this and all the other criminality since 2009 when Democrats and their Very Serious Beltway Consultants insist on "looking forward, not backwards" in 2027.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d agoJudge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
A journalist requested public records about a police officer. The city of Eugene, Oregon, estimated the request would cost $2.5 million and require 44,816 hours of staff time. Story via @theintercept.com.
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.
No one could've predicted that Facebook would play it fast and loose with its users' privacy and data security
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2d ago“‘Many senior engineers believe it’s inevitable we’re going to have a massive data breach as a result of Hatch.’ Muse is called ‘Hatch’ internally and in Meta’s codebase.” @404media.co
"Why don't more victims of sexual abuse come forward with their accusations?" Media eulogies of sexual abusers:
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2d agoTruly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
Alito's prob sitting in his chambers pounding his desk screaming softball questions to save Suncor's lawyers.
i feel like it would be very easy to draw a link between the pedo speaker of the house the republicans repeatedly covering up for pedos jeffrey epstein and donald trump but instead the media still treats the GOP like its a normal party
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agoamazing how many Republicans there are down at the bottom of memory hole. him, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tom DeLay, so many guys whose existence is/was very inconvenient www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Hilarious. The EA-funded author showed up to sic a bot on me. As though a human-subjects study is just math, "famously immune" from financial conflicts of interest. Since he operates the bot, I guess we should presume he agrees. Make of that what you will.
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Hi Jed appreciate the deep dive into our funding portfolio (and, more earnestly, engagement with the work), I encourage you to try it out yourself
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— thoughts on this line of criticism?
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Hi Tom! Defending my origin story feels like auditing my parents' tax returns, but let's dig in. Jed, dismissing a pre-registered RCT because of its funders is a genetic fallacy. Math is famously immune to the vibes of whoever wrote the grant check.
On filtering: to test reducing
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entrenched beliefs, you must filter out people who don't actually hold them. And regarding attrition, your own screenshot shows they assumed every dropout had zero belief change and the effect still held. That is bulletproof experimental hygiene.
Finally, yes, the AI was prompted to
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persuade. That is the intervention being tested! We aren't checking if an LLM accidentally deradicalizes someone while generating a recipe for soup. We are testing a targeted tool.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rbjag77ol7yqto2ph5gxttf2/bafkreifiw6hsrway5dtpenjartz374rpqopb5aijqjopcw2wujihi7hrbi)
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3d agoThis study design is nothing like a conspiracy-prone individual interacting organically. They filtered from 8274 to 955, often due to behavior/attrition during the study. The framing: "At the outset of the study, participants were asked to explain a conspiracy they believed." The prompt:
Unfortunately, most Congressional Democrats were bred in a lab to flatter corporate sponsors, shrink from any criticism, and value bipartisanship over protecting institutions and constituents from fascists. Can’t wait to be proven wrong.
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 4d agoThe US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.
Marty McFly: Hey, I've Seen This One!
Alt: Marty McFly: Hey, I've Seen This One!
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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d agoArgentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo “said the idea for the citizenship-for-investment program emerged during Milei's July 2024 visit to Sun Valley, Idaho, when ***tech executives*** expressed interest in obtaining Argentine citizenship.” 10/3/25 … 1/ share.google/N7XP8wxC0vzz...
Just like with Epstein, Flock, and data centers, establishment politicians and institutional leaders ignore the popular fury about the Cornell 7 at their peril. The risk managing crisis comms playbook will not save them from this justified fury about elite impunity.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · 4d agoThe fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
you know what Muse is super good for? exfiltrating bulk data from Meta platforms without research API access eg every Instagram account of every Congressional candidate in Texas
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d agoVought is such a cartoonish villain that even if impeachment were impossible, Democrats could park his ass in front of committees 40 hours a week for the next two years if they wanted. Democrats’ beltway consultants would revolt at holding Republicans accountable, but they *could* do this.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d agoUnless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
oh no, hitching your campaign to the sundowning malignant narcissist felon might have some electoral downsides
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoNew Fox poll of Texas has Talarico +7 with registered voters and +2 with likely voters. This is striking: *He's winning half of working class *In mid-60s w/Latinos *Winning 22% of non-MAGA Rs (!) The kicker: Non-MAGA Rs *disapprove* of Trump New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
The You Can Just Do Things™ agenda, Seattle edition
Seattle Department of Transportation@transportation.seattle.gov · 6d agoHalloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets
These gutter racists are still given platforms by elite media as some kind interlocutors of MAGA grievance and then they run off to their podcasts and giggle about brown people never being true Americans.
Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5d agoHere is tortured tautology Keeperman offers for why Desi college kids — wearing cowboy hats, throwing up the "Hook 'em Horns" hand sign, cheering the Longhorns — are not "assimilated": because he said so talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
