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Henry Farrell

@himself.bsky.social

Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.

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Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 23h ago

“we suggest that the path to using complex technologies runs through successful cognitive distribution.” - from "Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition" (Miton & Jackson, 2026) which I cite in www.fightforthehuman.com/we-need-more...

We need more than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debt

Do we understand our code? I think we need to get past symptoms and into causes. Here's a field-tested measure of one organizational condition that can erode comprehension (Overproduction Pressure) yo...

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Demigirlboss@demigirlboss.bsky.social · yesterday

"Cognitive surrender" or whatever is a skill issue. I offload cognition to the machine so I can do EVEN BIGGER COGNITIONS!

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 7d ago

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · 7d ago

"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 6d ago

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · last wk.

Randall Jarrell - "I had thought a good motto for critics might be what the Persians taught their children: to shoot the bow and speak the truth; but perhaps a better one would be Cordelia's love and be silent." (nb I quite liked the movie)

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Jennifer Szalai@jenszalai.bsky.social · last wk.

100 percent agree. I also think that what a lot of people appreciated about her honest opinion was that in a criticism-starved culture, someone in her position will too often hold her tongue. There‘s something thrilling about seeing someone exercise such critical freedom.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2w ago

As @prisonculture.bsky.social noted in a different context a few days ago, this is basically the research agenda of @hahrie.bsky.social over the last two decades.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2w ago

This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.

Feild@feild.work · 2w ago

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing