I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Mitch Waldrop
@mitchwaldrop.bsky.social
Science journalist, book author, hopeless nerd. Still trying to figure it all out as I go along.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
No Kings rallygoers in Nashville are lining streets and chanting: the crowd is a mix of ages and genders.
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
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More: @mitchwaldrop.bsky.social's 2020 report ♻️ Recycling meets reality knowmag.org/Recycling_bsky ♻️ Solving the growing plastics waste puzzle knowmag.org/plastic_bsky ♻️ Design for recycling knowmag.org/Design_bsky ♻️ One bin future knowmag.org/OneBin_bsky
Platforms can design better algorithms. Our new guide serves as a resource for understanding how. bit.ly/3QzxVzq The guide provides detailed explanations of how algorithms work. So much so, that it has been cited in an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit led by @epic.org! bit.ly/3DyBe6S
New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.
Tom Costello@tomcostello.bsky.social · 2y agoLast year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
In his email announcing he was leaving NBC, @chucktodd said something VERY important about the biggest issue facing media -- and how to fix it. I wrote about it this morning. Read: chriscillizza.substack.com/p/chuck-todd...
Buttigieg had been laying low since Trump's inauguration, but his response to Trump's comments and attacks on him specifically after the crash -- "despicable" -- is further than any other Democratic leader has gone since Jan. 20
Isaac Dovere@isaacdovere.bsky.social · 2y agoButtigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:
On IG, I posted about communicating with people who doubt science. I got some comments saying, "It's a waste of breath" and "There's no getting through to them." And, more disturbingly, "I don't engage with Nazis." These generalizations are wrong, counterproductive, and harmful. (1/6)