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Patrick Warren

@pwarren.bsky.social

I am a (sometime) economist to studies people lying on the internet.

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Patrick Warren@pwarren.bsky.social · last yr.

What are the most important differences between producing the machines used in manufacturing and producing the human capital required to install/maintain/operate those machines? We seem a lot more worried about balanced trade in physical capital than human capital.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · last yr.

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Marco Rubio says El Salvador is “housing” people sent by the US. But he never says on what possible legal authority? These people haven’t committed any crime in El Salvador and by their own admission “many” have never committed a crime in the US. It all seems entirely lawless.

And then we have Tren de Aragua, organized gang members and alien enemies inside the United States who are being housed by him in an excellent prison system that he has at a fraction of the cost of what it would cost to house them here in the United States. It is a matter that we've made. It's a foreign policy matter. And it's one that we weren't going to go back on, because we make arrangements with foreign leaders. That's the conduct of foreign policy. We can't have judges running the foreign policy.
Patrick Warren@pwarren.bsky.social · last yr.

These orders are the most directly authoritarian thing that the Trump admin thing has done. The logical end of this approach to EOs is to make it functionally impossible for Trump adversaries to get representation in U.S. federal court.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

President Trump on Friday opened a third attack against a private law firm, restricting the business activities of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison just days after a federal judge ruled such measures appeared to violate the Constitution.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last yr.

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

One of Musk's defining qualities is that he is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to government. He will see some ambiguous information or be presented with an easily debunked tale and he immediately believes the worst.

Musk saying social security enables massive fraud
Patrick Warren@pwarren.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't think Community Notes are qualitatively different from many other algorithmic approachesto select top comments or most informative reviews. They are all similar systems for selecting and highlighting privileged responses to main content.

Patrick Warren@pwarren.bsky.social · 2y ago

New from the Hub: Further analysis of Storm 1516, and its relationship with the Foundation for Battling Injustice, a Prigozhin-founded propaganda organization that might be more than it seems. open.clemson.edu/mfh_ci_repor...

Writers of the Storm: Who's Behind the Ongoing Production of Pro-Russian False Narratives

This report describes additional findings about a pro-Russian disinformation campaign first publicly identified by Clemson’s Media Forensics Hub in December 2023[1] and subsequently dubbed Storm-1516 ...

open.clemson.edu

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 2y ago

New: Do some political conversations on Twitter strike you as a little less than authentic? For the first time, researchers have uncovered a coordinated LLM network of nearly 700 fake accounts devoted to gumming up Twitter replies to advocate for specific GOP races: www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows

The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.

nbcnews.com