Valerie and I jokingly called this “our Nature article” when we first had the idea. And then it actually became one. With an absolute A-team of co-authors, we show what we gain when we integrate satellite-derived data with news-based data for conflict research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Advancing conflict research and response through satellite-derived data - Nature

Integrating satellite-derived war-damage data with text-based fatality records through improvement, enrichment and fusion mitigates limitations inherent in each source, revealing complex vio...

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The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia

Heartbreaking news

Dolly Parton, country music legend and cultural icon, dead at 80

The singer, songwriter and philanthropist enjoyed a more than six-decade career.

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Thanks @egap.bsky.social for putting together this brief on our recent APSR paper (w/ Nico Ravanilla and Matthew Nanes)! How did police officers' attitudes change after community policing in areas w/ conflict? Open access paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact - Volume 119 Issue 4

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)@egap.bsky.social · 3w ago

📣 NEW Policy Brief 📣 EGAP's @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @nicoravanilla.bsky.social w/ @matthewjnanes.bsky.social ask how community policing affects the attitudes of the officers who implement it through a randomized field experiment in the Philippines. ✍️ Drafted by Danielle Bohonos. 🔗 buff.ly/HYTG4sW

📣 NEW Policy Brief 📣 EGAP's @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @nicoravanilla.bsky.social w/ @matthewjnanes.bsky.social ask how community policing affects the attitudes of the officers who implement it through a randomized field experiment in the Philippines. ✍️ Drafted by Danielle Bohonos. 🔗 buff.ly/HYTG4sW

en esta economía??????

Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets https://theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-idea-how-much-worse-it-gets/

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · 4w ago

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

“A sweep by intelligence officials has revealed that Mrs. Trump is in fact an espionage tool deployed by Russia to record President Trump while blending in seamlessly among his inner circle,” said NSA director Joshua Rudd

Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device

WASHINGTON—In what is being described as a major breach of White House security protocol, the National Security Agency reportedly uncovered evidence Friday that first lady Melania Trump was a Russian ...

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El-Sayed on Trump posting image of him & his wife in a restaurant w/ caption "2 DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are 2 people who don't like each other joined in the interest in making billions off of you, or 2 people who genuinely love each other enjoying pancakes ... "

I think the causal arrow points in the other direction: I think that Zuck founded Facebook *because* he doesn't really believe that other people are truly *real*, at least not as real as he is. 4/

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/

Graphic design is my passion.

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

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Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests academic.oup.com/jpr/article/...

Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests

Abstract. This article examines global trends in organized violence from 1989 to 2025 using new data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2025

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Amid all the hand-wringing about progressives not having a compelling vision of masculinity, it strikes me that being a good dad has never been more liberal/left-coded in the US than it is today.

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm

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Most of the Freedom 250 concert performers dropped out over partisan concerns. But what IS Freedom 250? And how is it different from America250?

“The problem of excusing abhorrent ideologies for the sake of electoral gains is growing more pervasive and universal,” Mike Nelson argues. “It’s shameful that our leaders are willing to accept this over such small stakes.”

The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner

They wouldn’t be so accepting of his Nazi tattoo if he were a Republican.

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On the other hand, there’s this generalised Dunning-Kruger projection that OP hints at: the less you know about a given task, the more likely you are to highly grade AI capabilities at it. The less you know about what you don’t know, the more AI competence seems like magic.

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

1985 MOVE bombing - Wikipedia

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The anniversary of the MOVE bombing. America attacking Black people in a city with brutal imperial force.

Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴@161bklyn.myatproto.social · 4mo ago

Never forget 5/13/1985

Hate everything about this www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Single women are buying more houses. The men they are dating are not responding well

Female home owners report feeling stuck between men’s contradictory expectations – they are told to be independent, but not assume the breadwinner role

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The UAE are among the most aggressive external actors in Africa’s conflicts. Its role exacerbates crises, obstructs solutions, and destabilises entire regions, write @gerritkurtz.bsky.social, @wlacher.bsky.social & Stephan Roll @swp-mea.bsky.social. www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...

The Destabilising Role of the United Arab Emirates in African Conflicts

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become one of the most aggressive external actors in African conflicts, from Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia to...

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A generation ship is the only form of interstellar travel viable without FTL. One of the main challenges in this would be making sure that successive generations maintain the mission they did not opt into, making political scientists the most important scientists for space exploration.

Murder rate in NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and DC January to April 2026 has never been lower on record (using data from the essential @jeffasher.bsky.social).

I made a chart of where you can find the top open-source LLMs right now in the European inference provider landscape. Let me know if I have missed any providers