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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 7d

"U.S. President Donald Trump was the dominant source and
spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, "

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 7d

Important point that I forgot to mention. The allegation that universities are producing drugs came from the former right-wing Brazilian education minister.

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Weintraub repete acusações contra universidades com base em reportagens

Ministro da Educação, convocado para Câmara, reiterou que universidades são usadas para produção de drogas sem apresentar novas provas

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 7d

At least in Brazil, the far right began by criticizing the humanities and quickly moved on to claims that “universities are woke” and “public universities are drug factories,” cutting funding for all higher education. The humanities are the first step, then they go to biology, health sciences...

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 11d

The "validate, validate, validate" (GRIMMER, 2014) principle of Text Analysis/NLP never gets old.

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 23d

If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!

Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇

Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 11d

Transformers Models Timeline
Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library

#transformers #LLM #bert #IA
huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 14d

"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."
"The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work."

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 15d

Discurso de Lula na Assembleia Geral da ONU. Palavras mais frequentes. #rstats

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 19d

... há performance. No entanto, ele funciona com fenômeno social, muito novato terá seu contato com estes assuntos através deste formato e seria problemático deixar falando sozinhos. Um caso interessante no Jubilee foi do Jordan Peterson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdO...

How Jubilee Accidentally EXPOSED Jordan Peterson’s 1 Trick

YouTube video by Rationality Rules

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 19d

o principal é convencer a plateia, plantando sementes de dúvidas aqui e ali. A conversão não é automática diante de um bom argumento, não atinge todos e leva tempo. Mas ela pode sim ter efeito. Para meu consumo próprio, acho estes debates muito pouco informativos e concordo que não há debate real...

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 19d

Sim, eles "weaponizam", mas nessa de disputar narrativa, ao menos aqui no Brasil, houve diversos casos de sucesso, de desmoralização de debatedores como vazios e fúteis. O objetivo principal não é convencer o oponente, que geralmente monta um modelo de business baseado em moralismo, o principal é...

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 21d

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 22d

deputado federal Josimar Maranhãozinho (PL-MA).

"flagrado com maços de dinheiro cometeu crimes de lavagem e peculato, conclui PF"
www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/dep...

Deputado do PL flagrado com maços de dinheiro cometeu crimes de lavagem e peculato, conclui PF

O relatório foi enviado na semana passada ao STF; agora, cabe à PGR avaliar se apresenta uma denúncia contra Josimar Maranhãozinho

www.cartacapital.com.br

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 22d

www.metropoles.com/brasil/ricar...

deputado federal Ricardo Salles (Novo)
04/09/2025
suposto envolvimento em um esquema para facilitar o contrabando de produtos florestais.

Ricardo Salles vira réu no STF por suposto contrabando florestal

Deputado será julgado na Suprema Corte por suposto esquema de facilitação de contrabando florestal, enquanto era ministro do Meio Ambiente

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 22d

Deputados Josimar Maranhãozinho (PL-MA),
Bosco Costa (PL-SE) e
Pastor Gil (PL-MA) foram denunciados pela PGR

acusados dos crimes de corrupção passiva e organização criminosa.

noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ult...

"acusados de vender emendas e pedir R$ 1,67 milhão em propina" (G1)

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