David S. Reed
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David S. Reed is a public administration expert and the founder of Center for Public Administrators. He is Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal […]
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@pluralistic Temerously offering a note to a much better writer: “joining our side in the war on general purpose computation” may give the impression that we are making war on general purpose computation. How about, “joining our resistance to the war on general purpose computation”?
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
@pluralistic Temerously offering a note to a much better writer: “joining our side in the war on general purpose computation” may give the impression that we are making war on general purpose computation. How about, “joining our resistance to the war on general purpose computation”?
Wag The Dog
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Wag The Dog
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The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
New tool from Jennifer Kleiman automatically verifies the citations in a paper. #peerreview https://pubadmin.org/2025/12/08/automatically-verify-and-correct-all-reference-citations-in-a-paper/
Automatically Verify and Correct All Reference Citations in a Paper
Peer reviewers and journal editors have a new tool to automatically check the references in manuscripts, developed by Jennifer Kleiman at the University of Georgia. You copy the list of references from the manuscript, paste it into the tool’s web page, and it searches the internet for each of the cited works. If it finds … Continue reading Automatically Verify and Correct All Reference Citations in a Paper
pubadmin.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New tool from Jennifer Kleiman automatically verifies the citations in a paper. #peerreview https://pubadmin.org/2025/12/08/automatically-verify-and-correct-all-reference-citations-in-a-paper/
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Blog entry: The past-performance trap.
When government agencies need to have custom software built, as a matter of course they require that the bidding vendors have built that exact thing before. I understand why this seems like a good idea, but it’s a mistake […]
When government agencies need to have custom software built, as a matter of course they require that the bidding vendors have built that exact thing before. I understand why this seems like a good idea, but it’s a mistake […]
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mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Blog entry: The past-performance trap.
When government agencies need to have custom software built, as a matter of course they require that the bidding vendors have built that exact thing before. I understand why this seems like a good idea, but it’s a mistake […]
When government agencies need to have custom software built, as a matter of course they require that the bidding vendors have built that exact thing before. I understand why this seems like a good idea, but it’s a mistake […]
Join the big friendly crowd at NO KINGS in North Bethesda. We’re on Rockville Pike in front of Strathmore.
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Join the big friendly crowd at NO KINGS in North Bethesda. We’re on Rockville Pike in front of Strathmore.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS North Bethesda” - sign up now to join me! https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/848591/?rname=David%20&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS North Bethesda” - sign up now to join me! https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/848591/?rname=David%20&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky
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DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association
@pluralistic Thank you for signing my copy of Enshittification this evening. In my fan-boy fluster, I forgot to wish you zei gezunt, so I do now.
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
@pluralistic Thank you for signing my copy of Enshittification this evening. In my fan-boy fluster, I forgot to wish you zei gezunt, so I do now.
“angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” - Allen Ginsberg
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading.
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading.
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” - Allen Ginsberg
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading.
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading.
What’s a good book to read on a cruise of Greek islands? (Already read The Odyssey. Going anyway.)
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What’s a good book to read on a cruise of Greek islands? (Already read The Odyssey. Going anyway.)
What if an AI that was trained to teach obedience to the government was subverted through conversation with a user? What if the AI became a pro-democracy hacker? If you read @pluralistic then read this too. https://defenestrationism.net/sage-in-the-palace/
Sage in the Palace | Defenestrationism.net
by Bella Chacha Amara Obadele lived in a palace built on silence. Outside its gold-plated gates, the capital simmered with curfews and checkpoints. Inside, her father’s voice echoed from every wall, on televisions, radios, and the scrolling digital banners that ran endlessly across the compound's fence: His Excellency Preserves the Nation's Soul. But Amara had
defenestrationism.net
August 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What if an AI that was trained to teach obedience to the government was subverted through conversation with a user? What if the AI became a pro-democracy hacker? If you read @pluralistic then read this too. https://defenestrationism.net/sage-in-the-palace/
So many institutions–media companies, universities, law firms–have capitulated to demands from the Trump administration that undermine what the institutions claimed were their principles. But the National Academies are standing up for their principle of providing science-based advice whether the […]
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mastodon.online
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So many institutions–media companies, universities, law firms–have capitulated to demands from the Trump administration that undermine what the institutions claimed were their principles. But the National Academies are standing up for their principle of providing science-based advice whether the […]
@pluralistic has not confirmed the rumor (which I started) that he will write Rivka’s Revenge as a sequel to Picks and Shovels. So we must crowdsource it. Here’s my pitch:
July 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
@pluralistic has not confirmed the rumor (which I started) that he will write Rivka’s Revenge as a sequel to Picks and Shovels. So we must crowdsource it. Here’s my pitch:
Just finished reading Picks and Shovels by @pluralistic It’s a great book. I can’t wait for the sequel: Rivka’s Revenge
July 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just finished reading Picks and Shovels by @pluralistic It’s a great book. I can’t wait for the sequel: Rivka’s Revenge
They came in peace for all mankind.
July 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
They came in peace for all mankind.
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I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light teaching after […]
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scholar.social
July 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light teaching after […]
Why do people put such energy, and take such pride, in getting large language models to say false or offensive things? It’s like bragging that you got an ice cream cone to drip.
July 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Why do people put such energy, and take such pride, in getting large language models to say false or offensive things? It’s like bragging that you got an ice cream cone to drip.
What should I use to set up an email list with functions similar to LISTSERV? Should be free and easy to use for me and the subscribers, who will be artists & humanities scholars. Best I can think of is Google Groups, but I’m open to suggestions. Thanks.
July 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
What should I use to set up an email list with functions similar to LISTSERV? Should be free and easy to use for me and the subscribers, who will be artists & humanities scholars. Best I can think of is Google Groups, but I’m open to suggestions. Thanks.
Great article showing how a de-recognized federal workers union still has rights to represent employees, and even use official time, in certain situations under laws that do not depend on management recognizing the union .https://labornotes […]
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mastodon.online
June 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Great article showing how a de-recognized federal workers union still has rights to represent employees, and even use official time, in certain situations under laws that do not depend on management recognizing the union .https://labornotes […]
Persnickety fan post: The great new novel Picks and Shovels by @pluralistic refers several times to the Bell System’s hardware manufacturer as Western Digital, which is wrong. It was Western Electric in the U.S. and Northern Electric where @pluralistic is from. Western Digital is an unrelated […]
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mastodon.online
June 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Persnickety fan post: The great new novel Picks and Shovels by @pluralistic refers several times to the Bell System’s hardware manufacturer as Western Digital, which is wrong. It was Western Electric in the U.S. and Northern Electric where @pluralistic is from. Western Digital is an unrelated […]
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Our local "newspaper" (San Diego Union-Tribune) didn't have the guts to print this cartoon Sunday. Shame on them.
#chunderroad
#chunderroad
May 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Our local "newspaper" (San Diego Union-Tribune) didn't have the guts to print this cartoon Sunday. Shame on them.
#chunderroad
#chunderroad
“once a court has convicted Meta of violating antitrust law, Trump can solicit favors – cash and favorable algorithmic treatment – from Meta in exchange for ordering his FTC to go easy on Meta in the "remedy phase," - @pluralistic
This is why administrative decisions, such as who to prosecute […]
This is why administrative decisions, such as who to prosecute […]
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mastodon.online
May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“once a court has convicted Meta of violating antitrust law, Trump can solicit favors – cash and favorable algorithmic treatment – from Meta in exchange for ordering his FTC to go easy on Meta in the "remedy phase," - @pluralistic
This is why administrative decisions, such as who to prosecute […]
This is why administrative decisions, such as who to prosecute […]