This strikes me as pretty bad

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Recently published work from colleagues Morgan Wack (postdoc at University of Zurich) & Joey Schafer (UW PhD candidate) showing how state election policies that delayed vote counting fueled rumoring and conspiracy theorizing around the 2020 election: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

The 2020 US election shows how state election policies can fuel conspiracy theories about voting write @morganwack.bsky.social of @ikmz.bsky.social and @schafer.bsky.social of @uwnews.uw.edu

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

They're terrorizing people to create fascist propaganda content to circulate on social media.

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Great article (as usual) from @jamellebouie.net: "You can tweak your message and follow the polls as much as you’d like, but unless you stand for something greater than the sum of your platform, your maneuvers and machinations will be for naught."

This is fantastic news!! Thinking of both of you!

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Rocket’s repping the AL West Champs in style! 🐶⚾ Go @mariners.com! 🎉

#SeaUsRise #SeizeTheMoment

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Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.

And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Charlie Warzel gives some of these ideas a more thoughtful treatment: bsky.app/profile/thea...

Look at us staring at our screens like fools, searching for coherence in the politics of very online murder guys in their twenties.

Fact check.

$10 Kash Patel’s “suspect in custody” error yesterday was just him repeating what he had seen on social media rather than relying on official intel.

We’ve been down this road so many times, and yet it just feels like the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings on replay, over and over again, except now the official sources (FBI) are directly plugged into social media (X) as input.

In the absence of any actual facts about the shooting, everyone is just playing word association with Charlie Kirk.

Someone dies in a horrific act of political violence. An online manhunt ensues w/ fingers pointed in all directions. Alongside thoughts & prayers, framing wars rage, as partisans try to score all the political points they can. Then conspiracy theorizing takes root, the denial of inconvenient truths.