Overheard at the Chelsea hotel in 2025: “I’m making decks and doing my market research.”

Miss 1965.

As part of our work at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, @dwillner.bsky.social and I wrote up a practical guide on how to effectively use LLMs for content moderation. It shows both the promise and limitations of the current generation of LLMs for at scale trust and safety work. Hope it is helpful!

Will Meta's retreat from proactive/automated enforcement of its community standards lead to Instagram and Facebook becoming deeper cess pools? Well, it's complicated and the devil will be in the details. Let's look at the data and see what questions we should be asking... 🧵 1/12

Montana is the clearest place to see the nationalization of US politics. Whole Dem ticket was multigenerational MT hunters & farmers in bolo ties. Dem gov candidate owned a gun manufacturer. GOP slate was outta state tech.

Whole race was dominated by natl culture war & southern border, GOP sweep

First day back in ny and already got a stomach bug/food poisoning.

This graph might cause nightmares for team OLS for #causalinference

Continuous treatment randomly assigned; nonlinear effects

The “average effect” of X on Y is +1 but the OLS estimate is -1. Dang.

So should estimand be blp or ate or none of the above?

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Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪

It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

"Priming Americans to think about inflation reduces approval of the Biden-Harris administration and lowers confidence in the Democrats' ability to manage the economy. Moreover, we find this effect is most pronounced among Independents and Democrats" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@mclem.org on the economics of irregular migration in the US and on the economic fallout of the announced mass-deportations.
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New #GrandTamasha podcast out now: Hilal Ahmed of CSDS-Delhi joins me to discuss his new book, "A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India." We discuss the many nuances of Muslim identity in a BJP-dominant polity grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/mus...

What is the best work on boosting participation in local elections in the last 5 years?

HI All, Curious if anyone knows of a cheap service that can take a large PDF table and turn it into excel or cvs so I can use if for sampling. India data so perhaps something in India?

I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.

Turnout across
Swing states was down in big cities — and in blue states for that matter. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Sharing a column on research on the responsiveness of local politicians in India with CASI @upenn.bsky.social
casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mark-sch...

Recently moved over here. I'll be sharing work and some thoughts from time to time on Indian politics, local governance, technology and democracy, social policy, etc. markaschneider.com

What is the value added of local democracy? Fascinating paper on a natural experiment in India: Local democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences, but these gains accrue more to advantaged groups. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...