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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit I thought that was the Oval Office at first until I scrolled down and saw Putin and read the post

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 23h

Arriving tomorrow

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 1d

Considering buying an inflatable chicken costume for the 18th. They’re like $25!

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 1d

At first I thought he was talking about fluoride or some mRNA microchip nonsense

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025 - Accepted Submissions

Accepted Submissions Oral Presentations Extended Abstract: New Narrative Annotation Infrastructure in the Modern Social Media EcosystemMaria Antoniak, Peter Ebert Christensen, Srishti Yadav, Sarah M...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Automatic coherence-driven inference on arguments

Inconsistencies are ubiquitous in law, administration, and jurisprudence. Though a cure is too much to hope for, we propose a technological remedy. Large language models (LLMs) can accurately extract ...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re at COLM on Friday I can rant at you

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025
• Automatic coherence-driven analysis of
arguments
Steve Huntsman

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

But go ahead and call me blind dude

I got all the respect in the world for your work. I have a book of yours. Was at Kiel in 2015 with you. But you are wrong here

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Zomglol that time when the secret service nearly arrested me a looong time ago

Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · Aug 16

A condensed video version of yesterday's interaction with the United States Secret Service, contrasted with my interaction with the same police organization at the same location conducting exactly the same activity last year. You decide how to explain the change: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMw...

Is Hopscotch Now Illegal on the Sidewalks of Washington DC?

YouTube video by #DogShirtTV

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Lolol

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Lafayette Park today without even a single submarine sandwich for protection to show support for Ukrainian bravery

Still when we realized how reckless we had been with the streets deserted and all the reports of gangs of masked lawless thugs all over NW DC, we immediately went to Potbelly

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Your bread game is much weaker than your lamb game bro

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Lol

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · Mar 22

Kid had strong sign game at the White House today

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy thing is a motivated cadets best route to advancement—and to having an impact—is probably going into logistics and crushing it

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

You’re a mathematician

Definitions matter

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

The year is 2025.

The top Big Ten teams are OSU, Oregon, and Indiana.

The top SEC teams are Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma.

The top Big XII teams are Texas Tech, BYU and ASU.

And then there’s all that other fucked up weird shit.

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogo...

Kolmogorov complexity - Wikipedia

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 6d

Chemistry is all fun and games until you FAFO with FOOF…

…or for me at 12, when mom saw my stoichiometry and the half liter bottles of reagent nitric and sulfuric acid next to the bottle of glycerine in the back yard and kept me from blowing myself up. Explosives class 13 years later was hands off

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 6d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...

Erdős number - Wikipedia

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 7d

JGL’s significant other was defenstrated from the OpenAI board over calling Altman on his bullshit IIRC

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 8d

Oh wait a minute there was this one dude who was charged with that stuff in 2006

Welp I’m not a lawyer

Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 8d

“Adhering to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort”

…I’ve heard that one somewhere before. Maybe I need to be an originalist to unpack it though. Maybe we haven’t technically had enemies since WWII when the last formal declaration of war was made

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 9d

You may want to try out the (crummy research vibe code) pipeline used here. I did not include eg Citizens United or some others but it is always fun to see incoherence exposed automatically

Automatic coherence-driven inference on arguments

Inconsistencies are ubiquitous in law, administration, and jurisprudence. Though a cure is too much to hope for, we propose a technological remedy. Large language models (LLMs) can accurately extract ...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

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