Lily Mason

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

My favorite thing is when Diana Mutz goes on sabbatical and writes something wacky

She had moved on to writing about the Trump/Voldemort connection: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Republicans tend to like dogs: www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/defaul...

Death to prediction markets profiting on war | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, that time the U.S. pushed Iran regime change in 1953

Is there anything more disgusting than war? Yes...ghouls making hundreds of thousands of $$$ betting on when bombs will blow up girls schools of hospitals.

What's worse about Polymarket, Kalshi, etc. - the immorality, or the insider trading? Ban them!

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Oh no

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

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I actually look quite young for my age (130).

Lily that is called VIBE-CITING and we do it because we are PUBSMAXXXING. Your aura just got farmed, let bro cook

At least that’s somewhat easy to detect! The one I saw was like “Mason’s (2018) book invented the feeling thermometer measure” which is extremely wrong but also difficult for an AI reviewer to distinguish.

I’ll also posit that an AI reviewer wouldn’t have caught any of this - because they don’t “know” which papers do which things. AI isn’t designed to do that. I keep seeing folks say “but it will soon” and just once I’d like a legit demonstration that isn’t embarrassing.

I recently reviewed an article that I was very suspicious was written by by AI, even though all the citations were real. Why? The cited works didn’t do the thing that they were cited to do. It was as if the authors hadn’t read any of it. Pretty bad signal to a reviewer.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Speedrunning all the great blunders of the past

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

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I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame.

Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.

Huh. Imagine that.

Yeah Sean likes to write about things he hasn't read.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

The irony is that this behavior is extremely 1990s women’s diet culture, in which you hurt yourself just enough to look the way you think other people think you should look.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Also that's what abstracts are for?

Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

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Universities were once entirely populated by white Christian men of means. Every step toward social equality meant fewer white supremacist and misogynistic ideas were considered true by default, and competition for jobs grew more challenging. They want to go back.

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort.

The snowiest of flakes.

Some may be saying, “yes, we knew this”, but we don’t really know know until we see data like these.

And something we may not have known that this paper shows is that once a person gets into the right wing silo, we’ve lost them. Changing to the chronological feed does not bring them back.