Hanna Sistek

Sounds fascinating!

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.

My talented postdoc colleague Sage Goodwin and her co-author’s take on the Kimmel debacle. theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...

Oh boy…

Leaving Vancouver with a belly full of great conversations, mountain views and gratitude. Thank you #APSA2025

Vancouver here I come! #APSA2025

It is important to resist the normalization of these travesties. If or when we get to "yawn, not another one..." we will have truly lost it all.

Empire of AI: Inside OpenAI’s Race to Conquer the Future | Karen Hao Poddavsnitt · Hidden Forces · 2025-05-19 · 1 tim 7 min

Quite eye opening episode on the history of OpenAI and where the field is going
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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-05-15 · 42 min

When GenAI frames answers in terms of questions and help people think, rather than just providing answers, people learn more. Fascinating episode on how to design beneficial #AI.

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Proposed US funding changes

Eller hur?

Amazing thread explaining a mechanism behind shifting political honesty norms

Amazing research, and so very helpful to understand this puzzle as to why falsehoods -by some politicians - are no longer punished. Thank you!

What can we conclude?
Words matter.
When politicians resort to intuition and “gut feeling” rather than evidence, this has flow-on consequences.
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Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition - Nature Human Behaviour This research explores the linguistic traces of evidence-based reasoning and intuitive decision-making in congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022. The analysis suggests that evidence-based language h...

In our most recent study, which just appeared in Nature Human Behaviour with Segun Aroyehun as lead author (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) , we drew a wider historical arc and examined the rhetoric in all speeches given on the floor of Congress between 1879 and 2022.
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Hahaha!

America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism' : Fresh Air Harvard professor of government Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living...

Steven Levitsky on America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism' : Fresh Air

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Hahaha, I just heard about this! In my home country. Slow TV seems like interesting counter movement to all things social media

Verification pop-up for badge issued by Wired

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification.

The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

Forever Chemicals, Forever Consequences: What PFAS Teaches Us About AI Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-04-03 · 1 tim 5 min

Powerful episode about the difficulty of regulating new technologies.

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Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.

Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

net support for various immigration policies in polls conducted between january 9 and feb 28, 2025; it's -37 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for more than 10 years", -36 for "deport undocumented immigrants who are parents of us citizens by birth", -18 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have not broken laws in the us except for immigration laws"... etc... the two policies with net positive approval are +11 for "an executive order declaring an emergency at the US-Mexico border, promising to deploy troops, construct additional border barriers, an implement mass deportations" and +81 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have been accused of committing violent crime"

I keep reading and hearing that, while Trump's net favorability is negative, his approval ratings on immigration are positive. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com for looking under the hood on this. Turns out Americans *really* don't like Trump's immigration policies.

The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-03-06 · 59 min

Fascinating episode on media theorist Neil Postman’s insights on the influence on different media types on society

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Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Super interesting on the impact of the attention economy on our children

Looking forward to present my paper on "Mechanisms behind political use of disinformation: case study evidence from Europe" today at #MPSA2025! 1.30 pm on the 7th floor, Burnham 5. Come join!

We are in the inside room with the TVs for the global NSA I am with you guys. I don’t know anything about this so I think OK well I’ll join us. We’re leaving in a little bit OK so I will come you are! Come join! A flight of stairs up from the ground level

#MPSA2025 here I come!

And just a disclaimer: this is not an officially sponsored event, so you'll have to buy your own drink, but hopefully that won't be too discouraging

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Attending #MPSA2025 and studying dem backsliding, or something having implications for it, like #disinfo? Join us for an impromptu HH at chicagoathletichotel.com
on 12 S Mich Av on April 3rd at 6 pm! Cool bar area upstairs. Last year's event was a hit!
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