Kurt Braddock

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Proudly cast my vote for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social. So psyched to see it looking positive for her election so far.

Love my state.

"Landmines, Agent Orange, leaded gas, cigarettes,
Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness.

We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with-
The machinery could eat us, we just really just love our buttons."

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Currently listening to the brilliant Aesop Rock on the subway as I read more and more about the dangers and abuses of AI in the service of extremism and violence.

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I hope not, too. That dude's been clownshoes for a long, long time.

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Exactly now, sun.

The SPLC’s Rachel Carroll Rivas joined Cynthia Miller-Idriss, of American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), and Mark Greene, Walking Talking Men co-founder, at a UN event to highlight solutions to prevent the spread of white supremacy. bit.ly/4gj7sSB

Like clockwork, social media has been absolutely inundated with speculation on the #charliekirk shooter, including motivations based on sketchy evidence from the first 24 hours after the attack.

These posters are going to find out really quickly why being fast isn't as important as being correct.

CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Patrick Joseph White. White died and a police officer was shot and killed.

CDC shooter was "...very unsettled, and he very deeply believed that vaccines hurt him and were hurting other people...He emphatically believed that."

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Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent vs. Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors Recent analyses of radicalization processes have shown that extremist attitudes and violent behavior may be related in some cases, but are rarely collinear. It therefore benefits analysts of politi...

Fifty free copies of my TPV article "Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent Versus Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors." In it, my deep-learning model correctly predicted violent vs. non-violent offending among extremists in 94 percent of cases.

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PREPRINT: The MAGA Movement and Political Violence in 2024 AbstractBackground: The possibility of widespread political violence poses a serious concern for the United States. A nationally representative survey found in 2022 that “Make America Great Again” (MA...

📢 New research! 📢

In 2024, MAGA Republicans were much more likely than non-MAGA non-Republicans to view political violence as justified and to endorse beliefs associated with violence, but they were generally not more willing to commit such violence themselves. cvp.ucdavis.edu/research/pre...

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Studio 2 - WHYY Everything you need to know about what’s happening in the Delaware Valley – from news and politics to science and the arts– delivered with a fresh perspective, all in an hour. Learn something new and ...

If you are so inclined (or let's be honest, bored), and want to hear me jabber on about political violence, I'll be on NPR/WHYY Philly's Studio 2 at 12pm.

One step closer to that Sesame Street cameo.

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New fucked up strategy frame that further trivializes American diplomacy just dropped.

You don't need answers. You have the answer right in front of you. It's insider trading and market manipulation. Just call it what it is.

Of course.

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Rich people got richer on all this. Go figure.

"Celebrities" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there for some.

I wonder if I can figure out how to write papers while simultaneously doing 1,000 burpees and dipping my face in ice water at 4AM.

We are witnessing the moral moment:

Americans: #HandsOff

Canadians: #ElbowsUp

Standing up for democracy, intellectual freedom, integrity of law, research, science, health care, education, the arts, social security, media.

And on guard for Canadian sovereignty. 🇨🇦

Hope on both sides of the border

I guess at least they didn't accidentally include their calculation in a Signal chat.

Wait. In my heart, I don't know if that's true.

Ken Jennings from the top rope is not something I expected to see tonight. Interesting times.

The aliens aren't showing up. Pretty soon, some of the true believers are going to start silently crying in the living room.

For real. Follow up; it's not hard. "What fake studies? What do those studies say?"

Complete abdication of journalistic responsibility since 2015.

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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Between him and Andy Kim, I'm proud to be from my little state.

That's my Senator. Hell yeah, f*** yeah.

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov.

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That's my Senator!

"Listen, I know your retirement savings are cratering, but this is how you get cheap eg-"

::checks egg prices::

"Er... it's war! Yeah, that's the ticket! War!"