Brad LeVeck

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I hope so, though I’m still a little uncertain about how clumsy you have to be before these contradictions become apparent to most people.

Carr threatening Kimmel showed me there is a line though, which is good.

De Cecco enjoyers across the US must unite.

I think the quoted tweet is so unclear about who the “majority” is or what is exactly being “rejected” that it’s basically meaningless.

👇 Midwest correspondent for The Economist

This is definitely making me question the “merchants constrained the king” theory I vaguely remember from political economy classes.

Lmaooooo

I support institutional neutrality if autonomously adopted by universities.

But making it a condition for preferential access to federal funding is very problematic. It effectively requires universities to avoid criticizing the government to be prioritized for support.

UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.”

Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.

Plot showing perception of voter ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. Republicans are drifting slightly to be more conservative, Democrats are mostly staying in one place.

Plot showing messaging ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. There is increasing separation between parties over time, with Republicans becoming messaging more moderately during the Trump era and then shifting to the right during Biden.

New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.

We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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If you live in California, stop what you’re doing and take 2 minutes to call Newsom’s office in support of SB79. Building more housing near transit is good.

The cinematography!

WhatsApp deactivation experimental results in Brazil, India, and South Africa mirror those from prior social media studies: big changes in content exposure -> minimal changes in attitudes, decreases in political knowledge, increases in subjective wellbeing www.venturatiago.com/talk/vmtn_wh...

This is why I say patience is key when working with language models. If the output is directionally correct, or even just wrong in an interesting way, let it keep iterating and see where it goes!

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It’s not the worst thing about education polarization and GOP war on the abstract concept knowledge obviously, but it does suck that it makes it harder to critique or address trends within/parts of academia that like geniunely could use some reform, because it feels like helping the book burners

Better than the first one?

Measurement error rules everything around me.

I do remember having to manually set the white balance on my phone's camera so I could show people what this actually looked like.

The best. Pretty sure that was the last game I was willing to make a boot disk for.

a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose with a paper bag while sitting in front of a lamp . ALT: a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose with a paper bag while sitting in front of a lamp .

ACC football

Scientists have actually done a lot to raise the bar on what findings are published. But, we don't have similarly rigorous norms about how we discuss research online and in the media, probably because that's harder to do while respecting academic freedom and free speech.
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I would frame this more in terms of how we promote and discuss certain findings, rather than the quality of the work itself.

What I've seen is that researchers are much more likely to promote lower quality findings or tenuous interpretations of quality findings when we agree with them politically.

Public perception hasn't caught up to the fact that gaming now dwarfs Hollywood and the music industry in terms of $$$. It is basically like buying a major movie studio 20 years ago.

Constitutional calvinball hurtling us further toward the brink

If the president targets you for frivolous prosecution, you need to pay your own legal bills but the taxpayer bears the cost of the prosection.

What kind of free market person thinks there should be zero safeguards against this?

The "unitary executive" doctrine that Trump is using to hyper-empower himself has deep roots in the conservative legal movement that long predate MAGA and it's wild to me that these theorists convinced themselves the results would be normatively desirable.

To try to be restrained and persuasive:

1) Academic work (like most things) is of varying quality

2) There is an enormous leftward ideological skew to the lowest-quality work

3) 1 + 2 makes it hard for credentialed "expertise" to be credible even when most experts are good