Stephen Meserve
@smeserve.bsky.social
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Practicing political scientist, hiker, tabletop gamer, etc in Northern Arizona
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Greg Sargent
about 21 hours ago
This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.
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eric gonzalez juenke
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1965 VRA roll call vote.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
4 days ago
Asking myself why this is so satisfying, I'm realizing some of the anger I have about AI mania is having worked for people like this, who thoughtlessly inhale the latest BS, present it as deep thought, and then use it to impose extra work on employees for their own resumes and self-aggrandizement.
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Graduates Boo Commencement Speech About A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/style/ucf-commencement-ai-booed-gloria-caulfield.html
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Patrick Wyman
2 days ago
Iâm firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that theyâre unlikable, antisocial goons
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Seth Cotlar
2 days ago
Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"
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Kyle Griffin
3 days ago
NYT confirms â with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patelâs Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/patel-fbi-travel-snorkeling-pearl-harbor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Darin Self
4 days ago
Someone with power please enforce our constitution challenge
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ryan cooper
4 days ago
"The cost of a typical utility-scale battery installation has fallen by well over half since 2022, and by 27 per cent last year alone"
www.ft.com/content/b5c5...
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The dawn of 24/7 solar power
Falling battery costs drive the economics of round-the-clock renewables
https://www.ft.com/content/b5c53f48-0f8c-4ef8-9152-53feffe60461?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Better Things Are Possible
9 months ago
It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great
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Daniel Drezner
5 days ago
Surprise!
www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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âNo idea it was comingâ: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
It wasnât clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a âmodel ally.â
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
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lauren
5 days ago
my favorite genre of international dialogue
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Quantian
5 days ago
Japan is one of the most R&D intensive non-US countries, and RIKEN is its most prestigious (non-university) research institute. If you isekaiâd it into the US, it only has the fourth biggest R&D budget in the state of North Carolina, which is like the twelfth biggest state
bsky.app/profile/awma...
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Quantian
5 days ago
Conservatives hate universities because they are broke outside the club, liberals think itâs gauche to brag, and foreigners self soothe by making â100 top universities for elite reproductionâ lists that ignore the fact that, like, ETH Zurich and Oxford have a lower R&D budget than UW-Madison
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Quantian
5 days ago
Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.
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little sweethearts, you see them all the time nbd
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jamelle
6 days ago
interesting the way the VRA is presented as some kind of imposition from above, and not the product of one of the greatest social movements this country has ever seen
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Victor Ray
6 days ago
Students calling a speaker a jerk is not a crisis of free speech; it is an expression of free speech. A university shutting down student protest at the request of an authoritarian state *is* a violation of free speech. A free press worthy of the name would report accordingly.
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Tim Murphy
6 days ago
so funny to be doing these stories in 2026, as like your entire job. what happened, did the kids strip his funding, launch a harassing investigation, and engineer a series of mergers to silence him?
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first sabbatical of my career and I don't even know what to make of it
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G Elliott Morris
8 days ago
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
news.gallup.com/opinion/meth...
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Gallup Begins Research on Synthetic Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/709373/gallup-begins-research-synthetic-responses.aspx
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
7 days ago
Part 2 of the New Yorker series on higher ed is up; itâs an interview with someone who has even weirder and less good ideas than Jay Caspian King (the author / interviewer). For example: rhereâs no meaningful experience at the edge of chemistry without knowing some (and probably a lot of) chemistry.
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Kevin Collins
8 days ago
Oh look, yet another research paper showing that synthetic samples don't work
aapor.confex.com/aapor/2026/m...
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old roadside pics
9 days ago
farmers bank by louis sullivan, west james street, columbus, wisconsin, 1977
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Katie Hinde
8 days ago
"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
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Weâre Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
âFor too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/were-diversifying-the-university-by-hiring-more-crackpots
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Tim Onion
8 days ago
This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
9 days ago
âEven if you stopped climate change today, New Orleansâs days are still numbered,â he added. âIt will be surrounded by open water, and you canât keep an island situated below sea level afloat. Thereâs no amount of money that can do that.â
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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âPoint of no returnâ: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisianaâs cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
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Hetan Shah
10 days ago
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens âbecause no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.â đ€Ł
www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
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Judy Stone
10 days ago
How unprepared US has become: States cannot send samples to the CDC for orthopoxvirus testing â like mpox â because that division has been temporarily paused. labs can no longer test for leishmaniasis. rabies testing at the CDC was also temporarily halted.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare
But the USâs withdrawal from the WHO â and cuts to the countryâs health system â stymie officialsâ response
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/08/hantavirus-global-heath-scare?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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10 days ago
shaw's barber sign, route 80, shreveport, louisiana, 1982
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David Ho
10 days ago
We should fully fund science.
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In a Milestone for A.L.S., a Treatment Helps Some Patients Improve
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/well/als-treatment-tofersen-qalsody.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.LeJP.TxzHahq4g09e&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Joseph Cox
12 days ago
New from 404 Media: ICE plans to develop its own smart glasses to "supplement" its facial recognition app, according to a DHS official told about the plans in a meeting. A second person who attended a conference this week heard a senior ICE official discuss the plans
www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to âSupplementâ Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/
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Matt Seybold
12 days ago
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
12 days ago
Theyâre gonna close down the predatory learning management system unless we put on the best dang talent show this town has ever seen!!!
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Seth D. Michaels
12 days ago
the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable
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Wendy Xu
12 days ago
every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons)
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Luca
12 days ago
How armadillos gather foliage for their nests
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Matthew Gertz
13 days ago
Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kellyâs show today.
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Sam
12 days ago
still thinking about that Goldman Sachs âanalysisâ that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now
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Stephen Nuñez
13 days ago
It's a comforting thought that our political problems are simply a matter of rhetorical mismatch and not hoary, broken, anti-democratic institutions that will take a generation-long reconstruction project to fix.
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Matt Hill
13 days ago
Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.
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Anita Gohdes
13 days ago
We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the
@hertieschool.bsky.social
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@scripts-berlin.eu
project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May):
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Narrative, Power, and Control (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)
https://hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs/81032/postdoctoral-researcher-narrative-power-and-control-gn-full-time-40-hoursweek
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Christina Jewett
14 days ago
SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication:
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.8TIf.Nf0VZEDJJMok&smid=url-share
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Jason Koebler
15 days ago
Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later
www.404media.co/nature-retra...
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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
âWhat educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.â
https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/
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18 days ago
law offices, bill williams avenue, williams, arizona, 1987
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Sal Gentile
15 days ago
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Joshua G. Schraiber
16 days ago
This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science
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Timothy
18 days ago
Bring back the ancient knowledge
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Anna Mazzola
18 days ago
Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.
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