I really don't get the hand wringing... If DSA principles are so awful, they won't hold up to empirical scrutiny when they are tired in different cities and those leaders will be voted out. If they do, they'll have more electoral success

If political parties didn't have disagreements, there'd be no competition. If there was no competition, there be no choice. If there was no choice, elections would be a foregone conclusion. If elections were foregone conclusions, you'd have authoritarianism. Ot the parasite thing.... IDK

How far away are we from this sentiment -- "When my father was dying, he said, “I want to thank you, because you’ve never put a villain in any of your stories.” The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain." www.chicagotribune.com/2016/04/22/v...

"In 1866, Otto von Bismarck attended the dedication of Berlin’s New Synagogue. Its grand dome stood as a symbol of Jewish integration… For a time, similar moments of recognition could be found across Central Europe. "But those scenes did not endure." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-work-of-...

IF @demsocialists.bsky.social bring this focus on cutting regulations to California, they would be a formidable challenge to the Democratic establishment here. x.com/NYCMayor/sta...

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I wish I could time travel with this chart back 25 years to my graduate program and show this to my rational choice theory professors 😁

If you want to skip you morning coffee and instead be fueled by rage, watch this congressional hearing on the Smithsonian going on RN.... youtu.be/Rzc81i0jdaM?...

Working on a book about liberalism, and I wonder if anyone's ever critiqued Rawls' justice as fairness/moral equality from the perspective that morally equality is boring (not my view). It strikes me that the increasing (1/2)

A deep reflection, very appropriate for this age when everyone has an idea of how to control AI. Asimov's genius gave us an important parallel: a Martian showed humans its aesthetics, but the human was unwilling to fully grasp it. "A new version of Asimov’s laws of robotics might be as follows:

FT Exclusive: Beijing is considering restrictions to prevent China’s advanced technologies and star start-ups from being acquired by the west, highlighting the country’s intensifying rivalry with the US in cutting-edge AI. ft.trib.al/McYM93P

Let's see what "f**k soft power" as a foreign policy objective accomplishes... Leverage only lasts for so long . www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

people back unscrupulous politicians, not because they want to be ass****s, but because they want to maintain the image of themselves as good people while fighting what they percieve to be existential threats. (1/2)

Every time I see stuff like this, I wonder if this is just an extension of the "flood zone of s**t" strategy that Steve Bannon made famous in 2016... So that you don't have the bandwidth to deal with the real re-distributions of power and wealth.

This is the whole game.

The lesson of this World Cup -- do not peak too early. Sleep walk through the group stages. Do just enough to win the early knockouts. Bring your A game to the final rounds

Andres Cantor is such an Argentina homer, it's almost charming

Embolo's going out .. for what!?! A foolish simulation! Argentina lives a charmed life

Man, Argentina lives dangerously

"Jakob Nielsen frames AI as the fourth great economic revolution, after tools, agriculture, and industry. Each one took something scarce and made it stupidly abundant: muscle, then food, then power, now cognition." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

“I didn’t sign up to help kill people.” In a new piece co-published with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social looks at tech workers confronting the military uses of their own labor, from Microsoft to Google to Cisco to Palantir.

As a die-hard USMNT supporter for 24 years, I think there's something to the hypothesis that Trump's involvement impacted the team's performance. Almost all the US starters play on top to mid level European teams. They were making error they seldom make on their European club teams. (1/2)

“We need a diverse coalition; it will be messy, conflicted, and made of imperfect people with imperfect histories or imperfect politics; but there must… be a line drawn on *who we give power to*”

Anyone who’s teaching online courses at the moment, how have your final assessments changed in the last six months? Clearly turn papers are problematic. But what are you doing? Oral exams, something else?

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

"Diversity is a Lie" is the worst song on Meat is Murder

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Don't love the "either or" discourse about this... Maybe the point is we need more well-rounded liberal arts graduates who are conversant both in STEM and the humanities

Paraguay's level of sh**housing is museum-worthy

Would be something if Paraguay pulled a Greece in the 2004 Euros and won the whole thing by parking the bus.

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Scotland's tactics last night against Haiti were as cynical and morose as a Belle and Sebastian song #worldcup

My thoughts on the Papal Encyclical as a response to the Dark Enlightenment. "Compared to the messy... work of consensus building in liberal democracies, techo-authoritarianism has the effervescence of technological advance. Yet competing with it is exactly what Pope Leo is asking us to do."

Great essay from @meredithconroy.bsky.social !!! Especially the historical timeline of "feminizing opponents" in US elections and the rain the appeal is effective -- "(a man) who doesn’t perform masculinity “correctly” can feel like a challenge to a worldview they hold dear."

I wish every Democratic party operative read Richard Rorty and framed messaging less on grand notions like facts, reason, logic and more focused stories that reinforce what works for people

Would be so excited to study this if I didn’t also have to live through it.

Why does the the press insist on holding onto norms of propriety that don't exist anymore? Would be really interesting too see what happened if a reporter clapped back.. might actually increase viewership for that network.

It's malpractice if Dems can't turn this into a campaign issue this year

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@ericblanc.bsky.social making sense... will Dems listen? "Potlucks and karaoke nights might seem like a distraction in the face of the world’s horrors. But they’re not. To grow big and deep enough to win, we need to provide the joyful community most people lack in our lonely, phone-addicted era."

so is this the "viewpoint diversity" i'm supposed to include in my college classes?

Addressing these critiques "like posting a pic of yourself eating b-b-que" is a terrible idea. He has to find a way to turn it into "they aren't criticizing me, they're criticizing you by assuming you're that stupid".. that or if he secretly knows MMA,challenging Paxton to a cage match (kidding) :)

The AI Question: A Movement Debate, Thurs May 28th 7pm ET. Hosted by @mediajustice.bsky.social and @conmijente.bsky.social, LIVE BROADCAST: streamyard.com/watch/SKsxNh...

You can learn about our upcoming AI Civics program, which is mentioned in this op-ed, here. datasociety.net/announcement...

The popes enyclical was a powerful statement demanding that AI be developed in ways there are consistent with human dignity and foregrounding human relationships (1/?) techpolicy.press/the-popes-en...

Leo XIV's encyclical rightly calls for AI that protects human dignity. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I warn against piling responsibility on individuals while systems are built to undermine their judgment. I point to initiatives by @newpublic.org & @datasociety.bsky.social that seek alternatives

"While firmly setting moral guardrails is critical, now comes the hard work of designing platforms that actually carry out the vision of the Pope’s encyclical" My thoughts on the papal encyclical in @techpolicypress.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social

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I am heartened by the fact that one of the history's greatest songwriters on what's probably his greatest album still came up with the line " he hears the ticking of the clocks and walks along with a parrot that talks" music.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ8e...