Alex Newhouse

vortex egg, MLIS @vortexegg.regretfully.online [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:46 UTC

Someone could write a thesis about all the sciences that have been invented to avoid saying the word ‘fascism’

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

i'm starting from a place of extreme bitterness toward the GRFP because i'm ineligible as I had the gall to complete a master's degree 1 year and 9 months before starting my PhD instead of waiting the full 2 years

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

excuse me brian but don't you like making 22-year-olds spend hours playing bullshit chicken with evaluation boards instead of focusing on planning the execution of their proposal?

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:10 UTC

lmao you can get a really nice carbon canyon with wireless di2 for less than that

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:30 UTC

man the nyt just refuses to understand context differences huh (European governments frequently have no majority party and have to patch together governing coalitions)

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

another interesting look at polarization asymmetry dynamics: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I have some takes that I hope to one day write up in research that "polarization" is a symptom of other things going on, and researchers need to distinguish proactive vs reactive polarization among other lines

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

so there's a problem with "polarization" as a term, in that people tend to conflate various different dynamics (i think this is fairly decent: academic.oup.com/book/39301/c...)

From this descends the asymmetry: ideological polarization is not symmetric in the US-- www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

we’re going to candy mountain, get the hell in

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:29 UTC

(If that’s all office then we should build more apartments that look like that too)

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

Imagine if we had even more developments like that one and Boulder junction 😍

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

I, your friendly neighborhood far-right researcher/political scientist-in-training, am here to let you know that if academic research/media coverage of "polarization" feels weird to you, that's for good reason. Polarization research is, generally, fundamentally flawed and based on assumed symmetry

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

kinda funny if you think about it that the media has decided to just fully not interrogate the fact that trump is preparing to do full-scale televised north korea-style purges of political enemies that will likely, in an appeal to QAnon cranks, end with his enemies being thrown in Gitmo

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

and so it begins

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:02 UTC

might be time to take a lap, guys

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

I cannot express enough that Charlie Kirk is a brain wormed crank and turning your GOTV apparatus over to him is a colossally stupid move

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

this is unhinged

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Macron has done this to try to undermine the influence of the far-right party, in a similar way to what the Danish SocDems have done. French people always hate the President, but they REALLY hate Macron, in large part due to this hypocrisy. Hence why the Leftists did so well yesterday.

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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

people have this bizarre perception of the centrists in europe "being further left than [enter anglosphere left-wing party here]" because they tend to support the welfare state. to be as clear as I can be: Macron has tacked right on immigration and security, far to the right of Labour or the Dems.

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