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Mark Histed
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also, Renee DiResta is great! And deserves our support.
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How information moves through networks in the brain, and networks in society. PI/group leader @NIH. Also, Local News Dollars director, Democracy Policy Network.
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Mark Histed
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also, Renee DiResta is great! And deserves our support.
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Mark Histed
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political journalists on Twitter are acting like it's fourth of july tossing bombs all over the place
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Mark Histed
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agree and the overall funders include IHS and Stand Together, and as usual the money if anything affects who from right gets represented. And this will be the last I say on the topic of funding here because I’m old enough to know everyone else hates this kind of thing
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Mark Histed
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Sheri Berman is great! And on the misinfo panel, Renee DiResta is great too! But perhaps a bit outnumbered.
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Mark Histed
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I’ll see if i can get out to make it down. I’m a bit skeptical that the minds of some of the panelists can be changed. I’m however happy to talk w good-faith liberals on the topic - there’s historical precedents for policy that can generate better public debate today!
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Mark Histed
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Tempted. You think it will be overall worth it? I’m skeptical of some of the panels, esp the misinformation one which seems to reflect the IHS/Koch funding connections. Not sure I can sit through that without an aggressive question.
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Mark Histed
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This is right. We can all help for Nov by talking about Project 2025 now. That helps keep focus on the stakes.
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Mark Histed
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TV viewers will learn more about American politics tonight watching ESPN than watching cable “news”
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Mark Histed
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Agree the fantasy candidates have no chance. It’s Harris if Biden steps down and I think most everyone who matters realizes this, based on stuff I’m seeing from D groups
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Mark Histed
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Exactly On the positive side, this at least means that more people are appreciating the threat of trump/the right/the Supreme Court.
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Mark Histed
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not that I’m advocating for a change: I’m fully onboard for Biden-Harris
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Mark Histed
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Right. Focus on democracy and the courts and what we are up against.
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Mark Histed
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Let me be a little optimistic: Harris may just prosecute the public case against Trump effectively. There’s a lot of low hanging fruit, and a positive thing about her campaign was that she did the comms part, and debate pugilism, well.
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Mark Histed
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Laura Loomer is on Twitter trending with medical things about Biden. I’ve seen a few repeats of that rumor from people I know.
Laura Loomer. What @volts.wtf said today about our information environment - it’s deeply broken
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Mark Histed
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Thanks for this. I agree. I’ll also bet that if it goes down this way the Roberts Court tries in the next two terms to let him off the hook. But am biased: I strongly believe that in likely case of Biden win, we must massively reform the courts before 2028 or risk a legal coup.
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Mark Histed
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Yes VSDs could do some of this, multiple patch could get some of the way there and estimate propagation. But this kind of experimental demonstration is very cool! 🎉
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Mark Histed
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great point. Words matter to the way people think (despite some fields at times arguing to the contrary!)
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Mark Histed
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From Adam Cohen
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Mark Histed
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These are entirely new kinds of experiments — enabled by new voltage sensors. Cool
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video here x.com/adamezracohe...
#neuroscience 🧪
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Mark Histed
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Our Supreme Court judges too.
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Mark Histed
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Also I’m optimistic as you are about Nov and the future. But. We have to make major changes to the courts. That fight is ahead of us and I’m less optimistic we will win. But we can if we fight.
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Mark Histed
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The NY state conviction is dead, and Merchan knows it— his sentencing delay order implies he’s waiting for vacate on appeal. SCOTUS has taken all official acts out of evidence. Convictions on anything will be hard
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Mark Histed
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I think you’re underestimating what the Roberts court just did — and also what it signaled. They are all in for making Republican presidents fully autocrats. It’s a dual project: presidentialism and juristocracy. It’s scary as heck. No?
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Mark Histed
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I thought Tory media was like 8 non-dom billionaires and few other original thoughts, no?
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Mark Histed
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These kind of disclosures attached to opinions are what makes Isaac Chotiner’s interviews so powerful. Chotiner isn’t just doing fact-checking. He’s providing context and disclosing agendas.
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Mark Histed
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this is pretty trivial given the vast, huge legal changes this week, but...
I just got a Picopresso, succumbing to maximal coffee OCDness, and it both makes a great shot and is extremely satisfying to use. Recommend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vz4...
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Mark Histed
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Medical journals attach to articles authors’ disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. We have decided readers cannot understand the full context of ideas without judging potential agendas behind them. If this author voted in 2020 and 2022 it should similarly be disclosed by NYT.
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Mark Histed
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Business models for US journalism influence our public discourse.
The Times makes choices. And they are affected by its audience and who it hires, especially as editors and executives.
talkingpointsmemo.co...
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Mark Histed
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the Tory newspaper elite is still around today and needs more excoriation!
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Mark Histed
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oooh we need some quotes on that
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Mark Histed
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Ps @donmoyn.bsky.social just saw UMich announcement. Congrats!!
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Mark Histed
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Yess. And Barrett worked for the Bush legal campaign in 2000 and with Starr’s investigation. And there’s Rehnquist too.
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Mark Histed
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It’s also let Trump off the hook for his hush money conviction.
also not unintentional.
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Mark Histed
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Right. The far-right SCOTUS majority has decriminalized Nixon’s conduct in Watergate, Reagan’s conduct in Iran-Contra, and also effectively John Yoo’s conduct in DOJ’s signoff on torture. It isn’t unintentional.
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Mark Histed
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Yes - am trying to be maximally generous to what’s argued by editors/publisher 🤷♂️ The deeper story as you know is a political economy story - who is their audience, what drives attention, etc. We gotta change the biz models for US journalism
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Mark Histed
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Times Opinion would argue different viewpoints should be represented. I’m fine with that (though the choice of opinions to publish defines what the paper is.)
But NYT *MUST* disclose agenda and context if it wants its readers to fully evaluate a writer’s points. 2/3
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Mark Histed
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It is also a good idea to spread the word about what kind of paper the Times is: complicated, but definitely not liberal. Thanks for saying this
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It’s bad! And at minimum we should be demanding the Times gives readers this context. That’s something we can do now.
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Mark Histed
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Can we prevent SCOTUS justices from citing them too? (Alito cited Ponnuru’s book)
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Mark Histed
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This, exactly. When you know what else he’s written, you can properly interpret his ideas. Without that, it’s a lot harder to spot the problems in his argument.
This is why there are so many aphorisms about reputation. It’s an essential heuristic for human learning!
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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote
"But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...
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Wrote something to make sense of the Roberts court capitulation to Trump. But it still doesn't make sense. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...
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Mark Histed
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It’s consistent with the idea that Roberts is a Republican partisan who has in the past worked to project moderation for political reasons, to avoid media scrutiny. Right? Don’t get me wrong, I was shocked too that he’d just go for it so openly.
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Mark Histed
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Most readers will not know who Walther is, or his history — vital info to evaluating his claims. In fact, the majority of NYT readers will read just the headline. Humans do not use info without context. NYT does a disservice to its readers when it publishes highly partisan columns w/out context.
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Mark Histed
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ah, I ended up writing one of these “how information is processed by humans and how it flows through media and society” threads. Happy Fourth!
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Mark Histed
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It’s not liberal in the US sense or in the historical/international/academic sense. It’s conservative.
/end
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Mark Histed
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One aspect of fixing this is pushing the NYT to do better, to describe the history and background of each columnist, especially for these infrequent contributors. The other piece is that all of should speak about the reputation of the NYT itself. A paper doing this isn’t a liberal paper.
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Mark Histed
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Most readers will not know who Walther is, or his history — vital info to evaluating his claims. In fact, the majority of NYT readers will read just the headline. Humans do not use info without context. NYT does a disservice to its readers when it publishes highly partisan columns w/out context.
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Mark Histed
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How humans absorb information is influenced by reputation and agenda. We have evolved to do this. We put new information in context based on where it is coming from.
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