Stephen A. Meserve

Stephen Meserve

@smeserve.bsky.social

46 followers 60 following 20 posts

Practicing political scientist, hiker, tabletop gamer, etc in Northern Arizona

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Political science 52%

Computer science 14%

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 2d

Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce, Robert C. Richards , and 6 more Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Sarah Roberts, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Stephen A. Meserve, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 3d

Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Stephen A. Meserve

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

www.404media.co

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Robert C. Richards, Stephen A. Meserve , and 1 more Caroline Krafft, Robert C. Richards, Stephen A. Meserve, Tommy J. Curry

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d

In a world of Sundown Towns where Black people weren’t allowed after nightfall, Green Book businesses were tiny spots of light. Traveling while Black was about survival. The Green Book Project documents that history:
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Robert Wolfe, Michael Zimmer , and 2 more Daniel W. Drezner, Robert Wolfe, Michael Zimmer, Michael Jones‐Correa, Stephen A. Meserve

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

This is just sad.

Text: Garry Tan 9 @garrytan
X.com
My 10 year old got sick of coloring something and asked Nano Banana to finish coloring it and this is what it rendered

Image 1: crab half filled in
Image 2: crab filled in by AI

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Stephen A. Meserve

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 5d

Highly recommended!

"The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality" by Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman.

"...tariff pass-through to U.S. import prices is almost 100 percent, so the United States is bearing a large share of the costs."

bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Victor Asal, Diane Ravitch , and 4 more Kim L. Scheppele, Victor Asal, Diane Ravitch, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, etobias, Stephen A. Meserve

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

www.propublica.org

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Trevon D. Logan, Nancy T. Ammerman , and 6 more Scott L. Greer, Trevon D. Logan, Nancy T. Ammerman, Alan Richardson, Michael Zimmer, Michelle L. Mazurek, Julie Novkov, Stephen A. Meserve, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 10d

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists

Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

www.science.org

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Lesley A. Hall , and 30 more Nicholas A. Christakis, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Lesley A. Hall, Jacob Montgomery, Gernot Wagner, Kelly Smith, Nils Gustafsson, Valerie Mueller, Paolo Crosetto, Tom van der Meer, Douglas Guilfoyle, Adrian Vickers, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Christine Kooi, Bessma Momani, Brian Keegan, Zen Faulkes, Sarah Roberts, Kate Starbird, Paul Nightingale, Wolfgang Huber, Ann Bartow, Nelson Flores, Alessandro Rigolon, Halley E. Froehlich, Juanjo Medina, Greg Linden, Stephen A. Meserve, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Francesco Nicoli, Jeannette Sutton, Clark Gray

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 10d

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Stephen A. Meserve, Jeannette Sutton

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11d

Gen AI tools are not good sources for information during rapidly unfolding, novel events. Words associations aren't helpful for discovering ground truth. These tools are more likely to echo and contribute to the inherent uncertainty and ambiguity of crisis events.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

Elon Musk's AI robot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

Grok Is Glitching And Spewing Misinformation About The Bondi Beach Shooting

Among other problems, the chatbot is spewing misinformation about the horrific Bondi Beach shooting in Australia.

gizmodo.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Kate Starbird, Stephen A. Meserve

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

Elon Musk's AI robot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

Grok Is Glitching And Spewing Misinformation About The Bondi Beach Shooting

Among other problems, the chatbot is spewing misinformation about the horrific Bondi Beach shooting in Australia.

gizmodo.com

Reposted by Smith, Maya Sen, Stephen A. Meserve

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 11d

Nothing will make you an education AI skeptic faster than grading some college take home assignments. Admins who haven’t been in a classroom in years push it as a learning tool. Students are laughing at them as they use it as a cheating tool. It’s all instructors are texting about with each other.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Mark Rice, Daxton R. Stewart , and 1 more McKenzie Wark, Mark Rice, Daxton R. Stewart, Stephen A. Meserve

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13d

In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.

The Register @theregister.com · 13d

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M

Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 13d

Why not conquer the world? Among other things a "state" in 1400 couldn't truly control anywhere outside of like 100 miles in any direction.

Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 13d

Europa Universalis 5 has a lot of problems but it also is clear someone actually read the literature on state development and capacity this time. Very promising.

Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 13d

I have been very happy with my local server Plex lifestyle, so you can still do digital but be an active listener.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Mark Rice, Stephen A. Meserve

The Register @theregister.com · 13d

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 13d

we asked people that like us whether they like us

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Shannon Vallor, Colin F. Camerer , and 22 more Cas Mudde, Shannon Vallor, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson, Russell T. McCutcheon, Paul Davies, Joseph Schafer, McKenzie Wark, Adrian Daub, Roopika Risam, Mark Robinson, David Runciman, Aurélien Mondon, Lisa Diedrich, Wolfgang Huber, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Lukas Graf, Stephen A. Meserve, Olivier Mannoni, Prakash Kashwan, Marianne Blanchard, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jarome R. Ali

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14d

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14d

Fluffy toys spouting CCP talking points in response to questions is decisive evidence in favor of my "Philip K. Dick as greatest prophet of our era" shtick. www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...

Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 15d

Making sure to note you shouldn't bring in space heaters to get around it but use a blanket instead. Beyond parody.

Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 15d

my university literally turning the heat down to minimum for most of the winter break. Research? What research?

Reposted by Tom Clark, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller , and 3 more Tom Clark, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Mark Rice, Gerardo Martí, Stephen A. Meserve

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15d

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 15d

I have seriously contemplated reorganizing my entire campaigns and elections class around "ok so why *don't* we see convergence to identical platforms?"

Reposted by Erika Franklin Fowler, Alan Richardson, Kate Starbird , and 1 more Erika Franklin Fowler, Alan Richardson, Kate Starbird, Stephen A. Meserve

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 16d

The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...

American Science, Shattered

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

www.statnews.com

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17d

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

www.forever-wars.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Trevon D. Logan , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, Stephen A. Meserve, Nathan P. Kalmoe

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it