Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
@dannagal.bsky.social
Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
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Message of Savannah Guthrie to her mother Nancy’s abductor: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
February 16, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Message of Savannah Guthrie to her mother Nancy’s abductor: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
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What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.
i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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this line from the above review is really coming through in their discussion: "young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers."
February 16, 2026 at 2:16 AM
this line from the above review is really coming through in their discussion: "young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers."
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Best reason to never be famous - or say anything in public ever, really - is that the modern world won’t let you say the most anodyne stuff without willfully misconstruing it into a scandal.
BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
February 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best reason to never be famous - or say anything in public ever, really - is that the modern world won’t let you say the most anodyne stuff without willfully misconstruing it into a scandal.
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The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
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#1 in Rodriguez v. Porter (D. Idaho, 1:26-cv-00075) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number AIDDC-3055371.), filed by All Plaintiffs. (Attachments: # 1 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet Attachme...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
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Not a new observation, of course, but one that keeps coming back to me.
I thought we'd all agreed this was bad.
I thought we'd all agreed this was bad.
February 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Not a new observation, of course, but one that keeps coming back to me.
I thought we'd all agreed this was bad.
I thought we'd all agreed this was bad.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
I think it’s clear that the dishonesty in this organization is one of its defining characteristics. Burn it down and start over.
The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
February 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I think it’s clear that the dishonesty in this organization is one of its defining characteristics. Burn it down and start over.
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While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
I wrote a bit that I had to cut for time, but the essence was I was going to create a new course:
“Things we started doing in the U.S., but they were too good for democracy so we stopped.”
Section 1: Reconstruction
Section 2: Taxing the Rich
Section 3: Media Regulation
“Things we started doing in the U.S., but they were too good for democracy so we stopped.”
Section 1: Reconstruction
Section 2: Taxing the Rich
Section 3: Media Regulation
The rule of law can’t survive this
February 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I wrote a bit that I had to cut for time, but the essence was I was going to create a new course:
“Things we started doing in the U.S., but they were too good for democracy so we stopped.”
Section 1: Reconstruction
Section 2: Taxing the Rich
Section 3: Media Regulation
“Things we started doing in the U.S., but they were too good for democracy so we stopped.”
Section 1: Reconstruction
Section 2: Taxing the Rich
Section 3: Media Regulation
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The rule of law can’t survive this
February 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The rule of law can’t survive this
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LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
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If you walk into a man’s apartment and you don’t see ANY books, pick up your pussy and LEAVE!!! Go back outside!!!
February 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
If you walk into a man’s apartment and you don’t see ANY books, pick up your pussy and LEAVE!!! Go back outside!!!
This little fluffnugget will not leave my side since I returned from 4 days away at a conference (during which she ate my leftover chocolate birthday cake and had to have her stomach pumped).
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This little fluffnugget will not leave my side since I returned from 4 days away at a conference (during which she ate my leftover chocolate birthday cake and had to have her stomach pumped).
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?
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I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us”
This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...
www.annualreviews.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Epstein files make clear how easy it is for "elite" academics to get away with lying for personal gain.
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The Epstein files make clear how easy it is for "elite" academics to get away with lying for personal gain.
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
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I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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February 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 AM
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
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White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
This is actually quite helpful as we think about why the tech industry seems so blindsided by the pushback against their “innovations” from creative folks and scholars in the humanities.
A key challenge, and a huge source of the disconnect between Silicon Valley and the other creative industries is that, for coders, AI eliminates the drudgery so they can focus on the creative/expressive part. In every other creative discipline, it has the exact opposite effect.
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This is actually quite helpful as we think about why the tech industry seems so blindsided by the pushback against their “innovations” from creative folks and scholars in the humanities.
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Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...