Prof of Comm & Media and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views are my own) ..
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Prof of Comm & Media and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views are my own)
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Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for five months despite having no criminal record
Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, wife Tiffany Smyth is a US citizen
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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This guy obviously needs a national position in the current moment.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
The reason the conjecture doesn’t need to respond to itself is that it is philosophically psychological.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
Can you rule out the possibility that you are a brain in a vat in a geocentric universe being fed alternate evidence by a manipulative computer program?
It’s absurd, but not statistically impossible that that could be the case.
Probability <<< .0000000001%, but not 0
- CBS founder William S Paley.
Oh, how far we have fallen.
(Note, article is from 2002, but rings even truer now).
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If you get so convinced by your own theory that you no longer assign any probability to the opposite being true, it’s time to resign.
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The magic words are:
“I move to delegate this issue to the executive committee”
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“Nobody but a professional would be up for donating a $30 Costco box of handwarmers to the cause!”
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This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
He's saying what I've been saying. You all got to that part, right?
I know it was near the end and people get bored, but just in case, here it is.
Key challenge: focusing only on entrenched state fascism means identification is only possible in retrospect—hence the need to identify emergent (not yet entrenched) ideological fascism.
For social science categories to have meaning, they must be predictive.
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He's saying what I've been saying. You all got to that part, right?
I know it was near the end and people get bored, but just in case, here it is.
In 2020, COVID became an all encompassing narrative for Trump.
And in 2024 and since, he’s been trying to constantly shift the narrative.
ICE, Greenland, and Epstein are all distractions from each other!