Spencer Williams
@swilliams1918.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington Information School. Studying science communication and social media.
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I've heard of low information voters, but it's incredible how many people seem to be negative information voters.
“Everything he was doing to make America great I was cool with up until he started messing with the immigrants,” said Andre Lewis, 32, who lives in White Bear Lake.
Gotta love the American voter
www.startribune.com/minnesotas-s...
Gotta love the American voter
www.startribune.com/minnesotas-s...
Minnesota’s suburbs are an election battleground. Trump’s immigration surge is unpopular there.
A new poll shows suburban residents and independents aligning more with Twin Cities residents in opposing Trump’s crackdown and immigration agents’ tactics.
www.startribune.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I've heard of low information voters, but it's incredible how many people seem to be negative information voters.
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Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God
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it used to be, if a prominent academic annoyed you for some reason, you had to look up their ratemyprofessor reviews to feel good about how they're a bad person. but now, you can just check the epstein files
February 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
it used to be, if a prominent academic annoyed you for some reason, you had to look up their ratemyprofessor reviews to feel good about how they're a bad person. but now, you can just check the epstein files
This is gonna make me sound like an ultra-square, but I used to kind of enjoy tax season. There was a weird civic pride in it.
Nowadays, idk...This administration has really taken the joy out of paying taxes...
Nowadays, idk...This administration has really taken the joy out of paying taxes...
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
This is gonna make me sound like an ultra-square, but I used to kind of enjoy tax season. There was a weird civic pride in it.
Nowadays, idk...This administration has really taken the joy out of paying taxes...
Nowadays, idk...This administration has really taken the joy out of paying taxes...
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If you go to any public feedback session on anything and tell me you want to spend more of your time on stuff like that, you are deranged.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
If you go to any public feedback session on anything and tell me you want to spend more of your time on stuff like that, you are deranged.
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This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪
Even as a little kid I remember wondering why speedometers went up to like 140mph or whatever, when there's no circumstance where that's legal.
This just feels like the most common sense policy imaginable.
This just feels like the most common sense policy imaginable.
This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars.
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed!
www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) isn't an ironclad speeding prevention system, but could be just annoying enough to spark a backlash.
www.autoweek.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Even as a little kid I remember wondering why speedometers went up to like 140mph or whatever, when there's no circumstance where that's legal.
This just feels like the most common sense policy imaginable.
This just feels like the most common sense policy imaginable.
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this Super Bowl is conducting a mass psychological test: what does it take to make NFL fans feel even an inkling of empathy for the Patriots
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 AM
this Super Bowl is conducting a mass psychological test: what does it take to make NFL fans feel even an inkling of empathy for the Patriots
Please check in on the pats fans in your life
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Please check in on the pats fans in your life
Field goal record baby let's go
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Field goal record baby let's go
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Bad Bunny like
a cartoon character pointing at a map of the united states
Alt: Yakko naming countries of the world
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Bad Bunny like
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They are lucky Lady Gaga wasnin the audience and able to fill in after Bad Bunny was injured falling through that house.
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
They are lucky Lady Gaga wasnin the audience and able to fill in after Bad Bunny was injured falling through that house.
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Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
Page Six:
Page Six:
February 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”
Page Six:
Page Six:
16 years ago, I remember my dad getting really nostalgic about The Who playing the halftime show. Today, I am that unc, singing along to Green Day. Time comes for us all...
February 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
16 years ago, I remember my dad getting really nostalgic about The Who playing the halftime show. Today, I am that unc, singing along to Green Day. Time comes for us all...
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This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
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as soon as you become a political correspondent in America they take you into a little room in the White House and hit you on the head with a mallet until you lose the ability to retain long-term memories.
After Trump tells NBC News he could maybe use a "softer touch" on immigration, we immediately get the "different tone" narrative from CNN.
Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch."
David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."
Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch."
David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."
February 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
as soon as you become a political correspondent in America they take you into a little room in the White House and hit you on the head with a mallet until you lose the ability to retain long-term memories.
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”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
February 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
That lab is this week, so gonna demonstrate data poisoning to my students:
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Tf-idf won't save you from bort
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Tf-idf won't save you from bort
Teaching social media, ethics, and automation class next quarter, and I wanted to let students data mine my profile by running word counts on my posts to see if they can infer my interests. Realized I only have 42 posts total, so I need to be way more active until February...
February 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
That lab is this week, so gonna demonstrate data poisoning to my students:
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Tf-idf won't save you from bort
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Tf-idf won't save you from bort
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We have this thing called the "jury" in America
A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases.
Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!
A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases.
Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
We have this thing called the "jury" in America
A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases.
Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!
A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases.
Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!
The most Elon story imaginable
NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island
Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.
futurism.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The most Elon story imaginable
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This is an aside, but like… in 50 years time, good luck convincing any regular person that th etymology of “trumped up charges” doesn’t come back to this era
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
This is an aside, but like… in 50 years time, good luck convincing any regular person that th etymology of “trumped up charges” doesn’t come back to this era
I'm so sick of this tech hustle machismo coming out of sf. Beyond just being totally anti-life, 9-9-6 isn't efficient lol. Performatively long work hours just lead to employees staying late to keep up appearances, doing little meaningful work.
It's lose-lose for everybody; why buy into this?
It's lose-lose for everybody; why buy into this?
January 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I'm so sick of this tech hustle machismo coming out of sf. Beyond just being totally anti-life, 9-9-6 isn't efficient lol. Performatively long work hours just lead to employees staying late to keep up appearances, doing little meaningful work.
It's lose-lose for everybody; why buy into this?
It's lose-lose for everybody; why buy into this?
Rickrolled my students during a lecture about online trolling (made a phony news clip that launched immediately into never gonna give you up). Big laugh from 1-2 students, everyone else just looked absolutely sick of my shit.
January 28, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Rickrolled my students during a lecture about online trolling (made a phony news clip that launched immediately into never gonna give you up). Big laugh from 1-2 students, everyone else just looked absolutely sick of my shit.