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Nick Davis

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political scientist at football-u @ http://nicholastdavis.com, outdoorsperson, gardener of two small humans, PI @ http://demos-lab.net, stuff older than 60 days self-destructs.

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It is as it ever was but that there is no $ in the proverbial banana stand to TAKE CARE OF OUR “OWN” — a group of people republicans continuously tell us are special — is just the icing on the cake.

06.03.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

chat, we had to fight v hard to get some of this into the final copy. woof.

05.03.2026 17:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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still my favorite lil rumination, tho:

05.03.2026 17:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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working thru proofs for supremely polarizing -- its almost alive! -- and found myself nodding along to this passage given the state of things

05.03.2026 15:55 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

dont tell me to touch grass jon

04.03.2026 22:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well ill be damned.

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10/10 do not like

03.03.2026 17:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll see myself out.

03.03.2026 14:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That, too.

03.03.2026 14:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, there’s a comma missing nevermind.

03.03.2026 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What did they name it?

03.03.2026 14:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

political scientists will immediately shake their heads sagely and mutter about converse

BUT

my initial reaction is that this is a thorny problem for arguments about data quality that treat “contradictory“ responses as evidence of low quality data

people are weird.

03.03.2026 14:07 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

#themoreyouknow

03.03.2026 11:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Amcits” is a new one for me — is that an established shorthand over there?

03.03.2026 11:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I guess both of these things can be true but it’s still funny to watch it all unfold as people bicker about how dumb and bad the magic god box is

03.03.2026 04:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“It keeps making up citations” vs. “I trained this algo to topic model 10,000 texts.”

Like…uhhh….so

03.03.2026 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The gulf between public laments against and praise for LLMs is really curious. “It keeps hallucinating“ vs. “it’s a productivity multiplier“ with no apparent ground between. Personal anecdote running wild. Weird time to be a social scientist.

03.03.2026 04:10 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

War is bad but at least we had another season of Bridgerton and Love is blind to keep us plodding along

03.03.2026 04:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are locked into the dumbest possible timeline.

02.03.2026 17:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the art of the deal

02.03.2026 11:37 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Trumps brains are leaking out of his ears and he’s got the nuclear codes. Should be fine what could possibly go wro

02.03.2026 00:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

week 0 in all academic classes should just be remedial discussion of these cases.

oh you wanna use the magic box god machine okay well full disclosure

02.03.2026 00:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You could just replace “arms control” with any sufficiently technocratic subject and it would still be correct.

02.03.2026 00:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Again, Jonathan Haidt is a damned charlatan who continues to make bank laundering policy recommendations through otherwise-unrelated academic bonafides.

01.03.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

not rocket science.

01.03.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Americans can’t locate many states on a map, know little abt world geography, and arent familiar w even the most basic of internationals relations.

”Support” for a war that most ppl don’t understand, cant locate, and don’t know anything abt is going to be low bc it’s missing all required context.

01.03.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

were the bad kind of vintage

28.02.2026 16:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No congress, no constitution, and a king.

What a way to celebrate 250 years.

28.02.2026 11:19 👍 1388 🔁 332 💬 14 📌 18

Reminder: you don’t have to watch. In fact not tuning in is probably better for your health and it depresses the ratings.

24.02.2026 23:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0