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The republican party has burned to the ground and conservatives are debating what's between God's legs.
Watching Christians go to war over whether God is male puts a fine point on how the culture wars only serve to divide the body of Christ.
It's a distraction the elites use to keep themselves in power. We're fighting over 3 trans athletes while they rob the country.
LLMs have been a big boon for computational social science and the second chart indicates why - it's the part of the social sciences where statistics and computer science most intersect. Note how little this impacts clinical work. Participant recruitment is a huge bottleneck.
Some new data from Anthropic looking at the impact of AI on the sciences by field: "With current capabilities, if adopted widely, AI could take on 27–52% of the researcher time needed to produce a new study, with a median of 38% across fields..."
Here: anthropic.com/research/how-r…
January 2029, one side of the triumphal arch is half built and covered by tarpaulin and scaffolding. At it's base reads a poem, now broken by vandals so that it reads "LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DISPAIR"
Picking Miller for chief of staff is a good sign of which way this is going to go. The next two years, the Republican party is going to keep going down like the Hindenburg.
Jason Radford retweeted
Now the question is whether or not Trumpism continues to take the Republican party down through 2028 and Democrats build a supermajority.
Conservatives have to get back to being tough on crime and stop giving a pass to the elite. Republicans have to buck Trump and be out in front.
NEWS: Ds review 181-page dossier from ex-Warren/Sanders staffers ID’ing hundreds of executives & corporations to target
Envisions “resignations of major CEOs, hauling people in, material restitution”
Tech giants, crypto, sports gambling, gas & more
washingtonsun.com/congress/d…
N=6 now. Trump only challenges election results when he's on the ballot AND loses. Election denialist get hung out to dry. For 2028, the main question regarding election integrity will depend on whether or not Trump is on the ballot (either as VP or an outright third term run).
Jason Radford retweeted
For traditional conservatives, burning the MAGA GOP to the ground was the best possible result. Sure, Trump beat two flawed Democrats, but he's been a a disaster for free markets, rule of law, civility, and Reaganite foreign policy. May the GOP rediscover principled conservatism.
Now the question is whether or not Trumpism continues to take the Republican party down through 2028 and Democrats build a supermajority.
Canadian conservatives get it
I’m a Canadian conservative. I’ve never aligned with the MAGA movement.
I remember an exercise in Grade 12 (many many years ago) where we mapped out Canada USA political spectrum. We learned then how close Canadian progressive conservatives were to USA democrats.
It’s slightly different today. But not different enough that Canadian conservatives suddenly fully align with American republicans. It’s much more nuanced and broad than that.
The majority of Canadian, fit in the 4-8 range (based on % of vote).
Nothing about this should surprise anyone who understands the Canadian political landscape.
Wait until you hear how long the progressive right has been waiting for representation
This is the kind of moral rot that post-Trump conservativism has to be fighting. This technology is eroding the bonds of family and community, weakening the nation, and handcuffing our ability to hold elites accountable.
If you’ve had a sneaking suspicion that your algorithm is feeding you content specifically designed to enrage you, you might be onto something. Social media algorithms reward moral outrage, giving extreme voices more visibility than they might otherwise have and distorting our perceptions of what other people actually believe.
Meanwhile, AI chatbots are increasingly telling us what we want to hear, reinforcing our existing beliefs, while remote work and digital communication can come at the expense of the everyday interactions that build trust and strengthen relationships.
I shares ideas for bringing people together and pushing back against loneliness and isolation in an increasingly digital world. By creating healthier social norms within organizations and encouraging leaders to prioritize meaningful connections with their teams, we can start breaking down the walls that divide us and rediscover the power of us.
I discuss this topic and more on the Behavioral Grooves Podcast (and get out and vote today!)
bgpodcast.substack.com/p/the…
Jason Radford retweeted
If you’ve had a sneaking suspicion that your algorithm is feeding you content specifically designed to enrage you, you might be onto something. Social media algorithms reward moral outrage, giving extreme voices more visibility than they might otherwise have and distorting our perceptions of what other people actually believe.
Meanwhile, AI chatbots are increasingly telling us what we want to hear, reinforcing our existing beliefs, while remote work and digital communication can come at the expense of the everyday interactions that build trust and strengthen relationships.
I shares ideas for bringing people together and pushing back against loneliness and isolation in an increasingly digital world. By creating healthier social norms within organizations and encouraging leaders to prioritize meaningful connections with their teams, we can start breaking down the walls that divide us and rediscover the power of us.
I discuss this topic and more on the Behavioral Grooves Podcast (and get out and vote today!)
bgpodcast.substack.com/p/the…
Trumpism is dead. Where does conservativatism go from here?
- Populism without plutocrats. We're are fed up with insider and billionaires robbing the coffers while telling us what to do. Actually drain the swamp.
Suffer no shit-starters. Russia started shit. Iran started shit, Hamas started shit, then Israel started shit. We've started shit. Now the world is drowning in shit and gas is $5/gallon. There are hard global problems, if we want to solve them suffer no shitstarters.