Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Omar Wasow
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Probably worth noting that the era of fascism was also the era of radio, and the era of Jim Crow was backed by pro-segregation newspapers.
Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences?
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
“Underneath a seemingly unassuming ‘Buy 4 Less’ store hid a sprawling secret—a tunnel 55 ft deep and ~2,000 ft long used to smuggle ~$45 million worth of cocaine…99 subterranean passages have been discovered in Southern District of California since 1993.”
The War on Drugs, a hole we keep digging.
The book notes that “of the $1.5 million that California spent on 24 different Indian-killing militia campaigns between 1850 and 1861, Congress paid the state back all but $200,000.” www.newsweek.com/2016/08/26/c...
"higher proportion of classmates from Free States significantly increased the likelihood that cadets from Slave States joined the Union Army. Second, the peer effect varies w/geography, most notably w/the slave population share in cadets’ home states or counties & with cadets’ own slave ownership"
Peak San Francisco www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
“An American Genocide estimates btwn 9,000 and 16,000 Indians, though probably many more, were killed by vigilantes, state militiamen & federal soldiers btwn 1846 and 1873, in an ‘organized destruction’ of the state's largely peaceful indigenous peoples.” www.newsweek.com/2016/08/26/c...
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...
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Underneath an Otay Mesa Buy 4 Less lay a nearly 2,000-foot-long, 55-foot-deep tunnel used to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to California, prosecutors say.
Indeed. I think it's hugely underrated that broadly speaking, the era of democracy is the era of radio and television, and of shared cultural references and understanding. Becoming a billion tiny villages talking past each other about curated news and niche shows is not good!
Omar Wasow
Omar Wasow
What happened to California Native Americans in the mid-19th century was not all that different from what happened to Jews, Armenians or Rwandans.
One of my favourite pods cheerily told me they had 3,500 listeners this morning.
I would have bet the listener #s would have been in the tens of thousands at the very least. We're so atomised.
Gold Blend couple were all over the tabloids ("I bet they're shagging"). Streaming has broken us.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Todd Kendall
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
It's mind-blowing to think that this era of 'the advert series is in of itself a soap opera' has thousands upon thousands more viewers than, say, 'The Pitt'.
SIEPR
Stephen Bush
Obviously loved Anthony in Buffy but I don't think this glorious work from back when advertising was a top tier creative medium is getting enough play youtube.com/playlist?lis...
"[W]e can’t be ignorant or ignore the fact that historically, for Native people who have been here for millennia, most of that history of 250 years has been filled with violence and genocide and forced removals and taking our children away and historic trauma.”
"[W]e can’t be ignorant or ignore the fact that historically, for Native people who have been here for millennia, most of that history of 250 years has been filled with violence and genocide and forced removals and taking our children away and historic trauma.”
As Native people continue to face land disputes and the highest poverty rate in the U.S., “Closer Look” assembled a Native American panel to reflect on the country at 250 years and offer perspectives ...
As Native people continue to face land disputes and the highest poverty rate in the U.S., “Closer Look” assembled a Native American panel to reflect on the country at 250 years and offer perspectives ...
