Davia Downey

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I study federalism, econ dev in cities, & disasters. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼

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Unmatched.

Oh my god

So apparently, SOME IMPORTANT THINGS are happening in American politics, but I just visited my family in Indiana for a mini-family reunion/birthday party and my biggest concern right now is how to get my aunt to send me sweet corn without it getting damaged in the mail.

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Sticking with only good news today

Adding that the Scholar Strategy Network is perfect way to learn how to write effective op-ed’s to engage in this way. Check out: scholars.org (and become a member!)

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

Home | Scholars Strategy Networkscholars.org Your one-stop resource for timely and reliable research. Get the expertise you need from our responsive network of America's top experts.

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This Saturday, pull up

Ok, my two thoughts on the November election (that literally no one asked for). 1. The donor class doesn’t have an heir apparent in mind at this stage of the game, so while they’re signaling Biden should drop out—there’s disagreement abt who should replace. 2. Biden’s EGO.

I don’t know how I missed The Boys the first time around, but I am definitely making up for it during my summer hiatus.

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An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of Gaza.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

I just took an hour-long nap to stay out past ten o'clock. Wish me luck.

“A court willing to declare the president beyond the reach of the law, regardless of the actions of either the president or Congress, could use that same power to cloak itself in the same immunity from legal process.” Excellent piece by Kate Shaw. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

A very good piece which should be read widely. Institutions can be manipulated, we have always known that. Now what? Let’s go break some eggs.

Laws are fake. Power is real. Goodbye, liberal institutionalism. Hello, new power centers. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fallwww.nytimes.com As the virus continues to mutate, scientific advisers to the C.D.C. are urging Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

I trust whoever is actually watching the debate can just fill me in later? #debate #debate2024 #presidentialdebate

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BREAKING: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleads guilty in a deal with U.S., securing his freedom and ending an extraordinary legal fight.

WikiLeaks’ Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fightapnews.com He is on the way to resolve the legal case over the publication of a trove of classified documents.

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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

The only thing I hate about going on vacation these days is the fact that my husband is a cat whisperer and cannot be dissuaded from making new friends.

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I'm hoping we don't have the earth-salting anti-southern problem here on Bluesky like we did at the other place but I'm glad this post is here as a sign for me to tap

We have to boil our tap water before we use it for several days at a time, several times a year, minimally. If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading. We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.

You wanna know something that would have me hitting that early retirement button faster than you can say “Toldja?” THIS.

Indiana Sen. Mike Braun--who opposed the Jan 6 investigation and thinks SCOTUS should leave "interracial marriage" to the states--is GOP candidate for governor of IN. The convention rejected his endorsed candidate for Lt Gov in favor of someone MORE "conservative." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Pastor Micah Beckwith is Indiana GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, beating Mike Braun's pickwww.wfyi.org Ultraconservative pastor Micah Beckwith scored a stunning upset Saturday to become the Indiana Republican Partys nominee for lieutenant governor.

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Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees to toss out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills — saying the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case failed to show they had been harmed.

Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristonewww.npr.org The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffere...

This.

Scholars call BS on ChatGPT like: “Large language models have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations” "We argue that these falsehoods [are] better understood as *bullshit* in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)"

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

A very thoughtful piece in JPMSP.

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These folks did a great job of breaking, well, *all* the leading LLMs by asking the models an incredibly simple question. These models should not be relied upon to assist anyone with reasoning. Check out the appendix with examples of truly wild confabulations and errors arxiv.org/html/2406.02...

Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks Showing Complete Reasoning Breakdown in State-Of-the-Art Large Language Modelsarxiv.org

I will never not be astonished by the ability of my kid to just LEAVE THE ROOM and not take his breakfast leavings to the sink like a normal person. The trash is ON THE WAY TO YOUR ROOM my guy! 🤦🏾‍♀️

A wicki-wut?? www

Daily News on Instagram: "X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has formalized its policy to allow users to post consensual adult content, provided it is appropriately labeled. This policy ...www.instagram.com 6,141 likes, 553 comments - jerrynews on June 3, 2024: "X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has formalized its policy to allow users to post consensual adult content, provided it is...".

Welp.

2004: Howard Dean's presidential hopes crashed and burned today by committing a gaffe he will never be able to recover from: yelling weirdly. 2024: Could Donald Trump effectively govern the country from prison? Here's why Epstein's bestie could become our first convict-in-chief.

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Most juiceless man alive, negative juice.

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has anyone checked on randy rainbow