J.M. Berger

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Well this all seems horrible dot gif

Fun fact about Osiris

gotta love a guardian live blog

I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath

New dissertation excerpt just dropped

Trump: I would like to see televised military tribunals in which my enemies like Liz Cheney are tried for treason and then put to death. New York Times Politics page 18 hours later: Democrats are in disarray!!!

Great quote from an interview with Sonny Rollins

Everything being on fire aside, my book Extremism is now out in Arabic

The Book Quote Wednesday prompt is "tremble" #bookqw This is from a forthcoming work (Maybe 2025? Stay tuned!)

Glad to see NPR's budget is lavish enough to hire a full complement of ideology enforcers

No particular reason for sharing this particular dissertation excerpt at this particular moment, nosireebob

Is there anything he can say that would be too far? Does too far even exist as a concept anymore? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Getting toward the end of the dissertation and teeing up the stuff that's really gonna rock the boat

Getting down to it now

Getting into the home stretch

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This review of the box set shows some real commitment to McGoohan completeness

This day in The Fall of Google: I was trying to grab a quick cite of my most-cited work and discovered it doesn't show up in the first four pages of Scholar results, even if you type in the full name and authors. All the top results have single digit citations. The book itself has 1,000+.

Thousands of UK travelers had their faces scanned by Amazon software. “The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions—with the suggestion that the data could be used in advertising systems in the future.”

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengerswww.wired.com CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.

Getting toward the end of the dissertation and teeing up the stuff that's really gonna rock the boat

Extremism is hard, not being extremist is easy

Not even close to the biggest Internet Problem of the moment, but this kind of URL tagging, more and more common, does not help the process of cleanly and clearly transmitting information

lmao "some wives"

Every sentence of this report is jaw-dropping. No one who helps this man become the most powerful person on earth should ever be forgiven. EVER.

‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicanswww.notus.org Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to talk about his agenda for a second term. He instead spent an hour delving into House GOP drama, cracking jokes and saying weird things about Nancy Pelosi’s daughte...

The fact that everyone knows which scene I am citing makes my point!

You have to share the title at least! I'm thinking - Splitter! An analysis of factionalism in radical movements modelled on the decline of the People's Front of Judea

These are perhaps some interesting data points in the post-Civil War era to think about when considering whether Christian nationalism is a proxy to talk about White nationalism without talking about White nationalism.

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Director, Basque Space Program

Using an image, share something from pre-2020 Star Trek that feels like a joke from Lower Decks.

Laughing my ass off at this unsolicited LinkedIn AI prompt on some poor person's post

This week's newsletter argues that the "misinformation panic" isn't over, because misinformation isn't over, and people are dying because of it as we speak. www.intelwire.net/archives/the... Now w/ permalink, and typo fixes. If you *love* typos, smash subscribe! www.intelwire.net/sign-up

I wrote mad about whether "the misinformation panic is over." LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/scream... On the Web: www.intelwire.net/weekly-brief Subscribe via email: www.intelwire.net/sign-up

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The more things change