Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…

The agency has a new policy relying on what’s known as an administrative warrant, showing the government has probable cause to believe a person is in the country illegally.

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…

This post is about my (Nathan TeBlunthuis) paper (pdf) just published at ICWSM 2025. Often, several different online communities exist where similar people talk about similar things. This is really…

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on societies and economies around the globe, and experts warn about the potential for similar crises in the future. Risk communication theor...

Game-theoretic modeling shows that media competition over public opinion incentivizes news sources to spread more misinformation.

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.