iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Was thinking something similar… always so hard to remember how many Zacahrias go into a Scaramucci, a lettucewilt, etc. I end up asking Siri every time, just like teaspoons and tablespoons into cups.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 14h

PHILLY VS. THE ROBOTS, again! A Center City woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot.... "I think it's my First Amendment right to publicly demonstrate on a sidewalk to protest against delivery robots."

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Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia confrontation

A Center City Philadelphia woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot, a confrontation that was captured on video and has since drawn attention online.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 21h

Reinsurance makes the world go round, so worth listening to what the reinsurers are saying... (Link and report also in English)

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Alex Nunn @alexnunn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I made an animation showing the Top 10 most-cited Supreme Court cases every year since 1792. It's remarkable how citations (by federal and state courts) have exploded in frequency in the last half century.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for serving as a poll worker! (And I guess I'm glad they include that Q as part of the training... though would be even better if not necessary.)

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 23h

Rick lays out the many ways this suit is problematic, rightly concluding this is a political document and likely to go nowhere. If this *does* go nowhere, expect that some in the anti-democracy mvmt will use that as pretext to argue feds must directly intervene in California's election.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks Paul! Here's the complaint brought by DOJ against California/Los Angeles over its voting rolls

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thanks! I’m still working through my feelings about them no longer playing at County Stadium… but then it’s been 26 years so I should probably move on. And this helps me get up to speed with the 21st Century Brewers. 🙏 ⚾️

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Temple University Beasley School of Law @templelaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What lessons - legal, moral, and social - should we take from the Cornell case? Prof. Marian Braccia joins WHYY's Studio 2 for a candid conversation about sexual assault, consent, and responsibility. www.youtube.com/live/ODvK8uYrGWA

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Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Postdoc at ND at the Initiative on Race & Resilience! apply.interfolio.com/190347

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Actually went to a spring training game this year but in hindsight was probably a bit too distracted by all the merch

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Haven't paid attention to the Brew Crew since Higuera, Molitor, Yount & co. but have this new interest of late, can someone catch me up?

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The year is 2027 and everyone is rushing to get dumb thermostats, wired doorbells, and rotary dial phones

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don’t seafood but for bakery no other compares to Sofra

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

may once have been useful for fleeing predators/chasing prey, but now that's more easily done on two wheels

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Critical legal scholar: sure, taken together with the conflicts and ambiguities, it just reflects the reality that I am fundamentally indeterminate and can be interpreted in varying ways…

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Agreed. So, if one were to want to criminalize the acts of AI agents (or their human/corporate principals) in submitting false reports, then how might one revise this part of the statute... 🤖 🤔

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's unclear here if the false report by @anthropic.com implicated anyone in particular, but FWIW it's a 2d deg misdemeanor to "knowingly give[] false information to any law enforcement officer with intent to implicate another."

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Philly PD says @anthropic.com submitted false info to its homicide tip line. In PA it's a 3d deg misdemeanor for a person to "pretend[] to furnish... authorities with information relating to an offense or incident when he knows he has no information relating to such offense or incident." Discuss.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bridge Over the River Kwoyaanisqatsi

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A thoughtful take on what also struck me as a thoughtful conversation. Even if one is doubtful of motives of some ai doomers, if doom/very bad outcomes seem plausible to credible insiders with view of what’s being developed, then seems reasonable to take that risk seriously.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

is that jeff bezos or joe rogan challenge

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wrote my undergrad thesis on the politics of language standardization in Mali's Dogon region. The idea of having a state institute of applied linguistics seemed, to this naïve midwestern kid, pretty foreign. But: perhaps the Official Words Power is just a prerogative of our Unitary Executive? 🤔

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This guy is going to be so excited when he learns to prompt his ai agents to directly administer oxytocin, rather than having to get it the old fashioned way.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are hosting our third Peopling Politics mini-conference this spring in Philadelphia - March 4-7. Abstracts are due October 15th; let me know if you have questions. See peoplingpolitics.com for more on our network & what we're aiming to do. Apply at essnet.org.

Flyer for Peopling Politics mini-conference at ESS 2027 - on a blue background with the US Capitol in the background. Can't fit all the text here, see peoplingpolitics.com or email dlauris1@swarthmore.edu for more information. Apply at essnet.org, then select our mini-conference.

This mini-conference will bring together sociologists, political scientists, other academics, and political practitioners who study and/or work in U.S. politics with a focus on race, class, inequality, and the influence of social and cultural forces. We believe that in order to understand and affect political institutions or electoral outcomes, we must begin with the contexts and cultures of the people who make political phenomena real - from non-voters and voters to grassroots organizers to elected officials and their staff. This requires empirical observations of actual people and their actions, rather than relying on abstracted models of how individuals, political groups, or institutions operate.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yarvin: "I’ve interacted with Vance once since the election. I bumped into him at a party. He said, 'Yarvin, you reactionary fascist.' I was like, 'Thank you, Mr. Vice President, and I’m glad I didn’t stop you from getting elected.' ... I don’t think he meant it in a bad way."

politico.com

Curtis Yarvin’s Ideas Were Fringe. Now They’re Coursing Through Trump’s Washington.

“In almost every way, JD is perfect,” he says in a conversation about JD Vance, Trump’s second term and the end of democracy.

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

thanks, yeah - road rage is real

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks - it was scary. And infuriating. Many feels.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks - yeah, fortunately kid 2 was way ahead at front of peloton (and met partner at school as planned) and kid 1 already at other school. mostly they think it’s neat that I’m on teevee 🤷‍♂️

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday kid 1 school got evacuated for for bomb threat. Today a road rager ran me down while I was helping with kid 2 bike-to-school day ride. If this is 2/3s of the Routine American Violence Trifecta I‘m cool just skipping part 3, thanks.

6abc.com

Parent hit by car during National Walk and Roll to School Day in South Philadelphia

National Walk and Roll to school day took a scary turn in South Philadelphia Wednesday morning when a man was hit by a car.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No AI for kids. Full stop.

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6abc.com

Parent hit by car during National Walk and Roll to School Day in South Philadelphia

National Walk and Roll to school day took a scary turn in South Philadelphia Wednesday morning when a man was hit by a car.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Social scientists: Read this, share this. Some day it will be time to reconstruct the state, and rebuild its capacity... and should the people developing and directing that capacity want to be just and effective, they'll need insights provided by high quality social scientific studies.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just another perfect fall day in America, with news of bomb threat and evacuation at kid's school. 🤬

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[nods in Ernest Burgess]

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#ELB: “How Trump Can—and Cannot—Still Mess With the Midterms” electionlawblog.org/2026/how-trump-…

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps part of the issue is that no foundation or c3 think-shop feels safe funding/doing partisan work? (I say as a one-time Carnegie applicant who proposed to study how incumbent parties entrench duopoly/nonvoting, & who noticed a *Carnegie fellow* is now rightly saying pol’zn ain’t the problem)

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's a thread on Suncor, if you're looking for a Q by Q recap of how the argument went:

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Listening to Supreme Court live audio, thinking ahead to crafting some speculative socio-legal fiction, it's a weird but nice pairing...

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which ai and how prompted? Just curious

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