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PhD candidate @ CU Boulder. Computational Story Lab alumnus senditfor.science/research

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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benjamín @senditfor.science · 29/09/2026
Wild how if elite universities like Cornell starting meaningfully punishing abusers on their campuses, it would decimate the pool of potential supreme court nominees for future Republican presidents.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 16/09/2026
A new column in @boulderrl.bsky.social from yours truly on the hollowing out of Boulder and its schools by “neighborhood character” boulderreportinglab.org/2026/09/16/b...
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Opinion | Brian Keegan: Boulder's school closures were decades in the making
BVSD’s declining enrollment reflects 50 years of housing and land-use choices — and won’t reverse without different policies.
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benjamín @senditfor.science · 16/09/2026
the king is back, baby
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 11/09/2026
Since everything is Gamergate, here's a new preprint led by @cuboulder.info PhD candidate @senditfor.science analyzing the structure, content, and dynamics of an online harassment community over more than a decade arxiv.org/abs/2609.05754
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The collective dynamics of online harassment
Fringe online message boards are often studied in the context of the extreme ideology that they produce. So far, however, not much of this research has focused on direct real-world harm in the all-too...
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"a preference for lower sexual frequency is more likely to be acted upon when norms are more egalitarian" – that is an extremely convoluted & passive-voice way of saying that men who don't do domestic chores may be more likely to be pushy about sex when the wife is not interested
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/09/2026
This "so dangerous it has to be useful" narrative is tedious, and highlights how little these companies have fear regulation in the current US environment. But it's worse. If and when the technology actually gets dangerous, the boy will have already cried wolf so many times we'll ignore him.
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible. www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reactionary centrist pundits: Democratic leaders need to drop the identity politics and focus on economic issues! Democratic leader: [does that] Reactionary centrist pundits:
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/08/2026
Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price…
Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11
Fans Ask How Ball Club Still Has Heart To Charge Admission At All
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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This week’s episode is National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, where the Court held that elections are really about sharing money with your friends.
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NRSC v. FEC
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · August 18 · 38m
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i'm seeing a lot of people (right and left) give nathan cofnas "credit" for the campaign against jason arday, and he's reveling in that attention, but cofnas is just a halfwit with a shitty substack who received leaked information and posted it. he is a cretin, but first and foremost he's nobody.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026
7. It's yet another thing that AI has stolen away from the current generation of scientists. Yet again, AI proves to be an anti-egalitarian force in that these abuses force us to abandon the Mertonian norm of universalism for increased reliance on credentials, reputation, and personal connections.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 14/08/2026
The Trump Administration is now going after bike lanes. Seems pretty silly, but it's not just a random choice #bikesky skepchick.org/2026/08/why-...
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Why Trump Hates Bike Lanes
Transcript: Two years ago, in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to get people to vote against Donald Trump’s return to the White House, I went over the major problems outlined in Project 2025, w…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/08/2026
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island theonion.com/trump-downplays-signif…
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you unsubscribe from The Atlantic, we'll give you a free one-year digital subscription to Current Affairs. Just email proof of cancellation to editor@currentaffairs.org and stop paying for neoliberal brain rot.
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 14/07/2026
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org in Fall 2027. I've updated this post with additional information about this year's focus area. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2027
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
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benjamín @senditfor.science · 13/07/2026
Calling it polarization implies the existence of a magnetic monopole
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i don't think it's good to be friendly with fascists. i think it speaks poorly of the character of every dem senator trotting out this trite bullshit. graham defended the ICE agent who murdered your fellow citizen on camera. graham was subhuman garbage, and the world is better off with him dead.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
an LLM is not credible if it doesn't know that Alex Jones has died from some kind of bizarre head explosion alone in the drivers seat of his parked van
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Teddy Amenabar @teddyamen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Proposed regulations by the Bureau of Land Management would limit when someone can object to permits issued for ranching on public lands. “They’re clearly trying to reduce involvement of anyone other than ranchers,” said one BLM employee. www.propublica.org/article/publ...
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The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heav...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
this episode contains a pioneering discussion of wife allegiance vs. baby allegiance that will change how scholars talk about citizenship forever
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 02/07/2026
i just signed an open letter in support of workers at Scientific American after the staff recently voted to form a union, Springer Nature sold the company with no warning, laid off union leaders, and cut salaries—3 days before the union election was ratified by NLRB join me? wgaea.st/sciam-letter
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An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American
We are looking for your support by signing the letter below. It calls on Springer Nature to ensure that as part of the sale, LabX Media will rehire laid off union workers, restore staff salaries to pr...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/07/2026
Supreme Court Trans Sports Ruling Adopts Originalist Vision For JV Volleyball Rosters
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Supreme Court Trans Sports Ruling Adopts Originalist Vision For JV Volleyball Rosters
WASHINGTON—In a judgment the majority of justices said reflected the intentions of the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling this week that upheld state bans on transgender athl...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier
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Nina Carson @ninacarsonpt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pretty remarkable that voter turnout is still so low in a highly educated county boulderreportinglab.org/2026/07/01/b...
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Boulder County primary results: Edie Hooton wins CU regent race; Rachel Friend leads treasurer contest
Jillaire McMillan won the Democratic primary in Colorado House District 19, which includes Weld and Boulder counties.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
and they said it couldn’t be replicated outside new york 😎
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I also wonder what it will take for elected Democrats to become serious about judicial reform. Dobbs wasn’t enough; neither was the death of the voting rights act. There doesn’t seem to be a constituency they value more than their cowardice.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead fox news viewer who thinks dems are “cheating” when more vote get counted and a republican lead in the count is erased.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵
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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Recent earthquakes in northern Venezuela have caused an emergency the country is not equipped to handle. The state has lagged behind and citizens have been self-organizing. @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com collected a list of trustworthy organizations to donate to if you are wanting to help:
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Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now | Caracas Chronicles
Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but monetary transfers are the fastest way to deliver relief
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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
1/ LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:
This image depicts the proportion of each Dolma category in the top quartile for the first three principal components.
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america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We made Podium with no AI, no Splice, no programmed beats. Just friends making music. It cost us money from Cheek Freaks who bought our vinyl. Now our music is vomited by computers, the vomit's eaten by computers, and the eaten vomit is re-vomited by Suno. An offense to our whole fuckin community.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/06/2026
Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan
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Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan
The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/06/2026
lauren southern is a cautionary tale of how this ideology will destroy you
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
There are lots of things that are tragic about the patriarchal bargain but one of them is that it doesn’t even work.
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benjamín @senditfor.science · 14/06/2026
americans will put up a “keep out” sign in front of literally the woods
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2026
not all that shocked that republicans think it is scandalous to have stable, consensual relationships with age appropriate partners
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america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
do u work at a record store? 🤔 do u shop at a record store? 🤔 then tell your record store "order the new cheekface album from cobraside!" 😮❗ 🐐🐐🐐
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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is really exciting! Thank you @sloanfoundation.bsky.social! Hope to see even more PhD students, postdocs, and even REUs at next month's @icssi.org meeting in Boulder!
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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Viable alternatives to driving” is pretty much the only thing we need to talk about if we are serious about reducing traffic. And massive progress on that can be made if we just forego one or two unnecessary highway projects.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
we’ve now created a precedent where every brave policeman is at risk of having to drive slow
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If America is so racist, then how come a wealthy white man has been lavishing me with gifts ever since his company started having cases before the Supreme Court, on which I sit? by Clarence Thomas
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