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today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-rid

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Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
Tawfiq Ammari, Anna Gutowska, Jacob Ziff, Casey Randazzo, Harihan Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22032

Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used Twitter to disseminate safety guidance and updates, reaching millions of users. This study analyzes two years of tweets from, to, and about the CDC using a mixed methods approach to examine discourse characteristics, credibility, and user engagement. We found that the CDCs communication remained largely one directional and did not foster reciprocal interaction, while discussions around COVID19 were deepl…