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On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

At first I was annoyed that the CBC published this first-person story from an Alberta separatist.
But he said: “I studied political science at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George and learned we've never had true proportional representation…”
Once again, Justin Trudeau's betrayal of “the last FPTP election” and rejection of Proportional Representation in 2015 led to the alienation felt today.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ProportionalRepresentation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/gord-larson-first-person-1.7563659

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

I am once again getting a wave of right-wing spam SMSes from Hillsdale College (purportedly). Are they actually letting their institution’s name be attached to political spam? I realize there are all kinds of super gross things about Hillsdale as an institution, but even so, I’d think the institution would want to preserve some shred of self-respect, or at least try to keep up appearances.
The spam links are all the domain rght.io followed by 6-character alphanumeric codes, such as:
http://rght.io/jjne75
http://rght.io/ip0l3b
http://rght.io/646anh
http://rght.io/aem0ai
http://rght.io/8gplnp
http://rght.io/mncl8i
http://rght.io/eo556l
http://rght.io/15bk46
http://rght.io/igd8ga
http://rght.io/pp2ggf
(Those are random examples, I don’t want them validating my number; I just want to send the typical Fedi server traffic their way.)
I haven’t investigated the domain, server, etc. at all, but if anyone is inspired…have at it!

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Political Neutrality in AI Is Impossible- But Here Is How to Approximate It
AI systems often exhibit political bias, influencing users' opinions and decisions. While political neutrality-defined as the absence of bias-is often seen as an ideal solution for fairness and safety, this position paper argues that true political neutrality is neither feasible nor universally desirable due to its subjective nature and the biases inherent in AI training data, algorithms, and user interactions. However, inspired by Joseph Raz's philosophical insight that "neutrality [...] can b…

Political alignment correlates with self-reported mental health. I hate this.
I wonder how much of the correlation is actual mental health as opposed to willingness to admit when it’s bad.
(source: https://www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-21-why-young-men-do…

SBSQ #21: Why young men don't like Democrats
Plus, the New York City mayor’s race — and whether win probability models are broken.

'Everyone Is Welcome Here' Signs Banned From Idaho Schools as 'Political' Statement | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idaho-schools-ban-signs

I love this album. EPIC POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL METAL AL ->
Ministry - Moral Hygiene (Full Album 2021) - Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnUNgWk4CcyZjc012_89K848JamwqUVVG

When @… goes on a dunk-fest like this,
somebody should provide Talmudic annotated marginalia explaining each joke (I only understand about half of them.)
This commentary would provide a complete reference guide to the socio=techno-political history of the Fediverse

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Shreyansh Padarha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02004 https://

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Post-World War II armed conflicts have often been viewed with higher scrutiny in order to avoid a full-scale global war. This scrutiny has led to the establishment of determinants of war such as poverty, inequalities, literacy, and many more. There is a gap that exists in probing countries in the Global South for political party fragmentation and examining ideology-driven polarization's effect on armed conflicts. This paper fills this gap by asking the question: How does political identity-indu…

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KET-RAG: A Cost-Efficient Multi-Granular Indexing Framework for Graph-RAG
Graph-RAG constructs a knowledge graph from text chunks to improve retrieval in Large Language Model (LLM)-based question answering. It is particularly useful in domains such as biomedicine, law, and political science, where retrieval often requires multi-hop reasoning over proprietary documents. Some existing Graph-RAG systems construct KNN graphs based on text chunk relevance, but this coarse-grained approach fails to capture entity relationships within texts, leading to sub-par retrieval and…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

From Literature to ReWA: Discussing Reproductive Well-being in HCI
Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Sharifa Sultana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01121 https://

From Literature to ReWA: Discussing Reproductive Well-being in HCI
Reproductive well-being is shaped by intersecting cultural, religious, gendered, and political contexts, yet current technologies often reflect narrow, Western-centric assumptions. In this literature review, we synthesize findings from 147 peer-reviewed papers published between 2015 and 2025 across HCI, CSCW and social computing, ICTD, digital and public health, and AI for well-being scholarship to map the evolving reproductive well-being landscape. We identify three thematic waves that focused…

Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System (Luc Olinga/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-to-blow-up-the-u-s-political-system-2000622538
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p46#a250701p46

National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/inside-the-scramble-to-…

Inside the scramble to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season
NBC News National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 

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Hardness and Approximation Algorithms for Balanced Districting Problems
We introduce and study the problem of balanced districting, where given an undirected graph with vertices carrying two types of weights (different population, resource types, etc) the goal is to maximize the total weights covered in vertex disjoint districts such that each district is a star or (in general) a connected induced subgraph with the two weights to be balanced. This problem is strongly motivated by political redistricting, where contiguity, population balance, and compactness are ess…

Hacker with ‘political agenda’ stole data from Columbia, university says https://therecord.media/hacker-political-agenda-columbia-cyberattack

⏰ New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-assumptions-linking-racial-attitudes-political.html

New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
Nearly 40% of U.S. cities analyzed in a study in NPJ Complexity diverge from the common narrative that Republican-dominated areas have high levels of implicit racial bias while Democratic strongholds are more tolerant.

"…the long arc of history has never been kind to those who rule by force rather than persuasion."
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/court-victory-masks-political-freefall

Court Victory Masks Political Freefall
As the President basks in Supreme Court victories and executive power grabs, his core supporters are peeling away—and the consequences may be deeper than he thinks.

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Towards post-growth policymaking: Barriers and enablers for wellbeing economy and Doughnut economics government initiatives
Providing wellbeing for all while safeguarding planetary boundaries may require governments to pursue post-growth policies. To understand how post-growth policymaking can be fostered, we examine wellbeing economy and Doughnut economics government initiatives across governance scales in Europe, New Zealand, and Canada. To identify political dimensions of barriers and enablers as well as priorities for future action, we apply a framework that distinguishes polity, politics, and policy to analyze …

"Palestine Action is not arming the genocide and Israel — that’s Keir Starmer and the British government, who should be proscribed,”
'A clear example of political censorship' | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-e…

#uspol
I’ve received countless text solicitations for donations over the past week. 1 or 2 of them were well crafted AND compelling. I responded STOP to each and every one. What I have learned is that the ONLY likely result of a political contribution is an increased frequency in unsolicited requests for more donations.
This makes me sad.

❝Musk and other oligarchs will soon learn just how little political power their wealth gives them in the political environment they helped create.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/muskenfreude

Two cartoonists, Joe Dworetzky at Bay City News and Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore, describe how generative AI tools can assist in, not replace, their work (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/i-dont-w

Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
Yuan Gan, Jiaxu Miao, Yunze Wang, Yi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01591

Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
Advances in talking-head animation based on Latent Diffusion Models (LDM) enable the creation of highly realistic, synchronized videos. These fabricated videos are indistinguishable from real ones, increasing the risk of potential misuse for scams, political manipulation, and misinformation. Hence, addressing these ethical concerns has become a pressing issue in AI security. Recent proactive defense studies focused on countering LDM-based models by adding perturbations to portraits. However, th…

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Outgroup Animosity Has Risen for Politicians, Journalists, and a Sample of Partisan Users on Twitter and Reddit
Using language models, we analyze a sample of 67 million tweets and 30 million Reddit comments referencing a set of 215 political entities from 2010-2023 from partisan users, journalists, and politicians. Our analysis indicates outgroup animosity has increased consistently in our sample, with newer cohorts of users expressing higher levels of animosity than previous ones. Moreover, a small fraction of users are responsible for a disproportionate share of this negative content. We observe system…

Direct Action! Always!
https://mastodon.online/@Geri/114777663457053836

Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs
Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich, Lena A. J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22232

Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs
A growing body of work has been querying LLMs with political questions to evaluate their potential biases. However, this probing method has limited stability, making comparisons between models unreliable. In this paper, we argue that LLMs need more context. We propose a new probing task, Questionnaire Modeling (QM), that uses human survey data as in-context examples. We show that QM improves the stability of question-based bias evaluation, and demonstrate that it may be used to compare instruct…

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23880

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
WhatsApp and many other commonly used communication platforms guarantee end-to-end encryption (E2EE), which requires that service providers lack the cryptographic keys to read communications on their own platforms. WhatsApp's privacy-preserving design makes it difficult to study important phenomena like the spread of misinformation or political messaging, as users have a clear expectation and desire for privacy and little incentive to forfeit that privacy in the process of handing over raw data…

Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p162#a250630p162

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
> Unraveli…

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Designing an Adaptive Storytelling Platform to Promote Civic Education in Politically Polarized Learning Environments
Christopher M. Wegemer, Edward Halim, Jeff Burke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00161

Designing an Adaptive Storytelling Platform to Promote Civic Education in Politically Polarized Learning Environments
Political polarization undermines democratic civic education by exacerbating identity-based resistance to opposing viewpoints. Emerging AI technologies offer new opportunities to advance interventions that reduce polarization and promote political open-mindedness. We examined novel design strategies that leverage adaptive and emotionally-responsive civic narratives that may sustain students' emotional engagement in stories, and in turn, promote perspective-taking toward members of political out…

"The ship of fools, is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge. "
#redux #Plato

Autre bonne nouvelle : le Fidesz d’Orbšn est Š son niveau le plus faible dans les sondages depuis au moins une décennie.
#Hongrie #Europe #sondage

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

"Trump used Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays.’ Some political observers say it wasn’t a coincidence"
Man, these political observers are really sharp. Nothing, I mean *nothing*, gets past them. 🙄
#uspol #Juneteenth #sarcasm

Noem took an $80,000 payout from her own political network - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/30/noem-took-an-80000-payout-from-her-own-political-network/

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p9#a250630p9

graduated from minor academy like congrats this class is proficient in being annoying online ready to move into the big leagues with nsfwposting and official political involvement

A Detailed Factor Analysis for the Political Compass Test: Navigating Ideologies of Large Language Models
Sadia Kamal, Lalu Prasad Yadav Prakash, S M Rafiuddin, Mohammed Rakib, Arunkumar Bagavathi, Atriya Sen, Sagnik Ray Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22493

A Detailed Factor Analysis for the Political Compass Test: Navigating Ideologies of Large Language Models
Political Compass Test (PCT) or similar questionnaires have been used to quantify LLM's political leanings. Building on a recent line of work that examines the validity of PCT tests, we demonstrate that variation in standard generation parameters does not significantly impact the models' PCT scores. However, external factors such as prompt variations and fine-tuning individually and in combination affect the same. Finally, we demonstrate that when models are fine-tuned on text datasets with hig…

Developing a Synthetic Socio-Economic Index through Autoencoders: Evidence from Florence's Suburban Areas
Giulio Grossi, Emilia Rocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23849

Developing a Synthetic Socio-Economic Index through Autoencoders: Evidence from Florence's Suburban Areas
The interest in summarizing complex and multidimensional phenomena often related to one or more specific sectors (social, economic, environmental, political, etc.) to make them easily understandable even to non-experts is far from waning. A widely adopted approach for this purpose is the use of composite indices, statistical measures that aggregate multiple indicators into a single comprehensive measure. In this paper, we present a novel methodology called AutoSynth, designed to condense potent…

An important article to read today about Trump's latest Executive Order threat to weaponize science, threatening us all: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science

GB News launches a bureau in Washington, DC, and hires its first US political editor, with plans to broadcast two hours of daily live programming from September (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-new

GB News to broadcast nightly from US in 'huge moment' for channel
GB News is launching a bureau in Washington DC and hiring its first US political editor in a "huge moment" for the broadcaster.

One of the few encouraging things to hear in the political news these days is to see society dipping its toe into the "find out" phase of this disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wjaRZites

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month in a row.
Tesla 'has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.'
That's politely put.
https://www.cnb…

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs
The U.S. EV maker has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital

White House Calls Amazon Displaying Tariff Costs ‘A Hostile And Political Act’ https://ground.news/article/bezos-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20-000_e91de1

This comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

cars are emerging as a political fault line all over the country, from Prop K in SF to the NYC mayoral primary. which side are you on? https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/

NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

More spot on insight from Heather Cox Richardson.
If you don’t want to read the whole thing, read last line. 
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-27-2025?r=n66c…

May 27, 2025
Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

My fave pic over the last few days is Mira Nair squishing her son's cheek.
https://www.rawstory.com/zohran-mamdani-new-york/

'Doomsday!' MAGA suffers major freakout as progressive delivers election shock
The New York City Democratic primary ended in shock early Wednesday as Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assembly member delivered a stunning upset victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo — triggering an immediate and unhinged response from the MAGA political ecosystem.Mamda...

Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
Dorian Quelle, Frederic Denker, Prashant Garg, Alexandre Bovet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801 https://

Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
We analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platform identity-matching pipeline. We show that 18% of scholars in our sample transitioned, with transition rates varying sharply by discipline, political expression, and Twitter engagement but not by traditional academic metrics. Using time-varying Cox models and a matched-pairs design, we isolate gen…

Collecting, Curating, and Annotating Good Quality Speech deepfake dataset for Famous Figures: Process and Challenges
Hashim Ali, Surya Subramani, Raksha Varahamurthy, Nithin Adupa, Lekha Bollinani, Hafiz Malik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00324

Collecting, Curating, and Annotating Good Quality Speech deepfake dataset for Famous Figures: Process and Challenges
Recent advances in speech synthesis have introduced unprecedented challenges in maintaining voice authenticity, particularly concerning public figures who are frequent targets of impersonation attacks. This paper presents a comprehensive methodology for collecting, curating, and generating synthetic speech data for political figures and a detailed analysis of challenges encountered. We introduce a systematic approach incorporating an automated pipeline for collecting high-quality bonafide speec…

There are only three political positions
in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that
acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
(Originally posted by Nicholas Grossman)
#antifa

The son of living legend Ugandan political scientist Mahmood #Mamdani could become the next mayor of #NYC (Democrat polling today)
Not all is lost!
https://www.

Zohran for NYC
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

«DOGE has provided a template for complete political and cultural rollback, exploiting AI's brittle affordances to trash any pretence at social contract. What the so-called educational offers from AI companies are actually doing is a form of cyberattack, building in the pathways for the hacker tactic of 'privilege escalation' to be used by future threat actors, especially those from a hostile administration.»
"The role of the University is to resist" by @…
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

It's been nice getting back into my #TTRPG groups after all the political madness here in #Romania.
My #PF2e group is back to trying to tame the Stolen Lands and build a kingdom, and my On…

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Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom: Inequality in Transition Countries
This article addresses the origins of income inequality in post-socialist countries from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, from 1991 to 2016. The aim is to analyze the relationship between democracy and income inequality. In previous studies, this topic has led to ambiguous findings, especially in the context of the group of countries we are focusing on. We examine whether the process of democratization cooccurred with changes in income distribution over the entire period under study…

Very glad to see that CSUN's president has joined the AAC&U open letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-e…

We watched Humane last night on Hulu. It's been on my list since I heard Caitlin Cronenberg's interview on Cinema Junkie. A rare horror movie with political themes that doesn’t hit you over the head with them.
https://youtu.be/V4b-OMLNWE0?si=KRYM081cIxu0oa-6

Why do I even watch this YouTube spectacle about 20 FRP voters and one Red politician?
No state or party can grasp my needs better than I do. All political systems serve only to chain freedom and divide society.
This is why YouTube is a tool of domination, spreading the lies that keep us enslaved.
https://www.

Primary 'em all. I don't know what Meng's expecting from her constituents, but I'll be damned if she things she can rely on MY vote.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rbzy3issuaqfwgorq22z67aw/post/3lseqak6vck2c

Spain arrests two over data leaks targeting state officials, journalists https://therecord.media/spain-arrests-two-data-leaks-targeting-gov-officials-journalists

The Anarchist Cookbook, 2025 Edition:
Recent US political violence aided by DIY murder tradecraft available on internet;
People locators, 3D weapon blueprints, tactical planning – all accessible on the web for potential attackers or terrorists
https://www.theguardian…

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

AI-powered political fanfiction racks up views online
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/…

A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/supreme-court-campaign-finance-party-donor-limits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p70#a250630p70

How large language models judge and influence human cooperation
Alexandre S. Pires, Laurens Samson, Sennay Ghebreab, Fernando P. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00088

How large language models judge and influence human cooperation
Humans increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to support decisions in social settings. Previous work suggests that such tools shape people's moral and political judgements. However, the long-term implications of LLM-based social decision-making remain unknown. How will human cooperation be affected when the assessment of social interactions relies on language models? This is a pressing question, as human cooperation is often driven by indirect reciprocity, reputations, and the capaci…

"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-cancer-political-medical-researchers-patients-decry-trump-admins-layoffs-budget-cuts/

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing. (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/political-violence-minnesota-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.U-s6.Jl_066s4tFJ_&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p97#a250628p97

Keir had not been the same since he rented his mouth hole to the Bovine Excrement Delivery Company. https://mastodon.ie/@bullivant/114727764609793797

I forget. What do you call it when a single political appointee overturns an established, disciplined, scientific process because he's smarter than everyone else combined? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vac…

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.

At some point I expect Canada’s Liberal Party to regress like Labour is doing in the UK. Our political class still look to both the UK and USA for direction, like meek children.
#canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #transrights #lgbtq2s
https://tech.lgbt/@grayface_ghost/114772720087665845

Yes, well, your son and Trump at Deutsche Bank. And that sudden retirement that ushered in Kavanaugh.
'Democracy Is At Risk': Retired SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy Expresses Grave Concerns Over 'Tone Of Our Political Discourse' - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/democracy-is-at-risk-retired-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-expresses-grave-concerns-over-tone-of-our-political-discourse/

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Veteran LA political adviser detained at US airport – and thinks having Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage may have been why | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rick-taylor-detained-miami-airport-b2778843.html

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data gathers information on political violence worldwide.
❝These 50 [most violent] countries, ACLED says, account for 97 percent of all political violence in the world.
The United States is fiftieth—right behind Libya at 49.❞
That was in 2023.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196851/america-political-violence-terrifying-turning-point

Multimodal Political Bias Identification and Neutralization
Cedric Bernard, Xavier Pleimling, Amun Kharel, Chase Vickery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17372 h…

Multimodal Political Bias Identification and Neutralization
Due to the presence of political echo chambers, it becomes imperative to detect and remove subjective bias and emotionally charged language from both the text and images of political articles. However, prior work has focused on solely the text portion of the bias rather than both the text and image portions. This is a problem because the images are just as powerful of a medium to communicate information as text is. To that end, we present a model that leverages both text and image bias which co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11512 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Beyond the Median Voter: A Model of How the Ideological Dimension Shapes Party Polarization
Defying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S. political parties has undeniably increased since the 1970s, the corresponding rise in issue polarization among voters remains contested; moreover, the growing number of politically relevant issues would be expected to counteract party polarization …

It takes a special brand of political incompetence to see millions of people marching in opposition to the Republican president and not do anything to seize that momentum
but it appears dem leadership has decided to do just that
https://bsky.app/profile/ndrew.bsky.so

A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party (Liam Stack/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/democratic-party-zohran-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p4#a250625p4

Key GOP senator warns Medicaid cuts could spell political disaster for Republicans (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5367877-tillis-republicans-mediticaid-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p14#a250625p14

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Political Stress Index of Poland
Tomasz Stachowiak, Zbigniew Pasek

Mamdani's night -- Presented by With help from Amira McKee -- The political world is waking up to a shockwave. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2025/06/25/mamdanis-night-00422439
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p64#a250625p64

Members of Congress worry about lack of plan as political violence rises (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/19/congress-political-violence-minnesota-state-lawmakers-killings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p15#a250619p15

"Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" (Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-copelovitch-interview-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p17#a250621p17

Trump turned soccer into a political battleground -- and fans are fighting back (Roey Hadar/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-ice-protests-soccer-los-angeles-rcna213749
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p29#a250621p29

MAGA political violence claims more victims (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-hoffman-maga-political-violence
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p23#a250616p23

Political Violence Came to Minnesota. It Didn't Start There. (Barbara McQuade/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/opinion/political-violence-minnesota.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p50#a250615p50

Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-political-violence.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p92#a250614p92

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

Minnesota shootings spotlight growing safety risks facing lawmakers (Kyle Stokes/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/06/15/minnesota-melissa-hortman-shootings-political-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p77#a250615p77

Obama Steps Back Into Public Eye at a Stormy Political Moment (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/obama-speech-heather-cox-richardson-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.bObq.KcKDqFB8ZQS1&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p66#a250618p66