Teaching and learning about the future, designer of Widget and The Mind's Lie
Carlisle, PA, USA
Joined December 2008
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Great reminders of Russian negotiation technique by @kajakallas
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Russian Firepower Strike Tracker: Analyzing missile attacks by Russia against #Ukraine. An initiative from @CSIS csis.org/programs/internatio…
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🚨Out in Nature!🚨
Many (eg Trump JimJordan @elonmusk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias
Is this accurate?
We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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VIDEO: In just over two decades, Helio da Silva has single-handedly planted about 40,000 trees in the urban jungle that is Sao Paulo.
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Ukraine's "Protector" logistics and combat heavy UGV youtube.com/watch?v=3IXx3ciA…
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This is a great paper on a growing trend in intelligence operations. Literally using Uber drivers to commit operational acts. It's happening here in the United States.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Link 16 Coverage From Space, Laser Communications Relays Make Major Advances
The Space Development Agency is seeing major promise during testing of new low-cost Link 16 datalink, laser communications, and missile tracking satellites.
Story: twz.com/air/link-16-coverage…
kwheaton retweeted
Russians are noting the effectiveness of the mass use of drones with incendiary liquid, saying that Russia has once again fallen behind Ukraine in terms of innovation.
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Algorithms are a powerful weapon that can be used to manipulate audiences.
The CCP is using the TikTok algorithm to promote China.
The longer a user spends on TikTok, the likelier they are to rank China positively on human rights.
This graph from an NCRI study shows just how effective the TikTok algorithm is and how much impact it has on users.
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It is not worth it for the Russians to fight in Kursk😁
They get much higher benefit with the SVO (special military operation, right column) than with the counter terrorism operation (KTO, left column)
For instance, wound = RUB 3M in Ukraine but only RUB 10K in Kursk
kwheaton retweeted
Ukraine's future war, drones on the frontline. With @dcinfocus and thanks to @StuHollandEsq Liubov Sholudko, Chris Gibson
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FWIW, we asked Rosstat for the data on external deaths in 2023 by gender, and they emailed it to us without a problem, even split by region.
Data available here: github.com/dkobak/excess-mor… and analysis is included in our updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xc….
kwheaton retweeted
Certainly, here is a possible tweet about your article: Over 10% of science is now, in part, written by LLMs. Let’s delve into the data economist.com/science-and-te…
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Why are we influenced by emotional #gossip? Our latest publication with #pupillometry 👁️👁️ shows that emotional content reduces the cognitive effort invested in processing the credibility of social (mis)information
@AbdelRahman_Lab @froemero1
@APA_Journals
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This is really interesting: work less, get more done and be more satisfied.
'Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds'
theguardian.com/business/art…
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Based on independent research and data from national intelligence agencies, The Economist estimates between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded in Ukraine. This dwarfs all other Russian military losses since WWII
economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Our new paper @PNASNexus provides a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of the potential impacts of generative AI on (mis)information and three domains: work, education, and healthcare: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen existing inequalities while illuminating how AI may help mitigate pervasive social problems
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🚨New Paper in @PNASNexus : “Community Notes Increase Trust in Fact-Checking on Social Media”🚨
Are users more likely to trust expert fact-checkers or their peers? 🤔
👉Our study shows there's almost no difference.
👉Instead, *context* is what really helps to build trust!
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Thirty analysts from eleven NATO countries recently conducted the largest open-source intelligence operation in the alliance's history. Here's how it happened—and what they learned. mwi.westpoint.edu/allies-and…
