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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 2d

In today’s @seattletimes.com, I share my concept of the Authenticity Gap, when our stories and experiences don’t align. Now more than ever, we need a new generation of sensemakers willing to explain things as they are, while roadmapping where we would like to go.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-t...

In today's world, we need real stories, not just facts | Op-Ed

Human beings want their explanations of the world to feel real. Yet that desire for authenticity, for something that feels true, can be easily exploited.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Jun 12

@schumer.senate.gov would be better off spending time at the Kabbalah center right now than doing a focus group

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Jun 12

Don't worry, Chuck Shumer is focus grouping this one right now.

Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · May 13

The thing about living in Western PA is that you think when you go elsewhere in the world, people just know what “nebby” or “yinz” means

Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Apr 29

So many small fandoms that went MAGA eventually added up. Yet these individual constituencies don’t necessarily aligned. Im not sure incoherent groups make up a coherent ideology but let’s see..

Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Apr 14

The epitome of having Carhartt gear but not doing Carhartt shit

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Apr 14

Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters

In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Apr 14

Everybody just wants to cosplay worker.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Apr 14

This chart showing 80% of Americans think it’d be great if more of us worked in factories, while just 20% would actually work in a factory, applies to much of the fake populist promise

They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc

Manufacturing: someone's American Dream, just not mine

Chart showing that over 80% of Americans think it would be better if more Americans worked in factories and only 20-odd% actually would be willing to work in a factory

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Mar 25

If politics is downstream from culture, what is culture downstream from?

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today I’m missing Todd Gitlin.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · Mar 3

"Also terminated is a project led by economist and political scientist Christopher Blattman at the University of Chicago that aims to better understand how drug cartels in Colombia are organized and operate and how they recruit new members." www.science.org/content/arti...

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Mar 4

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

A keurig coffeemaker and a giant Costco container of coffee mate on a faux-granite counter, an abomination in the sight of God

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 27

Big opportunity if he elevates lesser known voices in his own party, smaller podcasters, grassroots activists, or aligned entertainers. Experimental if he brings constituents in to have frank convos. Could be cool live. But doing it to “bridge a divide” and bring on MAGA favorites? Not sure there.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 26

Dear friend and ER doctor (for veterans and during COVID in NYC) is a bit too busy saving lives than to give responses beyond this one that won’t be read and are asked for in bad faith.

doctorgidge.bsky.social @doctorgidge.bsky.social · Feb 26

I was told by a few to post this on here. So Hello BlueSky!

While working at the VA I’ve gotten to know, treat and help our veterans. So when I received the DOGE email, it struck a cord. But I’m a model federal employee, and to avoid a no reply = resignation. I responded. How’d I do? #doge

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doctorgidge.bsky.social @doctorgidge.bsky.social · Feb 26

I was told by a few to post this on here. So Hello BlueSky!

While working at the VA I’ve gotten to know, treat and help our veterans. So when I received the DOGE email, it struck a cord. But I’m a model federal employee, and to avoid a no reply = resignation. I responded. How’d I do? #doge

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · Feb 25

I wrote about the Free Press's shameful decision to publish Hanania's apologia for Nazi salutes www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

Enough!

This Bullshit Has to End

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Bela Lugosi’s Deadbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · Feb 25

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

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Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~
Generative Al is experimental.

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Maybe something for Misinfo Day at @cip.uw.edu to consider

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Perhaps better than a book is cutting it up into video clips for TikTok haha

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Feb 25

David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:

David Icke
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The vast majority of these people have families and kids to support, but you don't give a fuck you arrogant spoilt elitist child. You are a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant working with a
13-year-old narcissistic tyrant and yet people who call themselves adult hang on your every syllable no matter what you say.
The world needs to grow up - starting with you Musk.
PS: Apologies to 13-year-olds. x.com/elonmusk/statu...
O Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • Feb 23
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
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No, I am not advocating for government. I am advocating against tyranny as l have decade after decade. I am advocating for people to be seen for what they contribute and not to be judged as a single group for the corruption of the few. Black and white is how we got here and that's how you are being manipulated to finish the job.
How many federal workers are we talking about who will produce lists that have to be processed? Will they ever be processed? Of course not - that's not the idea. Firing as many as possible to deregulate the oligarchs and open the way for Al dystopia is the WHY this is happening.
My God - the naivety.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Feb 24

These are the same attention dynamics that feed the spread of rumors and partisan outrage, have been effectively exploited by right wing populists around the world, and are reconfiguring global politics. But sure, Facebook, go for it!

Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · Feb 24

New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of...

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 25

A powerful talk (that should be published in a book essay someday,) going over the different “phases” of rumor and disinformation research of the past decade, with a powerful call to action. @katestarbird.bsky.social is a legend who I am honored to work with www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...

A Spotlight on Rumors

YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)

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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 18

Imma just go ahead and say that a lot of people who wish they got into GS (or even did) now running around this admin saying this stuff

Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · Feb 18

NYT is going hard on creating short form video and Substack esque content lately…
When all I want are some stories about how the world actually works not just what DC dinner parties are saying

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