David Marx
@digthatdata.bsky.social
I read a lot of research.
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Epistemic Justice
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE, CRWV
Frmr FireFighter
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Epistemic Justice
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE, CRWV
Frmr FireFighter
Pinned
Evidence-based communication strategy for more effective debunking of false claims.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
So:
1) it's ok to murder alleged low-level drug traffickers in foreign territory based on no evidence or process.
2) high level drug traffickers who were convicted through appropriate judicial process get pardons.
As usual, trump's stance is basically: "it's bad when the poors do it."
1) it's ok to murder alleged low-level drug traffickers in foreign territory based on no evidence or process.
2) high level drug traffickers who were convicted through appropriate judicial process get pardons.
As usual, trump's stance is basically: "it's bad when the poors do it."
Trump is pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez who is currently serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison on involvement in the drug trade.
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
So:
1) it's ok to murder alleged low-level drug traffickers in foreign territory based on no evidence or process.
2) high level drug traffickers who were convicted through appropriate judicial process get pardons.
As usual, trump's stance is basically: "it's bad when the poors do it."
1) it's ok to murder alleged low-level drug traffickers in foreign territory based on no evidence or process.
2) high level drug traffickers who were convicted through appropriate judicial process get pardons.
As usual, trump's stance is basically: "it's bad when the poors do it."
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My interpretation of this article:
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My interpretation of this article:
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
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it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
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It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
This is our commander in chief.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is our commander in chief.
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
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🏹 Job alert: PhD Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280
PhD Fellow in Human-Centric Explainable Natural Language Understanding
employment.ku.dk
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: PhD Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Jonsi
Gogol Bordello
The Prodigy
Anamanaguchi
Gordon Webster Orchestra
Jonsi
Gogol Bordello
The Prodigy
Anamanaguchi
Gordon Webster Orchestra
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Jonsi
Gogol Bordello
The Prodigy
Anamanaguchi
Gordon Webster Orchestra
Jonsi
Gogol Bordello
The Prodigy
Anamanaguchi
Gordon Webster Orchestra
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November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Merz found out about the U.S. “peace plan” from newspapers — the Americans hadn’t told him anything and he was shocked to read it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Merz found out about the U.S. “peace plan” from newspapers — the Americans hadn’t told him anything and he was shocked to read it.
Evidence-based communication strategy for more effective debunking of false claims.
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Evidence-based communication strategy for more effective debunking of false claims.
For the folks anticipating... uncomfortable dinner conversation tonight: Lewandowsky et al., 2020.
The Debunking Handbook 2020
For more information on The Debunking Handbook 2020 including the consensus process by which it was developed, see https://sks.to/db2020.
In November 2011, we published The Debunking Handbook. As the ...
digitalcommons.unl.edu
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For the folks anticipating... uncomfortable dinner conversation tonight: Lewandowsky et al., 2020.
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Thanks to all the scientists, archivists, and data hoarders mobilizing to defend against the censure of life saving medical research for using accurate descriptions of sex and gender. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
DDoSed by Policy: Website Takedowns and Keeping Information Alive
Who needs a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack when you have a new president? As of February 2nd, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from U.S. government agencies following a series
www.eff.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thanks to all the scientists, archivists, and data hoarders mobilizing to defend against the censure of life saving medical research for using accurate descriptions of sex and gender. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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This is incredibly grim
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is incredibly grim
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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THIS ISN'T EVEN NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE IT IS A LOCATION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESIDENT
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is next on Trump's destruction list.
"Study it hard because you won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!"
Hey MAGA, how many of you think the reflecting pool is Biden's work?
I am so goddamn sick of this thug.
"Study it hard because you won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!"
Hey MAGA, how many of you think the reflecting pool is Biden's work?
I am so goddamn sick of this thug.
Trump Threatens to Destroy Another Priceless American Landmark
Donald Trump reveals that the Reflecting Pool is next on his renovation chopping block.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
THIS ISN'T EVEN NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE IT IS A LOCATION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESIDENT
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Humbled to be part of this work with @musamalik.bsky.social and colleagues. He really did the lion's share of the work and deserves a lot of recognition
Currently in Volume 19, Issue 3 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:
“The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform” by @musamalik.bsky.social et al.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1931...
“The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform” by @musamalik.bsky.social et al.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1931...
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Humbled to be part of this work with @musamalik.bsky.social and colleagues. He really did the lion's share of the work and deserves a lot of recognition