Matthew Cole
@mattbencole
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📖 Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century @UofMPress | 👨🏫 VAP @binghamtonu | 🏳️🌈
Binghamton, NY
Joined August 2010
Its publication day! FEAR THE FUTURE is officially in print and available Open Access from @UofMPress.
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As a political scientist and a former Boston resident of 8-years, I believe I’m well qualified to say: LMAOOOO.
A new poll from Emerson College found that Mayor Michelle Wu leads her closest challenger, former nonprofit executive Josh Kraft, by a staggering 50 percentage points.
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RT @erikmbaker: We now have content that would instantly kill a late-20th-century cultural theorist.
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RT @bigkiitten: i love how we’re just straight up cooking the planet to produce the worst thing ever invented.
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RT @MerriamWebster: enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits.
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Every lib/leftist has their favorite right-wing theorists, so I’m asking you friends: what are yours?.
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RT @DDDrewDaniel: [being an academic = the endless feeling that you are A Bad Person because you're Still Not Done Writing The Thing & you….
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RT @LiYuan6: In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State. Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elabo….
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Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art.
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play it at my funeral 🙏🏻.
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I know good people who work at some of these civic life / leadership schools but I don’t know how anyone can be surprised at their current trajectory when they were explicitly chartered by red state governors & legislatures to give right-leaning scholars their own little fiefdoms.
I have been fired as Associate Dean of UNC's School of Civic Life & Leadership, without explanation & upon my return from parental leave. I have some thoughts on the future of the civic school movement & the possibility of university reform.🧵.
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The concept of Twain and Faulkner not being actively read.
To all the academics citing Twain, or Falkner, literally nobody cares except you stuffed shirts. Nobody reads them, nothing they write resonates with anyone living or anyone dead. Blood Meridian actually speaks to the American soul, and is actively read. Nothing else comes close.
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I can’t believe the international community has forced Israel to do the thing Israel has been doing for decades.
🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸The Israeli government is seriously debating the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank in retaliation for the imminent recognition of Palestine by several western countries. My story on @axios.
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RT @BootsRiley: Here is something that X will suppress, even though almost everyone wants to know about this. Read The Intercept article.….
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This kind of popcorn philosophizing might be fun for the dorm room but in the public arena it’s an intentional distraction from the real and present harms of AI. Given the state of current models you might as well debate whether Muppets can suffer.
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RT @JooBilly: One reason you would use AI to make an image like this is because anyone with expertise in energy systems, ecology, or urbani….
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I don’t understand why you even need a study to show this. If you understand what an LLM is then you already know it cannot reason and simply matches patterns. There is so much mystification around this technology for someone to even think this is a question worth asking.
🧬 Bad news for medical LLMs. This paper finds that top medical AI models often match patterns instead of truly reasoning. Small wording tweaks cut accuracy by up to 38% on validated questions. The team took 100 MedQA questions, replaced the correct choice with None of the
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The Niskanen article also reads like AI slop fwiw. Deeply embarrassing work all around.
From Musk on Mars to California Forever to Niskanen pick your abundance, if you illustrate your vision of the future with AI slop, you're not serious enough for that vision to matter.
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