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Big Data Kane

@cmwitko.bsky.social

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Political Science and Public Policy
E pluribus unumđŸ‡ș🇾

Most recent coauthored book:

https://www.russellsage.org/publications/hijacking-agenda

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@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:00 AM

1. Alice In Chains 2. Soundgarden 3. Pearl Jam 4. Nirvana

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:01 PM

What is Justin Herbert doing?!

@donmoyn.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:42 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

AAdam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:45 PM

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:10 AM

I’m far from a Bama Booster but that was obviously a pass interference.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:00 PM

The liberal media is obsessed with the idea that coastal Democratic elites talk down to middle America. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, thinks Trump supporters are dumber than Trump does.

@mcopelov.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:26 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

Congrats again to the Harvard economists & other elites who told us this guy was a “credible Treasury Secretary” & a “renaissance man” because he had the right degrees & went to the right cocktail parties & because it’s a Big Club.

Furman and Moore praising Bessent in FTGeorge Carlin Big Club quote
@crampell.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:49 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

@crampell.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:55 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

this is effectively a new $100k tax on international students, and will destroy the market. Which is killing the golden goose -- higher ed is one of the most successful exports the US produces

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:27 PM

Remember when Obama said “they cling to guns etc etc.” Such media outrage. Trump says “hope LA and San Diego get bombed” and it’s barely a story. If you don’t see the media double standard I don’t know what to tell you.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:13 AM

Let’s hope.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:07 AM

The Aaron Boone era Yankees just are poor on the fundamentals. Like little league level.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:02 PM

I was talking with a new junior professor at UC Davis and they came from a place with a 4-4 teaching load. I started with a heavy teaching load also. If you started with a heavy teaching load you really appreciate working at an R1 and you also see the Matthew effect for faculty starting at R1s.

@inqdp.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 6:43 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

6/6 đŸ§”In @socioeconreview.bsky.social @schechtlm.eurosky.social shows that there is more democratic backsliding in đŸ‡ș🇾 states where wealth concentration has increased more. Causality addressed by state FEs and shift-share instrument doi.org/rrnj

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 5:13 PM

And yes this analysis does not require a PhD in political science. 😂

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 5:12 PM

To put it mildly Trump supporters are very resistant to any information that doesn’t fit Trump’s propaganda laundered by right wing media. But the thing about gas and grocery prices are that they are experienced by most people directly, and it is easy to tie gas prices directly to HIS Iran war.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:50 AM

Yup poor base running is definitely something that has been happening for years. Especially in post season.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:49 AM

This is more like the post season Yankees of recent years. They tricked us against the Red Sox.

@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:06 PM

👎😂

@briantylercohen.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 8:11 PMReposted by @cmwitko.bsky.social

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@cmwitko.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:56 PM

New College of Florida prez dismisses plummeting rankings because it is partly based on subjective opinions from others in higher ed
.sorry it is clearly bad if you are a higher ed institution and other administrators and profs think you aren’t good.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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