Dan Pemstein

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Political economist working mostly on democratic institutions, tech politics, political careers and party org, and measurement.
Websitehttp://www.danpemstein.com
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I’m showing Anchorman to my nieces & trying to explain that in the 70s the men people thought were hot looked exactly like that, exhibit: Burt Reynolds

Nieces: ok but that’s just Pedro Pascal everyone loves Pedro Pascal?

Me: WHAT THE FUCK IT IS I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS EXISTENTIAL REVELATION TONIGHT

Great article yesterday in the Washington Post explaining how the 1st amendment is being turned on its head to silence researchers of online disinformation and restrict communication between tech companies & govt.. . and what that might mean heading into election 2024: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/08/social-media-injunction-doughty-biden-2024-elections/
Social media injunction unravels plans to protect 2024 elections

The companies and the government spent years expanding efforts to combat election interference after the 2016 vote; the ruling undoes much of that.

The Washington Post

France tends to aggressively regulate the internet in response to internal security threats. E.G., @Steve and I did a synth control study in this paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343320959369, ungated: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xlNQfpAIWBaZ0YSIY2PkiwuurUaBaDcE/view) looking at French response to terror attacks in the 2010s.

https://twitter.com/LauKaya/status/1676287982330847264

Journal of Experimental Political Science special issue on validating experimental manipulations - call for papers using the Registered Reports format. Deadline November 1!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-validating-experimental-manipulations

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Validating Experimental Manipulations

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Validating Experimental Manipulations

Cambridge Core

I predict that privateering will come back over the next few years. but in a small, gig economy way.

not being paid by governments for blocking shipping ports on the high seas, but like going to Kroger and repeatedly slapping Coca Cola bottles out of someone's hand until, frustrated, they pick up a Pepsi bottle instead. and the you get paid like $0.75 in an app to go do it again.

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/06/08/disinformation-and-the-intercept/ Fixing fuck-ups like this is Journalism Ethics 101.
Disinformation and the Intercept

There’s a backstory behind this Washington Post story on Republican persecution of academics, and it’s one that doesn’t make the Intercept look good. Jordan’s colleagues and staff…

Crooked Timber
Kyle Marquardt also posted a deeper dive into the differences between V-Dem's Polyarchy measure and Little & Meng's "objective" index, which highlights some fundamental conceptual and methodological issues with their approach to measurement: https://twitter.com/kailmarkvart/status/1663141977787969539
Kyle Marquardt on Twitter

“To follow up on @carlhknutsen's thread on our WP, I wanted to highlight several measurement differences between the V-Dem approach and that of @anthlittle and @annemeng_ (L&M).. 1/N https://t.co/53ZswaNqqA”

Twitter

Carl Henrik Knutsen has a nice thread on the bird site introducing our new working paper.

Thread: https://twitter.com/carlhknutsen/status/1663134442284634114

Paper: https://v-dem.net/media/publications/wp_140.pdf

Carl Henrik Knutsen on Twitter

“A few months ago, @anthlittle & @annemeng 's paper on democracy measurement and democratic backsliding caught a lot of attention: https://t.co/1n5esb5iiE Together with 9 colleagues from the V-Dem project, we engage with L&M’s argument and analysis in a new working paper. A🧵:”

Twitter

A thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand—or why #ChatGPT (or any other language model) isn't actually understanding.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

Over the past 8 months the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium @StanfordCyber - a loosely-organized coalition of academic, industry and non-profit experts - has been creating teaching materials with one goal: Help make the internet a safer place for everyone.

The open-source syllabus is available for everyone who prepares the next generation of trust & safety professionals, engineers and PMs.

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