To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.
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- A NYT investigation by Kirsten Grind logs 37 police incidents at the AI hacker house AGI House since 2022, many tied to party complaints.
- Rooms in Bay Area AI group homes can run as much as $10,000 a month, with residents from firms including OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Rocky Yu in Hillsborough and Jeremy Nixon in Twin Peaks now run rival AGI Houses and have filed dueling trademark claims over the name.
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Will AI give us a shared basis for political knowledge, or will Democrats and Republicans end up asking increasingly different chatbots? New preprint: We find a self-reinforcing loop that can pull AI models apart politically. We call it the Centrifugal Alignment Spiral 🧵 arxiv…
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We keep asking what social media does to voters. The wrong end of the pipe. Platforms don't just distribute politics — they teach political actors what kind of speech pays. So I measured the going rate: what X, Bluesky and Mastodon reward in public speech. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2607…
The Politics Attention Makes: Platform Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics arxiv.org
Full paper here: 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2609.28486
Political Sorting Can Drive AI Models Apart Through User Feedback arxiv.org
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