Dan Arnaudo

We published another article today, this one about the DOJ's play to potentially contest results in Alaska due to a same-name candidate running in the Senate race there. We highlight a bit of hypocrisy, as the GOP has benefited from similar dynamics in the past. uwcip.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

More on Lula's victory, his digital army and the strategies that drove it with innovations in online communications, physical organization and national engagement, lessons for the world here: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

*whispers* Bugs Bunny is a Filipino guy who loves the Toronto Raptors youtu.be/MmyH7Cyxt-Y?...

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

Brazil is voting today in one of the biggest, closest most contentious elections in years, and social media companies, the U.S. and other online forces have had a huge impact, as I explore with @techpolicypress.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/in-brazils-r...

“Under normal conditions, this is already serious enough, because the platform rules over the information flow in a society, but when you apply it to an electoral dispute, it's even more serious.”

Sunday’s vote decides who leads Brazil — but questions about tech companies including Meta as “stewards of civic spaces” will outlast the election and reverberate well beyond Brazil, writes Daniel Arnaudo, a researcher at the School of Communication, Media and Information at Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Going to be a busy weekend for a lot of people, a critical election to watch!

This is how the Trump administration ended dozens of disinformation and propaganda experts’ careers in government. With an awkward, almost gleeful speech from known white supremacist and conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie. Listen to the rest on DISARMED: www.thewayfinder.net/p/is-the-us-...

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

Lots of election rumors circulating today: machines allegedly flipping votes, stolen mail w/ ballots, voters receiving multiple ballots, ballots returned to sender. Many of these are REAL issues that may end up getting wrapped into false rumors (around impact, intentionality, and remedies).

Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...

My man looks like Stanley Kubrick dressed up as Velma for Halloween

Brazil's data center boom is no longer just a São Paulo story. DC Byte analysis shows São Paulo holds 76% of Brazil's live capacity, but constraints are pushing projects toward Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, and the south. 🇧🇷 Read the full breakdown here: www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-...

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Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

I wouldn’t even call them shitposts, this is Facebook Unc Slop and the fact that elites are unable to recognize that and think it’s insightful is a sign of just how bad their private media consumption is. Really makes you wonder about what’s going on in their groupchats!

Very much agree with this. The Trump admin has purposefully attacked mail in voting from multiple directions and continues to make threats of law enforcement at voting sites… their goal is to create confusion, distrust, and fear… to suppress votes.

The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...

Long worthwhile thread. I’m reminded of a point that (I think?) Foucault makes in Surveiller et Punir that, historically, the aristocracy was ostentatiously visible & the common person visible, but modernity has inverted this. Seems even more clearly true now than when he wrote it.

Shellenberger is seemingly preparing to smear a bunch of people attending a conference on disinformation this week. Ten bucks says he’s gonna claim the researchers there are cEnSoRiNg yOu!!!1 In reality they’re presenting their ideas. Talking. Debating. You know, using their speech rights.

What is consciousness? AI agents would like to know too and are cold emailing researchers about it.. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...

One of the best stories I have ever ever read. Sharing it today because there must be someone out there who hasn't read it yet. Trust me on this one: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Greenland, Brazil, Ukraine, Jared and…the ballroom www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...

This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪

Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.

So depressing. My PhD studies were funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. My research program was pretty much exclusively funded by the NSF between 2013 and 2020, and then 60% NSF until 2025. Future university researchers won’t have this opportunity.

LLMs are cognitive viruses that can depress collective cognitive competence. But by the same token, immunization is possible. arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

“Solidarity, the raw material of every movement I have ever worked in, is at bottom nothing more than sustained mutual attention, people attending to one another, at length, on purpose. It cannot be assembled from fragments engineered to prevent it.”

The vengeance track in the democratic primary is gonna be wide and deep.

My appetite for ultra nihilistic modern noir isn’t what it used to be, but Jordan Harper’s A Violent Masterpiece has such incredible prose, I got sucked right in and read the whole thing in a rush.

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

1. This is a very interesting story. But this is not a matter of researchers learning how to understand what the LLMs are doing. It is researchers learning how to get around the companies’ attempts to hide what the LLMs are doing to prevent other companies from training off of their models.

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Why the Backlash Against Data Centers Is So Potent talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...

Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

They deemed Dave McKenna's pen too dangerous for the Great American State Fair, and having read McKenna they may have been right to be afraid defector.com/trumps-state...

Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

“Deleting accounts of the past not because they are false but because they are true betrays a curious lack of confidence. Do the censors fear that Americans will cease to love their country once they know the full story?” (Gift) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

An absolutely insane story from @telliotter.bsky.social about a US government employee who exposed Elon Musk's DOGE for accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data. Days after he went public, he was driving his car and discovered his brakes had been cut.... www.wired.com/story/he-ble...