Matthew Blanton

Studying migration @utaustinsoc & @UTPopCenter. Latin Americanist. Se habla espanglés.

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing for those of us who participated.

[Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers]

How are coding agents changing how we study the economy, society and politics?

New results from a baseline survey with Tom Lyttelton and Maxim Massenkoff, about who is using AI coding agents and what they're doing with them.

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@seanjwestwood 🤣🤣

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@emollick You are like the best follow ever lol

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

"[A] 'settler'—the euphemistic name for an immigrant who came over in the steerage of a sailing ship in the seventeenth century instead of the steerage of a steamer in the nineteenth century."
-Theodore Roosevelt

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Asking people whether they like "AI" is not going to be a useful poll question soon, if it ever was.

They will be incredibly grateful for their personal AI that guides them through medical or legal or management issues. They will be anxious or excited about AI at their work, even though it currently isn't that good, depending on the culture of their workplace. They will feel fondly towards the AI chatbot they discuss issues or ideas with. They will hate the AI that pundits (and a number of AI leaders) say will take all jobs or change their way of life. They will be bemused by the AI that makes up fun video content for them. They will fear the AI that other people argue will lead to the end of the world. They will like the AI that lets them edit cute selfies.

How does electricity poll?

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

New Research! My article in PRPR is the first systematic validation of CBP apprehensions as a proxy for undocumented migration in nearly 30 years, with evidence from Guatemala at both national and subnational levels. Spoiler: they still work. 🔓 https://t.co/A898vN25eE

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal

This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

This is just painfully stupid

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Vance: "You want to lower the cost of homes for American families? Why don't you stop giving 30 million homes to illegal aliens? Why don't you seal the border and make sure those homes go to American families for a change? That's how you lower the cost of housing."

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

For the would-be Great Man of History, the final boss is always the pope.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

😭

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

Why does this look like the beginning of a romcom?

[Marcel @illnevercallitx]

That's it. That's the best picture from Saturday's No Kings protests in the USA.

The literal Statue of Liberty being detained by police. It doesn't get much more poetic than this.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally, was in a custody battle over his son.

An ICE official agreed to help.

Full Story: https://t.co/48XgANRerZ

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@MarkSKrikorian Lol

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@AlexNowrasteh @megbasham @PhilOutsider No response @megbasham ?

[tautologer @tautologer]

remember Loab? i wonder what she's up to now

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@JoelleAdler @PpollingNumbers Lolllll

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

[Matthew Blanton @Matthew_Blanton]

@dandarling @SecRubio Lol his amazing vision of sending innocent people to be tortured in El Salvador. You are embarrassing yourself.