Today we learned both the far-right and AI don't know what tampons look like
Dr. Jen Golbeck
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Dr. Jen Golbeck
@jengolbeck
Prof. at UMD. Scientist, journalist,📸
AI, social media, surveillance, extremism, conspiracy theories, & violence
PhotoJ at instagram.com/jagged_photo
Joined February 2010
- My dude, we can't even get students to read the syllabus.Trump accuses teachers of secretly turning students trans
00:00 - You guys. I went to the Westminster dog show on Saturday (as press, not with a dog) and one of my photos made the CNN photo gallery of the event and I am so so happy about it cnn.com/2025/02/11/us/…
- 🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
- Trump just said in his press conference that they had 25,000 people in the arena at his Harrisburg rally and another 20,000 who couldn't get in. I was there. The arena capacity is 7,318. The line cleared by 5pm. The overflow area was empty:
- My friend, I am an expert on Benford's Law (in fact, I'm in that documentary you watched about it on Netflix). If you'd like me to explain the countless ways you don't know what you're talking about here, let me know.
- I'm graduating from Harvard today with a 2nd masters in psychology! I started this mostly for fun and to get a little more theory but I learned more than I could have imagined and it was, unexpectedly, a life transforming experience for me. Now our house has 2 Harvard alumni! 🎓
- Replying to @Omiron33My friend, is that what you think a tampon looks like?
- I am starting a new project to stock all the little free libraries in the Florida Keys (and maybe on the mainland) with queer literature. Send me your favorite titles that I can get cheap used or mail me anything you have laying around: 1107 Key Plaza, #202, Key West, FL 33040
GIF - oh hey it's just me at Congress talking about election-related violence
- I'm doing a talk today and the event is at the Disneyland Hotel. They made a Disney-fied version of me for my slides. Then someone offered me a Mickey Mouse ice cream bar and, of course, I said yes! #neverPassUpJoy
- Replying to @jengolbeck @latifnasser and @netflixSo bookmark this thread and if you see anyone trying to use Benford's Law next week, send them to me. My election-month hobby is good-faith, calm explanation of my statistical pet to seething mobs. I feed off their anger, secure in the knowledge that I can science and they can't
- I'm on Sugarloaf Key, just 15 miles from Key West, and was astonished that we can see the northern lights tonight. Not sure they have ever been seen this far south? @capitalweather
- Replying to @jengolbeck @latifnasser and @netflixIf there are 1,000 voters in a precinct and Trump gets 600 votes, Harris's vote count can't be more than 400. It DEPENDS on the other two numbers. Benford's law doesn't work when there are these kinds of dependencies
