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Media law; adjunct law prof Fordham Law; fmr newsroom counsel BuzzFeed News; "prolific and historically detailed": tinyurl.com/yd444emk
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Autism with social anxiety is associated with acquiescent behaviors and enlarged amygdala volume

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By Yu Hao, Sarah M. Banker, Matthew Schafer, Sarah Barkley, Jadyn Trayvick, Arabella W. Peters, Christopher McLaughlin, Xiaosi Gu, Jennifer Foss-Feig, Daniela Schiller, Ember Zhang, Abigaël A. Thinakaran
| Nature Verified
Abstract Social anxiety (SA) frequently co-occurs with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but it remains unclear whether SA in ASD reflects greater symptom severity or a distinct subtype. Across two complementary studies, we characterized the behavioral and neural correlates of SA in ASD using a naturalistic social navigation task measuring affiliative and power-related behaviors.
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When Norms Fail, Pass Laws: A Call for Legislative Action to Protect Press Freedom

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By Matthew Schafer
| Substack
Everything, everywhere, all at once. That summarizes recent attacks on press freedom. The attacks come from President Trump in the form of defamationclaims, nominally in his individual capacity and complete with purported damages running into the billions. They come from an FCC Chairman who threatened a comedian, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” The attacks come from the Justice Department too.
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265. Synthetic Delusions Arise From Common Cause Inference in Large Language Models

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By Matthew Schafer, Nicole Satanovsky
| Biological Psychiatry Verified
Delusions are fixed beliefs held with unchanging certainty, despite contradictory evidence. Existing models explain delusions as prior-dominated inferences, capturing their formal features but missing their core phenomenology, including their typical content and fixity. Delusions often explain the world in terms of hidden, preternatural causes, and are thought to result from attempts to explain disparate experiences, usually as a cohesive narrative.
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