President, Wrestler, Spectacle: An Examination of Donald Trump’s Firing Tweets and <i>The Celebrity Appresident</i> as Response to Trump’s Media Landscape
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Abstract
Between January and April 2017, the Trump administration underwent a period of extensive cabinet turnover that was publicized via Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. Accessibility to such information creates a “break” with the mythos of a president and raises questions concerning the relationship between presidential decorum and social media usage. Trump’s Twitter usage operates as a platform to reinforce populist rhetoric and pushes his various spectacles (e.g., entertainment, business, and presidency) through the notion of “winners” and “losers.” This conflation of Trump’s positions enables his Twitter usage to mimic the Barthian mythos of the wrestler, an overly aggressive figure that borders the line between pantomime and entertainer. Twitter also enables a space for satirical response, specifically through The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’s The Celebrity Appresident. As such, the nexus of Trump’s twitter behavior and satirical response is indicative of the current political climate that combines myth, spectacle, and social media.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it