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Here's what I see happening on Twitter. It makes everyone feel clever, but it's a total waste of time, drives traffic on Twitter, and not the way to combat disinformation. Jim Jordan posted incorrect statistics about crime in New York. Large account retweet and provide correct information, often taking a swipe at Jim Jordan. My information on how to combat disinformation comes from this Rand Corp. study: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html 1/

Russia's propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it does not commit to consistency.

Questionable theoretical assumptions drive economic models to rubber-stamp disastrous policy changes.

What was once outright denial has morphed into a subtler dismissal.

They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they work

Generative AI is coming for white-collar roles. If your sense of worth comes from work—what’s left to hold on to?

A survey by the Pew Research Center found that most employees expect hiring, firing, and workplace assessment to be transformed by algorithms.

A.I. could be disastrous for democracy. But it doesn’t have to be.

Posted on Thursday 20 Apr 2023. 755 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.

Learn how the open organization principles of collaboration and community align with the new rules of businesses based on social connection.

Dreaming of getting lost down some pastorally perfect country roads? Much more than a route from A to B, these mysterious ancient pathways hold secrets of their own. To find out what they are, all you have to do is walk towards the light at the end of the lane. Our usual advice to rovers…

Leaving Japan's suffocating metropolises behind is as simple as a passion, a modest profit and plot of land.

At a moment when people who don’t share our identity feel alien, Oliver Sacks’s classic book about reaching catatonic patients has much to teach us.

Society is producing an endless variety of unnecessary and meaningless bullshit jobs. Work, consume, repeat. It might be time to end this system.

After trying several services for home phones, I found a solution that costs me about $0.85 per month. ️️☎️

Reddit says that it'll begin charging certain developers and organizations for access to its user-generated content.

I don’t want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, so if you’re reluctant to step inside the world of 19th century junkies, I suggest you close the door and choose something a little lighter and brighter from our menu. I’m not quite sure how I ended up here myself, stockpiling antique photographs that have survived from the Opium Age…

The macro-economic climate is producing short-term headwinds, but innovation and change can win out, with AWS a case in point.

An amazing research paper unearths how the tech industry invented the concept of digital trade and sold it to government officials.

Young, successful, and filthy rich. It’s every millennial's dream. It’s also typically too good to be true. As the Guardian and Patrick Boyle recently

Tolerance is a virtue that's mostly perceived as a crucially important brick in order to build a healthy and peaceful society. In a way, tolerance has turned into a mark that embodies the historical progress humanity has made over the years. But here's a question—is tolerance supposed to have limits?

Over the last few years I have grappled with the size and scope of my digital footprint. I had more than a few “Nate, you’re better than this” moments while reading two books in particular. No Filter by Bloomberg writer Sarah Frier, got me off of Instagram and now I avoid the entire Facebook S

Capitalism is the engine of our world; more than anything else, it is what has made us rich over the last few centuries. It is not just that we are free to trade stuff at market prices. It is also that we have teams who bet huge chunks of capital on risky ventures that attempt big changes to key methods and distributions of production.

Take the Worst Abuses of Power in Each State. Imagine Them Nationwide. That’s the Fascist Dystopia the GOP Wants America to Be

Are interest rates a neutral policy variable? Or are they a tool for class warfare? It turns out that the evidence speaks for itself. Here are three ways that higher interest rates redistribute income.