@Suzyanalyst1

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Communication studies PhD, working on cognitive defence strategies in Ottawa, Canada. Sometimes longform.
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Show threadSuzyanalyst1Nov 13, 2022
@bethlynnf Ugh—Gen X here, went through an Ayn Rand stage at 17, quickly realized I was becoming immoral and antisocial, and that was the end of it.
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Show threadBitsyNov 13, 2022

I'm happily out now, happily myself, happily radical and leftist and queer.

But I *get* why Gen X is tilting right. The best minds of my generation have been co-opted by Objectivism.

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beau sieversNov 13, 2022

Hot take: Perennial scientific controversies—theory or measurement, exploration or confirmation, fox or hedgehog—will burn forever unabated, as different people are good at each, but all narcissistically imagine themselves to be more important than the goofs/nerds on the other side

A healthy resolution, understanding science as a social ecosystem, would stabilize complementary roles for researchers with these radically different strengths

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Dmitri AlperovitchNov 13, 2022
2024 will be an interesting year. Elections in Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine (if not cancelled) and US. The world could look very different in 2025
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Neil JohnsonNov 9, 2022
It’s almost the ideal experiment to see if social media toxicity is inevitable, or merely a byproduct of a surveillance capitalist, business model.
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Neil JohnsonNov 13, 2022
Between Elon destroying Twitter, another crypto exchange (FTX) revealed as an over-leveraged Ponzi scheme, and the failure of most of the neo-fascist election deniers to secure enough votes to actually win office, it feels like this week we may have finally reached the end of an era, and the grifters will finally have to face some consequences. Who knows, maybe Trump will actually serve some time, too — he’s certainly lost his grip on his party. Maybe the spell is broken?
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Michael E. Mann Nov 13, 2022
"Will the Amazon rainforest’s chances improve with Brazil’s new leader?" | My interview this evening with Geoff R Bennett on the @pbs #NewsHour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/will-the-amazon-rainforests-chances-improve-with-brazils-new-leader
Will the Amazon rainforest’s chances improve with Brazil’s new leader?

The fate of the rapidly disappearing Amazon rainforest is in new hands after Brazil's latest election. President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made fighting the climate crisis and protecting the Amazon a cornerstone of his campaign. Michael Mann, director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss.

PBS NewsHour
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Caroline Orr BuenoNov 13, 2022
So, if Twitter goes to hell and just becomes defunct, we’re going to lose entire chapters of recent history — including evidence of war crimes, human rights violations, and more. I hope we’re all paying attention to this and considering what we need to do to ensure that a billionaire can’t decide which parts of history to retain — and which parts to erase forever.
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Adam GurriNov 13, 2022
This week I finished Xavier Marquez's Non-Democratic Politics. It was funny to do it this of all weeks. Almost all countries in the world hold elections, but many of them put a heavy thumb on the scale when they do so, and some are outright scripted. No one had the script on this week's election results; not a single professional commentator. What a relief.
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Show threadEllen PaoNov 13, 2022
Advertisers bought reddit ads when the site had revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos; they don't care about toxic content that isn't in their face. They accept a fair amount of toxicity, just less than Twitter has now and not if it looks like it's getting much worse. Musk will figure out a plan, say a mea culpa, charm the right people and probably live another day. And then he'll be more incremental about the move to white supremacy and the frog will still boil to death eventually