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Why do I continue to be so obsessed with issues of conspiracies, misinformation, and sense-making? I’ve mentioned that it has a lot to do with my two…
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It’s pride month, an annual affair that never fails to produce a lot of awkward but entirely superficial corporate gestures, and also a conservative…
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Our country feels deeply broken. This week’s senseless horror, the mass murder of children and teachers in a classroom in Texas, has stolen our…
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Don't be a wasp
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First in a series?
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I was listening to an episode of the Conspirituality podcast recently, and one of the guests was a former QAnon follower who shared what he had found to…
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I listened to a podcast recently about a young man who had a violent encounter with a plain-clothes police officer in Stockton, CA back in 2011. The…
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The New York Times editorial board says we have a free speech problem in America, and they are being roundly mocked on Twitter. This type of appeal for…
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Observations from the Twitterverse
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Things I enjoyed this year, which were not necessarily made this year
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Thoughts on trust and distrust
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We tend to assume people understand certain basics, but maybe they don't
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