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The Hard Problem of Social Media: Run Rabbit Run
The social media landscape continues to fracture, but is anyone learning the lessons?
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S Peter Davis
Fire Sale at the End of History
Donald Trump is above the law. Defeating him means that we have to admit this to ourselves.
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S Peter Davis
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Meet the Real Elites
Maybe it's the pundits telling you who to believe
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S Peter Davis
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Relax - America Will Probably Just Collapse Now
Odds of a competent fascist regime aren't in Trump's favour
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S Peter Davis
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The Silicon Valley Insurrection: Take Back the Internet
To save ourselves from fascism we need to wrest back control of our digital lives
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S Peter Davis
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October 2024

Well, Here We Are Again, Yanks: A Foreigner's Perspective on What You're About to Do
This is bigger than America. The whole west needs to fight this ideology. It begins with you.
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S Peter Davis
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The Betrayal of Carl Sagan and the Rebirth of Cecil Rhodes
A story of three men and the politics of space exploration
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S Peter Davis
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No, They'll Never Believe in Climate Change: How Science Becomes Political
From climatology to vaccines, once science becomes Us Versus Them it's impossible to treat it objectively.
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S Peter Davis
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The Censorship Grievance Industrial Complex: Part 2 - The War on Truth
Free speech is important. The right wants you to believe education is its enemy. Don't believe their lies.
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S Peter Davis
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September 2024

The Censorship Grievance Industrial Complex: Part 1 - The Conservative Media Paradox
Right wing media whines incessantly about censorship while wholly relying on it
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S Peter Davis
How to Engineer a Moral Panic For Fun and Profit
The Republicans' insane anti-Haitian terror campaign is a dangerous new low that brings to question their deeper motives
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S Peter Davis
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Context Matters: How the Far Right Weaponizes Poor Media Literacy
Propagandists rely on people missing the bigger picture to smuggle insidious ideas into the mainstream
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S Peter Davis
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