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This set of really good questions by @jjosephmiller gets at the heart of what the CMS's job is. Do its "content types" (or templates, or post types, or entity types,

Piper constructs elaborate, squirming abstracts to avoid saying anything negative about Trump by name.Compare it to his full-throated condemnation of Obama over the course of earlier campaigns—because the clergy Obama

The merger of fundamentalist apocalypse eschatology and conservative totalitarianism fetish has been complete for a while, now they‘re just comfortable enough to talk about in mixed company.https://twitter.com/RepClayHiggins/status/131971

This is an essential point in understanding the increasingly-crystal-clear problem of algorithms encoding racial bias (and other forms of bias, at that). The issue is not nefarious devs adding 'IF

Something interesting, troubling, and important is happening. This weekend there's an NBC special about online disinformation campaigns and recruitment pipelines for right-wing radicalism. On one level it's good; the media

A handful of Black women — writers, scholars, artists, thinkers — were at ground zero for the rise of those disinformation and radicalization networks before anyone else took the issue

An issue that comes up over, and over, and over in policy discussions is that it's super hard to eliminate deep poverty. But it really isn't. It's just hard to

Good to remember that authoritarian leaders generally do not *eliminate rules*; rather they *make themselves and their allies exempt from them* either officially or by compromising the systems of enforcement

Almost a decade ago, @karenmcgrane and I were prepping for a talk about what people were optimistically calling "the mobile web." It was going to be more complicated than that,

There isn't a "liberal media" and a "conservative media"; there's a Consensus Media, a Bubble Media, and a Fringe Media. Conservatism, as it drifted out of the mainstream, built the