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The climate change of bad news

Posted on October 15, 2020 by VM

This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. As one friend put it, “It starts somewhere and then goes in a different direction.” This year hasn’t been beset by the same old steady drizzle of bad news … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Op-eds | Tagged bad news, Ben Smith, caste, cognitive dissonance, fact-checking, Jacob Silverman, Jonah Lehrer, journalism, Miami Herald, parachute journalism, privileges, Rafia Zakaria, Rukmini Callimachi, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker | Leave a comment

Toppling Epstein’s intellectuals network

Posted on September 9, 2019 by VM

While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi Ito to resign over his ties with Epstein. … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Science | Tagged Cesar Hidalgo, Elementary, Evgeny Morozov, Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Martin Nowak, Marvin Minsky, Max Brockman, Miami Herald, MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Patrick McCray, Peter Aldhous, Robert Trivers, Ronan Farrow, Xeni Jardan | Comments Off

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The climate change of bad news

Toppling Epstein’s intellectuals network

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