"To future historians, nothing will explain our behaviour, except a mass outbreak of ergotism caused by contaminated rye?... The Unabomber had been right about everything! Well, not all of it. The Unabomber stuff he had gotten wrong. But that stuff about the Industrial Revolution had been right on the money." —Patricia Lockwood, "The Communal Mind." … Continue reading The Communal Mind by Patricia Lockwood
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Mind Your Mind: Dissecting Astroturf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bz-vTozh1 Above is an interesting piece of astroturf a friend of mine received a few days ago via WhatsApp. There are a couple of things about this that immediately make me question whether this is "fake news." The first question I always ask when I see something like this is: "Who does this message benefit?" … Continue reading Mind Your Mind: Dissecting Astroturf
