Your weekly wrap-up of What We Learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Alicia Wanless’s The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality delivers a sweeping study of how societies shape — and get shaped by — their information environments. www.fpol.no/the-informat...

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836 UK Government Art Collection

There’s been a lot of internet outages lately, from AWS to Cloudflare. We know what caused these outages, but that’s not the biggest takeaway. Aniket Panda explains how to see the bigger picture & protect information ecosystems, based on @lageneralista.ca's new book: youtube.com/shorts/D8PKd...

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, & @Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca welcome journalist and novelist @stephenmarche.bsky.social to discuss his book The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6e...

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social & Carol Tsang discuss disagreements about defining political virtue among US religious & non-religious communities. With special appearance by an obliging @lageneralista.ca. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDV...

I hate how often I wish there were an undo shortcut in analogue activities.

I had to look that year up - but also only recognized one album in there. Clearly, I’m not great at this game regardless.

I’m sad I even looked it up. My year’s best albums were ok. Not enough to post.

Was really looking forward to this one - I really enjoyed this chat with Jon!

This is also why Finland is the one military I’d bet on.

I feel this pain. And song lyrics triggered in my brain for almost anything that gets said.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

When I was in undergrad (Russian), my uni thought to close some language programs including mine. I was interviewed and argued the need to know a language to study a country’s culture, history and politics. They kept mine open for a while. Knowing a language is like a key - AI can’t unlock that.

In case you missed the DC launch, @carnegieendowment.org has you covered with the full video - wherein @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org made the best of introductions and @verambergen.bsky.social adeptly dealt with my lack of answers: carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

If you're in need of things to listen to or watch, here's a list of foraged info: theinformationanimal.substack.com/p/foraged-info

Aren’t I fancy?

Looking for prolific Wikipedians and Wikipedia experts for an article on @indicator.media next week. Any recs?

Your weekly round-up of What We Learned for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Here for the “What We Learned” segment from @andrewmueller.bsky.social towards the end of The Globalist: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

I’m speechless over this one: www.fpol.no/the-informat...

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social & the #GreekChorus discuss why we’re all mad at the language learning app #Duolingo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBy...

The AWS outage was just the tip of the iceberg. For countries to safeguard modern information ecosystems, they must protect all relevant aspects of social cohesion—not just the technology. @lageneralista.ca explains for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

@lageneralista.ca talking “The Information Animal” at @carnegieendowment.org with @verambergen.bsky.social of the @wsj.com!

Excited to be back at @carnegieendowment.org for this chat with @verambergen.bsky.social about The Information Animal - should be fun! If you’re in DC on November 5, please come. carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/... And with that, see y’all in a couple weeks!

I’ll be taking a bit of a doomscrolling detox. It’s an experiment, maybe I’ll write about it. For work things, LinkedIn will be alive, along with email. See you in a couple weeks!

A big thanks to @milkepescs.bsky.social for having me on The Gist - and for remembering all the stats! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Aw, thanks, @jammaj.bsky.social! Hadn't got to posting here yet. I'm experimenting with content forms. So if you're open to attempts to share thinking about the info environment, perhaps of questionable quality, I'm your woman! And if you're still on Substack - theinformationanimal.substack.com

Any John le Carré fans out there? You don't want to miss our latest episode, which not only goes into his writing process, we also take a peek at the new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford called "Tradecraft".

Just a few days ago we did a podcast on art theft. And then the Louvre gets robbed in Paris "Thieves steal jewels of 'incalculable' value in seven-minute heist at Louvre museum in Paris" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Well, friends, if you’ve read and liked my book enough, please consider leaving at least some stars on sites like Good Reads, Amazon or Google Books. Every little bit helps, thanks! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Who wants to be McLuhan when one can be Ellul? But in all seriousness, this was nice to see: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lies...

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account. On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !! They promise: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources Share the news 🔁

If you haven’t notice, Canadian women are quietly kicking ass the world over. Magdeleine Vallieres became the women’s road race world champion: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/canad...

Highly recommend The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by @stephenmarche.bsky.social who still somehow manages to end it on a hopeful note. It came out in 2022 and remains shockingly prescient www.cbc.ca/books/the-ne...

Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation? But how practical is the hope that Finland can be a beacon for other democracies? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... According to @lageneralista.ca from the Carnegie Endowment Information Environment Project, "Ecologically speaking, not very."

Featuring @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social, @jonrauch.bsky.social & the #GreekChorus

@lageneralista.ca has written a truly thought provoking book for our times. Well done. open.substack.com/pub/hollyber...

Reminder, there's a network of local cable access and community media centers where you can broadcast your own content. www.allcommunitymedia.org

As per the DSTV surprise connection in Barcelona, we need to get @laddecker.bsky.social on to talk about the collab that came from the show!

Someone just pointed out the kind shout-out Sophie Grove gave me on Monocle Radio's The Briefing - Great recap of a fabulous conference! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

🎧 Looking for a great audio interview? CSDI Director @heiditworek.bsky.social spoke to KKFI Radio about the modern communication landscape, what we can learn from media trends of the past, and much more. kkfi.org/program-epis...

For those not steeped in online conservative circles, Charlie Kirk was hardly a household name outside the U.S. before this past week. But his death has galvanized right-wing figures abroad who have hailed him as a martyr for a global movement. Latest ⬇️ www.wsj.com/world/charli...

NEW: 77% of Americans say the US political system needs major changes or complete reform. Those who say the same about their country Nigeria 91% Brazil 87% S Korea 86% Greece 83% Kenya 80% France 74% UK 58% Germany 48% Canada 47% Sweden 29% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

If you'd like a sneak peek at The Information Animal, @hilltimes.com has an excerpt in this week's paper, which we've unlocked for a limited time here - it's from one of my favourite chapters looking at Finland www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Today’s race start. We did not win.

There is still time to sign up for and read the books for the next @dogshirttv.bsky.social book club on September 25. While my book is up, I’ll reveal the mysteries of why I paired it with The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab: substack.com/@aliciawanle...

“But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.” @cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in his piece here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If you’re looking for something different - I strongly recommend joining the Monocle world. I’ve never seen a publication (outside @lawfaremedia.org) create that level of community before. Thanks to Anthony Perez for the shots.