AI will inevitably sell us out newrepublic.com/article/2071...

Hell yeah - viva alt-weeklies www.cjr.org/analysis/don...

Kicker ‘graph goes on my gravestone time.com/7288866/coll...

The doublespeak farce covering for our 1st Amendment crisis www.salon.com/2025/03/18/t...

The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12

In physics as in governance, it is so much faster and easier to break things than to build them.

Just once in my life I’d love to uncheck the “email me about sales and promotions” box and have it actually mean something.

“A quick glance over the past 200 years suggests that most people will eagerly substitute cheap, mass-produced anything for a lovingly handcrafted version that’s more expensive…. Political and cultural elites [will] fight to maintain their status.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Irony is a medicine, not only to lift and brighten others, but also ourselves, because self-mockery is a powerful instrument in overcoming the temptation toward narcissism…The best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...

“[Memes are] the lingua franca of modern audiences. They’re how we share ideas, signal belonging and make meaning.” digiday.com/marketing/th...

I always feel like a fraud when using “Cheers” as a email sign-off, but never more so than when corresponding with an actual British person.

An abiding, anxious befuddlement, post-GPT: If reading and writing are no longer skills that education should practice and idealize, because you can outsource that intellectual work… what the heck is education for now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyhow, the AI version of this would be like, TL; DR, bro

Among many post-election journalism takes, this one feels especially wise www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

Feels very Elder Millennial to still nostalgically long for social media that recreates late-aughts Facebook vibes - though, prolly less the platform as the phase of life… www.vox.com/technology/3...