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Jelmer Mommers op De Correspondent: De belangrijkste conclusie uit dit IPCC-rapport is wat mij betreft dat we nog steeds zelf bepalen hoe warm het op aarde wordt. En daarmee bepalen we ook zelf hoe ontwrichtend de opwarming wordt.

Zeynep Tufekci: Digital media doesn’t just isolate groups; rather, it helps tribalize us even further. We certainly encounter “the other” online, but usually in caricature form. We seek out these cartoonish people and positions regardless of how frequently they actually occur or what else might be happening. Both traditional media and social media helps produce the […]

Dokter Jordan L. Shlain op Medium:

Umair Haque: What, though, let the Nazis go from failed coup to successful one? It wasn’t just that they learned. It wasn’t just that their movement hardened and escalated and grew committed to avenging the failure of the first one — just like Trumpism is getting obsessed with now. Something else — something even more […]

The Atlantic: Medley expects case numbers to be bumpy, rising and falling like a series of small hills rather than one big mountain. This is because the U.K. has a high overall vaccination rate, but it still has pockets of vulnerable people. The virus will cause an outbreak every time it finds a pocket, though […]