Stewart M. Patrick in Foreign Affairs: If a crisis of this magnitude cannot reshape how countries formulate their national interests, definitions of international security, or approaches to the global economy, perhaps nothing will. But this predicament does not call for resignation. It cries out, instead, for a commitment to our role as stewards of the […]

Renee DiResta voor The Atlantic: [S]ocial media has ended the monopoly of mass-media propaganda. But it has also ushered in a new competitor: ampliganda—the result of a system in which trust has been reallocated from authority figures and legacy media to charismatic individuals adept at appealing to the aspects of personal or ideological identity that […]

Tweakers: Nintendo heeft een update voor de Switch-consoles uitgebracht, waarmee bluetoothaudioapparaten aan de consoles gekoppeld kunnen worden. *Finally.*

Colossal:

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 […]