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Can there be a connection between online universities and the serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East? I contend that there is.

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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Interesting STEM

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Physics In History

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Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]

Richard Ashcroft soundcloud.com

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A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things. It began or accelerated in the early 2010s. It's hitting teens AND adults. Self-report and objective scores. by @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/gPGrShE2dk... See more

Jonathan Haidt

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thermodynamic übermensch — e/acc

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Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab

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1/This study suggests that global use of social media over time leads to global sorting into just two primary camps, or worldviews. If their hypothesis is correct, it has profound implications for the world in the coming years. h/t @jonathanstray https://t.co/sPbQufHfSG... See more

Dave Troy

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Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

Will Douglas Heaven technologyreview.com