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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
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Guardian - University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaz
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Guardian - University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaz
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.
April 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.
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An old professor taught me how to use dialogue. How to use sensory detail. “I don’t know why they’re important.” Her voice was as loud as her laugh. It was always a near cackle, like she knew the secret of the universe and was laughing because it was such a hilariously dark joke.
April 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
An old professor taught me how to use dialogue. How to use sensory detail. “I don’t know why they’re important.” Her voice was as loud as her laugh. It was always a near cackle, like she knew the secret of the universe and was laughing because it was such a hilariously dark joke.