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It seems that hate speech and outrageous lies will have free rein once again on Twitter – thanks to Elon Musk’s reckless ownership. It’s just one more sign that the internet, the dominant way we communicate these days, is a very messy place where standards of truth don’t have much of a toehold. You see the impact of that all around us. Social media, especially, encourages violence, misleads voters, and leaves us isolated in fact-challenged bubbles.
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How is Donald Trump like a Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino? If you quickly answered, “Artificial coloring,” you’re only partly right. For the purpose of our discussion here, what they have in common is a concept in economics, which we will get around to explaining in just a moment.
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High Mud Comedy Festival Presents Josh Gondelman in a night of stand-up comedy at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Josh…
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Allan Lichtman is a political historian and Distinguished Professor of History at American University. Lichtman predicts that an impeachment investigation…
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Some say President Donald Trump's fascination with twitter has led to social media rising as a factor in politics. And that may have trickled down to…
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News media look for succinct sound bites that encapsulate one’s message. Even so, Bush simplified political language considerably. Things were good or…
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Jonathan Sun is an architect, designer, engineer, playwright and comedy writer, an artist, illustrator and a doctoral student at MIT and a Berkman Klein…
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The Poughkeepsie Public Library District will kick off Library Week with best-selling author Erik Larson on April 9 at 2:30 p.m.Larson will focus his…
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Our tech guru Jesse Feiler joins us this morning to discuss the ins and outs of dealing with almighty #hashtag on social media..Jesse Feiler is an app…
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With the city’s budget’s in limbo, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan has launched a social media campaign to shore up a $12.5 million dollar deficit and find a…