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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you
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US corporate social media is a tool for data collection, propaganda and regime change, and the response of the American govt to China-owned TikTok ought to be taken as a warning to European govts.
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True. The studies that point to a safe or even beneficial level of alcohol intake generally forget to check whether the teatotallers in their samples have a history of alcohol use.
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @riggbeck@mastodon.social I maintain that Thatcher used the proceeds of EU membership and North Sea oil to mask that she was starting to concentrate mo
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Agree completely. I guess the other question is whether her ascendency to power was predicated on the fact that after thirty years of social democracy and increasing economic mobility and equality the old capitalist class had reached a point where their very existence depended on halting and unwinding the post-war economic consensus.
That capital class had never been so (relatively) poor as they were in the 1970s and another decade might have seen their end.
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @nealon@aus.social I look forward to my future career as an garden hermit for some billionaire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ornamental-hermits-were-18th-century-
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Plenty of worse jobs.....
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