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    <title>Trump can get away with saying what he likes about the BBC. But Epstein? That’s his one vulnerability | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-25T15:55:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To hold him to account for this dishonesty is to cast yourself as an arbiter of truth, which creates the instant and obvious expectation that you yourself must be truthful. Here, then, is the asymmetry: he can lie, but his critics cannot.

So he can continue to tell the big lie, claiming against all evidence that he won the 2020 election, and myriad smaller lies – he told 60 Minutes that grocery prices “are down” when they are up and that Joe Biden gave Ukraine $350bn in aid when the real figure is well under half that – and, save for a few tireless factcheckers, no one cares. The response is a collective shrug, because it’s Donald Trump. No one expects any better.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Guardian column BBC trump politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-20T11:14:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Donald Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes and may pose a threat to American democracy. We have been doing this since the start of his second term in January 2025.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy trump government usa us politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>READ: One step closer to bombing civilians</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-23T10:50:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.treason.io/p/read-one-step-closer-to-bombing-civilians</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So when I say we’re a step closer to bombing civilians, I’m not being hyperbolic. I’ve heard the conversations behind closed doors. I’ve watched the decision-making unfold, and now, we’re seeing authoritarian fantasies become reality.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics drugs usa</dc:subject>
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    <title>Who leads the Democratic Party when it's in opposition? - DemocraticParty | Ask MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-08T09:58:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/385217/Who-leads-the-Democratic-Party-when-its-in-opposition</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is it the party's leader in the House? Its leader in the Senate? The leader of the DNC? Some combination of all three? Or someone else altogether?I ask because I genuinely don't know how the structure works or which role takes the top spot.

No one. Ditto for the Republican Party. We don't have a parliamentary system, so there is no official leader of the opposition party, and no shadow cabinet.]]></description>
<dc:subject>US politics AskMefi</dc:subject>
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    <title>A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆: &quot;It's best to understand that f…&quot; - Mastodon</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-25T16:09:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

It's very important to understand, fascists don't just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect.

It's the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you're able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.
For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue—the greatest.]]></description>
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    <title>Did Germans know what was happening? - Hitler Trump | MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-24T11:50:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/384610/Did-Germans-know-what-was-happening#5454359</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I read about all the parallels between what Trunp is doing and what Hitler and other autocrats have done, I sometimes cling to the thought that because Hitler was unprecedented (at least on that level), in the early stages, Germans didn't see what was coming and in the early days did not know to stop him. But so many Americans do see it, so it's not the same and that will make a difference. Is my security-blanket thought at all true?]]></description>
<dc:subject>AskMefi hitler politics francois comment</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-11T16:54:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/takeover-hitlers-final-rise-to-power-timothy-w-ryback-book-review</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hitler is so fully imagined a subject—so obsessively present on our televisions and in our bookstores—that to reimagine him seems pointless. As with the Hollywood fascination with Charles Manson, speculative curiosity gives retrospective glamour to evil.]]></description>
<dc:subject>readlater Pocket ifttt hitler politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Power of Chaos</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-11T16:01:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. Ryback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him. Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power. The corporate bosses thought that, if you looked past the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you had someone who would protect your money. Communist ideologues thought that, if you peered deeply enough into the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you could spy the pattern of a popular revolution. The decent right thought that he was too obviously deranged to remain in power long, and the decent left, tempered by earlier fights against different enemies, thought that, if they forcibly stuck to the rule of law, then the law would somehow by itself entrap a lawless leader. In a now familiar paradox, the rational forces stuck to magical thinking, while the irrational ones were more logical, parsing the brute equations of power. And so the storm never passed. In a way, it still has not.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics hitler</dc:subject>
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    <title>No, The People Didn’t Vote For This | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-11T09:43:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/no-the-people-didnt-vote-for-this/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencies without Congressional authority — agencies that Congress explicitly created and funded — we’re watching in real-time as our system of checks and balances crumbles.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>How to avoid Oval Office humiliation</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-21T09:53:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.economist.com/international/2024/11/12/how-to-avoid-oval-office-humiliation</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A dozen officials offer tips on the dangerous art of Trump-flattery]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist politics trump flattery</dc:subject>
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    <title>2024 Political Quiz</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-07T09:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Answer the following questions to see how your political beliefs match your political parties and candidates.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics uk voting quiz survey</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution?ref=readtangle.com">
    <title>A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution | HRW</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-16T15:06:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution?ref=readtangle.com</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[About 6.8 million Jewish Israelis and 6.8 million Palestinians live today between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, an area encompassing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the latter made up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Throughout most of this area, Israel is the sole governing power; in the remainder, it exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule. Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas, as described in this report, these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-israel-apartheid-state">
    <title>Allegation: Israel is an Apartheid State | ADL</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-16T14:48:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-israel-apartheid-state</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon today to see critics of Israel accusing it of being an apartheid state.  Whether such a description is being used to describe Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or towards Arab citizens of Israel, the label is inaccurate, offensive, and often used to delegitimize and denigrate Israel as a whole.  Moreover, the use of this inaccurate and highly charged label is also counterproductive to resolving issues related to injustices within Israeli society or the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://pressthink.org/2016/11/22/tile/gamergate-model-press-relations/">
    <title>The Gamergate model of press relations</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-07T16:30:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pressthink.org/2016/11/22/tile/gamergate-model-press-relations/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I remember the first time I heard about Gamergate. A random follower on Twitter asked me if I had been following the story, which he said was “about ethics in games journalism.” No, I had not been following the story. In all innocence, I clicked on the link he sent me and tried to make sense of what I read. I failed. The events it described were impenetrable to me. (Disclosure: I am not a gamer.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>jayrosen jay rosen gamergate trump politics journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news">
    <title>AllSides | Balanced news via media bias ratings for an unbiased news perspective</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-24T13:17:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Don’t be fooled by media bias and fake news. Unbiased news does not exist; we provide balanced news and civil discourse. AllSides uses its media bias ratings to provide a breadth of perspectives on today's news, issues and opinions - so you can decide.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759">
    <title>Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop - Officer A. Cab - Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-11T09:26:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One final idea: consider abolishing the police.
I know what you’re thinking, “What? We need the police! They protect us!” As someone who did it for nearly a decade, I need you to understand that by and large, police protection is marginal, incidental. It’s an illusion created by decades of copaganda designed to fool you into thinking these brave men and women are holding back the barbarians at the gates.]]></description>
<dc:subject>police politics violence racism askmefi usa</dc:subject>
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    <title>How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts – Guillaume Chaslot – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-11T14:55:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@guillaumechaslot/how-youtubes-a-i-boosts-alternative-facts-3cc276f47cf7</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://points.datasociety.net/media-manipulation-strategic-amplification-and-responsible-journalism-95f4d611f462">
    <title>Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-03T12:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://points.datasociety.net/media-manipulation-strategic-amplification-and-responsible-journalism-95f4d611f462</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[@robjective The tactic of finding and exploiting "data voids" really struck me in this article. It is a very pernicious way to bring credibility to extreme narratives. Recent examples: "crisis actor", "incel" and "QAnon". @zephoria]]></description>
<dc:subject>danah boyd facebook journalism media politics data keyword void twitter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/09/15/americas-highest-court-needs-term-limits">
    <title>America’s highest court needs term limits - The Supreme Court</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-28T08:27:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/09/15/americas-highest-court-needs-term-limits</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Deepening partisanship is bad for the court and bad for America]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist politics supreme court</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://politi.co/2Cfymeg">
    <title>Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-03T17:36:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://politi.co/2Cfymeg</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system. By JOSHUA…]]></description>
<dc:subject>trump racism race privilege politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:6270bf81bb0f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-viral-sex-crime-saga-of-perverts-pranksters-and-prosecutors">
    <title>A Viral Sex Crime Saga of Perverts, Pranksters, and Prosecutors</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-20T14:33:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-viral-sex-crime-saga-of-perverts-pranksters-and-prosecutors</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TIJUANA, Mexico—Just over a year ago, on International Women’s Day, as it happened, I was sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Mexico City.]]></description>
<dc:subject>noel gender politics mexico culture dailybeast twitter trolling</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:738f11f6b17d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/thoughts-on-the-sociology-of-brexit/">
    <title>Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit - Political Economy Research Centre</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-06T21:36:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/thoughts-on-the-sociology-of-brexit/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But the politicisation of social sciences, metrics and policy administration mean that the ‘facts’ produced by official statistical agencies must now compete with other conflicting ‘facts’.]]></description>
<dc:subject>brexit politics europe facts</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:17819e6b22a2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@thegrugq/howto-fight-cyberwars-and-lose-6d5cc58a392e">
    <title>HOWTO: Fight Cyberwars and Lose – the grugq – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-04T11:50:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/howto-fight-cyberwars-and-lose-6d5cc58a392e</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US has lost the first cyber war between nation states. Russia took on the Americans at their own game, on their home turf and completely destroyed them.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cyber warfare grugcq politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:1e35d529616a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zootopia-oscars_us_58ac6503e4b02a1e7dac1255">
    <title>The Most Politically Influential Film Of The Oscars Will End Up Being 'Zootopia' | The Huffington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-24T10:02:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zootopia-oscars_us_58ac6503e4b02a1e7dac1255</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At its core, the animated flick is a condemnation of the very forces that led to Trump’s rise. Children will remember its lessons.]]></description>
<dc:subject>zootopia animation politics fear</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:5375947d25ed/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.ge2v9ogqt">
    <title>I’m With The Banned – Welcome to the Scream Room – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-22T11:07:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.ge2v9ogqt</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics. It’s a story about the insider traders of the attention economy. It’s a story about fear and loathing and Donald Trump and you and me. It’s not a story about Milo Yiannopoulos, the professional alt-right provocateur who was just banned from Twitter permanently for sending racist abuse to actor Leslie Jones.]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.instagram.com/zoharlazar/">
    <title>@zoharlazar • Instagram photos and videos</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-03T16:22:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.instagram.com/zoharlazar/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Illustrator]]></description>
<dc:subject>cartoonist trump politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chavez-dont-make-the-same-mistakes-we-did/">
    <title>In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-31T17:00:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chavez-dont-make-the-same-mistakes-we-did/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This does not have to be your fate. You can be different. Recognize that you’re the enemy Trump requires. Show concern, not contempt, for the wounds of those who brought him to power. By all means, be patient with democracy and struggle relentlessly to free yourself from the shackles of the caricature the populists have drawn of you.]]></description>
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    <title>2016 Report to Congress - United States Digital Service</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-19T09:58:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2016/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In August 2014, the United States Digital Service (USDS) was created to improve the Federal Government’s most important public-facing digital services. USDS is a collaboration between some of the country’s top technical talent and the government’s brightest civil servants, who work in partnership to apply private sector best practices to our digital services.]]></description>
<dc:subject>USDS mikey davidson US digital service politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charts/">
    <title>Most of Trump’s charts skew the data. And not always in his favor. - Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-10T15:45:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charts/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ Bar charts should always have a clear baseline, representing zero on the scale. Bar charts must begin at zero to avoid distorting length comparisons. Whether you are viewing or creating a data visualization, check that the chosen scale does not distort the data. For bar charts, a zero baseline is the difference between data visualization and data spin. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>infographics propaganda charts graphs design politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-your-social-media-feed">
    <title>The biggest threat to democracy? Your social media feed | World Economic Forum</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-10T15:21:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-your-social-media-feed</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This means that instead of creating an ideal type of a digitally mediated “public agora”, which would allow citizens to voice their concerns and share their hopes, the internet has actually increased conflict and ideological segregation between opposing views, granting a disproportionate amount of clout to the most extreme opinions.]]></description>
<dc:subject>filter bubble social media politics democracy weforum</dc:subject>
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    <title>The American Dream Is Killing Us</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-07T10:44:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://markmanson.net/american-dream</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Just World Hypothesis says that people get what’s coming to them — bad stuff happens to bad people and good stuff happens to good people. Bad stuff rarely (if ever) happens to good people and vice-versa. There are a couple problems with the Just World Hypothesis though: a) it’s wrong, and b) believing it kind of turns you into an unsympathetic asshole.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/the-curious-civilian/admit-it-the-clinton-email-controversy-bothers-you-yet-you-dont-actually-know-what-the-clinton-511dc1659eda#.hg22rm6b2">
    <title>Admit It. The Clinton Email Controversy Bothers You, Yet You Don’t Actually Know What the Clinton… – The Curious Civilian – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-26T08:59:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/the-curious-civilian/admit-it-the-clinton-email-controversy-bothers-you-yet-you-dont-actually-know-what-the-clinton-511dc1659eda#.hg22rm6b2</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How a poorly explained mistake continues to threaten the political career of the former Secretary of State.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://aplus.com/a/grain-of-saul-support-hillary-clinton?no_monetization=true">
    <title>I Wrote That I Despised Hillary Clinton. Today, I Want To Publicly Take It Back.</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-29T12:40:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aplus.com/a/grain-of-saul-support-hillary-clinton?no_monetization=true</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ After months of thought and research, I've come to enthusiastically support Clinton. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics clinton trump</dc:subject>
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    <title>Yes, I’d lie to you | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-12T18:48:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21706498-dishonesty-politics-nothing-new-manner-which-some-politicians-now-lie-and?frsc=dg%7Cc</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Depressing Economist piece on the post-truth political reality, filter bubbles and their effects ]]></description>
<dc:subject>filter bubble misinformation propaganda politics truthiness</dc:subject>
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    <title>Between the Hammer and the Anvil: The Saga Of Jeremy Cantgovern</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-30T10:21:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://flyingrodent.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-saga-of-jeremy-cantgovern.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ The residents of Little Humpingham have gathered to elect a new Mayor.  The audience watch expectantly as the Chairman invites the candidates - VIOLET SENSIBLE, HENRY SAVAGE, TARQUIN TITTERING-BERK and JEREMY CANTGOVERN - to make their closing arguments.  At the back of the room, two local JOURNALISTS look on.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/Acuity_Design/status/747689330060201984/photo/1">
    <title>Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-28T17:11:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/Acuity_Design/status/747689330060201984/photo/1</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RT @Acuity_Design: From excellent speech on ethical software development  #ethics #politics ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics ethics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/press-criticism?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/balancetrap">
    <title>Press criticism: The balance trap | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-19T13:26:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/press-criticism?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/balancetrap</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why are journalists susceptible to these tactics? Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, suggests that political journalists aim to look high-minded by making both sides look bad. I think the motivations are far more trivial. Balance is easy and cheap. In political journalism, a vitriolic quote from each side and a punchy headline is all that is needed to feed the news machine. Who cares if substance and analysis are thrown to the wind? Journalism is a commodity. There is always a need for more “inventory” on which to place ads. Journalism, real journalism—the pursuit of truth—also creates inventory, but not as much, and it is difficult, costly and time-consuming. Far easier to bolt together a few pieces of trivial comment from political pundits and move on.]]></description>
<dc:subject>balance journalism politics Economist savvy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://pressthink.org/2011/08/why-political-coverage-is-broken/">
    <title>Why Political Coverage is Broken » Pressthink</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-19T12:56:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pressthink.org/2011/08/why-political-coverage-is-broken/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So let me explain what I mean by that term.  In politics, our journalists believe, it is better to be savvy than it is to be honest or correct on the facts. It’s better to be savvy than it is to be just, good, fair, decent, strictly lawful, civilized, sincere, thoughtful or humane.  Savviness is what journalists admire in others. Savvy is what they themselves dearly wish to be. (And to be unsavvy is far worse than being wrong.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>jay rosen politics political coverage savvy journalism insiders</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://civicskunkworks.com/the-end-of-the-gop/">
    <title>Reflections On the End of the GOP | Skunk Works</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-15T15:26:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://civicskunkworks.com/the-end-of-the-gop/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The modern GOP as a political construct has principally been an alliance between two interest groups: urban economic elites and rural social conservatives. The reason the party is disintegrating is that it has over-delivered to the former, and completely failed the latter.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nick hanauer gop republican trump politics failure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dcentproject.eu/about-us/">
    <title>About us | D-CENT</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-18T23:21:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dcentproject.eu/about-us/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project bringing together citizen-led organisations that have transformed democracy in the past years, and helping them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.]]></description>
<dc:subject>dcent politics opensource democracy tools citizen</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.faisalalmutar.com/2015/11/16/i-am-a-jihadist-and-i-am-tired-of-not-being-given-credit/">
    <title>I am a jihadist and I am tired of not being given credit.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-16T11:37:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.faisalalmutar.com/2015/11/16/i-am-a-jihadist-and-i-am-tired-of-not-being-given-credit/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It must be incredibly frustrating as an Islamic Jihadist not to have your views and motives taken seriously by the societies you terrorize, even after you have explicitly and repeatedly stated them. Even worse, those on the regressive left, in their endless capacity for masochism and self-loathing, have attempted to shift blame inwardly on themselves, denying the Jihadists even the satisfaction of claiming responsibility. It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch:]]></description>
<dc:subject>regressive left politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Folding Ideas - #GamerGate - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-03T15:50:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtjZHC5Qyk&amp;feature=youtu.be</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ Folding Ideas - #GamerGate ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewhickeywriter.tumblr.com/post/78241926234/except-that-the-debate-on-welfare-reform-was-a">
    <title>The Tumblr of Andrew Hickey — Except that: The debate on welfare reform was a...</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-12T09:16:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewhickeywriter.tumblr.com/post/78241926234/except-that-the-debate-on-welfare-reform-was-a</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Someone's finally debunked that stupid photo of MPs debating welfare reform. Hurrah.]]></description>
<dc:subject>parliament politics skepticism debunking MP welfare pay</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/29/socialism-for-the-rich">
    <title>It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us in Britain | Books | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-31T20:45:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/29/socialism-for-the-rich</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Who are the real scroungers? Free-marketeers decry 'big government' yet the City and big business benefit hugely from the state – from bailouts to the billions made from privatisation. Socialism does exist in Britain – but only for the rich]]></description>
<dc:subject>business economics politics uk inequality owenjones</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:3e774ee673fc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://uk.isidewith.com/results/506175353">
    <title>I side 89% with Labour</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-08T09:35:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://uk.isidewith.com/results/506175353</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I side with Labour on most political issues. (Based on hurried knee-jerk responses to a quiz)]]></description>
<dc:subject>quiz poll uk politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:fjordaan/b:7e38a328cea7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html">
    <title>Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both | RealClearPolitics</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-27T23:23:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Much of the rhetoric that emerged in the wake of the Eich incident showed a worrisome turn toward intolerance and puritanism among some supporters of gay equality—not in terms of formal legal sanction, to be sure, but in terms of abandonment of the core liberal values of debate and diversity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>free speech tolerance diversity brendan eich gay rights lgmt politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2014/4/11/5581272/doom-loop-oligarchy">
    <title>The Doom Loop of Oligarchy - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-11T15:49:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2014/4/11/5581272/doom-loop-oligarchy</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RT @GreatDismal: The Doom Loop Of Oligarchy ]]></description>
<dc:subject>oligarchy capitalism piketty politics economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/04/criminalising-kink-camerons-porn-crusade/">
    <title>Criminalising kink: Cameron’s porn crusade - Index on Censorship | Index on Censorship</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-11T13:54:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/04/criminalising-kink-camerons-porn-crusade/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The government may be simultaneously attacking the harmless, and harming those who are helpless. The extension of extreme pornography censorship is dangerous because it’s had minimal public discussion, the wording is poorly considered, and it’s unlikely to address the problem used to promote it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics porn censorship</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.somethingawful.com/news/mens-right-war/1/">
    <title>The Final Battle in the War on Men's Rights</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T13:09:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.somethingawful.com/news/mens-right-war/1/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Big Boss Clint Bedrock watched through his manoculars as a wave of beta slaves was herded to the front by the Corps Dominatrices. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics funny satire gender mensrights battle</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/03/28/forget-the-drama-a-solution-for-crimea/">
    <title>Forget the drama: A solution for Crimea | Anatole Kaletsky</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-29T22:55:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/03/28/forget-the-drama-a-solution-for-crimea/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Putin and the markets are probably right because the Russian leader has already achieved all the main objectives he set himself after the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev. His initial objective was to punish Ukrainian nationalists and their Western allies for ousting Yanukovich by inflicting on Ukraine a serious geopolitical loss and military humiliation. This he has done spectacularly.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics russia ukraine crimea</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/10/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-ceo-worker-pay-ratio-has-obscu/">
    <title>Viral Facebook post on CEO-worker pay ratio has obscure past | PolitiFact</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-25T16:33:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/10/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-ceo-worker-pay-ratio-has-obscu/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ But in its claim that the U.S. ratio is 475 to 1, the chart conveys a sense of certitude and statistical precision that simply isn't warranted -- and which is contradicted by the facts. The latest number for the U.S. is 185 to 1 in one study and 325 to 1 in another -- and those numbers were not generated by groups that might have an ideological interest in downplaying the gaps between rich and poor. We rate the claim on the U.S. ratio False.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics usa inequality chart graph false statistics fact</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/matt-damon-stage-blows-mind/">
    <title>You Think You Know Matt Damon, and Then He Gets on Stage and Blows Your Mind! | The Free Thought Project</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-25T10:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thefreethoughtproject.com/matt-damon-stage-blows-mind/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><dc:subject>politics corruption watchlater</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/">
    <title>Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-10T08:46:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they're not worried. "I've got nothing to hide," they declare. "Only if you're doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don't deserve to keep it private."]]></description>
<dc:subject>privacy politics hide secrecy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/22-11">
    <title>What If the Chinese Killed the Dalai Lama with a Drone Strike? | Common Dreams</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-27T09:52:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/22-11</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[His holiness the Dalai Lama. Is might be absurd to consider the hypothetical, but then again, what has become the reality of US policy, like the extrajudicial killing a US teenager, would have also once been decried as absurd.]]></description>
<dc:subject>dalai lama drone strike chinese usa politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html">
    <title>best of craigslist: &quot;Dear Red States...&quot; A Letter From The Blue!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-05T10:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>craigslist funny humor politics usa red states blue humour</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://archive.pressthink.org/2007/08/14/rove_and_press.html">
    <title>PressThink: Karl Rove and the Religion of the Washington Press</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-20T20:34:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archive.pressthink.org/2007/08/14/rove_and_press.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Savviness--that quality of being shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, 'with it,' and unsentimental in all things political--is, in a sense, their professional religion. They make a cult of it. And it was this cult that Karl Rove understood and exploited for political gain." ]]></description>
<dc:subject>jay rosen savvy politics savviness journalism press media</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/22/twitter-online-echo-chanber-leftwing">
    <title>Is Twitter anything more than an online echo chamber? | Technology | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T21:52:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/22/twitter-online-echo-chanber-leftwing</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Columnists Suzanne Moore and Peter Hitchens rarely see eye-to-eye on anything, but they do seem to agree that Twitter tends towards a leftwing mob mentality]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics twitter liberal filter bubble bias guardian</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.marco.org/2012/01/20/the-next-sopa">
    <title>The next SOPA – Marco.org</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-26T14:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.marco.org/2012/01/20/the-next-sopa</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us. Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.]]></description>
<dc:subject>sopa politics marco arment mpaa riaa hate</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works">
    <title>Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-22T10:25:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it’s just pathetic and sad.]]></description>
<dc:subject>congress internet politics sopa ignorance rant joshua kopstein officials stupid</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-cute-cat-theory-talk-at-etech/">
    <title>…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-15T22:42:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-cute-cat-theory-talk-at-etech/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Based on my Tripod experience, I’d offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism. Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media – it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test – if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable.]]></description>
<dc:subject>activism internet politics web2.0 ethan zuckerman etech porn lolcats cats</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.juancole.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-arab-american-buddhist-psychedelic-drug-user-and-capitalist-world-changer.html">
    <title>Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer | Informed Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-12T09:08:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.juancole.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-arab-american-buddhist-psychedelic-drug-user-and-capitalist-world-changer.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Multiculturalism and cultural and religious experimentation, not fundamentalism and racism, are what make America great. Jobs showed that they are not incompatible with that other American icon, business success. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple politics liberal eulogy arab psychedelic capitalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nathanieltapley.com/2011/08/10/an-open-letter-to-david-camerons-parents/">
    <title>An Open Letter to David Cameron’s Parents « Nathaniel Tapley</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-17T12:20:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nathanieltapley.com/2011/08/10/an-open-letter-to-david-camerons-parents/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics uk expenses cameron funny morality letter parents</dc:subject>
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    <title>A Rocket To Nowhere</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-08T14:23:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Discovery rolling out for final mission:  Good time to re-read A Rocket To Nowhere:  (great essay)]]></description>
<dc:subject>nasa politics science shuttle space maciej ceglowski</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/SpiritedAway/2.html">
    <title>&quot;Spirited Away,&quot; p. 2</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-07T00:21:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/SpiritedAway/2.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is a masterpiece in the way that it shows both the goodness of simplicity and the purity of the youthful heart, as well as the way it allegorizes the evils of Japanese post-modern social and human conditions.]]></description>
<dc:subject>miyazaki spiritedaway capitalism politics analysis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://canonical.org/~kragen/egypt-massacre-sotu.html">
    <title>Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest historical event in a decade, and how Barack Obama missed the boat.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-31T12:09:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://canonical.org/~kragen/egypt-massacre-sotu.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For readers who don’t know much about Egypt, like most Americans, here’s my attempt to sum up a country of 80 million people in three minutes. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics egypt rebellion via:zooko</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/18/adam-curtis-the-power-of-nightmares/">
    <title>BBC's The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear | Brain Pickings</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T20:29:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/18/adam-curtis-the-power-of-nightmares/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BBC’s The Century of the Self, an ambitious documentary on the history of consumerism, is one of our most read and shared pieces. Commenter Jeremy recently brought to our attention another excellent documentary by the same British documentarian and writer, Adam Curtis: The Power of Nightmares — a provocative three-part miniseries subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, exploring the origins of radical Islamists and Neo-Conservatives through archival footage and Curtis’ characteristically insightful narration.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bbc nightmares power politics fear video towatch watchlater</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://lhote.blogspot.com/2011/01/blindspot.html">
    <title>L'Hôte: the blindspot (updated)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-20T11:19:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lhote.blogspot.com/2011/01/blindspot.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ The last week has seen an endless discussion, within the political blogosphere, about the meaning of rhetoric, extremism, and what is acceptable discourse. I'm on break now, so I've been more attentive than usual. I find I can barely express what a profound failure, on balance, the conversation has been. Bloggers fail to have this conversation honestly because they are incapable of seeing or unwilling to admit that the political discourse, in our punditry, lacks a left-wing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogosphere left politics socialism Freddie deBoer usa america</dc:subject>
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    <title>Schneier on Security: Close the Washington Monument</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-04T14:43:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/close_the_washi.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Securing the Washington Monument from terrorism has turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job. The concrete fence around the building protects it from attacking vehicles, but there's no visually appealing way to house the airport-level security mechanisms the National Park Service has decided are a must for visitors. It is considering several options, but I think we should close the monument entirely. Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as a monument to our fears.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://transfinite.dreamwidth.org/215469.html">
    <title>transfinite: deviantART, binarism, and transphobia</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-04T15:57:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://transfinite.dreamwidth.org/215469.html</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For those of you who don't know, I identify as neutrois -- neither male nor female. I've been in the closet about it for several years for various reasons... mainly, the fear that saying "I don't have a gender" was a way of exercising cis privilege. Lately, though, I've gotten tired of not talking about it and pretending that I consider myself female. So this is it: I'm not.]]></description>
<dc:subject>neutral neutrois gender sex politics deviantart</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/">
    <title>Daily Mail-o-matic | qwghlm.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-25T16:37:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/</link>
    <dc:creator>fjordaan</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new Daily Mail headline every time you click the button. Now updated to include 2009 bogeymen!
WILL BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS RUIN THE MEMORY OF DIANA?]]></description>
<dc:subject>dailymail funny humour politics headline generator daily mail</dc:subject>
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