Social media is populist and polarising; #AI may be the opposite
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/3880...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit #ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism
@rutgerbregman.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Unpopularity contest
h/t @stephenkb.bsky.social
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Perhaps we should all be banned from social media Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else

Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
@stephenkb.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/8c37...
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Liberals should mourn the passing world
Janan Ganesh: www.ft.com/content/3dd3...
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Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine that wouldn’t die Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed

"Then came Trump, who often seems like he’s just had a rummage through #History’s dustbin, looking for something he might find rhetorically useful."

Greg Grandin: www.ft.com/content/4e0e...
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‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking

"There have been seven prime ministers since the iPhone was invented and seven in the 42 years before that."

‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
@georgewparker.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/1995...
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The Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube | Yes, Minister: 1984 Christmas Special: youtu.be/sPwQ0PmK9lw?...
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When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/30a4...
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Why populism became popular
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/48aHgae #TOK #KnowledgeAndPolitics #KnowledgeAndTechnology

Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/49LNvCy
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‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian

"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

#Orwell2+2=5 Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
@manohladargis.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
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How polarised is Britain?
@henrymance.ft.com: on.ft.com/4nzQXEx
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The truth about #Immigration
@stephenkb.bsky.social & @jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/3IxIcvo
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Why progressives should care about falling birth rates
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/47iURMX
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The President Who Became a Prophet For many of Donald Trump’s followers, his appeal has an almost mystical dimension. What happens when the spell breaks?

The President Who Became a Prophet
@manvir.bsky.social: nyer.cm/SL7LuvN
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Opinion | What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?

What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
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The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
@mmasnick.bsky.social: www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...
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Simon Schama: Trump’s war on knowledge Attacks on Harvard and other universities are not just self-defeating — they are fundamentally un-American

Simon Schama: Trump’s war on knowledge
on.ft.com/4joXWhr
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The identity politics of many Muslims, and critics of Islam, are deeply corrosive | Kenan Malik Condemning them as ‘sectarian’ is only adding to the clamour that they have no place in the west

The identity politics of many Muslims, and critics of Islam, are deeply corrosive
@kenanmalik.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What happened to the Trump protests?
@adamgrant.bsky.social: on.ft.com/4ca5PET
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#WeekendReading
Ash Sarkar's #MinorityRule: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...
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on.ft.com/3VZZiWy

Inside the #AI back-channel between China and the West:
www.economist.com/1843/2024/11...
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"Every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, the first time this has ever happened"
@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social: on.ft.com/3AkW6ND
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Will Trumpism outlast Trump?
@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social: on.ft.com/3Yx9ciR
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Election anxiety and the problem with polarisation In the US presidential campaign and beyond, politics is taking a heavy psychological toll. Can we raise the tone?

Election anxiety and the problem with polarisation
Julian Baggini: on.ft.com/48xDF4G
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Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times | Kenan Malik Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought

Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times
@kenanmalik.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Opinion | How Democrats snatched ‘freedom’ back from Trump and the Republicans The GOP’s turn toward more restrictive, invasive policy left Harris a big opening — and she took it.

How Democrats snatched ‘freedom’ back from Trump and the Republicans
@katzish.bsky.social: wapo.st/3ACIgFU
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