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It's the Stupidity, Stupid! Dr. Brian Klaas on the inability to explain away incompetence: "People who are stupid can destroy #democracy"
#TheContrarian #BrianKlaas #naturaldisasters #doge #musk #innovation #stupidity
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/its-the-stupidity-stupid-dr-brian
I’m going to keep skeeting this piece by #BrianKlaas because it’s so good & so important: “Given that democracy relies on a shared sense of reality … the splintering of that shared reality is arguably the most serious overarching problem facing American #democracy” open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
The Democratization of Informa...
Bluesky SocialBluesky
#BrianKlaas #2024PresidentialElection
"One man—and the dangerous movement he’s unleashed—poses an existential risk to American democracy, and by extension, to the stability and prosperity of our world."
The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity - by Brian Klaas
"The 'Banality of Crazy' has warped American politics, as few voters recognize just how deranged, delusional, and dangerous Donald Trump is...because the press rarely reports on his routine insanity."
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-case-for-amplifying-trumps-insanity
The Garden of Forking Paths · The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity
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Good article.
With precision snark bombs, Klass explodes MAGA statements that add up to such farragoes as "Democrat Marxists want to turn America into a democracy with their coup."
(By the way, turns out "farrago" is Latin meaning "mixed fodder or mash for cattle" — which is amazingly apt, no?)
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/maga-corruptions-of-the-english-language
The Garden of Forking Paths · The MAGA Abuse of the English Language
#BrianKlaas #MAGA
They incorrectly use the words "coup" and "marxist." They insist America is a "republic NOT a democracy." Here’s the answer. A guide of helpful tips.
The MAGA Abuse of the English Language - by Brian Klaas
"Modern Republicans have distorted our political lexicon. Here's how to correct it."
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/maga-corruptions-of-the-english-language
The Garden of Forking Paths · The MAGA Abuse of the English Language
Another completely fascinating piece from Brian Klaas on "How the World Sped Up," and the implications for all of us - stretching from Julius Caesar to a 19th-century scam artist to modern-day, fiber-optic cables on the trading floor, and beyond.
The Garden of Forking Paths · How the World Sped Up
“When the news is ‘balanced’ in an unbalanced world, it becomes an instrument of deception. This has made producing the news extremely difficult in an era of mass delusions & hyper-polarization,… where the distribution of truth & lies are not equally balanced between political parties…
…when members of one party are required to regularly lie on behalf of their leader—& that leader is an authoritarian demagogue…”
~#BrianKlaas (full piece is available to paid subscribers): https://open.substack.com/pub/brianklaas/p/why-we-need-press-objectivity-not?r=1k4nht&utm_medium=ios
The Garden of Forking Paths · Why We Need Press Objectivity, Not Balance
/ Loistava Hello Fellow Mastodonians!
Bluetooth — Ever wonder where that name came from?
The origin story of the name "Bluetooth" and the logo used for that technology is a fascinating tale that connects Viking history, the English civil war, and a curious saga of scattered bones.
From Brian Klaas, Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London, Contributing Writer for The Atlantic, author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, and Creator/Host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast.
It’s a fun and fascinating dive into the origin story of the ubiquitous connectivity protocol named after a long-forgotten Viking king.
You can read the article here:
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-bluetooth-viking-and-the-scattered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
And here's a fun video explanation from Tom Scott, "Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
@brianklaas
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"Late Friday night, the former president of the United States—and a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America's top general deserves to be put to death. That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy."
~ Brian Klaas
#Trump #violence #authoritarianism #MediaFail #normalization #BrianKlaas
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
Leser litt #BrianKlaas igjen: hvorfor makt korrumperer og korrupte får makt.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Corruptible/Brian-Klaas/9781982154103
www.simonandschuster.comCorruptibleAn “absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, b...
Hello Fellow Mastodonians!
Bluetooth — Ever wonder where that name came from?
The origin story of the name "Bluetooth" and the logo used for that technology is a fascinating tale that connects Viking history, the English civil war, and a curious saga of scattered bones.
ICYMI — author Brian Klaas, Associate Prof. in Global Politics at UCL. Author: CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power & How it Changes Us. Contributing writer at The Atlantic. Host of the PowerCorrupts podcast.
It’s a fun and fascinating dive into the origin story of the ubiquitous connectivity protocol named after a long-forgotten Viking king.
You can subscribe to Brian’s substack and read the article here:
https://substack.com/profile/2719594-brian-klaas
And here's a fun video explanation from Tom Scott, "Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
@brianklaas
#Bluetooth
#BrianKlaas
#TomScott
#BrianKlaas:
“Democracy provides a mechanism to forge compromise based on the informed consent of the governed. That becomes impossible…when partisan identity becomes a dystopian ‘choose your own reality’ world of splintered politics & when voters aren’t disagreeing on normative opinions of how the world should be, but rather are divided over basic facts abt how the world is.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/brianklaas/p/the-funhouse-mirror-of-trumpistan?r=1k4nht&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
The Garden of Forking PathsThe Funhouse Mirror of Trumpistan
"Too many journalists still wrongly believe their goal should be “balance.” It shouldn’t. It should be objectivity. If something is untrue, the press needs to say so, in clear language, even if one partisan group wrongly believes the lie to be true."
#journalism #Republicans #BrianKlaas
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-funhouse-mirror-of-trumpistan
Hello Fellow Mastodonians!
Bluetooth — Ever wonder where that name came from?
The origin story of the name "Bluetooth" and the logo used for that technology is a fascinating tale that connects Viking history, the English civil war, and a curious saga of scattered bones.
ICYMI — author Brian Klaas, Associate Prof. in Global Politics at UCL. Author: CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power & How it Changes Us. Contributing writer at The Atlantic. Host of the PowerCorrupts podcast.
It’s a fun and fascinating dive into the origin story of the ubiquitous connectivity protocol named after a long-forgotten Viking king.
You can subscribe to Brian’s substack and read the article here:
https://substack.com/profile/2719594-brian-klaas
And here's a fun video explanation from Tom Scott, "Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
@brianklaas
#Bluetooth
#BrianKlaas
#TomScott
Hello Fellow Mastodonians!
Bluetooth — Ever wonder where that name came from?
The origin story of the name "Bluetooth" and the logo used for that technology is a fascinating tale that connects Viking history, the English civil war, and a curious saga of scattered bones.
ICYMI — author Brian Klaas, Associate Prof. in Global Politics at UCL. Author: CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power & How it Changes Us. Contributing writer at The Atlantic. Host of the PowerCorrupts podcast.
It’s a fun and fascinating dive into the origin story of the ubiquitous connectivity protocol named after a long-forgotten Viking king.
You can subscribe to Brian’s substack and read the article here:
https://substack.com/profile/2719594-brian-klaas
And here's a fun video explanation from Tom Scott, "Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
@brianklaas
#Bluetooth
#BrianKlaas
#TomScott
Hello Fellow Mastodonians!
Bluetooth — Ever wonder where that name came from?
The origin story of the name "Bluetooth" and the logo used for that technology is a fascinating tale that connects Viking history, the English civil war, and a curious saga of scattered bones.
ICYMI — author Brian Klaas, Associate Prof. in Global Politics at UCL. Author: CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power & How it Changes Us. Contributing writer at The Atlantic. Host of the PowerCorrupts podcast.
It’s a fun and fascinating dive into the origin story of the ubiquitous connectivity protocol named after a long-forgotten Viking king.
You can subscribe to Brian’s substack and read the article here:
https://substack.com/profile/2719594-brian-klaas
And here's a fun video explanation from Tom Scott, "Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo
@brianklaas
#Bluetooth
#BrianKlaas
#TomScott
