On this terrible anniversary, some thoughts on the debate over the role of the media in mass shootings. #SandyHook /1
To start, I'll just reiterate that the evidence for a social contagion effect in mass shootings, fed by media attention, is extensive. Here's my closest look at that. 2/ wsj.com/articles/what-…
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If you're hitting the paywall, the lede graf sounds a bit innocuous; the kicker is here:
"Google is now faced squarely with the irresolvable conflict between its core missions: The information people objectively want may, by Google’s reckoning, be evil." @adamjwhitedc in @tnajournal again: thenewatlantis.com/publications/g…
The wretched pending obliteration of the Outer Banks oddly brings to mind that the government in 1948 considered it as a nuclear test site before settling on Nevada. (And the Times in 1991 implied this was a mistake!) nytimes.com/1991/05/17/us/…
It's amazing how persistent a theme it is in the history of science and technology for proponents of nutty views to describe their proponents as "hysterical" and suggest sensible psychological measures to ameliorate it.
They were also considering nuclear testing on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, or Virginia! Like 50 miles from D.C.!
I wonder how long before someone runs textual fingerprint software on that anonymous Times op-ed to identify the admin staffer who wrote it. slate.com/blogs/browbeat…
Before you get all hopped up on Pence lodestar Zodiac gate, here's Henry Kissinger saying "Honor was John's lodestar" in his eulogy last week, which presumably a great many people heard.