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Two for Tea Podcast

The Crazy Culture of Twitter

27/07/2023
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Iona Italia

An Interview with Christoph. You can also listen on Spotify here; on iTunes here and on most podcast apps. Shownotes General: Find Christoph on Twitter @Halalcoholism twitter.com/Halalcoholism?ref_s…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor References: Jonathan Haidt on…

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6 min

Psychology
Science & Tech

Techno-Immortality

15/02/2023
2 comments
Amelia Averis

Technology has now made us immortal. Stored in the cloud, on smartphones, on YouTube channels and on social media accounts, there is an easily accessible record of everything we have…

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6 min

Politics

The Curious Leaderlessness of Modern Movements

10/11/2022
8 comments
Arunabh Satpathy

In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, America was raging at the death of George Floyd and violent protests took place in multiple cities. In…

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10 min

Culture & Media
Psychology

The Fame Trap: Gen Z, TikTok and Influencer Culture

22/04/2022
7 comments
Joe Gillespie

Many young people in the west spend most of their lives in the digital world, hooked up to a source of quick-hit dopamine. This phenomenon has been changing brains and…

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5 min

Review

The Great Emotional Surplus

15/11/2021
Dylan O'Sullivan

Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.— Philip W. Anderson, 1972 In his classic “More Is Different,” Anderson describes how systems can become so complex that, suddenly,…

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7 min

Politics

Vigilance Fatigue: Why Holding Government to Account Is Becoming Increasingly Exhausting

18/10/2021
Harry Sargent

Many people who might once have been activists now engage in political life only passively, by watching videos and reading news and commentary. Moreover, so much political commentary is produced…

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4 min

Culture & Media

The Mathematics of Twitter Mobs

07/07/2021
13 comments
Dylan O'Sullivan

Twitter is not real life, but, since it was launched in 2006, the platform’s influence has steadily spread. The platform now boasts 330 million active users worldwide. That sounds like…

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4 min

Politics

Safeguarding Freedom of Speech Will Require an Active Approach

18/05/2021
2 comments
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Without freedom of speech, true liberty is not possible. In a tyranny, those in control of the state wield absolute power: power that is opaque, not subject to checks and…

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3 min

Culture & Media

Why We Should All Quit Social Media

16/02/2021
15 comments
Phillip Dolitsky

In the aftermath of the 6 January 2020 siege of the US Capitol, the two dominant news stories have been Trump’s impending impeachment and the role of big tech in…

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5 min

Philosophy
Politics

Free Speech in the Age of Digital Oligarchy

20/01/2021
14 comments
Promise Frank Ejiofor

An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that owning private property is robbery ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur…

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6 min

Politics

Social Media’s Role in the Riots that Are Shaping America

19/01/2021
6 comments
Reece Jordan

The most iconic image of last week’s events is that of “the Q shaman.” He wears a furry horned hat, his arms are snaked with cryptic cellular tattoos, his face…

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9 min

Psychology

What Happened to the Mental Health Crisis among Younger People?

14/01/2021
2 comments
Niall McCrae

Before Covid-19 struck, mainstream media were constantly raising the alarm about a mental health crisis among younger people. However, during this pandemic, the mantra protect the NHS has been drummed…

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6 min

Politics

Media Bubbles and the Polarization of American Society

26/11/2020
3 comments
Henry Bissonnette

A common worldview is one of the most important things that hold a society together. In 2020, Americans have been pulled apart by incompatible perspectives more than ever before. Opinions…

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8 min

Culture & Media
Science & Tech

The Infrastructure of Deplatforming: Loomer versus Twitter

07/11/2020
One comment
Dylan O'Sullivan

What can be studied is always a relationship or an infinite regress of relationships. Never a ‘thing.’—Gregory Bateson, 1978 In 1984, sociologists Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker published a paper…

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11 min

Psychology
Science & Tech

GTFO: What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Right and Gets Wrong

29/10/2020
3 comments
Samuel Kronen

At the very beginning of the popular new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, a mélange of former big tech employees, gurus and whistleblowers are asked: What is the problem with…

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10 min

Psychology

Are You Who You Pretend To Be? The Social Media Masquerade.

21/10/2020
10 comments
Freya India Ager

Do you know the difference between you and your online persona? Do you believe you are who you pretend to be? You probably know that you’re not quite as filtered…

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5 min

Science & Tech

How AI Can Change Your Mind

05/10/2020
12 comments
Danti Chen

Last month, Microsoft made a move to license GPT-3, a powerful artificial intelligence model built by OpenAI, a company founded by Elon Musk. The move has focused renewed attention on…

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5 min

Politics

On Fighting Monsters

21/08/2020
5 comments
Iria Burner

Why are people so afraid of being cancelled? It’s not a social death sentence. You can see plenty of supposedly cancelled individuals rambling about the hot topic of the day…

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