9 Best Articles in 2022
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 475, including Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social, Jane, Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, David Bauer, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy ⛱, Thomas Power, Ryan Boren, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Jeremy Caplan, Gideonro, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mathew Ingram, Nick Lüthi, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Stephanie Booth, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Claudia Sommer
BBC Future
The greatest security threat of the post-truth age
BBC Future
6 min read · 2021-02-10 · The terms "national security" or "cyber-security" may be familiar – but what about "epistemic security"?
Reader View · Shared by 207, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Leif & Direkt, Mark Little, Kevin Roberts, Luminous Kaleidoscope, David Bauer
a16z
How to Tell the Truth
a16z
6 min read · From 2017 · “Got crack all in my drawers, I’m just honest.” – Future, Honest Are you an honest person? I’ll bet that you answered “yes.” If you did, who else do you know that’s completely honest? I’ll bet that…
Reader View · Shared by 201, including Walid Ark, Dominik Grolimund, Stefan Weber, Rand Fishkin, masone, Florian Hanke 🍎, Thompson Marzagão, Ryan Hoover, Nitin Gupta, Merkstatt, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Azeem Azhar, Philip Stehlik, Bilal Aslam, Martina Grolimund, benahorowitz.eth, Travis Murdock, Steven Sinofsky, cdixon.eth, Alisa Silver
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It's Later Than You Think
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6 min read · Apr 20th · The harsh truth that changed my life (and may change yours)
Aeon+Psyche
To find the truth, we must establish the meaning of falsehood
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · 2021-03-30 · In the early stages of Western philosophy, falsehood – not truth – was a dominant concern. Why does a ‘mistaking mind’ matter?
Reader View · Shared by 261, including Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado, Barry C Smith, Anita Leirfall, Miguel Angel Escotet, Doug Sundheim, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Anita Hill
Aeon+Psyche
Want to know, even if it hurts? You must be a truth masochist
Aeon+Psyche
5 min read · 2021-07-19 · Do you seek knowledge at all costs, even if it harms you? Can’t leave well enough alone? You might be a truth masochist
Reader View · Shared by 158, including Dr Skye Cleary, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Massimo Pigliucci, Marylin Delgado, Jason Silva
The Spectator
The insidious attacks on scientific truth
The Spectator
7 min read · 2020-12-17 · What is truth? You can speak of moral truths and aesthetic truths but I’m not concerned with those here, important as they may be. By truth I shall mean the kind of truth that a commission of inquiry…
Reader View · Shared by 163, including Patricia Churchland, Matthias Lampe, Pascal Sulser, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Chris Bertram, Kevin Mitchell, Tim, Liam Bright, Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins
Current Affairs
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
~15 min read · 2020-08-03 · The political economy of bullshit.
Reader View · Shared by 616, including Jennifer Ouellette, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Chris Isak , Jeff Jarvis, Mathew Ingram, Kelsey D. Atherton, Scott Monty, Avinash Kaushik, Cory Doctorow, Jeff Atwood, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Klaus Eck, John Battelle, Jay Rosen, Randy Olson, Karen McGrane, Caterina Fake, Rand Fishkin, Pete Skomoroch, Scott Berkun
Aeon+Psyche
The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth
Aeon+Psyche
8 min read · 2021-12-13 · Honesty has fallen out of fashion, yet it is essential to self-improvement. How can we cultivate this neglected virtue?
Reader View · Shared by 508, including Marylin Delgado, Anita Leirfall, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Scott Monty, Carly
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It's Later Than You Think
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6 min read · Apr 20th · The harsh truth that changed my life (and may change yours)
Aeon+Psyche
Truth is real and philosophers must return their attention to it
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · Apr 14th · For a century, the idea of truth has been deflated, becoming terrain from which philosophers fled. They must return – urgently
Brain Pickings
Against the Gods: Iris Murdoch on Truth, the Meaning of Goodness, and How Attention Unmasks the Universe
Brain Pickings
7 min read · Mar 31st · “When we really know something we feel we’ve always known it. Yet also it’s terribly distant, farther than any star… beyond the world, not in the clouds or in heaven, but a light that shows t…
Reader View · Shared by 214, including Charles Duhigg
Aeon+Psyche
How Wittgenstein might ‘solve’ both philosophy and quantum physics
Aeon+Psyche
~15 min read · May 12th · Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ – they’re nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 164, including Tactical Tech, Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado, Matthew Turland, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦
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The Rhythm of Food — by Google News Lab and Truth & Beauty
rhythm-of-food.net
1 min read · From 2016 · Google News Lab and Truth & Beauty investigate the Rhythm of Food. What can we learn about food culture by analyzing the yearly cycles in search interest for food, dishes, ingredients, recipes, …?
Reader View · Shared by 99, including Moritz Stefaner, Marie-José Kolly, Data Science Renee, Mark Pitman, Arin Basu, Lukas Stickelberger, René Clausen Nielsen, Chung Chen, Oscar MacDonald, Thomas Power, mary elisabeth, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Jacob Jarnvall, Andrea Desiato, David Bauer, Amber Thomas, Martina Grolimund, Cameron Yick, Dominic Grzbielok, Liliane Ferrari ™
The Atlantic
What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
The Atlantic
5 min read · 2021-11-02 · Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
Reader View · Shared by 380, including Dr Jordan B Peterson, Brian Leiter, Olga Khazan, Timothy Caulfield, reshmasaujani, Arielle Pardes, David Cohn, Paul Bloom, Phillip Murphy, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Matt Lieberman
Forbes
A Truth Reckoning: Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable
Forbes
3 min read · 2021-01-07 · As American democracy rebounds, we need to return to a standard of truth when it comes to how the government communicates with the governed.
Reader View · Shared by 95, including Elrond Burrell (he/him), Jay Rosen, Bob E. Hayes, luis antónio santos, Ex Apologist, Brooks Rainwater, Clemens M. Schuster, Tony Parisi.eth 🇺🇦🌻 #SlavaUkraini, mary mcnamara, Tsion Firew, MD, MPH, Barry Ritholtz, Jennifer Ouellette, Oliver Reichenstein, May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Adrian Roselli 🗯, Steven Pinker, Jeffrey Flier
Guardian Books
The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump
Guardian Books
20+ min read · From 2018 · From post-modernism to filter bubbles, ‘truth decay’ has been spreading for decades. How can we stop alternative facts from bringing down democracy asks Michiko Kakutani
Reader View · Shared by 67, including Mathew Ingram, Guy Kawasaki, Kim Dik, Mark Little, Mark Kaigwa, Christian P. Stobbe
The Verge
The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
The Verge
~13 min read · 2020-08-07 · The new internet cold war is all about lying to ourselves.
Reader View · Shared by 328, including Vikram Dutt, Taylor Lorenz, Thomas Power, Matt Navarra, Kevin Roberts, Benedict Evans, Mark Little, everest, BenYT, Katja Evertz, Kyle Chayka, Beate Jordaan
Big Think
The hardest question ever asked: What is truth?
Big Think
4 min read · 2021-04-27 · Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
Reader View · Shared by 301, including Uyên Đỗ, Lee Keyes, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado, Trae Blain, Ian M Calvert, Jansnet, Ceferino Díaz
Aeon+Psyche
What we’re doing when we’re doing epistemology
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 2021-11-02 · Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing?
Reader View · Shared by 270, including Rick Powell, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Cecily Whiteley, Massimo Pigliucci
The New Statesman
Why liberal democracies do not depend on truth
The New Statesman
4 min read · 2021-02-12 · We hear on every side the claim that democracy is in crisis because a regime of post-truth has emerged, reinforced by social media bubbles or echo-chambers that serve merely to intensify already…
Reader View · Shared by 55, including Clemens M. Schuster, Jason Stanley
Aeon+Psyche
Truth is real and philosophers must return their attention to it
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · Apr 14th · For a century, the idea of truth has been deflated, becoming terrain from which philosophers fled. They must return – urgently
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