gurwinder.substack.com
TikTok May Be A Chinese Superweapon
16+ min · · A weapon of mass distraction · Shared by 299, including Bram Kanstein, Thomas Pleil, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jonathan Haidt, Mihai Badita, Joe Rogan
dailyreckoning.com
How Government "Works", Part II
6 min · · Bill Bonner discusses the Divine Right of Kings and the evolution of government as an agent of control over the people. · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
dailyreckoning.com
How Government "Works"
9 min · · Bill Bonner discusses the role of government in society and in the lives of individuals with a brief history of governments in the ancient world. · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
The Boston Globe
Why free speech is fundamental
7 min · · It’s important to remind ourselves why free speech is fundamental, and to have the reasons at our fingertips when that right is called into question. · Shared by 7, including Mihai Badita
Making Sense Podcast
Home of the Making Sense Podcast
· Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores some of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time. · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
chinatalk.media
Kamil on Nukes and Civil War in Russia
15+ min · · Shared by 9, including Mihai Badita, Horace Dediu
Foreign Policy
What the Hell Just Happened to Hu Jintao?
6 min · · Xi Jinping’s predecessor was forcibly led away from the Party Congress. · Shared by 64, including Pippa Malmgren, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, DeLong🖖, Charles Hoskinson, Constantin Gurdgiev, Noah Smith, Mihai Badita
robkhenderson.substack.com
The True Purpose of Propaganda
3 min · · Why do authoritarian regimes broadcast silly, unpersuasive propaganda? · Shared by 14, including Mihai Badita
youtube.com
3 Rules for Rulers
· How to make allies and crush your enemies. Discuss this video: http://reddit.com/r/cgpgrey Brought to you in part by: http://www.audible.com/grey Special Tha... · Shared by 44, including Clemens M. Schuster, Johnny Alvarado, Tristan Harris, Mihai Badita, Joel Klettke
The Spectator
Donald Trump and the limits of free speech
3 min · · Is Donald Trump’s expulsion from Twitter an attack on free speech? A great many Republicans are saying so. You certainly can call it ‘deplatforming’: when you lose your speaking invite, your social… · Shared by 8, including Mihai Badita, David Boaz
Tim Urban
From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story
20+ min · · The full, full, full story on Iraq. · Shared by 287, including Mihai Badita, Dominik Grolimund, Florian Hanke 🍎, Saad Hasnain, Tom Connor
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Religion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with Theology
7 min · · Religions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies. · Shared by 26, including Michael Seemann, jérémie Flück, Ceferino Díaz, Mihai Badita
The Atlantic
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
20+ min · · Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we get it back before it’s too… · Shared by 121, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Matteo Furia, Ethan Zeigler, Kevin Kelly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Scott Monty, Lee Keyes, Mihai Badita, Phillip Murphy, Jochen Burkhard, Ian M Calvert, Brian Stelter, @mainec@fromm.social, Joshua Benton, Philanthropy News Digest
vladeniu.ro
Anatomia fake-news-ului (conspirații, vaccinuri, 5G, Bill Gates etc.) sau cum suntem manipulați...
17+ min · · Anatomia fake-news-ului: conspirații, vaccin cu cip, Bill Gates, dr Buttar, 5G, Suedia etc. sau cum suntem manipulați și ce soluții avem! · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
The Atlantic
The 9/11 Era Is Over
14+ min · · The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago · Shared by 62, including Guy Kawasaki, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Felix M, Mihai Badita