April 2021 – Page 2 – Echo Chamber 2016

NYTimes.com: Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Noam Chomsky

From The New York Times:

Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Noam Chomsky

The April 23 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-noam-chomsky-transcript.html?smid=em-share

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NYTimes: Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life

Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life nyti.ms/3tGb0oS

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An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated

An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22 cases among residents and employees who were already fully vaccinated, a new study reported Wednesday.

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-homes-infections.html

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Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy

Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/adam-smith-and-inequality/

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NYTimes: G.O.P. Anti-Protester Bills Include Immunity for Hitting Them With Cars

G.O.P. Anti-Protester Bills Include Immunity for Hitting Them With Cars nyti.ms/3ecYd6I

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NYTimes: Why Trump Is Still Their Guy

Why Trump Is Still Their Guy nyti.ms/3n62VY8

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NYTimes: What’s the Secret of Biden’s Success?

What’s the Secret of Biden’s Success? nyti.ms/3dtmqXs

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NYTimes: What’s the Secret of Biden’s Success?

What’s the Secret of Biden’s Success? nyti.ms/3dtmqXs

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NYTimes: America’s Amazon Problems

America’s Amazon Problems nyti.ms/3sAUncV

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***** How Facebook Works for Trump
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/how-facebooks-ad-technology-helps-trump-win/606403/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
****** Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
****** Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society. […]
******* The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/facebook-authoritarian-hostile-foreign-power/620168/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
********** The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social China has gotten closer to its holy grail: a system that can eliminate not just the words democracy and Tiananmen from the internet, but the thinking that leads people to become democracy activists or attend public […]
***** The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/campus-left-university-columbia-1968/678176/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** NYTimes.com: Why the Protests Help Trump
Why the Protests Help Trump The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/student-protests-trump.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism Our biggest mistake would be to believe that Trumpism is a historical exception. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/trump-second-term-illiberalism.html?smid=em-share
****** [The Washington Post] How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order
How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/putin-values-russian-society-conservatism/ Sent from my U.S.Cellular© Smartphone Get Outlook for Android
**** NYTimes.com: Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression? The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/smartphones-social-media-mental-health-teens.html?smid=em-share