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Well worth a read if you are curious about the difficulty of making a living wage as a podcaster if you are not in the top .5% to .01% of podcasts. (Exvangelical, fwiw, is in the top 1%.) Does Podcasting Lack A Middle Class?Welcome to Dispatch #25 of The
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A great write-up of how to identify fake accounts on social media—and a short history of how alt-right trolls use fake accounts to shift public conversation—from Parker Malloy: On the internet, nobody knows you're a dogBack in 2014, right-wing trolls on 4chan came
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Comics and science and religion, oh my!
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Real Life has become one of my favorite sites to read thoughtful pieces about how technologies affect us. In a recently published article, Sophie Bishop writes about how the norms and expectations that started with “influencers” have expanded to include all manner of work and labor. In a recent piece
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The social ends justify shifting theological means.
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Step 2: Eventually Accept Moderation As Necessary
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So much of what we think is novel is in fact simply forgotten.
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and depending on the words of others when at a loss for words
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There's been two major shootings in the last two weeks. I try to piece together some thoughts, and combine a couple things from recent essays, in the intro to this re-released episode with Robert Jones. I guess it's best to just listen. Essays I adapt
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We live in an unending cascade of tragedy, stretching back decades. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. Charleston. Las Vegas. Buffalo. Uvalde. And thousands more names and places affected by gun violence. Words are cheap and hollow. It is not an election that was stolen but our hope. too many apocalypses
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Programming note: I am a couple days late in sending this (the episode released on Thursday), but I wanted to post this here as is my custom. Have a great weekend! My guest today is Nick Ripatrizone. Nick is a writer for The Millions, culture editor for Image Journal and
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Morning Briefing: The Mainstreaming of White SupremacyMorning Briefing: While mainstream Republicans may not explicitly endorse the so-called “Replacement Theory,” the racists idea that there’s a conspiracy to replace White Americans with non-white immigrants, the tenants of the theory are often arti…Radical Reports