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The newest episode of the Eternal Youth podcast is about Frantz Fanon and the disillusion he felt as he liberated France in 1944 and 1945.

Listen here: podfollow.com/eternal-youth

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Somewhere, in an alternative universe, the era of Jeb Bush is coming to an end

A lot of the people who post misinformation have financial incentive to do so.

People who write community notes, which launder the reputation of the platform for advertisers, do it for free.

It's like paying people to litter the streets and hoping that volunteers will tidy some of it up.

Reports suggest…

Something very predictable is happening over on the subreddit for Austrian economics

Yes, X demotes link posts; been that way for a while www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...

Huge pain for news orgs. Source told me NYT's X traffic plunged 50% in 1 month www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

X also delays sites Elon dislikes, as we first reported www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.

If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.

My latest article is about how social media algorithms (but not this one) distort our perceptions of public opinion and how to tame their influence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The newest epsiode of the Eternal Youth podcast is about James Badlwin and how the New Deal, World War Two, riots in Harlem, and the death of his step father influenced his unique outlook, all before his 20th bithday

£7 on eBay but they didn’t even take the sticker off… just to rub it in

The new episode of Eternal Youth follows Hannah Arendt through the Weimar Republic and her early assignations with Martin Heidegger

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@stephenkb.bsky.social I was on the Known Unknowns team last night. Was just curious to ask about how many point we lost by? (Roughly)

The latest episode of Eternal Youth is about Vladmir Nabokov, his flight from the Russian revolution and how it inspired his fiction

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The new episode of Eternal Youth is all about George Orwell’s time as an imperial policeman in Burma and the pre-history of 1984

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Episode 2 of Eternal Youth is here in time for tomorrow’s commute. It’s about Freud and the time he met “an ideal human being”

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Hello Bluesky. My new podcast is called Eternal Youth. The idea is that 'to understand a person you have to look at the world when they were twenty years old’. The first episode is about Friedrich Nietzsche and it’s on Apple and Spotify now