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Notes from a crazy optimist: good things are happening here

Granted, I spend too much time reading Twitter. But I learn a lot from Twitter about things that are happening. I also learn a lot about things that are happening from my daily reading of the New York Times (and … Continue reading

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The secret to acquiring herd immunity

Today’s Times re-introduces me to an explosion of online “news networks” which are not news. They’re propaganda. In one of the last chapters of How I Learned The Facts of Life — a summing-up of what kind of fakery would … Continue reading

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Sad news/good news about our free local press

From 538 Significant Digits: 232 years Pittsburgh no longer has a daily print newspaper — it’s now the largest American city with that dubious distinction. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has existed for 232 years, just cut its print edition from … Continue reading

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