The search for truth and community continues.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-instagram-forums-where-teens-go-to-debate-big-issues/566153/

As people have said in the past, land does not vote.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/is-us-leaning-red-or-blue-election-maps/

Huh. The Weekly Standard.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/jack-goldsmith/the-rod-rosenstein-impeachment-is-a-sham

https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-life-1827546385

«Eventually, after $100,000 in attorney’s bills, Glennon was able to unmask the culprit. It turned out to be a complete stranger who had been offended by a comment Glennon had made about a news article on Facebook.

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Apparently a regular reader of She’s A Homewrecker, Baxter had a habit of compounding the damage to people shamed on the site. Glennon found numerous instances of Baxter posting She’s a Homewrecker posts to the Facebook walls of other people’s employers and friends. Such are the strange hobbies of the modern age.

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Rosenblum wanted to take the posts down but she couldn’t. On submission sites like She’s A Homewrecker, there is no delete button, not to mention the copies of the post that appeared on other sites.

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The judge hasn’t decided yet what damages will be awarded to Glennon. Neither Rosenblum nor Lupian appear to have ample assets, so she likely won’t recover much of what she’s spent on the lawsuit»

AI will put us all out of work.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/artificial-intelligence/ibm-s-watson-recommended-unsafe-and-incorrect-cancer-treatments-stat-report-finds.html

«This means that more and more of us have a hard time looking at political information and coming to rational conclusions. Instead, we instinctively jump to the partisan conclusion because it’s how we protect our identities.

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Sorting has been an asymmetrical phenomenon, however. It has taken place on both sides, of course, but according to Mason and co-author Julia Wronski, Republicans tend to be a lot more sorted by demographics

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39 percent of conservatives say negatives news stories about politicians or political groups are always “fake news” — even if they are ACCURATE. This is far more than liberals who say the same.»

Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/25/17611854/trump-alternate-reality-survival

😦

http://thehill.com/homenews/398727-feminist-protest-movement-founder-found-dead-in-apartment?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Interesting. I unfollowed Goldberg on Twitter not long ago because, after seeing him billed as a thoughtful conservative, I finally came to the conclusion that he’s actually pretty sloppy.

Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) Tweeted:
Here is a list of factual errors in Jonah Goldberg’s @JonahNRO book, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy. In no particular order: 1/ https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/1021798024216043521?s=17

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-some-early-high-quality-polls-can-tell-us-about-the-race-for-the-house/

«the Monmouth polls imply a 6-point shift toward Democrats from the partisan lean, on average. That’s right in line with the 6- to 9-point lead Democrats have held in generic-ballot polling over the weeks that Monmouth has conducted these polls. It’s well below the average 16 points by which Democrats have outperformed partisan lean in federal special elections since President Trump’s inauguration, but that’s not too surprising: Special elections, by definition, do not feature incumbents (who have a built-in advantage)

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• 46 percent of Americans say they are extremely interested in the November elections according to a Fox News poll. That’s compared to 29 percent around this time in 2014 and 28 percent in 2010.»

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/24/trump-farmers-bailout-reaction-republicans-congress-737517

FINALLY, the Senate will pass a non-binding resolution. It’s about dang time.

«said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). “I’m very exasperated. This is serious.”»