Louis Römer

lromeranth.bsky.social

18 October 2026 14:26

I need you to all understand just how much racism, sexism and other biases shapes how people hear tone, framing, and affective stance in other people’s language: if you ever hear someone’s speech being described with affective language (“angry,” “diatribe,” etc) NEVER take that at face values

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

jayvanbavel.bsky.social

17 October 2026 18:19

Collective deliberation leads to large, reductons in affective polarization Deliberation requires that people use good information to “weigh” competing arguments through civil and diverse discussion The impact was strongest among the most extreme www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Julie S. Lalonde

julieslalonde.bsky.social

14 October 2026 23:42

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Paul Fairie

paulisci.bsky.social

14 October 2026 23:42

I can't figure out the argument for Canadian universities to bother with X - all of the even better reasons aside, their posts are now all averaging 600ish views at this point. I can't imagine that's worth the staff time to any of them.

Ya Girl, Chimerelda E. Error

chimerror.blacksky.app

14 October 2026 23:35

Long, dry, very technical article that nonetheless makes a very cogent point that the reopening of US fascism has a lot to do with the _success_ of capitalism rather than the failure of it. But also of the inability of social democracy to fully attack that.