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So I may have to change the name of my podcast with Jim Groom because a) Whenever i try to search for Couch to 4k search “helpfully” corrects it to “Couch to 5k”, and b) No one seems to get the joke anyway But for the moment at least we are live on Spotif…

For a while when I worked in the misinformation studies field I had a saying that was only half-joking about the instant internet experts on vaccines, water policy, and 5g towers: “These people need better hobbies.”

I came across this today: Ok, so yeah, as they say — there’s a lot going on here.

When everything is evidence, discourse can get a bit stupid In case you didn’t hear, smoke was bad in NYC a couple of weeks ago.

There are two primary accounts of the relation between evidence and belief in misinformation research, and neither is adequate.

The “riot bricks” trope is a good example of how scene-level tropes function on “trope-field fit”.

Polling locations are, by necessity, formed out of locations that do other things the rest of the year.

From the book Ballot Battles: In Texas the institution currently empowered to adjudicate a disputed election is its legislature, far from the ideal institution for the dispute.

Art from Daein Ballard, CC-BY-SA Terraforming is a process found in science fiction novels of deliberately modifying the atmosphere and ecology of a planet to make it more habitable for a given life-form.

If you want to study something, a first step might be to go out and collect it.