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music What everybody knows Rob Beschizza

youtube Major brands' ads are showing up on climate deniers' Youtube videos Cory Doctorow

music A highly scientific fictional approach to ranking musical artists using math Thom Dunn

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media literacy danah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the rise of far-right conspiratorial thinking Cory Doctorow

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