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Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant… With Data!
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/07/03/stalking-the-statistically-improbable-restaurant-with-data/
Published: July 3, 2025 17:08
Last summer, I wrote about the statistically improbable restaurant, the restaurant you wouldn’t expect to find in a small American city: the excellent Nepali food in Erie, PA and Akron, OH; a gem of a Gambian restaurant in Springfield, IL. Statistically…
AIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI?
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/aixdemocracy-what-are-the-politics-of-ai/
Published: April 24, 2025 21:42
Some of my favorite UMass students have founded an organization called the Responsible Tech Coalition. It’s a group of graduate students who want to talk about “public interest technology”, the idea that technology can and should be designed with the…
Science on Screen: Don’t Look Up
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/
Published: April 4, 2025 20:20
Science on Screen is a partnership between the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to pair classic, cult and current films with talks by local academics to bring together science literacy and cinema. Amherst Cinema is a…
“Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality
Published: March 27, 2025 22:15
Three days ago, the editor of The Atlantic, a major American news magazine I occasionally write for, revealed that he was inadvertently added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal, in which plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen were…
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy?
Published: March 13, 2025 22:24
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen close out the first day of “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, in a live taping of a podcast (Machines Like Us) for the Globe and Mail. The topic is the evolution and collapse of journalism in democratic societies… and it would…
Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference
Published: March 13, 2025 20:41
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented you.) How does a nation become resilient to foreign election interference? Atte…
Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat
Published: March 13, 2025 16:00
Taylor Owen, one of our hosts at “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, offers a brief and powerful talk on the Information ecosystem leading to the 45th Canadian federal election. He references a commission led by Justice Hogue which investigated foreign…
Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/03/13/freedom-interrupted-electoral-interference/
Published: March 13, 2025 15:56
I’m at Attention: Freedom Interrupted, a conference at McGill University this week, an international conversation about information and democracy that brings together scholars, activists and policymakers from the US, Canada and around the world. It’s a…
He’s not a neoliberal, “He’s a thug” – Stiglitz on Trump, in Montreal
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/03/12/hes-not-a-neoliberal-hes-a-thug-stiglitz-on-trump-in-montreal/
Published: March 13, 2025 01:32
Joe Stiglitz is a bright guy. He won the Nobel for Economics in 2001 for his work on markets where information is asymmetric. He’s the former chief economist of the World Bank, the former chairman of the US council of economic advisers, and the author of…
Liz Pelly at UMass: Spotify, the Mood Machine
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/02/20/liz-pelly-at-umass-spotify-the-mood-machine/
Published: February 20, 2025 20:09
The UMass Responsible Tech Coalition hosted journalist, editor and musician Liz Pelly to talk about her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”. She’s introduced by my friend and colleague Mike Sugarman, who has…