

Barren thinker drowning in deep thought.
…eaguered media landscape have the time or resources to tackle. There are reasonable critiques to be made of virtually all powerful institutions and the individuals that comprise them. But conspiracy theories aren’t reasonable critiques—they’re quasi-religious feel-good fantasies that allow the believer to revel in a narrative in whic…
The vast majority of carbon emissions come not from just 100 companies — a full 71% of them. That’s a stunning figure, isn’t it? But what does it tell us? Well, nearly all of them are oil and gas suppliers — and most of them are corporations. It’s a trui…
Thus, to escape, those early adopters created communities — sometimes on these platforms, but often elsewhere — that the masses had no way of entering unless they could keep up with the intentional complexity of norms and context required to engage with those already initiated. Writer David Auerbach summed these behaviors up well, describing them as: “… the constant hazing of n00bs through argot and complex conventions and elite technical knowledge [that] polices the boundaries of the subculture to inoculate it from massification.”