University of Rochester: Your social media feed is built to agree with you. What if it didn’t?. “…new research from the University of Rochester has found that echo chambers might not be a fact of online life. Published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the study argues that they are partly a design choice—one that could be softened with a surprisingly modest change: introducing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/12/university-of-rochester-your-social-media-feed-is-built-to-agree-with-you-what-if-it-didnt/#Polarization
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The far-right echo chamber is fracturing, with conspiracy videos multiplying and outlandish theories about Jews and other groups flooding the fringe. While these claims are debunked repeatedly, their very existence fuels further hatred and disinformation. Meanwhile, the MAGA movement itself is unraveling, splintering into rival factions—Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Bannon on one side; Jones, Rogan, and Shapiro on the other—highlighting a chaos-driven media landscape. Overloaded with content and driven by shock value, this environment normalizes bigotry and deepens divisions, revealing the dangerous trajectory of a party that has embraced provocation and hate. Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/maga-vs-maga-right-wing-media-meltdown-1236487187/ #Disinformation #Extremism #MAGA #Conspiracy #Hate #Polarization
What makes Trump unusual, is the synthesis of Berlusconi's #shamelessness, Andrew Jackson's #grievance (election fraud obsession), Napoleon III's institutional #vandalism (in the name of "people against system"), Longian #clientelism, Chavista #polarization, George Wallace-style cultural #backlash, P.T. Barnum's #hoax culture, Caligula's murderous #arbitrariness, Nero's #narcissism, and Mussolini's corporate strongman aesthetics. Compound into a single organism sustained by #X and #FoxNews
Trump's Use Of AI Images Pushes New Boundaries, Further Eroding Public Trust (AP News, 27 Jan 2026) https://apnews.com/article/ai-videos-trump-ice-artificial-intelligence-08d91fa44f3146ec1f8ee4d213cdad31
Book Review: What Left and Right Really Mean
Douglas Giles gives us a simple definition that matches up well with the data:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/
blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=223
#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#leftwing #rightwing #polarization
Polarisation, polarization. #Polarisation, #polarization.
A professor has abandoned his privileged job at Yale University, left the United States and moved himself and his family to Canada. His take: If you think “the country is simply polarized”, you're getting it completely wrong. This is not about two sides that disagree. There is the embrace of authoritarianism on one side, and others being told “you gotta calm down”.
This comes from a youtube short and this is most of the transcript:
Jason Stanley is one of the world’s leading experts on fascism. He wrote the book “How fascism works”. And he has left the United States because of Donald Trump.
Stanley was a professor at Yale University. Tenured, prestigious… kind of as protected as it gets in American academia. And even he decided it wasn't safe or honest to stay.
And so he has moved his family to Canada, and is now teaching at the University of Toronto. Why? Because in his words, the Trump administration has carried out a coup […]
Stanley says the Trump regime believes it has enough control over the levers of power that it doesn’t need public support anymore. That is a chilling sentence. And according to Stanley, universities are being targeted first, funding threats and political pressure and demands for compliance. And he believed that if he stayed at Yale, the institution would feel pressure to tone him down […] , that the message would have been very clear: “do not do anything to provoke retaliation from Donald Trump, don't bring heat, normalize what is happening”, and he refused, and so he left. And from outside the Country, he is now saying what many institutions in the United States are too afraid to say, which is that Trump is using classic fascist tactics: a cult of the leader, scapegoating immigrants, LGBTQ people, political opponents, they all get scapegoated, delegitimizing your opposition, criminalizing protests, turning law enforcement and the military inward.
Stanley says that when people frame this as “Oh, the country is simply polarized”, that they're getting it completely wrong. He says this is not about two sides that disagree. There is the embrace of authoritarianism on one side, and others being told: “you gotta calm down”. He makes the point very bluntly: “History will not remember this as polarization”. History, if you look at other examples, remembers who normalized fascism while it was happening. And the part that really should land is that he doesn't believe the fight is over. He thinks Trump may have moved too fast, that the cruelty and the corruption and the illegality are becoming obvious to too many Americans, because he moved too quickly. And he is really making me think, you know, when a global scholar of fascism looks at the US under Trump and says, I must leave the country and doesn't just say: “Oh, I might move to Canada”. He did it. He moved to Canada. That is not something that Americans should be shrugging off.
Seen on https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p3n22ZvFpe0
A professor has abandoned his privileged job at Yale University, left the United States and moved himself and his family to Canada. His take: If you think “the country is simply polarized”, you're getting it completely wrong. This is not about two sides that disagree. There is the embrace of authoritarianism on one side, and others being told “you gotta calm down”.
This comes from a youtube short and this is most of the transcript:
Jason Stanley is one of the world’s leading experts on fascism. He wrote the book “How fascism works”. And he has left the United States because of Donald Trump.
Stanley was a professor at Yale University. Tenured, prestigious… kind of as protected as it gets in American academia. And even he decided it wasn't safe or honest to stay.
And so he has moved his family to Canada, and is now teaching at the University of Toronto. Why? Because in his words, the Trump administration has carried out a coup […]
Stanley says the Trump regime believes it has enough control over the levers of power that it doesn’t need public support anymore. That is a chilling sentence. And according to Stanley, universities are being targeted first, funding threats and political pressure and demands for compliance. And he believed that if he stayed at Yale, the institution would feel pressure to tone him down […] , that the message would have been very clear: “do not do anything to provoke retaliation from Donald Trump, don't bring heat, normalize what is happening”, and he refused, and so he left. And from outside the Country, he is now saying what many institutions in the United States are too afraid to say, which is that Trump is using classic fascist tactics: a cult of the leader, scapegoating immigrants, LGBTQ people, political opponents, they all get scapegoated, delegitimizing your opposition, criminalizing protests, turning law enforcement and the military inward.
Stanley says that when people frame this as “Oh, the country is simply polarized”, that they're getting it completely wrong. He says this is not about two sides that disagree. There is the embrace of authoritarianism on one side, and others being told: “you gotta calm down”. He makes the point very bluntly: “History will not remember this as polarization”. History, if you look at other examples, remembers who normalized fascism while it was happening. And the part that really should land is that he doesn't believe the fight is over. He thinks Trump may have moved too fast, that the cruelty and the corruption and the illegality are becoming obvious to too many Americans, because he moved too quickly. And he is really making me think, you know, when a global scholar of fascism looks at the US under Trump and says, I must leave the country and doesn't just say: “Oh, I might move to Canada”. He did it. He moved to Canada. That is not something that Americans should be shrugging off.
Seen on https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p3n22ZvFpe0
If you haven't heard about #pathways #UK #game , I heavily encourage you to witness the biggest #narrative failure in #education of the year! :D
#visualNovel #nationalism #farRight #polarization #depolarizing #gameDesign #narrativeDesign #writing
“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product”*…
A quarter of a century ago Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia‘s founder, articulated its vision– one into which it has impressively grown: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”
On the ocassion of its birthday this month, Caitlin Dewey takes stock…
Happy birthday to Wikipedia, which is now old enough to rent a car without extra charges … but faces new (and newly urgent) threats from AI and political polarization. As a palate cleanser, should those bum you out (the second, in particular, is very grim/good), may I then suggest this “entirely non-comprehensive list of life principles” learned from 20 years of editing Wikipedia. [Scientific American / Financial Times / The Wikipedian]…
From her wonderful newsletter, Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends. All three are eminently worth reading.
* Clay Shirky, who went on to observe that “Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration,” but at the same time that: “We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.”
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As we treasure– and support— treasures, we might recall that it was on this date in 1885 that LaMarcus Adna Thompson received the first patent for a true “switchback railroad”– or , as we know it, a roller coaster. Thompson had designed the ride in 1881, and opened it on Coney Island in 1884. (The “hot dog” had been invented, also at Coney Island, in 1867, so was available to trouble the stomachs of the very first coaster riders.)
Thompson’s original Switchback Railway at Coney Island (source) #AI #artificialIntelligence #CaitlinDewey #ClayShirky #culture #encyclopedia #history #JimmyWales #LaMarcusAdnaThompson #polarization #politicalPolarization #politics #rollerCoaster #switchbackRailroad #Technology #Wikipedia
Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok is intensifying on-site efforts to address social polarization, emphasizing field-driven policy and expanded support for vulnerable groups, including increased winter aid and employment initiatives.
#YonhapInfomax #ChoiSangMok #MinistryOfEconomyAndFinance #Polarization #LivelihoodSupport #EnergyVoucherProgram #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=41233
South Korea's labor market saw record-high employment among those aged 60 and above in 2025, while youth employment declined sharply and the number of 30-somethings not in the labor force hit an all-time high, highlighting deepening age-based polarization.
#YonhapInfomax
#EmploymentRate #YouthUnemployment #NationalDataOffice #LaborMarket #Polarization
#Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=99760
💢 Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds
#x #media #socialmedia #politicalscience #politics #polarization #partisan #emotions
"After a year in which #Israel, #antisemitism and #political #polarization scrambled long-standing alliances, the #American #Jewish political map is heading into 2026 unusually unsettled.
From #NewYork #CityHall to #swingstate #governors’ mansions to some of the most crowded #Democratic #primaries in memory, the coming #election cycle will test how much Jewish #voters still cohere as a political bloc — and whether the issues that have dominated Jewish life since #Oct7 will continue to shape the ballot box. The rise of outspoken pro-#Palestinian #candidates, fractures inside both parties over Israel, and the growing visibility of #antisemitism on the left and the right have turned races that might once have seemed parochial into national bellwethers."
"Why "neither left nor right" just means right wing | Bonapartism"—Second Thought >
https://youtu.be/9TYK9Mu_dzA?si=y7OSA9q_Nzgq6VkH
#neither_left_nor_right #strategy #political_rhetoric #fascism #extreme_center #polarization #Bonapartism #neo_liberalism #capitalism #populism #video
#violence against reporters!
by Eric Berger, the Guardian
“The US #press have suffered about as many #assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the Freedom of the Press Foundation states in a new report.”
“When the president models ridicule and #delegitimization it signals to [his] supporters that journalists are fair #targets,” said Lars Willnat, a Syracuse University professor who has studied the impact of political #polarization on perceptions of #journalists. “That shift matters because violence becomes easier to justify once journalists are seen as political #combatants rather than neutral observers.”
#Journalistsafety
"Extending work by Harvard economist Stefanie Stantcheva and others, my analysis of polling by More in Common finds that in the US, UK, France and Germany zero-sum beliefs on the left (eg people only get rich by making others poor) and the right (eg immigrants succeed at the expense of the native-born) are related expressions of the same underlying worldview. Namely that there is only so much to go around and we must therefore use restrictions, exactions and preferential treatment to redress the balance between winners and losers.
Such attitudes are divisive, adversarial and tend to have negative consequences for both economy and society. But far from being irrational or concocted by devious political entrepreneurs, the emergence of these beliefs in different countries and political systems points to their being grounded in a shared reality.
When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
This helps to explain the paradox of why concern about inequality has risen during a period when the gaps between top and bottom in the UK have generally been shrinking. Other people’s relative success is less irksome when everyone is moving onwards and upwards.
And the importance of upward mobility to the formation of zero-sum beliefs solves another apparent puzzle: why socialist and New York mayor-elect Mamdani had particular success with high-earning young professionals."
https://www.ft.com/content/30a49ab7-285b-4641-89f8-7375fc560ab9
You know, David Brooks used to drive me up the wall but I think he's facing up to the crisis of the present time in this interview with Scott Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAAQ0W4Czs
#politics #podcast #opinion #men #polarization #politicalscience
😎 Social media research tool can lower political temperature—it could also lead to more user control over algorithms
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-tool-political-temperature.html
#socialmedia #algorithms #politics #polarization #media #research
Wow, this graphic from Bloomberg explains SO much of our #partisan #polarization as far as Congress is concerned. These demographics...yikes.
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