Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…
View from a ferry
Spaceship on the membrane between two, not so blue, oceans. #bcferriesjuxtapose
The dream of proportional representation dies again; long live pro rep
I campaigned during the first and second referendums we had here in BC regarding proportional representation.…
I’m voting for proportional representation
I’m voting for proportional representation. I hope you do too, friends. #prorep #bcpoli #yyj #victoriabc #pr…
How to stop increasing the reach and impact of hate (and misinformation) on Twitter
Some thoughts on how not to amplify hate accounts on Twitter.
Music, music history, and generational waves of white supremacy
The more generations that pass by, the more obscured women’s lives are, by waves of patriarchal…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…