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It's what the NYT does when defending it's horrid approach to trans topics: Nuance! It's complicated! It's not. If you begin—as you should—with the premise that being trans is as normal and mundane as being cis, its reporting would change radically. 'Nuance' is legitimate only after that premise.
The Atlantic—by far one of the biggest offenders when it comes to the selective weaponization of 'nuance'—attacks Coates: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv... It's a strategy that is so predictable, so historically persistent, that it's hopelessly dull
In his new book, "The Message," Ta-Nehisi Coates sacrifices necessary complexity.
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A core paradox in journalism seems to be explicitly expressed in Ta-Nehisi Coates's upcoming book: “The elevation of factual complexity over self-evident morality.” Minutiae, particularly when it's scrupulously factual, can obscure broader facts: nymag.com/intelligence...
A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.
E o que exatamente é conteúdo? É uma commodity cognitiva, em grande parte indiferenciada, que economicamente vale mais pela quantidade do que pela qualidade. Na lógica do conteúdo, um meme com milhões de cliques vale mais do que a obra inteira de Shakespeare, pois monetiza melhor.
I wrote a bash script to scrape the per-county power outage data, used CSVKit to convert the JSON to a CSV, took the CSV into Google Sheets and XLOOKUP'ed the FIPS codes into it, and got this map: www.nbcnews.com/news/weather...#Helene
Does anyone else know of other music videos based on information graphics/dataviz?
YouTube video by Nightowl Studio
Excited to launch a new project today! 🌊 Waves of Interest 🔍 We investigate how the search interest in political topics shifts across US election cycles, using Google Trends Data. waves-of-interest.truth-and-beauty.net
Tracing Google Search Interest in US Election Years
There are few things that I like more than a beautifully designed map. This one from GMT Games' 'At Any Cost: Metz 1870', is amazing
