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Michelle Chihara
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Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
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“With legacy media eroding + book sales sluggish + disinformation spreading + truth under attack by some of our own leaders, millions of people live in idea deserts. For them, Gladwell is a farm stand” —selling junk food… Not sure about this nutrition metaphor but the piece is delicious.

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I came back to the college classroom, after an extended absence, and a reporter from the student paper came and wrote a feature on me and am I super cringe about it but also 😭 💜? why yes medium.com/the-quaker-c...

Michelle Chihara’s Return to Whittier College
Michelle Chihara’s Return to Whittier College

Professor Michelle Chihara walks into the room, textbooks and coffee balanced against each other as she opens the door to Room 213 in…

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an under-discussed dimension of this scotus majority is its bloodthirstiness. it has not yet seen a prisoner it wasn’t ready to execute in the name of some properly orderly process

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It’s publication day for my book, *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science*! Be like Tilly and get your paws on a copy!! And if you want a little more info about the book and how it came to be, check out my Q&A with UVA Press on their site: www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

Tilly, an 8-month-old puppy, looks up at the camera after being interrupted during her reading of The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science
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I thought this was good. It also has me thinking about the fact that only certain kinds of people in this industry get to be "wunderkinds" or "rising stars." jeremyfassler.medium.com/olivia-nuzzi...

Olivia Nuzzi Has Always Been This Bad.
Olivia Nuzzi Has Always Been This Bad.

Journalists who’ve defended Nuzzi need to look at themselves in the mirror following her involvement with RFK Jr.

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Right. But is there a certain point at which the gestalt shifts and he suddenly appears as ludicrous and weak? Like when hating on Taylor Swift, he suddenly seemed like a little girl, himself, and misogynistically, they don’t like that?

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,929! Fwiw

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #124,929, Michelle Chihara ‪@thisblue.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 14, 2023"
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Does it matter? Or do people lean into their own ability to make sense of the word salad? Real question.

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…it’s that easy!

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The Internet Archive has lost its appeal against the publishers (or at least a substantial part of it) If the courts won't preserve digital libraries, writers and independent publishers can do it, just by making sure libraries can own our ebooks blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/i...

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Michelle Chihara
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
554 followers691 following68 posts