8.21: Twitter and Tear Gas—Examined

The things we learned from Zeynep Tüfekçi’s examination of social media and sociopolitical change. (We liked this book a lot.)

• Zeynep Tüfekçi
  • her recently-launched newsletter Insight
• 52-Cent Party
• Cultural Revolution
• Tianenmen Square
• Twitter and the 2020 US election
  • Twitter’s own take
  • Hunter Biden
• Electoral college
• Ben Thompson
• Matt Levine’s newsletter Money Stuff
  • His latest issue before going on parental leave back in August
  • profiled in the New York Times

• December (8.22 and 8.23): Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan.

• “Drop Off”, by Vertaal, feat. Severin Bruhin & Loren Hignell Used by permission, please don’t use without permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.

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