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Must read on populism’s playbook from someone who lived through it.

Orbán’s power grab program runs on two components that you can think of as hardware and software. The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled.

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I am so pleased about this hometown news.

Better happens incrementally. The first steps aren’t dramatic, and in fact, might even be less effective than what came before. But small steps repeated again and again transform our culture when no one is looking.

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Such a Mike Pence reason

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Strategic

Good to remember

This is the right thing to do to do

The most interesting part of statistics for me has often been trying to make sense of what is happening at the edges of the technical solutions, where some yet unformalized judgment has to come in and make it work.

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Conversations about privacy and security often focus on technology and give scant attention to the human, non-technological factors that affect personal privacy and security. This post covers a range of concrete steps we can all take to regain control over what, when, and with whom we share.

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Remember, even with privacy settings in place, your data belongs to the platform owner, not you. This is a critical point to understand in any digital space, regardless of ownership or whether it is centralized or decentralized.

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In response to the past week — crank.report

… we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.

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I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do. I think he figured out that anger and, frankly, fear were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels. That anger and fear were going to work in this election, whether you’re afraid of immigrants or afraid of people who are trans — he figured that out.

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The vote, placed in the hands of those who have been excluded and marginalized, is an opportunity to change an agenda that has been set primarily for men for the majority of American history. This is a prospect that has long been a thrill to some and a threat to others.

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On Teen Vogue.

This magazine for teenagers makes point after point about our culpability as Americans in human suffering and how that might be affected by the two candidates in play.

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I have such mixed feelings — crank.report