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    Researcher and writer focusing on cognition, AI, politics, technology, misinformation, religion, and media. Host, Theory of Change. As seen in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Daily Beast, Hollywood Reporter, Variety…

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    Founder and Publisher, Liberal Currents

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    Researcher and writer focused on right-wing religious and political movements in the U.S. for People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch project.

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    Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Agency, evolution, and AI. Metamodernist. Open science, society & living. https://www.johannesjaeger.eu https://theperspective.studio https://www.expandingpossibilities.org https://www.the-zone.at

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    Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast & #DirtyRubles author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans.

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