The Starting Block
Tina CarmilliaA weekly collection of annotated media observations focusing on disinformation, data, and democracy beyond the Anglosphere.
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The 323rd Block: Network School is a cult, tech reporting is physical
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Conspiracy theory watch-list: Taylor Farms, or dirty American food syndrome. 🙄 (See: this.)
Your Wikipedia this week: Underwater basket weaving
And now, a selection of t...
The 322nd Block: Newer new media and Telegram
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If you are a Wikipedia editor like me, do you ever see a huge spike in the views on articles you’ve edited, like the first and third one shown above — and know precisely wh...
The 321st Block: Daphne Caruana Galizia and Lyra McKee
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I did it. I wrote 3,000 words for the final assignment of my evidence law studies. It was bearable, but I was not very inspired. I enjoyed learning from my tutor, although...
The 320th Block: Spicy smelly English language
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Some time last week, a reader asked authors, perhaps facetiously, to use easy words in their books because they did not understand the word “scrying.” Attached to the post...
The 319th Block: Extreme and influenced
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I am in the thick of my end-of-module law assignment, which is due in early July. I have not a lot of time for the news, sadly. But on the flip side, having less contact ti...
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