Media: Can you live on one income?
The proportion of households living on zero, one or two incomes has remained nearly constant for 25 years.
Media: The high prevalence of bias in media reporting
Media stories have gender bias based on the topic. Travel, entertainment, and “domestic”/home stories are highly biased around women, while business and adventure stories are highly biased around men.
Media: How travel writing became self-centered narcissism
Travel writing has become self-centered, narcissistic, female focused – because Editors and content creators are working to satisfy “The Algorithm”. Self-centered stories, about the writer, not the destination, often presented as overcoming a victim-like challenge, are what gets the clicks.
Policy: Tourists to U.S. to be required to provide 5 years of social media posts
We have no idea what they are looking for and can be misconstrued. Only safe option is leaving social media.
Europeans claim U.S. has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
The BBC mischaracterizes Twitter’s old Blue check
The BBC does not understand the old Twitter Bluecheck, which was restricted only to the elite.
Financial idiocy on X
Read the Community Notes correction …
Climate: Climate change news coverage of COP has vanished
I noticed this too
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Social: More idiocy on X
The idiocy on X is off scale.