Category Archives: Martin Gurri

Shorter Martin Gurri

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Luke Ford

Arnold Kling blogs: 1. Starting around 2000, the amount of information on the Internet doubles in a year. If that goes on for ten years, there would have been 420 million times the information in 2010 as in 2000. Even … Continue reading →

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The Revolt Of The Public

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Luke Ford

Martin Gurri tells Matt Taibbi: * Content moderation, in my opinion, isn’t really a movement but part of this delusional thinking. The idea is to make the great digital platforms look like the front page of the New York Times … Continue reading →

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Free Britney

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

I was watching this New York Times documentary about the extraordinary situation of pop singer Britney Spears, 39, who’s been in conservatorship for 13 years. According to Wikipedia: “A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage … Continue reading →

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Renewing Trust in America’s Institutions

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Luke Ford

If you are not interested in restoring trust, rightfully earned, in our key institutions, you are a nihilist. You just want to destroy. I suspect that in the dissident spheres, there is one hundred times more interest in tearing down … Continue reading →

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Surmounting five riddles of the information sphere

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Luke Ford

Martin Gurri writes: “The hypothesis, which seems to me the most fertile,” wrote Walter Lippmann back in 1922, “is that news and truth are not the same thing, and must be clearly distinguished.” Lippmann found truth in the analysis of … Continue reading →

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