Orts #971

 JAWN
-- a heady dose for fans of language nitty-gritty --
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphia-s-all-purpose-noun

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“We thought that we search Google, but now we understand that Google searches us.”

“The new centrality of epistemic inequality signals a power shift from the ownership of the means of production, which defined the politics of the 20th century, to the ownership of the production of meaning."

-- You Are Now Remotely Controlled: Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth, New York Times, January 24, 2020

https://nyti.ms/314cdcl
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In 1960, less than 5 percent of Democrats and Republicans said they’d be unhappy if their children married someone from the other party; today, 35 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Democrats would be, according to a recent Public Religion Research Institute/Atlantic poll—far higher than the percentages that object to marriages crossing the boundaries of race and religion.

A study released by the Pew Research Center in July found that only about half of respondents believed their fellow citizens would accept election results no matter who won.
 
— Yoni Appelbaum, How America Ends, The Atlantic, December 2019

https://bit.ly/2tg4Rpq

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/how-america-ends/600757/