Gongol.com Archives: October 2017
October 26, 2017
"Until further notice, he occupies the commanding heights of the GOP"
Rich Lowry sees the future of the Republican Party heavily ballasted towards a Trumpite populism.
The party seems, at an organizational level, not to understand that the harder they chase delusional goals, the less prepared they will be to provide an effective opposition. As Damon Linker writes, "Democrats need political power, and they can only get it if they win more votes."
How Twitter intends to flag political advertising
Some transparency in this regard will probably be helpful, but what about the bots and the troll farms?
If you get something for free, maybe you're the product
A report from the Financial Times documents China's "United Front Work Department", which the Communist Party there is using to project its soft power into geographies it doesn't fully control, areas of social life where dissent might pop up, and the politics of foreign countries.
Urbanization is a global phenomenon
More than 60% of all startups in India are located in three metro areas. Urbanization has a wide range of substantial and durable effects, and we need to start thinking hard about a world where a majority of the entire global population lives in cities. We're already at 54% urban worldwide and rising fast.
