This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Alright everyone, thanks for reading and engaging. Back to Twitter retirement for me.

@uarentstraight @BadBrad2point0 I mean with lovely and welcoming folks like you, how could I possibly leave!

🚨NEW POD🚨 If you’re a regular listener here, you’ll know that we’ve been exploring the future of #media and #news on the pod these last number of weeks. We’ve had a couple of fantastic panels. The first was @ealboim and @billjfox, who we’re referring to around here as “The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

As a companion piece to the report, I broke down some fascinating research from @whkchun that helps explain how and why Facebook broke our brains. bugeyedandshameless.com/p/agitated-clu… . .

@lefty_noel Well, sort of. I think the point is that we've gotten so far apart that we're not accepting those different opinions as good faith.

I do not believe that this report precipitated the dissolution of anyone's marriage, but I cannot rule it out.

@Ghoti20 It will be brief! But I'm elsewhere.

I’m so very proud of our collective efforts @ppforumca @Justin_Ling @shwetamenon20 @egreenspon and all who contributed to “Far and Widening: The Rise of Polarization in Canada.” Please read and share in your networks, a healthy #democracy rests on all of us! twitter.com/ppforumca/stat…

@Sherry77680029 @AndrewLawton @ppforumca But we also need to be clear about what "unbiased" means. Unbiased can't mean that we're putting peer-reviewed science up against someone who disagrees, but doesn't have the evidence to back it up. The disagreement is fine, but news outlets need to be consistent on this.

@lefty_noel Did you read the report? Because that's very much not the point.

@Troyliss @univrsle I think those two ideas were quite powerful moderating forces. Parties were microcosms of big chunks of the country, not tiny little special interest groups in their own right.

Politico also has a handy write-up of some of some of the topline trends: politico.com/newsletters/ot…

@colbycosh short-term people zoo

@colbycosh Sometimes you quit your job but show up at the office a few months later to annoy your former colleagues

Oh here's a proper link to my interview with Lawton: tnc.news/2023/08/02/law…

I quit Twitter earlier this year because it has come to embody all of the negative trends I was identifying in this report. (And because they kept arbitrarily suspending journalists.) I'm popping back in for the day to share some highlights and to field some questions.

For a bit of a different conversation, I joined @AndrewLawton on his show to talk through some of the findings: youtube.com/live/PLuT9lGxi…

If you want the TLDR, you can catch me with @anima_tk on Front Burner today: cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…

The report was made possible by the really fantastic PPF staff, the academics who contributed their excellent insight, the advisory group who helped nudge me in the right direction, and the editors who made it sound/look coherent. (Read the acknowledgement section, please!)

Canada has a polarization problem. What are we going to do about it? Since early this year, I've been working on a deep dive for the Public Policy Forum on the state of our fractious politics. The results are out today: ppforum.ca/publications/p…

Today, guest host @Justin_Ling steps in for Jordan. Erin O'Toole's resignation highlighted the growing polarization in Canadian politics, where he called for a less toxic and combative Ottawa. @erinotoole is on the show to discuss how Ottawa can improve link.chtbl.com/TheBigStoryCYO…

@cmcalgary I am! Although it doesn't seem to care much about the goings-on in Russia. bsky.app/profile/justin…

Tired of a bunch of blue checkmarks sharing the most nonsense bullshit on this broken platform? I'm over on Mastodon doing some updates of CoupFest2023: elk.zone/mastodon.onlin…

Woke up 530am Ukraine time to absolute madness on all channels re Wagner/Prigozhin We are reporting, and will have a new edition of The Counteroffensive early tomorrow ET with everything you missed overnight. Sleep easy we’ll take it from here Sign up: Counteroffensive.news

hi it's the pope, just back for a second to let you know i'm on bluesky now: @justinling.bsky.social i do not have invite codes. goodbye.

hi it's the pope, just back for a second to let you know i'm on bluesky now: @justinling.bsky.social i do not have invite codes. goodbye.

yes, please follow me... anywhere but twitter twitter.com/kaclk/status/1…

ha ha ha no but seriously it's time to go

i'm the real pope