“Polling data show that Donald Trump’s supporters were deeply misinformed about most of the campaign’s defining issues. Only if this is attributable to bad actors exploiting a broken information ecosystem, rather than an electoral majority that chooses to be misinformed, can there be hope of a healthier politics in America.”

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Misinformation Decided the US Election

J. Bradford DeLong asks why Donald Trump’s supporters overwhelmingly held a distorted view of the country’s situation.

“Amelia… was recently looking at the famous triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch with a friend when they noticed a man on the right-hand panel with musical notes written on his butt. Highly amused, Amelia then transcribed these notes into modern notation and created a little sound clip that has been colloquially called “The Butt Song From Hell” — which is available for listen on her Tumblr.”

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Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

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Whole Earth Index

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, publish...