Diego Beas

Policy, politics and impact of technology. Past lives: War Studies, King's College London; El País; Oxford Internet Institute.

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Escribo en El País sobre los cambios estructurales en la conversación colectiva: La esfera pública ya no es lo que era. https://t.co/NWgpm2lZY9

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

"The news is dying... it is loosing its cultural relevance after almost two centuries...". There, perfectly phrased, perfectly conceptualized by @h0d3r. https://t.co/CJyzDy1sJP

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Excellent Ezra Klein set of observations about Twitter and why it stopped being a channel for edifying public conversation.

https://t.co/5093vBrNxU

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Technology favours tyranny.

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Flying blind into the anthropocene... by the inimitable @vgr. https://t.co/9RlXw7FEpX

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

My long held view of John McCain:

[Julian Borger @julianborger]

John McCain opened Pandora’s box – Sarah Palin came out, but Trump was right behind her by @SmithInAmerica

https://t.co/PYPYIW7FYc

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

@JuanCladeRamon ¿Qué edición del libro tienes (UK o US)? Yo tengo la americana y siempre he echado en falta un índice onomástico/tabla de películas por director.

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

The only truly important question in American journalism in the next few months or so. @sulliview: will Trump’s intense, years-long campaign to undermine the media — and truth itself — pay off now, in the clutch? https://t.co/rRdwcoJNak

[Faiza Patel @FaizaPatelBCJ]

Must-read from ⁦@Sulliview⁩, this is what we all worry about - that even serious substantiated allegations of crime by Trump don’t matter. https://t.co/PInmAXDgKm

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The mixed economy: Still the greatest engine of human material well-being ever invented.

https://t.co/IKjzrdVrRa

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

The internet, in its 2018 version, shrewdly explained by Benjamin Schwartz.

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

This truly would be the last nail on Twitter’s coffin —what a downward spiral has the company (and platform) gone into in the last few years. https://t.co/vsFkXTkZ8N

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

One of the big Obama legacies...

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

@aureamolto Me lo encargaron el 15 de marzo ;)

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Escribo para Grand Place de la fundación Mario Onaindia un breve ensayo sobre la crisis de las tecnologías de la información y los efectos en la conversación pública.

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

"Trump has a weak man’s banal fascination with strong men...This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man" https://t.co/1tN7sHvGhf

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Con una brillante ilustración, por cierto, de José Ibarrola.

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

The death of the public square in abridged version:

[Diego Beas @diegobeas]

Franklin Foer on the death of the public square. https://t.co/5fjiMkvq4y

[Jan Mieszkowski @janmpdx]

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