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		<title>The New York Times is not a Liberal Newspaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 22:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a broad tendency in aesthetically liberal settings—a slippery term I am using to signal an interest in the humanistic discourse of &#8220;liberal aesthetics&#8221; without engaging in that discourse—to pantomime concern for groups of people without actually engaging in those people&#8217;s humanity. I call them aesthetically liberal because they aren&#8217;t really an example of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mike Johnson, Biden, and the Battle Over LGBTQ Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Team Biden just thew queer people in front of the bus to get a continuing resolution passed. However pragmatic the calculus involved, it still feels really bad.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How We Are Weaponizing Nostalgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent story argues that nostalgia is good for us. It misses some important ways nostalgia is quite bad for us, too.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do Games Make Young People Less Engaged?</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/09/26/do-games-make-young-people-less-engaged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent study suggests an intriguing connection between gaming and political engagement. But does it, really?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting to Bluesky (and Commsky!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the off chance you haven’t heard of it, BlueSky is an effort to re-create Twitter but without Twitter’s technological and cultural baggage. When I joined a few months ago, it had fewer than 50,000 users, but recently crossed a million—not bad for a closed beta! This was probably for two reasons: So, it’s time for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Media Blackout on Anti-Queer Violence</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/06/20/a-media-blackout-on-anti-queer-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The press refuses to cover the conservative campaign of terror against queer people. It is maddening.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Video Games and the Global Battle for Free Expression</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/06/09/video-games-and-the-global-battle-for-free-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last year, I wrote a policy brief for The Brookings Institution about how video games are going to be the new global front for free expression: what is acceptable to say or do, and who gets to set those boundaries. Setting the stage, I referenced the infamous 2019 &#8220;Blitzchung Affair,&#8221; where Activision Blizzard harshly punished [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Corporate Pride</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/06/02/on-corporate-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Corporate pride has always been a scam. But in a consumerist society, corporate symbolism still has power.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Video Games Influence Security Politics</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/05/15/how-video-games-influence-security-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People like to write off gaming as a frivolous hobby, but as a globally-dominant culture industry, it has huge implications for global politics.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Pitfalls of AI in Qualitative Research</title>
		<link>https://joshuafoust.com/2023/03/30/the-pitfalls-of-ai-in-qualitative-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rush to put large language models on everything has come to qualitative research. However promising the tech might seem, it is diametrically opposed to how qualitative research functions as a method.]]></description>
		
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