Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

For all of my new followers, and Twitter tells me that for some reason a whole bunch of people (like, a thousand) started following me last week, let me introduce this series and the @cosmo_globalist generally. Stick with me on this thread, okay?

https://twitter.com/is_OwenLewis/status/1415728905214775296

@VivekYKelkar (who lives in Mumbai) and I (in Paris) are the editors of @cosmo_globalist, claireberlinski.substack.com/about?utm_sour…. We've kicked off on Substack, but our big launch to our own website is coming soon. Very soon.

We publish in English, for now, but plan to expand to other languages. We treat *global* events from a genuinely global perspective; our correspondents come from around the world, and we mean for every article we publish to be of relevance and interest to you, wherever you live.

We're not national, nationalist, partisan, or provincial. We want to fill the *massive* gap in global news coverage left by the collapse of the legacy media, a problem we discuss here: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/introducing-…

(The gap is so profound that @Timodc had to resort to this stunt to get Americans to realize a genocide is taking place in Tigray:

https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1415690479992115202

But good for you, Tim, for doing it.)

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We've found that our readers enjoy it when we treat a theme of global interest over the course of a week or more:

Such as, for example, our series on energy, which was a great success. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/welcome-to-e… As you can see, we hosted a wide range of views; our readers debated (and one of them won):

And we settled the question, "All things considered, what's the best way to provide enough energy for everyone on the planet?" It was a great series. Recently, inspired by the pandemic, we've been running a series on catastrophic and existential risks, such as:

1. False alarms: How close have we come to nuclear war? claireberlinski.substack.com/p/false-alarms The answer will surprise and disturb you.

2. Biotechnology and the Fermi Paradox: Whether or not Covid19 came from a lab, it *could* have come from a lab, and the risk of such accidents is rising--fast. We must treat this risk seriously:
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/biotechnolog…

3. Why are we incapable of thinking rationally about big risks? I looked at some of the common cognitive biases that get in the way: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-apocalyp…

4. Think space isn't a risk? Ask the dinosaurs. @is_OwenLewis wrote a great piece for us about the risk from space and how we can mitigate it: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-four-hor…

We interrupted Doom Week to do a four-part special segment on the Internet as a catastrophic risk multiplier, using the anti-vax movement as a case study. Here's Part I: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/epistemic-ch…, where we introduce the argument.

In Parts II and III, we looked at common anti-vax arguments. Here we provide a guide to making sense of competing claims about vaccinations: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/epistemic-ch…

And here we offer a guide to the standard anti-vax narrative and its new mutations: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/epistemic-ch…

Finally, we wrapped it up by arguing that the pandemic has *clearly* been made more dangerous to all of humanity because of social media. We call upon Big Tech to fix their dangerous and faulty product:
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/epistemic-ch…

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