Christian Christensen

Time travel back to 1984 and try to explain to Labour voters that 40 years later Michael Heseltine would be making cogent arguments on their behalf.

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

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Förutom en liiiiten råvara, nästan helt oviktig i sammanhanget.

This week could not possibly have gone better for the #49ers.

Edward Blom sågar nya råd: ”Vegankost är äcklig” Problemet med den stora vetenskapliga studie som under veckan fastslog att mer grönsaker och mindre kött kan förebygga 15 miljoner för tidiga dödsfall årligen är att ”vegankost är ganska äcklig”, enli...

Att ta in Edward Blom för att utifrån sitt eget anekdotiska tyckande kommentera en stor, viktig vetenskaplig studie om hållbara matsystem är ett exempel på falsk balans som alla medier bara behöver sluta med.

Edwards åsikter är direkt ovidkommande i sammanhanget.

Själva tanken att en 22-årig kvinna kan ha mycket större inverkan på den nationella och globala scenen än någon av dessa män någonsin kommer att ha gör dem galna.

The courtroom scene where Omar dissects the profit motive of the US justice system should should get the Nobel Prize for literature.

Surgical.

Omar Little is American Shakespeare.

OK…I take it back. There is a tie for the single greatest character in television history.

Patsy Stone is the single greatest character in the history of television…and that’s a hill I will die on.

Routledge is a comic genius. Keeping Up Appearances easily blown off as low-grade farce comedy, but she’s on another planet in that show. Timing like an atomic clock.

Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly won’t date Tilly Norwood as she was created before September 1, 2025.

Precisely how does showing a dead body help address or solve the root causes of terrorism? The “War on Terror” has made it worse, not better.

I mean…

How has it helped? What has it added?

What does a picture of a pixelated body add to the story? Is there an adult human on earth who doesn’t know what a dead body looks like? And, the exposure and violent imagery encourages copycats.

There is zero news value in showing dead bodies (including the pixelated attacker) or blood after the Manchester synagogue attack. No matter the motive or the victims, it’s just cheap terror porn and cynical voyeurism that encourages unhinged copycats. Journalistically lazy and irresponsible.

The Turkish food staple that completely changed my life? Garlic yoghurt. It was almost a religious awakening.

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live The primatologist was a

An absolute giant has passed. One of the great humans of all time.

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Terminator: Beaches

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...

I don't understand why you would choose to write about TV if you think that it is self-evidently ridiculous that people might consider the most popular TV shows in the country worthy of academic discussion and serious political analysis:

Studying Pop Culture is Stupid, Right? It’s that time again.

Yup. Wrote about this a decade ago. chrchristensen.medium.com/studying-pop...

Yep thought about that.

Yes, but that doesn’t change that Sinclair and Nexstar are deciding for people.

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Arthur Jensen’s “forces of nature” speech is the real gold.

Good short thread on the film Network and the general misunderstanding of Howard Beale.

Where did I blame her for losing? I’m blaming her for being largely silent post-election except for a promotion surrounding a lucrative book. Sorry, but that sends a pretty bad message.