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Nicholas Barrett

@digressions.bsky.social

Journalist following economics and technology at BBC News. Creator of a history podcast called Eternal Youth.

153 Followers  |  89 Following  |  22 Posts  |  Joined: 31.10.2023  |  1.6035

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"I was wrong"

The newest episode of the Eternal Youth podcast is about Frantz Fanon and the disillusion he felt as he liberated France in 1944 and 1945.

Listen here: podfollow.com/eternal-youth

19.03.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does starting a war count as a macroaggression?

13.03.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tech Decoded: The latest technology news direct to your inbox Tech Decoded is the BBC's international technology newsletter, bringing you the latest.

In today's Tech Decoded newsletter I'll be writing about how Trump's tariffs could backfire on his new acolytes in big tech. You can sign up here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

03.02.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk visits site of Auschwitz death camp The X owner's visit follows criticism of the platform for not doing enough to fight antisemitism.

Almost a year to the day www.bbc.com/news/technol...

20.01.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Somewhere, in an alternative universe, the era of Jeb Bush is coming to an end

20.01.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of the people who post misinformation have financial incentive to do so.

People who write community notes, which launder the reputation of the platform for advertisers, do it for free.

It's like paying people to litter the streets and hoping that volunteers will tidy some of it up.

07.01.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reports suggest…

23.12.2024 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something very predictable is happening over on the subreddit for Austrian economics

26.11.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links β€” Effectively Limiting People From Reading News Musk confirmed that posts containing links are deprioritized, renewing criticism that the platform is restricting access to external sources of information.

Yes, X demotes link posts; been that way for a while www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...

Huge pain for news orgs. Source told me NYT's X traffic plunged 50% in 1 month www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

X also delays sites Elon dislikes, as we first reported www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

25.11.2024 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 616    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 28
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Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.

If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.

19.11.2024 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3561    πŸ” 1534    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 81
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Facebook, X and TikTok: How social media algorithms shape speech - BBC News Algorithms can watch our behaviour and determine what millions of us see when we log on.

My latest article is about how social media algorithms (but not this one) distort our perceptions of public opinion and how to tame their influence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

19.10.2024 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eternal Youth Listen to Nicholas Barrett's Eternal Youth podcast on Apple Podcasts.

Listen here podfollow.com/eternal-youth

30.08.2024 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The newest epsiode of the Eternal Youth podcast is about James Badlwin and how the New Deal, World War Two, riots in Harlem, and the death of his step father influenced his unique outlook, all before his 20th bithday

30.08.2024 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Β£7 on eBay but they didn’t even take the sticker off… just to rub it in

19.06.2024 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The new episode of Eternal Youth follows Hannah Arendt through the Weimar Republic and her early assignations with Martin Heidegger

You can listen here podfollow.com/eternal-yout...

02.05.2024 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop the steal!

03.02.2024 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@stephenkb.bsky.social I was on the Known Unknowns team last night. Was just curious to ask about how many point we lost by? (Roughly)

01.02.2024 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The latest episode of Eternal Youth is about Vladmir Nabokov, his flight from the Russian revolution and how it inspired his fiction

Listen here >> podfollow.com/eternal-youth

31.01.2024 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The new episode of Eternal Youth is all about George Orwell’s time as an imperial policeman in Burma and the pre-history of 1984

iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Spotify: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

01.01.2024 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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15.12.2023 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 2 of Eternal Youth is here in time for tomorrow’s commute. It’s about Freud and the time he met β€œan ideal human being”

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

26.11.2023 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

St. Basil's Cathedral seems to be inside the walls of a second Kremlin?

20.11.2023 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bushsky

13.11.2023 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello Bluesky. My new podcast is called Eternal Youth. The idea is that 'to understand a person you have to look at the world when they were twenty years old’. The first episode is about Friedrich Nietzsche and it’s on Apple and Spotify now

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