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    The post-truth era has taken many by surprise. Here, we use massive language analysis to demonstrate that the rise of fact-free argumentation may perhaps be understood as part of a deeper change. After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the…

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    • The rise and fall of rationality in language https://t.co/uvR51H6abp "...our results suggest that over the past decades, there has been a marked shift in public interest from the collective to the individual, and from rationality toward emotion." #PostModernDarkAge https://t.co/ib2NZsmZVM

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    With the pandemic and a global uprising against racial injustice to be explained away, conspiracy communities are bleeding into each other, merging into one gigantic mass of suspicion.

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    • "The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived" https://t.co/AKZ4Vy5FHo by @annamerlan via @vice Yep, #QAnon #G5 #antivaxxers #antimask #plandemic #deepstate #BioWeapon #COVIDHoax #truther merging into a "gigantic mass of suspicion". And fringe migrating to centre. #PostModernDarkAge

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    Gwyneth Paltrow is taking Goop to Europe as she announced the company will partner with Celebrity Cruises to ‘bring a day of wellness to sea’ on August 30.

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    • WTF? "Goop ahoy! Gwyneth Paltrow announces wellness cruise partnership" https://t.co/pERBBTc5P6 v @DailyMailCeleb @HealthWatch123 cc @juliaoftoronto @DrJenGunter Can't keep up with all the @goop-y news! I get seasick easily. But this is really nauseating. #PostModernDarkAge