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There's been a story running over the last year or so about the sharp uptake in churchgoing among Gen Z.

This excited religious types, who then projected their own theories on to the data in a rush to explain why.

The theory was based on YouGov research.

Turn out the data was wrong.

Gen Z religious revival claim withdrawn over ‘flawed’ YouGov survey
A report claiming that more young people are attending church services has been pulled after the firm found its data was skewed by ‘fraudulent’ respondents
The Times understands that it
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Is FIFA funny?

Is FIFA funny?
LOL?

The creator of W1A has a new thing coming out.

Hugh Bonneville moves to Miami as Fifa’s director of integrity, chairing a strategic operations group, “or Sog”.

From The Times:

At what point does satire become redundant?

Pull this thread and very quickly you get to Philip Roth country:

“You can’t write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.”

He said this in the Nixon era.

On Satirizing Presidents
An interview with Philip Roth

Roth defined satire as "moral outrage transformed into comic art" and "a verbal

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🧵Super Bowl thread

  1. 11 minutes of game time, three hours of ads.
  1. Half time as culture war
“From the War Department, we salute Turning Point USA and everyone who believes freedom is still worth the fight,” Hegseth said in the video. “Thank you for your courage as an organization, your clarity and leadership, and for this halftime show the war department is proud to support.”
While Turning Point USA drew over 6 million concurrent views on YouTube, the television audience for the Bad Bunny halftime show was expected to be much larger. Last year, Kendrick Lamar’s halftime concert drew 133.5 million
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