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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 01/08/2026

This Finnish review also made me smile.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 05/06/2026

A little bit of Miyajima to brighten your day.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11/03/2026

You don't say, colour me shocked!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 25/01/2026

Wonder if Carney was reading Margaret MacMillan…

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 19/01/2026

Because who doesn’t want to start the day with some Kafka in this absurd world.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 27/12/2025

Sure, you could read Nexus, but this one is shorter. Maybe even cozier.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 14/09/2025

Today’s race start. We did not win.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 12/09/2025

And Jordi Labanda made us these

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 12/09/2025

If you’re looking for something different - I strongly recommend joining the Monocle world. I’ve never seen a publication (outside @lawfaremedia.org) create that level of community before. Thanks to Anthony Perez for the shots.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 04/09/2025

Well, getting The Information Animal into a Waterstones in Trafalgar certainly makes my day. Thanks to @abarrinha.bsky.social for spotting and sharing this! Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for being awesome!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 20/08/2025

Anyone up for an experiment with Amazon? Is the cart truthful about remaining stock? I need eight people in the US to help me find out www.amazon.com/Information-...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 16/08/2025

Grateful and clearly terrified to close out today’s The House on CBC talking about “The Information Animal” - take all the shiny people as bait to sit through to the end: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 07/08/2025

Got my hands on the North American edition of the book today from Oxford University Press - very exciting!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 24/07/2025

But my particular favourite comes from a book he found - "Newspaper reporters of the early 1960s were especially given to the idea that think tank-affiliated researchers lived in states of gratuitous luxury, infantile dependence, or narcissistic self-absorption" www.google.ca/books/editio...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 24/07/2025

It could probably work but screams Black Mirror. Sigh.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 23/07/2025

By the way @antti1.bsky.social - I also suggested this pairing offline. But @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org then said we had to have new books, so not sure if it will fly. Maybe with enough support from you and @alanderminna.bsky.social - ad a return of @jussitoivanen.bsky.social it’ll fly!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 17/07/2025

A brief appearance with wet hair and failing internet. Befitting that I wore this shirt

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 13/07/2025

Really need a tall friend to visit to finish off the propaganda wall. If I were doing it over, I’d make diagonals of sameness. Maybe for the next house,

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 01/07/2025

It’s Canada Day, and I’d like it to stay that way. While sovereignty is top of mind, maintaining that independence rests in an independent info ecosystem free from external controls or manipulation. That starts with understanding what the Canadian info ecosystem consists of from top to bottom.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 23/06/2025

I’m on holiday and my choices are questionable. It’s not right to scare your husband “for the art” is it?

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 02/06/2025

Then it's off to Berlin, where my colleague Maxim Samorukov will host a fireside chat on June 10 at 10:00 at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center - DM me to register for that one.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 28/05/2025

Some people weren’t born to be influencers. As proof, a special one time only video of me unboxing. If you promise to buy the book, I’ll never subject you to this pain again. But seriously, @hurstpublishers.bsky.social sent my first official copies of The Information Animal!!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 18/05/2025

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22/04/2025

The Information Animal is more about articulating a vision for how we might understand information ecosystems to get ahead of problems, rather than an exploration of specific issues we currently face within them. Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @carnegieendowment.org for making it real!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 12/04/2025

My wonderful publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social made a bound galley for a pre-launch event at my alma mater King’s College London with Ofer Fridman. The Information Animal is out in Europe on May 22 and on September 1 in North America.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 03/04/2025

No jokes, they can peck through leather!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 02/04/2025

I should add now - it’s because of this guy - my husband just guessed it in one go too

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 15/03/2025

Revolutions happen when the expectations of elites are perceived to no longer be met and they turn on the rulers blaming them for the shortcoming. This paragraph from Jack A. Goldstone’s “Revolutions” feels a little too close to home today.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 10/03/2025

The targeted ads I’m getting visiting Helsinki - don’t do it, Finland, you’ll just be opening up underserved areas to a new vulnerability:

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 07/03/2025

And in another much loved local business, Pickle & Myrrh produces the caramels we work hard to make famous the world over - this is our go to gift when we travel abroad. Shop 🇨🇦 www.pickleandmyrrh.com

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 07/03/2025

This video does not do the Wick Witch Apothecary justice - but I promise you, if you try their products, you will be hooked. Just one of my favourite local Canadian businesses: wickwitch.com

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 15/02/2025

There’s a trade war, Difford’s. While the gesture is grand for the anniversary of our flag, maybe adapt that recipe a little, please?

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 12/02/2025

Going through the final edits is exciting, terrifying and mortifying all at once. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-inf...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11/02/2025

I feel like putting Canada First at this moment should be more than one party's campaign rally, but maybe I just hate getting unsolicited text messages.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 30/01/2025

And that there is one really cool lake

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 27/01/2025

This piece by Daniel Immerwahr contains so much: What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 26/01/2025

Not overly enjoying the parallels in Passmore.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 26/01/2025

Little bits from Kevin Passmore’s “Fascism: A Very Short Introduction” standing out

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 25/01/2025

The opening of Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by Kevin Passmore

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22/12/2024

So when Worldle kicked up the islands during trip, well, I really had to start questioning my reality.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22/12/2024

In Ushuaia there is a statue reenacting the raising of the flag on the islands, and a section at the local museum dedicated to them.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22/12/2024

There are at least two museums dedicated to it in Buenos Aires, and many, many statues.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22/12/2024

On trips I always look for old propaganda. Usually it’s posters. Argentina was stumping me until my husband pointed out that the propaganda was all around us - and it was. The idea that the Malvinas are Argentine is so pervasive - it’s in murals, statues, museums, souvenirs, and advertising.

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