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Introducing ChatGPT to Children: A Parent’s Guide

Introducing ChatGPT to Children: A Parent’s Guide

AI will empower the next generation of thinking radicals. Now is the time to get them using it.

The Underrated Power of Media Literacy

The Underrated Power of Media Literacy

Boosting our digital immunity is the only lasting cure for internet lies.

Pages over pixels

Pages over pixels

Books just work.

Covid: A retrospective

Covid: A retrospective

A post-mortem on a mass-pain event.

Take back control of what you read

Take back control of what you read

A kinda-sorta review of Readwise Reader.

The Great Election Hacking Freakout

The Great Election Hacking Freakout

Stop panicking and look closer.

The magic you didn’t know you’d lost

The magic you didn’t know you’d lost

Tech innovation has a hidden, human cost. You don’t have to pay it.

A better way to confront racism

A better way to confront racism

Could cultural knowledge transfer be the antidote to discrimination?

The subversive power of laughter

The subversive power of laughter

Abbie Hoffman, activist religiosity and lightness as a political weapon.

Prime them for persuasion

Prime them for persuasion

How to get your audiences to consume your campaign material with curiosity and openness.

Xmas update

Xmas update

News and tidbits as we head into a new year of making change happen.

e07: Hope in the dark

e07: Hope in the dark

I speak to Miguel Duarte, the migrants rights activist who helped save 14,000 people... and faced 20 years in prison for it.

If only they knew

If only they knew

When the truth is there for all to see, why do things stay the same?

How to build a nationwide rebellion

How to build a nationwide rebellion

Lessons from the successful Don’t Pay campaign in the UK, in the words of one of their organisers.

But can they feel it?

But can they feel it?

The lens of common humanity is a powerful persuasion tool.


I’m Mehran Khalili, a political consultant and photographer based in Athens. Get Subvrt — strategy and tactics for movements.