Pylimitics

I never heard of the MIT center for constructive communication before today. It’s associated with the Media Lab, and has a “commitment to reach both within and beyond academia to work closely with locally based organizations to launch pilot programs focused on building a culture of listening and dialogue that promotes a sense of shared understanding, empathy, and trust.”

That sounds great, of course, as you’d expect, but what have they done for us lately? It turns out they’ve created the Bridging Dictionary, a web tool that compares how left- and right-wing media (nowadays that’s really centrist and right-wing media) use the same terms differently. I don’t know whether it’s going to help, but it’s pretty interesting. You can try it here.