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Learn smart lessons from the L.A. fires, not stupid lessons

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Ignore the political propaganda. We live in a world with more fires now, and we need to prepare for it.

Public social media — X, Reddit, Bluesky, and so on — has changed how we think about disasters. On one hand, because it floods us with information, it gives us the ability to draw reasonable, well-informed conclusions about terrible events much more quickly and arguably more easily than we could in earlier times. On the other hand, the inevitable flood of misinformation and opportunistic politicking that inevitably accompanies any disaster raises our chances of being rapidly misinformed, and makes any calamity more socially divisive than it would have been before. Compare the reactions to…

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