All posts summary
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Climate: Messaging fail
If forests are not renewable, then nothing is renewable. This makes no sense. Source: Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "Climate strike…Continue reading »
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Advertising: Netflix plans to put EVs in their shows and movies, as advertising for EVs
This is known as public relations propaganda: Working with General Motors, Netflix will put EVs into as many of its…Continue reading »
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Media: All news must be as scary and negative as possible
Two screen snapshots from January 31st illustrate how all news reports must include scary, fear inducing language. The goal is…Continue reading »
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Censorship: How AI/ChatGPT will be used to control speech and thought
ChatGPT is inherently broken. It is now answering questions based specifically on the political ideology of those who programmed the…Continue reading »
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Did Tesla “invent electricity?
Another social media poster, this one about Tesla, makes the rounds and most of it is misleading or wrong.Continue reading »
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Crazy: The U.S. Racial Classification System is Nonsensical
In 1977, the US decided to classify people by race. We decided the world was made up of 4 "races"…Continue reading »
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“The AI” as the new “appeal to authority argument
The AI - e.g. ChatGPT - may become the "appeal to authority" argument source within another year or so. Disagree…Continue reading »
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Media: Fiction news site realizes its approach is not working
The Guardian goes off the deep end. Again. It begins with the idea that maybe instead of focusing on fear,…Continue reading »
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How to recognize when you are being manipulated
How to recognize when you are being manipulated - as illustrated with this week's "scare du jour", where something almost…Continue reading »
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Social and media: Social media bots now the most powerful of “media barons”
Social media bots now control and censor the media to ensure that everything is going to be proper and nice…Continue reading »