More Bannon info and discussion:Ulysses wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:10 pmJan. 6 committee to seek criminal charges after Bannon defies subpoena
Lock him up!
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More Bannon info and discussion:Ulysses wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:10 pmJan. 6 committee to seek criminal charges after Bannon defies subpoena
Lock him up!
Cons are sooo dishonest and gullible.NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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NASA hasn’t hired theologians to study reaction to alien life
CLAIM: “NASA just hired 24 theologians to assess how the world would react if we discovered alien life.” ...
There's the vaguest kernel of truth here and I don't perceive a left-right aspect to the fakery.
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Using water on COVID-19 tests produces inaccurate results
CLAIM: Pouring water on home COVID-19 tests gives a positive result, evidence that they are unreliable or that they are detecting the disease in tap water....
COVIDiocy is more likely to be a con thing.
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Posts mislead on Anderson Cooper interview
CLAIM: CNN journalist Anderson Cooper wants Social Security payments to be withheld from those who are unvaccinated.
THE FACTS: In an Aug. 4 interview, Cooper asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates his position on whether the federal government should enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates by withholding Social Security or other federal benefits from people who don’t comply. Cooper did not say he personally supports such mandates....
Dishonest con paranoia.
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Image falsely attributes quotes on inflation to Psaki
CLAIM: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “If you don’t buy anything, you won’t experience inflation.” ...
Con lie.
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Chris Wallace’s show on CNN streaming service hasn’t premiered
CLAIM: Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s “first show on CNN received the lowest ratings in cable news history.” ...
Con lie.
Idiots and assholes piling on:Fox News Doctored Clips of Obama’s Visit to the White House to Make It Seem Like Biden Was Lost
Conservative media couldn’t resist deceptively editing video of the former president to make it seem like the current president is unfit for office
... The Republican National Committee shared two clips of the visit that quickly went viral. The first shows an ostensibly confused Biden ambling around the stage as Obama holds court behind him. The second is similar, with Biden standing on the periphery as Obama greets well wishers....
Biden’s effectiveness as a president is up for debate, but conservative media feeling the need to doctor video clips of the president proves there isn’t as much evidence that he can’t do the job as they’d like there to be.
neoplacebo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:51 pmWhat's pathetic is they play stupid for money. And what's funny is that a lot of them don't even have to pretend. And what's dangerous is they make other people stupid.
SciFi nerds are so gullible.NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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Experts: Mars ‘doorway’ just small crevice on barren terrain
CLAIM: NASA’s Mars rover has captured images of a doorway cut into a mountainside of the red planet, suggesting the presence of extraterrestrial life....
RWNJs are so gullible and stupid.WHO health regulations don’t infringe on US decision-making
CLAIM: The Biden administration is proposing amendments to the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations that would transfer U.S. sovereign authority over health care decisions to the WHO director-general....
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Trump misleads on Afghanistan casualties
CLAIM: When former President Donald Trump was in charge, 18 months went by in Afghanistan when “we didn’t lose one American soldier.” ...
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Tech leader investments in biotech startup didn’t cause formula shortage
CLAIM: The current baby formula shortage was created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates because he invested in a company that makes artificial breast milk....
They also make other people silent:neoplacebo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:51 pmWhat's pathetic is they play stupid for money. And what's funny is that a lot of them don't even have to pretend. And what's dangerous is they make other people stupid.
Examples:Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks
Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views.
The escalating campaign - led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government - has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of medical information online.
... "In the name of protecting free speech, the scientific community is not allowed to speak," said Dean Schillinger, a health communication scientist who planned to apply to the NIH program to collaborate with a Tagalog-language newspaper to share accurate health information with Filipinos. "Science is being halted in its tracks."
We're screwed.... The Election Integrity Partnership may also curtail its scope following lawsuits questioning the validity of its work, including the Missouri v. Biden case.
Led by the Stanford Internet Observatory and the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, the coalition of researchers was formed in the middle of the 2020 presidential campaign to alert tech companies in real time about viral election-related conspiracies on their platforms. The posts, for example, falsely claimed Dominion Voting Systems' software switched votes in favor of President Biden, an allegation that also was at the center of a defamation case that Fox News settled for $787 million.
In March 2021, the group released a nearly 300-page report documenting how false election fraud claims rippled across the internet, coalescing into the #StopTheSteal movement that fomented the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol. In its final report, the coalition noted that Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and YouTube labeled, removed or suppressed just over a third of the posts the researchers flagged.
But by 2022, the partnership was engulfed in controversy. Right-wing media outlets, advocacy groups and influencers such as the Foundation for Freedom Online, Just the News and far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec argued that the Election Integrity Partnership was part of a coalition with government and industry working to censor Americans' speech online. (Posobiec didn't respond to a request for comment, but after this story was published online he posted the request on X with the comment: "Every one of these programs will be penniless and powerless by the time I am done.")
... The probe prompted members of the Election Integrity Partnership to reevaluate their participation in the coalition altogether. Stanford Internet Observatory founder Alex Stamos, whose group helps lead the coalition, told Jordan's staff earlier this year that he would have to talk with Stanford's leadership about the university's continued involvement, according to a partial transcript filed in court.
"Since this investigation has cost the university now approaching seven [figure] legal fees, it's been pretty successful I think in discouraging us from making it worthwhile for us to do a study in 2024," Stamos said.
Heroes, but there's a cost:Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, declined to elaborate on specific plans to monitor the upcoming presidential race but said her group aims to put together a "similar coalition . . . to rapidly address harmful false rumors about the 2024 election."
She added, "It's clear to me that researchers and their institutions won't be deterred by conspiracy theorists and those seeking to smear and silence this line of research for entirely political reasons."
Sigh.... Some NSF grant recipients who have not received requests from Jordan's committee say they are facing a barrage of online threats over their work, which has prompted some to buy services that make it harder to find their addresses, such as DeleteMe.
Hacks/Hackers, a nonprofit coalition of journalists and technologists, received an NSF grant to develop tools to help people share accurate information about controversial topics, such as vaccine efficacy. The group has faced political scrutiny from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who tweeted they had received $5 million from President Biden to create "a naughty & nice list to police the content posted by family & friends" with her usual slogan "MakeEmSqueal."
Connie Moon Sehat, a researcher-at-large for the group, said she and other researchers have faced online attacks including threats to reveal personal information and veiled death threats. She says members of her team are at times under high levels of stress and having ongoing conversations about how to elevate accurate information on social media, as some platforms become increasingly toxic.
"We are double- and triple-checking what we write, above what we used to, to try to communicate our good intentions - in the face of efforts that willfully misconstrue our work and desire to serve the public," Sehat said. "And I worry more broadly that we researchers may self-censor our inquiry, or that some will drop out altogether, to stay safe."
... "This whole area of research has become radioactive," the person said.
Anybody say where this is? Anybody see a cite so we could actually read the "new criminal justice reform laws" mentioned? But it sounded pretty authentic, right? Well I'm not going to try to research every city or county to see how they're enforcing shoplifting laws (or not), but what the article said about grand theft/shoplifting not being something a judge can jail someone for is simply not accurate. At least not in Washington, California, or Oregon (which just passed some tougher enforcement laws on theft) Further, shoplifting may be broadly grouped under "grand theft" but there's a difference based on value of items stolen and as far as I can tell none of these cities is ignoring the big crash-ins.One factor that police believe is a driver of organized retail crime more recently is the fact that under new criminal justice reform laws and local district attorney’s policies to reduce mass incarceration, grand theft — the law that covers shoplifting — is a crime that judges can no longer jail a person or even require bail, no matter how many times the same individual is caught.
Partially agree, except for the "nothing else matters" part. A lot of people are pushing the "overrun by crime" story, not all with the same priorities and agendas. The white supremists and other racists probably have no idea what a prison-industrial complex is, nor care. But if they can tie crime to Black people, they're happy. Republicans in general have long pushed the "law and order" theme along with "Dems are soft on crime," even while they're conveniently overlooking the crime within their own ranks as well as white-collar crime in general. Opposition to current city leadership likes to point at crime incidents so as to say "if we were in charge that wouldn't happen." Which is all well and good if they ever came up with a practical solution, but they don't. In Seattle, as in many other places, police forces are down like 40% and recruitment is tough not because the pay is bad but because they're trying to be selective and not get all the rejected bad apples running around out there looking for cop jobs.
Agree with everything, it's hyperbole. My catch phrase will variously be -O Really wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:07 pmPartially agree, except for the "nothing else matters" part. A lot of people are pushing the "overrun by crime" story, not all with the same priorities and agendas. The white supremists and other racists probably have no idea what a prison-industrial complex is, nor care. But if they can tie crime to Black people, they're happy. Republicans in general have long pushed the "law and order" theme along with "Dems are soft on crime," even while they're conveniently overlooking the crime within their own ranks as well as white-collar crime in general. Opposition to current city leadership likes to point at crime incidents so as to say "if we were in charge that wouldn't happen." Which is all well and good if they ever came up with a practical solution, but they don't. In Seattle, as in many other places, police forces are down like 40% and recruitment is tough not because the pay is bad but because they're trying to be selective and not get all the rejected bad apples running around out there looking for cop jobs.
The people who believe as that article implied should be told "OK, we'll let you be in charge if you can answer these questions:
1. Jails are currently full. Do you want to build more jails and fund it with a significant tax increase or bond referendum, or do you want to prioritize the types of crimes that get into jail?
2. If available jail space is full and you've arrested a murderer, a domestic violence perp, a drug dealer, a drug user, an armed robber and a shoplifter, who are you going to jail?
3. If your city has $50million to spend on local improvements, do you think the citizens would vote to spend it on a stadium, a new arena, a new performance arts auditorium, a new park, or a new jail?
Or, they just invent "issues" out of thin air: