The Enemy is Within

"As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out"

"One in five British adults aged between 28 and 44 would now prefer a dictatorship to a democracy, apparently. Hopefully they will have the consistency not to vote."

Stew

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos

The conflicts of interest are mind-numbing.

The backlash will be stunning.

via @rbreich@masto.ai

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/20/trump-return-hopeful-america

Ice Cold in Alex

Airfix Group (fb)

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

#nyt #washingtonpost #cnn

https://youtu.be/tTBWfkE7BXU?si=bzuJQJTP5gl0qEuN

a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted

#chatgpt

https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for?r=555bm6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://youtu.be/57pGarTBJrU

Point d'ironie, 1899

Fake News InfoGraphic

After LA’s Fires, Don’t Weep for the Insurance Companies

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/los-angeles-fires-insurance-climate/

Effects of the Truth Sandwich on Perceptions of Fact-checkers and Verification Intentions

While the truth sandwich was not effective in correcting false beliefs, it had indirect benefits

First, those who saw a truth sandwich perceived the intentions of fact-checkers more positively thinking that their intention was to inform rather than to manipulate or spread lies.

Second, those who saw a truth sandwich showed the least resistance to reading subsequent fact-checks.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2024.2311311#d1e173