2021 archive
Vaccine Nation, Reprise 0
David explains why Trump deserves no credit for coranavirus vaccines or vaccinations, despite the right-wing caterwauling that, for some fool reason completely disconnected from reality, he does (Warning: Short commercial at about the ten-minute mark).
Vaccine Nation 0
The AP reports that a high percentage of prison staff are declining to take coranavirus vaccines, even though prisons are among the hottest of hot spots for infection and death. Here’s a bit of the article.
We are a society of stupid.
Florida Man . . . 0
. . . is in a real pickle.
Consider Determine the Source
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Remember, if you are reading it on a computer screen, it might not be what it says it is.
Our Cyberdystopia 0
A “cheer mom” uses “deepfake” images in an attempt to force her daughter’s rivals to leave a cheerleading squad. A snippet:
Spone is accused of manipulating photos from the social media accounts of three girls to make it look like they were drinking and smoking, and even digitally altered them to make the girls appear naked.
“The suspect is alleged to have taken a real picture and edited it through some photoshopping app to make it look like this teenaged girl had no clothes on to appear nude, when in reality that picture was a screengrab from the teenager’s social media in which she had a bathing suit on,” said Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.
We are a society of stupid.
Facebook Frolics 0
Frolicking with falsehoods.
The Price of Denying the Past 0
Tony Norman does the math.
Accountability 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times has a disturbing thought.
