Too Stupid for Words category archive
Battle of the Tech Bros 0
Psychologist Mike Travers suggests that the pending (potential? possible? preposterous?) cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg “is a snapshot of our culture.”
Afterthought:
If he’s correct, we’re in far worst shape than I feared.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
If you edit it out of Wikipedia, why, natch, it must have never happened.
Flotsam 0
It turns out that there was something in the water.
The Crypto Con 0
Bruce Schneier expresses a tad of skepticism.
Vaccine Nation 0
The stupid. It metastasizes.
Details of the delusional at the link.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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One more time, “social” media isn’t, and won’t be as long as it and its algorithms continue to magnify malice, foment falsehoods, nurture nasty, and propagate puerile.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and be ready for a surprise.
Twits Own Twitter 0
Legal-oriented subreddit Xes out links to Twitter. Here’s the gist; more at the link.
(snip)
r/law, a popular subreddit about the law announced last week that it was completely banning links to Twitter for this reason.
Twits Own Twitter 0
In related news, Paul Krugman asks, “What’s in a name?” A snippet:
And he’s been flailing wildly ever since.
Alien Nation 0
Snopes parses the persiflage about the recent House of Representatives hearing about UAPS (what used to be called UFOs) and concludes that, based on what we know today, there’s no there there.
Suffer the Children 0
Self-proclaimed follower of Jesus Christ makes manifest those words.
Republican Family Entertainment 0
And, in related news . . . .
Image via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
It’s just another Republican culture war misdirection play, but it is truly an exceptionally stupid one
“Goodbye, Dollie” 0
Sam and the crew marvel at how the Barbie movie seems to have triggered wingnuts.
We are a society of stupid.