Too Venal for Words category archive
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.
Vaccine Nation 0
It’s an all about me and to hell with the rest of you nation.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Arizona Congressperson Debbie Lesko takes a discriminating view. Here’s a snippet from the article by the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts:
Just don’t put those “very good workers” in line to be vaccinated against a potentially fatal virus that has disproportionately attacked Latinos and other minority populations.
Aside:
Looking at this and the previous post, one is tempted to conclude that cruelty and callousness are Republican Family Values.
The Misinformation Superhighway 0
After drawing a distinction between misinformation and disinformation, Aditi Subramaniam offers some reasons as to why we are susceptible to misinformation (think the clickbait headlines that Snopes is so fond of debunking) and some techniques for dealing with it.
She starts by telling a story of her own trip down the rabbit hole of a clickbait headline (follow the link below to see what she discovered about said headline and its tenuous connection to facts, as well as for some hints to help avoid falling down your own rabbit holes). Here’s a bit of her article.
Freedom of Screech 0
One more time, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
A Tune for the Times 0
Just when you think it can’t get any more venal and stupid, it does.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
A federal judge considers the criteria for clemency from the current federal executive.
Details at the link
