Vaccine Nation 0
At The Seattle Times, physicians and medical school professsors Christopher A. Sanford and Paul Pottinger debunk de anti-vaxxer bunk.
I find the article commendable not because it breaks new ground. It does not. But it thoroughly demolishes the four primary anti-vaxx lies in one succinct piece.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Rebecca Watson draws a line between intentional dis- and misinformation on the Disinformation Superhighway and what she refers to as sh*tposting (which I can best define as sort of stupid wisecracks intended as “humor”). She uses as a starting point the J. D. Vance couch slur and how it went from a casual and completely fabricated post on the site that used to be known as Twitter to a torrent of tripe (warning: some language).
Or you can read the transcript.
Afterthought:
Methinks the primary take-away here is that “social” media isn’t.
Weird Times 0
Thom responds to a caller who thinks that calling Trump and Vance “weird” is a bad tactic by pointing out that calling Trump weird is an understatement.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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Elon Mush has a new suit.
“I Don’t Care If It’s True, It’s What I Believe” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jessica Koehler explores why persons cling to beliefs even when they are demonstrably false, aka “belief persistence,” and offers some techniques for combating it. A snippet:
Given the debased state of dis coarse discourse, this is a valuable read; I commend it to your attention.
“The Gorilla Code” 0
Sam and the crew take a deep dive into the Republican world of weird.
Words fail me.
Republican Thought Police 0
In Republican World, historical fact is a “divisive concept.”
How Can You Tell Someone Is in a Cult? 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Peter Rowland offers some indicators.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks at the flood of racist, sexist slurs with which Republicans have responded to the presidential run of Vice President Harris and concludes that, well, they just can’t help themselves. Here’s a tiny bit of their editorial:
Asking such epic restraint is clearly asking too much.
