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(Part 5 in the multipart series “Where We Stand.”) Information is formation that goes into you. This is why bad information is worse for you than no information. Foolish judgment means not only “not knowing the right things.” It also means “knowing the wrong things.” This is why when the BBC Trusted News Initiative silenced the Great Barrington… Read More Following orders
It’s official. After camping at the black gates of Twitter for months, Elon Musk stormed into Isengard, becoming the “Chief Twit” of Twitter last week. He brought a large sink with him, but we’re not sure why. Triggered employees and other progressives were all a-flutter, with one WashPo journalist saying it was like the “gates of hell” had opened. … Read More Day zero
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Joe Allen writing at The Federalist has drawn attention to new US government funding approved by the Biden administration for all sorts of creepy research. Discoveries in the field of medicine happen all the time and can deliver life-saving benefits to many. However Allen says this alliance between… Read More Your brain on transhumanism
Deepfakes are getting pretty slick. Hackers have used machine-generated creations to hack companies and steal money. Hackers managed to fool executives from cryptocurrency company Binance into believing they were in a Zoom call with their chief communications officer. Separating the real from the fake may require more technology, but ArsTechnica reports that a real person is still too complex for a computer… Read More Synthetic reality
It has been observed by a number of pundits recently that the demand for racism seems to be outstripping supply. Due to the mercurial definition of racism, discrimination and bigotry can be found under every rock. Classical music is racist. One gentlemen admired the white supremacy that led to a teenager jumping on a trampoline with abandon. As this… Read More Demand and supply
De-bunking, the joy of fact-checkers and know-it-alls everywhere, is so two weeks ago. NBC News says that the new thing is “pre-bunking”. While the term may trigger thoughts of media bias and censorship – “that post has been removed” – it is actually something quite different. Researchers from Cambridge University wanted to explain “in simple, nonpartisan language some of the most common… Read More Show your work
At Mad Mondays, we’ve gathered quite a lot of evidence to show that the sexual revolutionaries are determined to recruit children. Or lie trying. Libs of TikTok, a social media account, consistently shows the insanity of progressive ideologues by re-posting their own words verbatim. For her trouble, the account’s owner Chaya Raichik has been pilloried by corporate media and banned by… Read More Dragged into the light
If you are serious about online privacy, Gear Patrol think they know how you can start to become a ghost in the machine. They recommend deleting Facebook and prescribe a nomadic use of public wi-fi, which all sounds a bit tricky. Well, at the very least stay away from TikTok! Yes, China is likely a paper tiger, but ByteDance, TikTok’s parent… Read More Now you don’t
If you watched last week’s Stop the White Noise, you would have caught Rev. and Mrs. Fisk discussing the helpful advice gleaned from self-help guru Tony Robbins. Robbins promotes a method of dealing with a crippling emotional life called “scrambling”. The mental exercise involves turning trauma and unhealthy mental habits into cartoons. In a similar vein, we… Read More Keeping it riddikulus
It would seem the New York Times is catching up. A recent report (we found it in the Daily Wire) says that 90% of PCR COVID positive tests are likely wrong. Folks who know better were warning that PCR tests were not fit for COVID testing from the early days of the pandemic. So excuse… Read More Playing catch up
