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04/09/2024

Truth matters

16/07/2024

The media moves so fast that just as we are trying to process one event - multiple events happen simultaneously.

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26/06/2024

It's rare to find nuanced conversations in our existing mainstream media landscape. Attacking character rather than debating real issues adds to the growing toxicity in our society making it impossible to find real solutions.

18/06/2024

Google's Culture of Fear inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster.
What we found was a culture devoid of leadership and entirely dictated by the company's human resources department.

14/06/2024

The loss of more than 500,000 books has deeply affected readers all over the world. Read the powerful testimonials from our patrons: https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/14/patrons-speak-out-the-impact-of-losing-access-to-more-than-500000-books/

04/07/2023

The Humiliation of the Word powerfully and convincingly demonstrates the wholesale abuse of language and this dangerous addiction to images characteristic of modern society. Public officials are "electable" in the United States today only if they project an attractive television image. Reaction to presidential "debates," for example, depends almost entirely on image, not substance, truth, or coherent rational argument.

04/07/2023

Neil Postman - Americans have come to expect technological innovations to solve the larger problems of mankind. Technology itself has become a national "religion" which people take on faith as the solution to their problems.

A lecture delivered by Neil Postman on Mar. 11, 1997 in the Arts Center. Based on the author's book of the same title. Neil Postman notes the dependence of A...

03/12/2022

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan

01/12/2022

“The only thing that sells better than s*x is fear”

Audience Building and Emotion Stirring - As long as you really study your audience, you can get traffic.
The confirmation bias is what you’re going for. You don’t need a story that’s over the top or clickbait. As long as your site looks legitimate and you have these fictional stories that people want to be true, they’ll spread it all around. You’re just fitting into the mentality that a lot of people already have.

We talk to Jestin Coler, dubbed the retired "Fake News King" by NPR. He tells us how the fake news craze began, and how media and readers can move forward.

21/11/2022

"Marketing is one of the easiest things for anyone to have an opinion on, but one of the most complex to decide when, where, and how to execute." Chase Dimon

19/11/2022

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullsh*t-Busting and Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

18/11/2022

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another’s point of view, but instead we’re more and more enclosed in our own bubbles.
… especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. … Sociologists call this behaviour “communal reinforcement” and stress that the ideas perpetuated can have no relation to reality or empirical evidence.
https://fs.blog/filter-bubbles/

Filter Bubbles exist everywhere. From Google searches to information flow in organizations. Here's everything you need to know about this mental model.

18/11/2022

CLOSING SHOPS —
Meta keeps booting small business owners for being hacked on Facebook
Sophisticated hack hits small business owners ahead of the holidays.

Sophisticated hack hits small business owners ahead of the holidays.

18/11/2022

Engaged Partisans + Social Media Bubbles = 3X Higher Distorted Perceptions.

17/11/2022

The inside story of how Facebook designed the like button—and made social media into a popularity contest
In terms of sheer impact, the like button was one of the most successful pieces of code ever shipped. But when you examine the quality of that impact, its flaws become glaring.

In terms of sheer impact, the like button was one of the most successful pieces of code ever shipped. But when you examine the quality of that impact, its flaws become glaring.

15/11/2022

10/11/2022

“Every day is Mayday in the Global Nursery”
- Marshall McLuhan

Art by Ken Boostrom

29/09/2022

Even now, perhaps a majority of our countrymen still believe that science and technics can solve all human problems. They have no suspicion that our runaway science and technics themselves have come to constitute the main problem the human race has to overcome.

— Lewis Mumford