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khoji

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Photographer, writer, poet. Web developer, coder and help author for survival purposes only. Fuctionally stateless person of Irish Greek extraction, adoptive country Germany.

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wdlindsy , to random
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Noting that "coverage of the presidential candidates is disparate and dangerous," Dan Rather says,

"A case study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania concluded that 'the choice of the [New York] Times to publish almost three times as many articles about Biden’s age as about Trump pulling the US out of NATO represents a clear example of biased coverage.'"


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https://steady.substack.com/p/if-you-see-crazy-report-crazy

khoji ,
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@wdlindsy
The pattern is so obvious and irrefutable, and also deeply puzzling. The only possible benefit for the NYT is that a Trump presidency means more clicks and readers, but I find it difficult to believe that that really motivates them. The only hope is that sooner or later an insider comes clean about what is behind these farcical editorial decisions.

randahl , to random
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Nigel Farage, Trump, and Putin all represent the idea, that the best person to represent the interests of ordinary people, is a rich, self-absorbed manbaby, who is in it for the grift.

It is a bad idea.

khoji ,
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@randahl
These high-grade morons would be irrelevant if it weren’t for all the regular folks who look at them and think, “That’s my guy.”

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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I love it. An academic paper with a straightforward title.

ChatGPT is bullshit
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

khoji ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot
In high school I got an A- on a test on a book I hadn’t read. An intelligent teacher would have seen through it and given me an F. That’s how bullshit works. LLMs use different methods to generate the bullshit, but it’s the same bullshit, and there are too many people who can’t tell the difference or don’t care.

georgetakei , to random
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Two peas in a pod, those two. https://secondnexus.com/greene-compares-trump-jesus-vegas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

khoji ,
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@georgetakei
OK. Nail him up. If he comes back after three days I’ll reconsider.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Jane Mayer:

Shocked? just hired the woman notorious for texting “I hate Blacks” as his law clerk, according to Scalia Law School.

khoji ,
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@GottaLaff
Is it possible that Clarence Thomas isn’t aware that he’s black? King Charles VI of France was convinced he was made of glass.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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It annoys me how people talk about using social media like it's a vice. And a female-coded one at that.

"Spend less time on social media" is trotted out a virtuous in the same way that "not eating a pint of ice cream" is.

Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation"

Social media is the primary way news is disseminated. It is superseding newspapers and TV as the primary vector of mass media. 1/

khoji ,
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@futurebird

<<Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation">>
I don’t have hard historical data on this, but I suspect that they were. AFAIK pamphlets were quickly used to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation, just like any other free publication channel. People haven’t really changed all that much. 😎

pbump , to random
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If we are analogizing American politics to the the Putin-Navalny relationship, Trump does not play the role of Navalny. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/16/trump-not-americas-navalny/

khoji ,
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@pbump
Trump is America’s id.

khoji , to random
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In a local art project schoolchildren were shown photos of town buildings and were asked to color over them. The results were then projected onto the actual buildings at night.

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