No one would give a shit about a white supremacist murder of an insignificant non-america kid.
Rich and famous people are click baits, and dumb people love to read about them and the media will do what ever they can to maximize their views and advertisement revenues.
And of course, it helps hiding their complicity in the ongoing genocide.
I got kicked out of an "off-grid prepper group" for noticing this article is misleading. The guy in the article didn't "build" a cabin - he simply "renovated" an existing #cabin.
https://offgridlivingsurvival.net/how-to-build-a-log-cabin-for-10k/
The admin is a fake. He's never built anything but a following. All talk. it's all "what I'm gonna do when I...." But be sure to subscribe to his glossy online magazine..... ;)
I kept thinking, eventually, he'll post something about what he's done as a #prepper ......but....nothing. His daddy was mean to him, so now he knows bush survival....and that's it. no chickens, no garden, no tools, no land, no solar power, nothing.
America’s media should do more to equip readers to #think for themselves
source: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
Whether or not American democracy endures, a central question historians are sure to ask about this era is why America came to elect Donald Trump, promoting him from a symptom of the country’s institutional, political and social degradation to its agent-in-chief
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It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse a common ground of shared fact
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A #journalism that starts out assuming it knows the answers can be far less valuable to the reader than a journalism that starts out with a humbling #awareness that it knows nothing
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Even columnists with impeccable leftist bona fides recoiled from tackling subjects when their point of view might depart from progressive orthodoxy
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Illiberal journalists are not out to achieve social justice as the knock-on effect of pursuing truth; they want to pursue it head-on. The term “objectivity” to them is code for ignoring the poor and weak and cosying up to power
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#press #freedom #America #USA #politics #election #opinion #future #reality #clickbait #internet #scandal #online #media #criticism #society
In my opinion, it's the journalists who are treated like dirt (💩) by #Musk but just can't let go of the platform.
That's partly because they prefer to make headlines with #clickbait and scandals and still link diligently on Twitter. In this way, they give the platform relevance in the media and make Musk's rants seem like important discourse. On the other hand, it is because the average journalist is apparently too incompetent to discover new platforms for himself.
I'm probably doing an injustice to the little journalist who is just trying to make ends meet somehow. But it's amazing that the big publishers are so inflexible or have made themselves so dependent on Twitter that they can't or won't switch.
#media #journalism #press #future #fail #problem #criticism #internet #scandal #publisher #microblogging #news
They show you an item with ridiculously low price, but when you click on it, you see that it's not the image visible that is for that price, but a crappy piece of the unit and if you want the whole unit, it costs many times that (see second image).
Ebay used to have that, but they were forced to change it because someone sued them, but in case of AE, they don't care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKP6DU6Vjt0
#bias #behaviouralscience #psychology #groupthink #interesting #introspectioncueing
#insuficientinformation #engagelogicalslowthinking #withholdprematureconclusion #tapthebreaks
#biastoeasyanswers #biastonarratives #narratives #inconsiderate #bullying #usvsthem #redvsblue
#cherrypicking #evidencecherrypicking #cherrypickingevidence
#seeingwhatyouwanttosee #usingreasoningtofitprejudice #illusions
#massformationpsychosis #howithappens
"We make many of our most important decisions based on what can only be called cognitive illusions. This is embarrassing for us to realise, but the evidence for it is undeniable."
so to that, i say:
"there is no shame in the truth." -- Minbari Religious Cast Elder to Student, Babylon5.
"head into the wave." -- me / old saying / unattributed
as in find your way to where you no longer defeat yourself with your subborn clinging to your self image as one who makes no such errors.
embrace the errors.
then you are on the path. then you are learning.
our confirmation bias, our cognitive illusions, are due eternal vigilance, to not succumb to their blinding arogance and mental/investigative/scrutinative sloth.
this is true whether stupid, or oh so much more clever.
especially if you are oh so much more clever.
because if you really are oh so much more clever, you will suffer more fuel on that fire.
and also, thinking you're oh so much more clever, is improbably true. not that i'm saying truth's always derivable, or even aproachable, through simple statistical analysis, but... since we're always going on a little information, and the dangerousness of how little that information is, can be worsened by how much littler we make it by our confirmation-biasing, cognitive illusions, our slothful lazy hastey grasp on shortcuts, we dont even realise, we're doing it, we dont even realise how little we have, and we tell ourselves we have a lot, we tell ourselves as much as we have, is a lot of what there is, even to the extreme, that it's all there is. unwittingly, we become know it alls, with next to nothing. and we think we're the smarty-est.
there's no shame in the truth.
we're not that smart.
we're not as smart as we think we are. no shame in the truth, that we think we're smart, and that we think that's smarter than we are.
knowing this,
helps us get smarter.
wiser.
wise enough to continue learning.
wise enough to catch ourselves from short-handed thinking.
wise enough to see when we have, and wise enough eagerly accept that, and even point it out to others. wise enough to accept we'll likely never absolutely be beyond this, and even more likely are not beyond it right now, and so reapplies the humility introspective vigilance, not to identify as one who has risen above it, but to persist in plucking away and batting away all the times it has happened already, and all the times more oncoming.
"all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Me, often, but not often enough without vanity, not often enough really heeding what i (and socrates) mean by it.
#alliknowisiknownothing
#alliknowisiknownothingandsometimesiforgeteventhatmuch
still vulnerable to us-vs-them'ing. like you.
(ps, i forget where i got that link from, but thanks again to whoever shared it. ^ all that from merely first 20 minutes. .... lets see where it goes.)
#autopilotbiases #vulnerabletoattack #targetcues #pavlovsdog #socialmediacompanies #datamining #trolling #attentionseizing #mindcontrol #attentionplundering #sensationalism #cunninghamslaw #clickbait #fictionasfact #tabloids #attentionhacking #customerasproduct #attentionasproduct #theyareusingyou #polarisation #trustbuying #divideandconquer #uniteandconquer #familiariseandconquer #algorythm #algorythmicbias #algorythmicechochamber #echochamber #inducedignorance #comfortingignorance #ignorancesquared #arogance #appealmirror #insidetheappealmirrorball #othering #rippingappartthesocialfabric #nodiscourse #misinformation #mistruth #discourseevasion #discourseaversion #moralistic #outrage #hyperjudgementalism #hypernormalism #bonding #hypermoralism #hypermoralistic #witchhunt #redscare #introspectionevasion #introspectionaversion #disinformation #enflamingexistingbiases #existingbiases #biasmanufacturing #circularreasoning #falseflag #duped #outrage #outrageaddiction #fakenews #propaganda #hate #strengthasweakness #weaknessasstrength #irrational #irrationality #copiedirrelevancies #distraction #pantomime #monkeyseemonkeydo #smarterthanhumans #lackfilterforbadinformation #learningerrors #managedoppositions #economiccoercion #sockjocks #shockingestjockwins #clickbaitencouragement #usandthem #usandthemline #quickerthanwerealise #fearreflex #feartheother #they #cartoongeneralisation #generalisation #bigotry #poverty #unconsciousdistinctions #sympathy #iknow #autopilotprocesses #humanpotential #raisethebedrock #scarcitymindset #povertyprocupation #moneyimpoverishment #povertyiqreduction #povertystress #everybodysayingthesamethingjustdifferently #demagog #demagogs #demagoggery #conditioning #subconscious #mindhackers #sidelearnings #intentionalharms #unintentionalharms #fliesintheointment #FLYINTHEOINTMENT #hypocrisy #politicalcorrectness #freedomofspeech #makingourlivesbetter #freespeech #freethought #freewisdom
#cognitiveoverload #worry
#advertisingormarketing
#arewethebaddies
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#consciousness
#universallove
#enlakech
#empathy
#consider
I'm really annoyed by the #Internet of today:
Once being an open platform geared towards information exchange and bringing people into contact, most of the public Internet today is nothing but annoying useless #marketing, #advertising and #data #collection. Providing information, connecting people, and making life convenient is definitely NOT the primary goal of whoever is big on the Internet today. It's shocking to see how much of it is only to sell you stuff or to sell your information.
And the worst is: we are even paying them to do this shit. #Marketing spending will be reflected in product prices, and with much of marketing being done in 1st world countries, a substantial amount of the price goes into this destructive industry.
I could go on with this for hours. Really sick of it.
Bei #Telegram wird sehr häufig auf die Publikation aus dem Hause #Springer verwiesen im Zusammenhang mit abstrusen Verschwörungsideologien. Also ausgerechnet diejenigen, die die Tagesschau und Wikipedia als Lügenpresse ablehnen wenden sich der Bild-Zeitung zu. Mit nur wenig Recherche stellt man fest, dass die Bild die häufigsten Rügen erhält für ihre oft mangelhafte und falsche Berichterstattung.
#problem #presse #journalismus #clickbait #verarschung #kritik
NRC
Forum voor Democratie Een cordon sanitaire rond Thierry Baudet en de zijnen is nu de enige juiste aanpak, stellen Harm Ede Botje en Mischa Cohen.
Het waren voorspelbare reacties na de zoveelste bedreiging door een politicus van Forum voor Democratie, dit keer van de Haagse verslaggever van SBS. Na veel ‘dit kan niet meer’, ‘schande’ en ‘gevaar voor de democratie’ lijkt het de hoogste tijd dat de media een cordon sanitaire optrekken rond Thierry Baudet en zijn partijgenoten. Pak hun megafoon af. (...)
(Tekst loopt door onder de foto.)
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Thierry Baudet (FVD) voorafgaand aan de stemming over het voorstel om hem tijdelijk te schorsen vanwege het niet melden van zijn nevenfuncties. Foto Bart Maat / ANP.
Politici en collega-journalisten spraken weer eens hun afschuw uit. (...)
En dan? Wat gebeurt er vervolgens? Tot nu toe weinig tot niets. (...)
Chris Aalberts schreef het boek De partij dat ben ik over de partij van Baudet. Wij publiceerden Mijn meningen zijn feiten. De wording van Thierry Baudet. Beide boeken, waarin de denkbeelden en de werkwijze van Baudet uitgebreid uit de doeken werd gedaan, kwamen in het najaar van 2020 uit. Onze conclusie was dat Forum voor Democratie geen normale politieke partij is: Baudet en zijn partijgenoten zijn in wezen antidemocratisch. Het parlement gebruiken ze slechts als podium om de democratie van binnenuit uit te hollen.
Het veroorzaken van ophef dient als middel om dat antidemocratische doel te bereiken, Baudet heeft dat ook letterlijk gezegd. (...)
Op die manier slagen Baudet c.s. erin het publieke debat te kapen en de aandacht af te leiden van belangrijker zaken.
In Luxemburg en Wallonië pakken ze dat anders aan: daar hebben de media besloten extreem-rechts te isoleren. (...)
Pak de publieke megafoon af zodat de FVD’ers worden verbannen naar de echoput van hun eigen sociale mediakanalen.
Geen incidentenjournalistiek dus, ook al levert dat steevast clicks en hoge leescijfers op. Dat wil niet zeggen dat de journalistiek geen onderzoek naar de partij moet doen, of niet moet berichten over hun standpunten in het parlement. Maar dan wel altijd in een bredere context. (...)
De hoofdredacties moeten nu een streep trekken.
Tags: #nederlands #nederland #boeken #media #nieuws #clickbait #krant #radio #tv #praatprogramma #journalist #journalistiek #democratie #fvd #Forum_voor_Democratie #baudet #thierry_baudet #Gideon_van_Meijeren #van_Meijeren #politiek #tweede_kamer #cordon_sanitaire
How much #money is enough to be #happy but not so much that it controls you? It's different for everybody.
Your engine doesn't like it. About those clickbait ads
#clickbait
https://tiremeetsroad.com/2022/01/19/what-happens-if-you-put-ketchup-in-your-gas-tank/
#theregister used lots of #clickbait these past few days to get people to click on some #privacy "debate".
Hey, IDG, 2005 called. It wanted its #CLICKBAIT back https://in.pcmag.com/operating-systems/147700/windows-macos-chrome-os-or-linux-which-operating-system-is-best?p=1
SJVN feeding BTC trolls. Some 'journalism'... #zdnet #clickbait https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-is-not-bitcoins-legendary-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/
Clickbait garbage responding to other #clickbait garbage https://cryptobriefing.com/no-linus-torvalds-is-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
#phoronix took a page that does not mention #DRM and turned it into #clickbait again. "Ah, that DRM!" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1304306-gnome-42-lands-drm-privacy-screen-support
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