#distraction

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Preludes” (2010)

#quote #quotes #quotation #career #distraction #priority #profession #work #worklifebalance
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psych@diasp.org

More from the shape-shifting creature of the couch cats...

Cartoon by Clay Jones 🎯

#QuidProQuo in the Story-telling license to lie, for the sake of ... sake of... ?

Negating #truth & upping confusion & hate, so it would seem.
#GQP #TrumpVirus #VanceVirus versus #reality #truth #rationality #cats #couches #cult #disinformation #distraction

psych@diasp.org
psych@diasp.org

So ... After the highly successful broadcast by the dynamic duo of like-minded #TrumpVirus variants...

Trump’s 'Venezuela' invitation to Musk raises 'fight risk' fears among legal experts

1) Both Lord Stable Genius and Emperor #Muskvirus have been hit with labor complaints for their praise of firing workers.
2) In his praise of smart tough leaders like Putin, Kim, Elon et al... Sir floated the idea of leaving, if things went south, to go South.

Musk: "yeah, yeah". (See you in Venezuela?)

#truth vs. #Musk #Muskvirus #distraction #WordSalad and lack of #accountability - Such a terrific couple, no? "Perfect". "Yeah"

wist@diasp.org
faab64@diasp.org

The unbelievable stench of Israeli protection and propaganda on Swedish media!

Many years ago, I went to a one day class about the propaganda and how to cover negative stories in a way that changes/modifies the focus from the perpetrator to the victims or at least "bagalitisera" make it to become insignificant.

Swedish coverage of the ongoing genocide inAccording to Israel, it had to fight in hospital areas because Hamas terrorists were using them as bases. This is denied by Hamas. Gaza has been nothing but the steps the guy explained: They have been ignoring the atrocities as much as they can, they have been using question the authenticity of the reports and most tricky and important of them all, try to either start or end the report with something completely unrelated because most people who actually read the story, usually remember only the last 2 paragraphs.

It is like clockwork. every freaking article has been like this, like the have a template or an editor that makes sure the story is written in a way that makes it less damaging.

Most people don't see them, it is like the reporter is just covering the event of an important conflict, but when you look into it, it is always the same, the last 2 paragraphs are either completely unrelated or end with something less negative (or positive) about Israel.

The latest of these disgusting and outrageous charade was the report on the Swedish "liberal" DN.se, when they finally reported about the mass graves in Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, they waited until the UN reported about it, and as usual, they used all the usual propaganda methods, when the image of spread dead bodies and the text explaining that 300 bodies were found in Nasser hospital, the first paragraph starting with BOLD says:

Enligt Israel var man tvungen att strida på sjukhusområden eftersom Hamas-terrorister använde dem som baser. Detta förnekas av Hamas.

"According to Israel, it had to fight in hospital areas because Hamas terrorists were using them as bases. This is denied by Hamas."

Perfectly innocent, isn't it, but for the person who saw the horrifying images, the story is no longer as horrible, because the good guys (Israel) had no other choice than fighting in and around the hospital because the bad guys (Hamas) was using it to attack the poor innocent Israeli soldiers.

It doesn't end there, no report of torture, no report of children murdered in groups, no report on people visibly being tortured or traces of recent operations possibly because of Organ theft, nor that some were buried with their catheter attached to their bodies.
No none of those, but instead:

En del kroppar begravdes vid sjukhusen provisoriskt av anhöriga tidigare under kriget, enligt uppgifter till CNN. När man sedan kom för att ge de dödade en permanent grav hade kropparna grävts upp av den israeliska armén, och lagts i massgravar. Enligt CNN ska detta ha skett efter att man tagit DNA-prov för att utröna om det rört sig om det varit kroppar efter de israeler som tagits som gisslan.

"Some bodies were buried in hospitals provisionally by relatives earlier in the war, according to CNN. By the time they came to give the dead a permanent grave, the bodies had been dug up by the Israeli army and placed in mass graves. According to CNN, this was done after taking DNA samples to determine whether they were the bodies of the Israeli hostages."

So the user will think that Israel didn't CREATE those mass graves of the innocent Palestinians, but it was just their standard procedure searching for dead hostages on bodies already buried by Palestinians.

And then the last 4 paragraph goes into something completely different, the story of mass graves is completely sidestepped and "forgotten" as something like a footnote in the bigger picture of the good guys (IDF) fighting the bad guys (Hamas) in what seems to be a retaliation for the bad guys shooting rockets at Israel!

Under natten angrep Israel norra Gaza med den tyngsta beskjutningen på veckor, enligt uppgifter från boende där som Reuters talat med. Det beskrivs som en mardrömsnatt med ständig beskjutning.
"During the night, Israel attacked northern Gaza with the heaviest shelling in weeks, according to residents spoken to by Reuters. It was described as a nightmare night of constant shelling."

And my favorite white wash section comes next:

Israeliska stridsvagnar gjorde en ny inbrytning öster om Beit Hanoun. Beskjutningen ska ha nått skolor där flyktingar tagit skydd.
"Israeli tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun. The shelling reportedly reached schools where refugees have taken shelter."

The Israelis don't attack sschools not refugee camps, and no report of dead or injured Palestinians, but that they Israelis were innocently had to react to Hamas rocket launch an attack that "reached schools", isn't it just lovely?

The ending is of course the perfect ending of any negative story about Israel,

Enligt den israeliska armén IDF var angreppen ett svar på raketbeskjutning från norra Gaza. IDF hävdar att man slagit ut avskjutningsramper och dödat flera terrorister under natten.

"According to the Israeli army (IDF), the attacks were in response to rocket fire from northern Gaza. The IDF claims to have knocked out launching pads and killed several terrorists overnight."

This would have been an innocent co-incident, but when it happens in EVERY freaking negative story about Israel (the few that actually makes the print) follow the EXACT same method.

This is just sickening, remember seeing it in American media like CNN, NYT, WP as well as Reuters and AP, but British media used to be different, but sadly, they seems to have gone to the same class and have the same guidelines, the stories on internet are all (except a few) follow the EXACT same guidelines to control the damage when it is badly needed.

The DN has removed the paywall from their propaganda pages, so you can read it in Swedish or use deepl.com or other translating SW to read it in your language.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/fn-chef-forfarad-av-massgravarna-vid-sjukhus-i-gaza/

#Propaganda #Media #Sweden #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #Distraction #IDF #DN

frenchhope@diaspora-fr.org

Téléphone, mail, notifications… : comment le cerveau réagit-il aux distractions numériques ?

#téléphone #email #notifications #cerveau #distraction #numérique #productivité #santé #psychologiecognitive #risquespsychosociaux #interruptionsnumériques #coûtcognitif #attention #concentration #économiedelattention #fluence #imprévu #étude #hyperconnexion #technologie #écran #cognition #cognitif

‼️ Clause de non-responsabilité : je n'ai pas toujours le luxe d'être perfectionniste, si le site ou la plateforme sur lequel pointe le lien ne vous convient pas ou que vous n'êtes pas protégé contre le pistage, vous pouvez malgré tout bénéficier de l'information ici partagée et faire des recherches ailleurs (peertube, invidious, archive.org, etc.) à l'aide du titre, des mots-clés, du résumé, des commentaires. Il suffit de placer le pointeur sur le titre pour connaître l'URL ou la copier avant de cliquer. Par ailleurs : ce texte est ajouté automatiquement, contrairement au fait de republier un contenu sur une autre plateforme ou de modifier le lien et d'utiliser une interface alternative dont la perrenité n'est pas garantie (ex : nitter abandonné par ses développeurs). Par ailleurs une nouvelle preuve que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien : des gens qui se prétendent de mon bord si l'on en croit leur activité ici, sont pourtant extrêmement méprisants concernant mon activité et prétendent être plus purs dans la qualité de leurs partages, jusqu'à me harceler à ce sujet. Sans doute pour récupérer une audience qu'ils estiment légitime, quels qu'en soient les moyens. Une méthode violente qui crée une lutte interne contreproductive. Désolé par avance si ce genre de commentaire (auquel je pourrais avoir à répondre s'ils sont mensongers ou calomnieux) est publié sur votre timeline, je n'y suis pour rien non plus. Je n'ai pas vocation à être en conflit, ni ici, ni ailleurs.

psych@diasp.org

(So you don't have to!) Just saw this (and reacted) on "X". *

House GQP Leader yields to Fellow Seditionists to Begin Impeachment of Nothing ("We'll find something!")

Seems like #Jan6 #sedition participant #Gaetz - the guy who ASKED for a pardon (acknowledging guilt!) - is intent on "total compliance" from fellow #GQP guilty seditionist #McCarthy. ( #MTG gets a pass? )

No matter that there is no "there" there... The only 'there' Gaetz should be seeing, along with his co-conspirators and rabid Q-sters in OUR House, is prison. ASAP.

~~

  * Rachel Maddow, 9/11/2023 - (on #Muskville post #Musk)

"It is important that this one middle-aged, red-pilled, right-wing billionaire has taken one of the world's major social networks and turned it into a firehouse of totally toxic, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi content; Now blaming the Jews for the financial woes of his company while personally using his power and his public profile to boost and validate literally self-declared anti-Semites and White Nationalists who are the loudest influences on that network.
That's an important thing! "

#justice #democracy #truth
#distraction #projection

johnehummel@diasp.org

The real threat of AI

Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’

Thanks to @dianea for the original post

FTA: Don’t get so distracted by the promise and threats associated with the future of AI. It is not magic, it’s not fully automated and — per Whittaker — it’s already intrusive beyond anything that most Americans seemingly comprehend.

The AI isn't as intelligent as you think. In addition to massive amounts of training (it would take a human 5,000+ years of uninterrupted reading -- over 10,000 years of reading if they were allowed to eat, sleep, and have a life -- to read everything on which GPT has been trained) these systems require a tremendous amount of hand-holding during training:

Said Hanna: “We know from reporting . . .that there is an army of workers who are doing annotation behind the scenes to even make this stuff work to any degree — workers who work with Amazon Mechanical Turk, people who work with [the training data company] Sama — in Venezuela, Kenya, the U.S., actually all over the world . . .They are actually doing the labeling, whereas Sam [Altman] and Emad [Mostaque] and all these other people who are going to say these things are magic — no. There’s humans. . . .These things need to appear as autonomous and it has this veneer, but there’s so much human labor underneath it.”

But here's what you really need to know:

Her message was that, enchanted as the world may be now by chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard, the technology underpinning them is dangerous, especially as power grows more concentrated by those at the top of the advanced AI pyramid. [emphasis mine]

Said Whittaker, “I would say maybe some of the people in this audience are the users of AI, but the majority of the population is the subject of AI . . .This is not a matter of individual choice. Most of the ways that AI interpolates our life makes determinations that shape our access to resources to opportunity are made behind the scenes in ways we probably don’t even know.” [emphasis mine]

As the old saying goes, If you aren't the customer, then you're the product.

The reason AI is scary is not because it's smart, but because you are the product.

#AI #Threat #Distraction

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/get-a-clue-says-panel-about-generative-ai-its-being-deployed-as-surveillance-devices/

faab64@diasp.org

Best video I’ve seen so far #trainderailment #EastPalestine -This is a must watch If your in East Palestine, or the surrounding area. - but media is busy with Alien and Chinese balloon stories

This is for the glory of unregulated free market economy and #libertarian utopia.

#Environment #Ohio #distraction #Catastrophe #Capitalism #politics
https://twitter.com/RaleighFam/status/1622948184476483585