Wonder how you shake someone out of that conspiracy mindset. A long-term pace and lead? Everyone telling her she's mad likely only entrenches her beliefs.
It's how you get anti-vaxxers, Trump voters etc.
Ban social media for a decade and people might start thinking again.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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That Everest photo made me think about lemmings lined up falling off a cliff and I went to read about how the myth of their mass suicide started. Adding further to our early morning theme that phenomena such as fake news is not new, I saw this is the Wikipedia lemming page:
Perhaps the most influential and, for the lemmings involved, tragic presentation of the myth was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature and in which producers threw lemmings off a cliff to their deaths to fake footage of a "mass suicide," as well as faked scenes of mass migration.
People said the same about tv, radio, the printing press and so on. There is just a lot of dumb people out there.
At brekkie this morning there were a last supper sized table of young folk. All 12 of them were looking into their phones. No interaction . I look at mine too much myself however I would feel very self-conscious sitting at a table , being on my phone and not interacting with the people I’m sitting with. It seems this is not an issue for the apostles of the smart phone. My arguments at home are akin to , hey get off your phone your children are growing up before your eyes. (or not before your eyes) - takes me 4 or 5 attempts to get a reaction. I think I’m going to have to break Sarah Conor out of her psycho cell and blow up Skynet. But first, I need to check the weather in California, ‘cuse me for a sec.
At brekkie this morning there were a last supper sized table of young folk. All 12 of them were looking into their phones. No interaction . I look at mine too much myself however I would feel very self-conscious sitting at a table , being on my phone and not interacting with the people I’m sitting with. It seems this is not an issue for the apostles of the smart phone. My arguments at home are akin to , hey get off your phone your children are growing up before your eyes. (or not before your eyes) - takes me 4 or 5 attempts to get a reaction. I think I’m going to have to break Sarah Conor out of her psycho cell and blow up Skynet. But first, I need to check the weather in California, ‘cuse me for a sec.
Would have been rude if them to talk about you when you were sitting right there best to keep it in a WhatsApp group.
I’m saying that people don’t spend to much time on devices and that social media is not overly saturated with shite just that people would get their crackpot ideas elsewhere if it didn’t exist.
Are we just pretending now that moving statues, and line dancing weren't a thing?
I would contend that we have far more examples of people believing outright bullshit these days. And, because social media is such an amplifying echo chamber, no appeals to logic can succeed.
I give you: Brexit.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
That Everest photo made me think about lemmings lined up falling off a cliff and I went to read about how the myth of their mass suicide started. Adding further to our early morning theme that phenomena such as fake news is not new, I saw this is the Wikipedia lemming page:
I'd love to know how that idea was pitched.
lets just fly a load of lemmings in and dump them from a truck.
I mean thats a lot of logistics involved, you'd think at some stage someone thought "wtf are we doing?"
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I think I’m going to have to break Sarah Conor out of her psycho cell and blow up Skynet. But first, I need to check the weather in California, ‘cuse me for a sec.
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I think I’m going to have to break Sarah Conor out of her psycho cell and blow up Skynet.
I found out a few days ago that Skynet is the name of China's video surveillance system. But much more interesting I learnt about China's 2020 planned roll-out of nationwide social credit system. It's fascinating.
I've just started to buy Sunday papers again after a 15 year gap. The Sunday Times is a shrivelled and less impressive version of what it used to be back then. Bought The Observer for the first time on Sunday.
Is the Sunday New York Times good does anyone know?
I would contend that we have far more examples of people believing outright bullshit these days. And, because social media is such an amplifying echo chamber, no appeals to logic can succeed.
I give you: Brexit.
on that note....
Boris Johnson to appear in court over Brexit misconduct claims
MP summonsed to face accusations relating to comments made in run-up to EU referendum re: £350m
49. The applicant has statements from members of the public which addresses the impact the apparent lie had on them. Mr Power submits there will be seldom a more serious misconduct allegation against a Member of Parliament or Mayor than to lie repeatedly to the voting public on a national and international platform, in order to win your desired outcome.
50. I am satisfied this element of the offence is prima facie satisfied.
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I would contend that we have far more examples of people believing outright bullshit these days. And, because social media is such an amplifying echo chamber, no appeals to logic can succeed.
I give you: Brexit.
It's possible that the sheer volume of information we process on a daily basis. Is just exposing all of to more and more idiocy.
But gullible idiots believing whatever nonsense they are fed have always been there.
It's possible that the sheer volume of information we process on a daily basis. Is just exposing all of to more and more idiocy.
But gullible idiots believing whatever nonsense they are fed have always been there.
And emotion, especially negative emotion >>>> logic
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
I found out a few days ago that Skynet is the name of China's video surveillance system. But much more interesting I learnt about China's 2020 planned roll-out of nationwide social credit system. It's fascinating.
It's probably the scariest thing I've ever heard if Blindboy's account of it is correct.
What's your read on it?
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His Grandfathers name was Osman Kemal, changed it to Wilfred Johnson due to anti Turkish sentiment in UK when he arrived there, same kind of anti Turkish sentiment his grandson was stirring during the Brexit campaigning
I found out a few days ago that Skynet is the name of China's video surveillance system. But much more interesting I learnt about China's 2020 planned roll-out of nationwide social credit system. It's fascinating.
I've just started to buy Sunday papers again after a 15 year gap. The Sunday Times is a shrivelled and less impressive version of what it used to be back then. Bought The Observer for the first time on Sunday.
Is the Sunday New York Times good does anyone know?
Sunday NYT requires a very sturdy table. It's a beast.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
His Grandfathers name was Osman Kemal, changed it to Wilfred Johnson due to anti Turkish sentiment in UK when he arrived there, same kind of anti Turkish sentiment his grandson was stirring during the Brexit campaigning
So Brexit was really a Turkey voting for Christmas after all.
It's probably the scariest thing I've ever heard if Blindboy's account of it is correct.
What's your read on it?
I don't know much about it, I just read a Sunday Times article a couple of days ago and a little bit on the Internet since. I think it's fascinating though. Scary if you're Chinese, but I'm not.
Increases in the technological sophistication of big data collection and analysis will make possible all manner of metrics about hitherto fuzzy constructs about a person's character and behaviour. What are we to do, if anything, with this information beyond the current tailoring of better adverts to them?
Gossip has an important function in life, including much of the media's function, in who is trustworthy and who is a cheat. Imagine that formalised into an algorithm which spews out a number?
I read about May's commitment to charities in her work yesterday and she went up in my estimation. I kind of liked Boris and his bumbling charisma but read today of his being sacked from his first journalism post for fabricating a quote, and his fathering a child outside of his marriage and family so he has gone down in my estimation (it had been low anyway at this point obviously). Pretty random methods. I can see the value of just having a number for them.
I'm not sure exactly to what extent I'm being ironic here, but I think it's really interesting to at least think about. For example I have long pondered should unemployed people who commit their time to engaged charity work have the chance for that to be recognised and rewarded when going for subsequent jobs in some kind of formalised voluntary scheme.
We discriminate all the time individually and organisationally based on our assessment of people's character and actions. On principle why ought this not be extended to a local or national level, especially if there is the technology to accurately appraise it.
I don't know much about it, I just read a Sunday Times article a couple of days ago and a little bit on the Internet since. I think it's fascinating though. Scary if you're Chinese, but I'm not.
Increases in the technological sophistication of big data collection and analysis will make possible all manner of metrics about hitherto fuzzy constructs about a person's character and behaviour. What are we to do, if anything, with this information beyond the current tailoring of better adverts to them?
Gossip has an important function in life, including much of the media's function, in who is trustworthy and who is a cheat. Imagine that formalised into an algorithm which spews out a number?
I read about May's commitment to charities in her work yesterday and she went up in my estimation. I kind of liked Boris and his bumbling charisma but read today of his being sacked from his first journalism post for fabricating a quote, and his fathering a child outside of his marriage and family so he has gone down in my estimation (it had been low anyway at this point obviously). Pretty random methods. I can see the value of just having a number for them.
I'm not sure exactly to what extent I'm being ironic here, but I think it's really interesting to at least think about. For example I have long pondered should unemployed people who commit their time to engaged charity work have the chance for that to be recognised and rewarded when going for subsequent jobs in some kind of formalised voluntary scheme.
We discriminate all the time individually and organisationally based on our assessment of people's character and actions. On principle why ought this not be extended to a local or national level, especially if there is the technology to accurately appraise it.
Come at me libertarians.
Herein lies the rub for me.
Humans make thousands of decisions a day. Naturally this means some will be wrong. Sometimes the magnitude and consequence of a bad decision by a good person is huge.
This is what we have judges and jury's for. So other humans can empathize and understand context and history, and culture and all the things that make us human before condemning us or not.
I'd be very careful about turning programmers and their bosses into effective judge and jury. So some senior commie party official, with his own biases and views, decides that the outcome of this decision in particular is very very bad. He asks his dev to weight it appropriately.
Skynet will make the world more black and white, and the black and white categories will be decided by people who aren't qualified to make those decisions.
Yikes.
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Mueller statement.
Legally we cannot charge him with anything and if was innocent we would have said so
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I don't know much about it, I just read a Sunday Times article a couple of days ago and a little bit on the Internet since. I think it's fascinating though. Scary if you're Chinese, but I'm not.
Increases in the technological sophistication of big data collection and analysis will make possible all manner of metrics about hitherto fuzzy constructs about a person's character and behaviour. What are we to do, if anything, with this information beyond the current tailoring of better adverts to them?
Gossip has an important function in life, including much of the media's function, in who is trustworthy and who is a cheat. Imagine that formalised into an algorithm which spews out a number?
I read about May's commitment to charities in her work yesterday and she went up in my estimation. I kind of liked Boris and his bumbling charisma but read today of his being sacked from his first journalism post for fabricating a quote, and his fathering a child outside of his marriage and family so he has gone down in my estimation (it had been low anyway at this point obviously). Pretty random methods. I can see the value of just having a number for them.
I'm not sure exactly to what extent I'm being ironic here, but I think it's really interesting to at least think about. For example I have long pondered should unemployed people who commit their time to engaged charity work have the chance for that to be recognised and rewarded when going for subsequent jobs in some kind of formalised voluntary scheme.
We discriminate all the time individually and organisationally based on our assessment of people's character and actions. On principle why ought this not be extended to a local or national level, especially if there is the technology to accurately appraise it.
Come at me libertarians.
I guess a counter argument would be such a system would be rife for gaming. Or indeed bias.
Also, how do you gauge sincerity for your example in charity work rather than simply accruing points for future reward?
How do you score a hawker of pins and daffodils vs someone who does soup kitchen work.
Where's the scale? If if there is a scale doesn't that mean lower weighted activities and causes will invariably suffer?
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Ah I love him. His pods are becoming a little repetitive lately at times, but still quality content imo.
He's running out of BBC podcasts to clone
In general I think he's ok and a positive influence on the young people who listen to him. I particularly like his attitude to celebrity and making a living but he ain't half as clever as he thinks he is.
In general I think he's ok and a positive influence on the young people who listen to him. I particularly like his attitude to celebrity and making a living but he ain't half as clever as he thinks he is.
It’s so hard to watch United now in comparison. Not even a sweat these days.
Meh. Still gotta support them. We were spoiled for so long and saw the likes that we will never see again. The tide will turn but a few years in the wilderness is what we have to look forward to now.
Looking at the way things are going we are looking at Liverpool and city going toe to toe over the next decade and if this season is anything to go by itll be more than interesting to watch them go at it.
Meh. Still gotta support them. We were spoiled for so long and saw the likes that we will never see again. The tide will turn but a few years in the wilderness is what we have to look forward to now.
Looking at the way things are going we are looking at Liverpool and city going toe to toe over the next decade and if this season is anything to go by itll be more than interesting to watch them go at it.
Maybe this is the United fan in me but I dont think Liverpool will sustain. Beholden to Shareholders more than the Emirati bucks are.
Could see the bigger players moving away too to PSG, Munich and the big spanish clubs. Don't think the pool have the same draw. Same as United tbh. City the same in terms of location and draw but wages easier to get.
United fucked. Ole not the answer. Pogba a poison. No accountability (look at size of Shaw), bit part players playing bit part positions.
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Maybe this is the United fan in me but I dont think Liverpool will sustain. Beholden to Shareholders more than the Emirati bucks are.
Could see the bigger players moving away too to PSG, Munich and the big spanish clubs. Don't think the pool have the same draw. Same as United tbh. City the same in terms of location and draw but wages easier to get.
United fucked. Ole not the answer. Pogba a poison. No accountability (look at size of Shaw), bit part players playing bit part positions.
I think the opposite about Liverpool tbh in that they're a bigger draw than I can ever remember now imo. As much as I hate the antics of Klopp, the players seem to love that shit and you see the lads on the bench running in for their hug after every game. He is a draw for players in himself, also the analytical work they are doing, they're buying players that fit his system, pretty much guaranteed CL football with 4 teams from the PL going in and 2 finals in a row shows they can mix it with the big boys too.
Saying all that I'm gonna completely contradict myself and say money talks at the end of the day and city have a bottomless pit so who knows.
Wonder what we will get tonight, hazard to sign off in style?
This was exactly my thoughts. A decade is a long long time nowadays.
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