The Republicans are quick to lay the blame for the bad economy on Biden. After all, the exploded inflation happened during Biden’s “watch” and most Americans believe that the economy can switch on and off in a momentum’s notice.
He DID become POTUS on January 20, 2021. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-blame-biden-inflation-are-they-right-2021-11-01/ .
FOX News comes to Hendersonville. Raised up a lot of one-sided accusations. Never talked with the both sides. But that wouldn't make good fake news.
But Renee B, who never saw anything, states on Nextdoor:
She got 191 comments. Looks like FOX News got what it wanted. Maybe quality reporting would not be worth mentioning. So sad!
Additional Report Below 3/22/23
"Fox News, a national outlet with nobody in Hendersonville this past week, took a comment from the publishing company that was terribly inaccurate," Mayor Clary said in the post.
"I spoke with library staff several times last week and have interacted with them many times previously. I never saw any sign that they disagreed with Kirk Cameron's message. From everything I experienced, their concerns throughout the week were the patrons of the library and the safety of the people attending the event."
We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones.
Adapted from Jonny Thomson
https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/
“Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”
Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians! It’s like true crime only without all the death! True fun crime!
Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it!
Delving into historical scandals and current events alike, Mosley and her guests — including comedians such as J.B. Smoove and Nicole Byer — might even teach you how to spot a con artist before it’s too late. The podcast appears weekly on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and other major platforms.
Published in Lancet Planetary Health, the second paper reported that between 2000 and 2019, annual deaths from heat exposure increased. But deaths from cold exposure, which were far more common, fell by an even larger amount.
All told, during those two decades the world warmed by about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit, and some 650,000 fewer people died from temperature exposure.
Most people thought the FOX News commentators were spurring BS about the 2020 Presidential Election, but unfortunately, most 71 million Republicans thought Fox News was factually. The top news network for FAKE medium wasn't stupid. They were just liars.
Emails and Texts Show What Fox News Hosts Really Thought About 'Rigged' Election.
New court documents reveal that Laura Ingrham, Sean Hannity, and even Rupert Murdoch privately expressed doubts about the whole election fraud narrative.
https://gizmodo.com/fox-news-trump-tucker-carlson-dominion-voting-1850130090
In a text to Fox personality Maria Bartiromo on Nov. 10, 2020, Bannon wrote:
“71 million voters will never accept Biden. This process is to destroy his presidency before it even starts; IF it even starts.....We either close on Trump’s victory or delegitimize Biden...THE PLAN.”
January 19, 2023: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. Recent new breakthroughs in the field have the potential to drastically change the way we approach content creation.
The News Literacy Project is encouraging everyone to push back against misinformation with its new platform, RumorGuard, which helps you know what’s safe to share and which rumors should be stopped in their tracks. It cites topical viral rumors and lays out exactly how the public can determine that a claim doesn’t hold weight, based on five factors for credibility.
For decades, some members of the fossil fuel industry tried to convince the public that a causative link between fossil fuel use and climate warming could not be made because the models used to project warming were too uncertain. Supran et al. show that one of those fossil fuel companies, ExxonMobil, had their own internal models that projected warming trajectories consistent with those forecast by the independent academic and government models. What they understood about climate models thus contradicted what they led the public to believe.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
In 2015, investigative journalists discovered internal company memos indicating that Exxon oil company has known since the late 1970s that its fossil fuel products could lead to global warming with “dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”
Often NO information is comparable to MIS or FAKE information. Most people watch only one or group of sources that best match THEIR preferred bias. It often explains how many people have some bizarre opinions. Most people aren't stupid; they're just lazy or don't care about knowing the facts.
For those who prefer factual and balanced reporting Ground News provides a tool. It is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias and break free from algorithms.
The Ground News Blindspot (https://ground.news/blindspot) provides a rating system that adds context and transparency to every
news story. Readers from all walks of life can conveniently identify
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The bias and factuality ratings are
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US citizens lost over $10 billion due to phishing calls by illegal Indian call centres in 2022, as per the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data. From a report:
Most of the victims of these fraud calls from Indian phishing gangs were elderly US citizens above the age of 60 years who lost over $3 billion, Times Of India reported citing FBI data. After several incidents were reported in 2022, the FBI has now deputed a permanent representative at the US embassy in New Delhi. The representative will work closely with the CBI, Interpol and the Delhi Police to bust these gangs that have put India under the threat to be termed as the hub of such illegal call centres. Several Americans lost a total of $10.2 billion in 2022 so far, which is a 47 per cent increase from 2021's $6.9 billion, to such fraud calls.
AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language.
Hour One is building up a pool of what it calls “characters.” It says it has around 100 on its books so far, with more being added each week. “We’ve got a queue of people that are dying to become these characters,” says Natalie Monbiot, the company’s head of strategy.
Geek Squad Targets Seniors
https://www.rd.com/article/geek-squad-scams/
Another filter craze that's all over social media is turning your friends' photos into artwork. It's called Lensa AI, and the viral photo-editing app takes your uploaded photos and creates "magic avatars" using your face. However, the photo editor doesn't come without privacy concerns. We'll explain below.
Seven pro tips to keep iPhone and Android apps from spilling your data.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to practice naturopathy in this state.
(b) “Naturopathy” means nature cure or health by natural methods and is defined as the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human injuries, ailments and disease by the use of such physical forces, as air, light, water, vibration, heat, electricity, hydrotherapy, psychotherapy, dietetics or massage, and the administration of botanical and biological drugs.
Feds Seize One of the Largest Sites for Pirated Books and Articles, Z-Library
by Claire Woodcock, November 11, 2022
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8qby/feds-seize-one-of-the-largest-sites-for-pirated-books-and-articles-z-library?mc_cid=8b5b6c52d4&mc_eid=62d36e4ccb
Last week, one of the largest repositories of pirated books and articles available on the Internet went dark. Torrentfreak reported a series of Z-Library domain names were seized by the FBI. Countless students and researchers who rely on shadow libraries will be hit hardest by the seizure.
CLIMATE TRACE makes meaningful climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail and speed and provide this data freely to the public.
Natural gas in Tennessee is sourced from various interstate pipelines. The Marcellus Formation, which technically stretches into Tennessee, accounts for about 21% of all U.S. gross natural gas production.
Across Tennessee, landfills are emitting methane. Cement factories, which support the concrete industry, produce massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Airports, steel plants and the oil refinery in Memphis are big emitters.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Cumberland Fossil Plant, a coal plant near Clarksville, took the top spot in the state. Among power plants in North America, the Cumberland plant is the 10th biggest contributor to climate change, according to the data from Climate Trace
Dr. Dan Bellack, a doctorate in psychology from the University of Kentucky, outlines a three step strategy to deal with Fake News. He suggests how readers can improve their thinking separating fact from fiction in order to make informed decisions. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference.
