Stop consuming #CapitalistPropaganda. Find reliable sources of information. If you don't understand the following in depth ... then you've got #ABulletInYourHead

**Heuristic vulnerabilities are systematic errors in judgment resulting from the mind’s reliance on mental shortcuts (heuristics) to make fast, efficient decisions under uncertainty. While these “rules of thumb” are adaptive and save cognitive energy, they often lead to suboptimal, irrational, or biased decisions by ignoring critical information.

Key heuristic vulnerabilities include:

Availability Heuristic: People overestimate the probability of events that are easily remembered, such as vivid media reports or recent experiences, rather than relying on statistical evidence.

Representativeness Heuristic: Individuals categorize people or situations based on how closely they resemble a mental prototype, often ignoring base rates and statistical probabilities.

Anchoring and Adjustment: A heavy reliance on the first piece of information received (the “anchor”) when making decisions, with insufficient adjustments for subsequent information.

Confirmation Bias: The tendency to seek, interpret, and focus on information that confirms existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.

Affect Heuristic: Allowing current emotions, moods, or “gut feelings” to dictate decisions, particularly in risk assessment (e.g., perceiving high-benefit items as low-risk).

Fundamental Attribution Error: A tendency to attribute others’ behaviors to internal, personality-based factors rather than situational factors.

Satisficing: Selecting the first option that meets a minimum threshold of criteria rather than spending time to find the optimal solution. **

Without being educationally steeped in these expoitations, everyone just rolls their eyes and thinks “Yeah, that doesn’t apply to me. I’m smarter than that.” Which, in itself is the “fundamental attribution error” heuristic at play.

One can just assume that any person who isn’t willing to acknowledge the foregoing has, as Zach de la Rocha put it so succinctly “A bullet in their head.”

Video with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gm267F0Ls

Every word the truth.

The #UnitedStates is only exceptional in the average citizens steadfast belief we're exceptional in the face overwhelming evidence demonstrating we're not only unexceptional -- but extremely fucking toxic.

Amazing the power of #CapitalistPropaganda

#BREAKING

The #British have officially decoupled their nuclear arsenal from the #UnitedStates and joined with #France under the #NorthwoodDecalration.

Officials cite the fact that "the United States is no longer seen as quite a reliable defense partner.”

It's blog posts like this that make me strongly encourage you to bookmark the @ianwelsh blog.

You won't hear it from our #MSM #CapitalistPropaganda machine.

https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-us-uk-special-relationship-is-officially-dead/

Oh you thought you was slick posting #anticommunistpropaganda then post #hasbara the next day? As you're shamelessly asking for #oklahomans money because the same #capitalistdictatorship that told you to do so is #defunding you? #irony
https://www.threads.com/@materialist.danarxist/post/DK8vyCCttQs

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKc7987vl3U/

#hasbarasucks #WesternPropaganda #propaganda #oeta #Kevin_stitt_pbs #pbsfails #pbsfunding #pbs #oklahomanews #oklahoma #oklahoman #oklahomanotokay #oklahomanotok #capitalistpropaganda

Must read.
I have always maintained this.

But the #CapitalistPropaganda is so loud and unrelenting, the real issues get drowned out.

The #TechBros just expect us to *trust* them with all our sensitive info.

You know who I trust least by orders of magnitude? Billionaires. That’s who.

But hey, good work if you can get it. Sucker born every minute.

WC Fields would be so proud of the TechBros.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/?guccounter=1

#LuckyBlackCat dropped another video. Long form as usual - debunking " the tragedy of the commons"

#environment #anticapitalist #thecommons #garrethardin #capitalistpropaganda

https://youtu.be/xYunyIPUd7Y?si=wHNkIycLgYrcbiea

#Journalists, please take note.

Given the recent capitulation of the #billionaire #MSM magnates, it should be obvious to everyone that claims of "editorial independence" have been used as cover for #CapitalistPropaganda for decades now.

Rupert Murdoch, as an example, has single handedly shattered the political #OvertonWindow in every nation under his sway.

Question: How do journalists worthy of the name challenge the billionaire narrative?

The fragmentation of the #press into the paid subscription #Wordpress #Substack #Medium model is doing the opposite.

Answer: the #PressCo-op

And, the answer ALREADY EXISTS in the form of the #fediverse. Journalists have to come together and form their own #instances and WE have to support those instances -- just like we support our own instances.

We have an incredible tool here people. We have an incredible tool to break free of paying the MSM and Wordpress style billionaires to destroy our #InformationEcosystem.

And they have destroyed it. They've built a billionaire propaganda machine in it's place while we stand around wondering

@Gargron @Strandjunker @taylorlorenz.mastodon.social @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @pluralistic @cstross

And see: Comprehensive list of federated journalists, here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview?resourcekey=undefined&pru=AAABhH2W2zA*V1PG7hJSTbifNCcDu40zLA#gid=1320898902

One of the greatest failings of the early #economic #philosophers, was their failure to foresee the impact of de-personalizing #markets.

Back in Smith's time there was an assumption of #honesty on the part of the seller. Markets were small enough that dishonesty would be punished by #buyers not buying the dishonest #sellers #goods.

#Trust is the bedrock of thriving markets. Which is why countries with rigid rules of law and enforcement do better than countries without. You can trust that if you get burned -- there's a #remedy.

But as markets expanded, so did de-personalization. See the "traveling salesman" selling #SnakeOil for example. Burn a bunch of people -- then move on to the next set of dupes.

Add then, the advent of marketing, or as I like to call it, #CapitalistPropaganda. In short, the practice of increasing demand by selling lies -- #BuyerBeware.

Add to that, legal precedent interpreting lies as free speech -- buyer beware.

Add then, #monopoly power, and it's impossible not to see where this is headed.

Today, we have markets of *distrust* because everyone is peddling legal lies.

Give it a name: #PredatoryCapitalism? #CrisisCapitalism? #Conitalism?

It's all the logical end result of rewarding those with the most capital to compete without rules governing the sale of #lies.
#uspol

#CapitalistPropaganda is only moderately effective in analog format.

So the billionaires laid siege to the internet.

And in so doing destroyed all potential benefit in their efforts to propagandize you for profit.

Yet, we intelligent few resist. Banding together in the #fediverse.

#TellYourFriends