Pleased to find that #DanOlsen / #FoldingIdeas has released a new video and it's on #dinosaur #fossils ... and creationism and human gullibility.
Not as mind-expanding as his videos on flat-earthism, NFTs, the metaverse or GameStop, but still a fascinating watch that (yet again) shows how deeply all our misinformation-fuelled problems are grounded in human nature and US evangelical hotbeddery.
Dan Olsen's latest Folding Ideas video is bewildering and fascinating... it's a (long) video-essay on the internet subculture and lore that arose following the Gamestop pump-and-dump excitement in 2021.
Had to watch it in three sittings to fully internalise some of the nuances of the story and truly appreciate the depths these people have allowed themselves to be dragged.
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