RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Empty arrays in PHP behave weird! See empty([]) vs [] ? 'T' : 'F' - different results! Can you guess?
A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)
More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
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I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully…
Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
John Birmingham eloquently describes our current post-capitalist reality...
"[Rupert] Murdoch’s innovation was to fuse several currents into a coherent model: the dopamine hacking reward-loop strategies honed by the gaming industry with the mobilising forces of identity politics and political myth. When people perceive a gulf between what they believe they deserve and what they actually experience, when they’ve been promised the moon but handed a shit sandwich and a parking ticket, mythology often salves the wound, replacing anxiety with certainty, and supplying a vivid account of who belongs and who must be opposed or even destroyed to protect your own.
Once reality becomes a fungible product, the erosion of shared reality is not a malfunction; it’s the smart play and a total money shot. And when audiences cluster into reality bubbles rather than mere information silos, the system tightens. Across competing bubbles, the same event doesn’t just get spun differently. It may not even exist."
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/if-we-cant-trust-the-trampoline-bunnies
#capitalism #authoritarianism #truthiness #fascism #community #identity #truth #facts #perception #politics #bubble
_loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup [3]
"And *you* all know *people* and *friends of yours* that...that happened and so *you* can be any...anything *you* want but *you* want to have safety in the _streets_. *You'll* want to be able to leave _your apartment_ or _your house_ _where *you* live_... and feel safe and go into a _store_ to buy a newspaper or buy something... and *you* don't have that _now_." -- DT
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"The _capital city_ has been overtaken by violent *gangs* and bloodthirsty *criminals*, roving *mobs* of wild *youth*, drugged out *maniacs* and *homeless people*, and *we're* not gonna let it happen anymore -- *we're* not gonna take it. Under the authorities invested in *me* as the *President* of the _United States_ [...]"
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