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The #GothicVss prompt for 3/26 - 4/2 is:
#illusory
Who wants to take over? I've put in my month.
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Purplle liteThe Power of #Repetition
#Illusory Truth Effect: Repetition increases the likelihood of belief, even in falsehoods.
Why it works:
Familiarity: Repeated information becomes more familiar and is seen as more credible.
Cognitive ease: Repetition reduces mental effort and makes the lie easier to accept.
#Desensitization: The more often a lie is repeated, the less absurd it appears.
#Illusory Truth Effect: Repetition increases the likelihood of belief, even in falsehoods.
Why it works:
Familiarity: Repeated information becomes more familiar and is seen as more credible.
Cognitive ease: Repetition reduces mental effort and makes the lie easier to accept.
#Desensitization: The more often a lie is repeated, the less absurd it appears.
guyjantic has moved!Francis Galton made key insights that drove the development of statistics. He also invented eugenics and had a lot of deeply racist beliefs.
Richard Feynman was a frickin' genius in like 5 different fields. He was also a bit coercive/rapey in his treatment of women.
LIzzo is an amazing artist and... yeah, Lizzo.
Don't we all know (or maybe embody) someone who is not particularly brilliant but is a good person?
And there people who have skills and knowledge galore as well as (probably) being basically good people, like Neyman, Hedy Lamar, Weird Al, Jonas Salk.
My point: Morality and expertise are not related. As a culture we have a very hard time remembering that, even though we almost always agree when it's pointed out.
TL;DR: Four cells of two independent effects:
- Good person, unskilled
- Good person, skilled
- Bad person, unskilled
- Bad person, skilled
#good #bad #skill #tech #knowledge #intelligence #morality #correlation #illusory #bias #thinkingishard
Chuck DarwinRNC plan for 2020 #denialist to head ‘#election #integrity’ unit raises alarms
As Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has cemented its hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC), alarms are being raised about the organisation’s tapping of the fervent election denialist #Christina #Bobb to run an “election integrity” unit.
Bobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right #One #America #News #Network, who gained prominence after Trump’s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.
Bobb helped spread phoney voting fraud claims with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the former campaign operative Mike Roman, both of whom along with Trump and others face charges in Fulton county, Georgia, of conspiring to overturn Biden’s win there; Bobb was not charged.
Last year Bobb wrote "Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024," a book that was chock full of #baseless charges about 2020 election fraud.
Former judges, ex-Republican congressmen and election watchdogs voice strong concerns about Bobb’s mission and the potential dangers posed by her flood of erroneous charges of voting fraud.
“By designating Bobb to the RNC post,
💥they’re beginning to promulgate the same false narrative of widespread election fraud that we saw in 2020 and 2021 but way earlier💥,” said John Jones, a former federal judge in Pennsylvania and now president of Dickinson College.
“There’s a concept known as #illusory #truth,” he added. “If you keep saying these same falsehoods over and over, people begin to believe they’re true, and it has the potential to morph into violence.
That puts judges, prosecutors and others at risk.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/republican-election-integrity-denier?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Dave Bell#mansplaining has the sense of a privileged group in it, even if belonging to that group is #illusory. The whole area of #Tory government and #Brexit is built around #FalseCompetence and #SelfDelusion
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈#Oliver #Anthony and the #Incoherence of #RightWing #Populism.
For some on the #left, the seemingly broad #appeal of Anthony’s #bitter #anthem is wholly #illusory, and the #singer #himself is #worthy of #contempt.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Virginia #Music #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Racism #Misogyny #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
MH Thaung"You two don't need my help." The mage lit his pipe. "It's just an #illusory guardian."
A few seconds later, the monster was dead. The rogue and barbarian divvied up the loot.
"What about my share?" asked the mage.
"You don't need any. Obviously, the treasure's not real either."
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Richard PierceNo room, no chapel,
No stair, no well,
No outside, no in,
No up, no down,
No side, no roof,
No door, no gate,
No decoration,
No jewels,
No gold,
No prayers,
No curses,
No blasphemy,
No damnation.
Fog.
The obscure.
Everything we imagine.
This is an illusory.