Critical thinking - Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985609

[thread] post-truthism | "alternative facts"
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113867027412933034

Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking ...
-- Carl Sagan

#epistemology #CriticalThinking #CriticalTheory #PostTruthism #memes #EchoChambers #ReflectionChambers #dogmaticism #pseudoscience #disinformation

Critical thinking - Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985609

[thread] post-truthism | "alternative facts"
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113867027412933034

Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking ...
-- Carl Sagan

#epistemology #CriticalThinking #CriticalTheory #PostTruthism #memes #EchoChambers #ReflectionChambers #dogmaticism #pseudoscience #disinformation #CarlSagan

#PostTruthism: "AI Homeless Man Prank" reveals a crisis in AI education
https://theconversation.com/the-ai-homeless-man-prank-reveals-a-crisis-in-ai-education-270623

#LLM #SyntheticMedia #AIslop #PostTruth

I've been warning of this for years #misinformation #disinformation
LLM will be orders of magnitude more disruptive societally than the internet

#TruthNetworks #DigitalLiteracy #Persagen

Stream Of The Living Dead #15

YouTube
It matters. I care.

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Citation Needed
Summer reading: Busting Post-Truth in the Science Classroom (free download): https://evidence-erasmus.github.io/evidence/en/book #scienceeducation #posttruthism

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Marco Rubio, contact foreign officials
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-artificial-intelligence-impersonation-1b3cc78464404b54e63f4eba9dd4f5a9

* Trump, GOP, far-right, libertarians, Christofascists weaponized disinformation, chaos, truth
* #AI, #LLM / synthetic media will vastly amplify #posttruthism

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

#capitalism #inequality

Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist
#socialism #justice

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Marco Rubio, contact foreign officials

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using AI-driven technology. That's according to two senior officials and a cable sent last week to all embassies and consulates. The warning came after the department discovered that an impostor posing as Rubio had tried to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor. Those details were laid out in a July 3 cable first reported by The Washington Post. The recipients of the scam messages weren't identified in the cable shared with The Associated Press. The State Department says it's investigating.

AP News

🇺🇲 MAGA War on Science Is Deadly, and It’s Just Getting Started
https://newrepublic.com/article/195801/trump-maga-war-science-deadly
The administration’s anti-science posture has three different sources. Each is as extremist as the last.

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114580246074755799
#posttruthism

Trump Signs Executive Order to Defund PBS and NPR

This escalation of his dangerous assault on public media could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country.

Truthout
I’m a doctor, and I’m appalled at the silence from the American Medical Association

"Many physicians feel that our values do not align with the values of our advocacy organization."

Mother Jones