Show threadBradley M. KühnMay 18

I've frankly been waiting years to use the word “truthiness” accurately re: issues related to #copyleft violations!

I got to do so in that article in the OP!

My SFC colleagues didn't insist on editing it out as off-topic. 😆

For those that don't know the term, “truthiness” is briefly defined in the article.

I also just found¹ #Colbert's old show where he 1ˢᵗ described it:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rgszu

¹ Old Comedy Central stuff is so hard to find.

#truthiness #SoftwareFreedom #AGPLv3 #AGPL #Bambu

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Stephen GutknechtMay 10

#CrisisOfNotKnowingPeterPomerantsev #Same10Years
#SurkovStage20Approach #Truthiness #FWakeTruthiness
#FWakeSurkovStage20 #FWakeNothingIsTrue #FWakePeterPomerantsev
#AbandonmentOfNonFiction #RCC1905A #TrumpThrill091

Gingrich: December 1, 2016 after Trump win
Peter Pomerantsev: November 2014 book before

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1t92ygl/for_any_other_president_this_would_be_a_scandal/okzm2wu/

WIST QuotationsApr 17

A quotation from Orwell

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds…

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 9

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.

#tv #media #comedy #politics

hollmaJan 9
Hello Zeitgeist!

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."

Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

#PostTruth #Truthiness #FakeNews
Turbo Learn PHPDec 17

Empty Array Truthiness

Empty arrays in PHP behave weird! See empty([]) vs [] ? 'T' : 'F' - different results! Can you guess?

#php #phptricks #array #empty #truthiness #phpquiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-ilYMaNoE

Empty Array Truthiness #truthiness

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 5, 2025

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/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness

Essay (1942-08), "Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953) - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations

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…

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Christian KentOct 30, 2025

Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”

It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics

#colbert #truthiness #ai #hallucination

Stephen Elliott~BuckleySep 18, 2025

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.''"

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/sharp-increase-of-known-or-suspected-terrorists-entering-us-from-canada-fbi-director-testifies/

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism

‘Sharp increase’ of known or suspected terrorists entering U.S. from Canada, FBI director testifies

FBI Director Kash Patel says there has been a 'sharp increase of known or suspected terrorists' entering the U.S. through Canada.

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melAug 29, 2025

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

If we can't trust the trampoline bunnies...

I got sucker-punched by the internet last week.

Alien Sideboob