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Mike :verified:Imagine being a working man's idiot spending your life grinding out a rent check making an ass of yourself online and this guy comes along. Your Benny Johnsons, your Rich Lowrys. Imagine how every hometown 215 lb mechanic felt watching Chuck Wepner knock down Ali. People will end it all over this.
Jemal Cole Loves Each of YouHey folks, I need your help!
About 40 years ago, I watched a TV variety show special, and I can’t find any trace of it online. It was set in Hazzard County (as in Dukes of) and had Roscoe and Boss Hogg getting suspicious of the show as part of the premise. The performers included the B-52s and Air Supply, and the local yokels thought that sounded like talk of an invasion.
Did you see it? Do you remember any details? Or have an idea where to look? Let me know!
Edit: answered! Thanks all!!
Alex StamosThis claim is false.
Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d). This is a famous "d-order" that has to be signed by a judge.
Companies can demand reimbursement under 2706. You can argue that 2703 should have a higher standard, but if the government can get to user data should it be free or should the companies ask for a nominal cost?
This is absolutely nothing to do with content moderation.
John Aravosis
Carl T. BergstromScience education in an age of twitter disinformation
tl;dr — Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond. Today, prominent antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted the ridiculous claim that as director of the NIAID, Dr. Fauci bought the silence of the entire worldwide virology community by handing out research grants. Elon Musk then affirmed and amplified his claim.
Anathema Device@mmasnick John Mastodon defends his mother, not the other way around :)
(3) I personally think that the so-called scientific method that we teach in the high school and college classroom is a poor caricature of what scientists actually do. I've described it as an impoverished folk-Popperianism, but that's an aside for another time.
Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.
Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.
Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.
