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.
Empty Array Truthiness
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
![Use by Stephen Colbert
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Stephen Colbert, portraying his character Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, chose the word truthiness just moments before taping the premiere episode of The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005, after deciding the originally scripted word – "truth" – was not absolutely ridiculous enough: "We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist", he explained.[15][16] He introduced his definition in the first segment of the episode, saying: "Now I'm sure some of the 'word police', the 'wordinistas' over at Webster's are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word'. Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true. Or what did or didn't happen](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/465/346/524/936/015/original/88e3d8a6c8ccc46e.png)
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
Please help me find examples of truthiness lacking _loci_ or *identity* mnemonics.
As an example of truthiness, consider this response a question about a certain election:
"I think that *Donald Trump and I* have both raised a number of issues with the _2020 election_, but *we're* focused on the _future_. *I* think there's an obsession _here_ with focusing on 2020 — *I'm* much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide open _border_" - JD V
@Newtoallthis Maybe we can replace peer review with #truthiness polls on #scicomm media channels ...
Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
Hello and welcome to this totally truthful account of this week's Samurai Saturday!
I swear on my life that this week's serial will be Dick Tracy's G-Men Chapter 9, Flames of Jeopardy!
After that, I will certainly and without question watch Kurosawa's Rashomon! (Really, I totally will.)
#samurai #serial #film
#SamuraiSaturday #truthiness
Vox, that's not how any of this works. #truthiness
I'll keep saying it. We act based on our understanding of reality. But good people can cause great harm acting on bad info. Nobody should want that. Therefore it really matters that we try our best to have people well informed.
I'm struck by how we now seem to have people being more angry when their side gets lied about, but much less concerned re whether they themselves are spreading bs re people they dislike.
' “The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the
president’s interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment,”
Boardman said. “In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the
president’s interpretation." ' #news #truthiness
truthiness - news - corroboration
Use other country's news sites to corroborate the truthiness of news. #truthiness #news #resist
Low hanging fruit:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.cbc.ca/news.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.abc.net.au/news.
If you can't beat 'em fair & square, you might as well stoop to their level.
GINNI THOMAS EATS BABIES.
You heard it here first.
Clarence doesn't partake, but he likes to watch & record. He keeps videos scattered at Harlen Crow's various estates.
THINK OF THE BABIES!
Truth, facts and evidence don't matter.
It's just about getting concepts out there. Post-facts reality is well past truthiness now.
Certain people will believe all this just because they're saying it. They don't even have to try to prove it.
The damage is done.
