Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
#truthiness
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.
A quotation from Roth, Philip:
«
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roth-philip/72568/
#quote #quotes #quotation #facts #imagination #memory #subjectivity #truth #truthiness
Wikipedia has has a serious antisemitism problem that's gotten significantly worse over the last year. The Wikipedians I know are either "anti-Israel" or "neutral and don't want to get into it" types.
As the politicization of everything continues, we as a society will need to let go of the idea of liberalism that my generation grew up believing in is dying, in favor of mob rule mentality.
On a micro-sale, I think the only real solution will be to fork and then self-host the Jewish Wikipedia and self-curate its contents, offering the material back to Wikipedia.
For the macro-scale, I have no solution.
Is a fork something people want? I have complex feels there but I'd be happy to help.
#Wikipedia #Truth #Truthiness #Liberalism #Facts #Jews #Mazeldon
Checking for an empty list in Python - Python Morsels (@treyhunner)
Various methods to check if a list is empty in Python:
➡️ checking the list's length,
➡️ evaluating the list's truthiness
➡️ comparing the list to another empty list
#Python #Truthiness #PEP8 #DuckTyping #Programming #PythonProgramming
https://www.pythonmorsels.com/checking-for-an-empty-list-in-python/
Lots of #Truth / #truthiness here
Sir #TrumpVirus of the #GQP #cult - shines here in a departure from the usual hateful/delusional #WordSalad. And his "Robbin' hood rings true too.
Tnx, Joyce D.
The New York Times should change it's name to The New York Sunny Globe Enquiring of Mirrors and switch to a tabloid format. #news #nyt #journalism #truthiness https://boingboing.net/2024/07/26/the-new-york-times-pro-trump-democrat-voter-turns-out-to-the-famed-fraudster-who-put-a-severed-finger-in-her-chili.html
@stevebenen #Truthiness extraordinaire!
"How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned. So history is rewritten to suit the present."
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014), act 3, section: "Another Russia".
@aarbrk Colbert was even more relevant than we thought, and we thought it was really relevant — #truthiness
@camwilson @Heliograph yes well for 50% of the population, answers from AI means “Average Intelligence” and, depending how you interpret that statement, this is a benefit to the segment the real estate agent is in
And then we talk about the #truthiness in their industry, where facts matter less than believability
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