Quote from: celedhring on Today at 02:59:33 AMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on January 26, 2026, 01:12:42 PMSeems to me like two sides talking past each other.
The fact that camera phones are ubiquitous and the internet facilitates near instantaneous sharing of information is clearly a good thing, exposing the absurdity of the lies being pushed by officials in real time.
The fact social media is dominated by a small number of corporatized platforms motivated to privilege the spread of disinformation and slop is a bad thing.
Both things can be and are true at the same time.
Picking up on this, I fear we're just in a short window until AI video doctoring becomes good enough that it manages to completely muddle the picture (thanks also to social media) even when there's footage available of a controversial incident. Or even if there isn't.
One of the positives that came out of the death of poor Mr. Pretti is the fact that we're still capable of creating some sense of consensus around factual truth when it stares you in the face - even this morally bankrupt administration had to eventually walk back their lies - but how long will that last?
Quote from: Jacob on Today at 12:03:34 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on January 27, 2026, 11:33:04 PMNo, we are fooling ourselves if we think it can't happen here. A reminder that 30% of conservative party members are Maga supporters.
Sometimes you can be a bit of a stick in the mud
Quote from: Zoupa on Today at 03:01:20 AMQuote from: Grey Fox on January 27, 2026, 03:40:26 PMI blame Meta and it's ad business. Everything on the web is about creating engagement because that generates revenue.
I use these 3 extensions: privacy badger, ublock origin, adblocker ultimate. I don't think I've seen an ad, on any website, in a decade.
Quote from: Tamas on Today at 03:43:54 AMI don't have an English source but apparently 5 European diplomats confirmed anonymously that Fico, Slovakia's Putinist maffia boss (official title Prime Minister) told EU leaders on their recent meeting that he was terrified by Trump's mental state after the two spoke.
Quote from: DGuller on January 27, 2026, 11:55:01 PMLooks like Trump today put conservative 2nd amendment people to the real test as to what's more important to them: Trump or 2nd amendment. Early indications seem to go in favor of 2nd amendment.
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