Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[HVC]

The pride parade one is kind of funny 

[Josquius]

The pride parade one is kind of funny 

I guess it is if you read it as pride parade.
I took it as their typical nonsense of this stuff being normal.

[Syt]

The pride parade one is kind of funny 

I guess it is if you read it as pride parade.
I took it as their typical nonsense of this stuff being normal.

Well, my sister posted it at the start of Pride Month, so take your pick.

[Razgovory]

Stone Toss is a Nazi.  He got outed earlier this year.  If you post his real name on Twitter Elon Musk will ban you.

[HVC]

Stone Toss is a Nazi.  He got outed earlier this year.  If you post his real name on Twitter Elon Musk will ban you.

What, nazis can't have a sense of humour? That's a mighty bigoted view.

[grumbler]

Stone Toss is a Nazi.  He got outed earlier this year.  If you post his real name on Twitter Elon Musk will ban you.

What, nazis can't have a sense of humour? That's a mighty bigoted view.

The thought never crossed my mind that that cartoon was supposed to be humorous.

[Jacob]

An article about Syt's sister: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/misinformation-works-and-a-handful-of-social-supersharers-sent-80-of-it-in-2020/

[Syt]

Not surprised.

[The Minsky Moment]

An article about Syt's sister: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/misinformation-works-and-a-handful-of-social-supersharers-sent-80-of-it-in-2020/

Correction, that would be Mrs. Alito.

Sam is not capable of being a supersharer as apparently whenever he is not sitting on the bench, he is blind, deaf, and incapable of expressing any ideas other than obscure details of Virgina property law.

[The Minsky Moment]

Sadly the article mischaracterizes the study.

The article claims that "In the second study published Thursday, a multi-university group reached the rather shocking conclusion that 2,107 registered U.S. voters accounted for spreading 80% of the "fake news" (which term they adopt) during the 2020 election."

That would be shocking if true, but it isn't

What the linked study actually says is that a review of a panel of 664,391 registered US voters who were active on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election, revealed that 80% of the fake news was spread by the 2,107 super sharers.  Obviously, there are far more registered voters in the US that the 664,391 in the panel, and thus just as obviously the number of super sharers is much higher. Assuming the sample is representative, and assuming the Census Bureau figure if 168 million registered voters in 2020, the actual estimate of total super sharers would be over 500,000

[The Minsky Moment]

"a small group of committed "supersharers," predominately older Republican women, were responsible for the vast majority of the "fake news" in the period looked at."

Also can't conclude that from the study, even assuming the panel was representative. The panel consists only of registered US voters so any fake news spread by foreign sources or non-registered voters in the US would not be captured.

[Syt]

And re-shared a "memory":

[Valmy]

Maybe if we keep electing Democrats and the AfD wins in Germany, they will move back.

[Razgovory]

Man, I thought Obama destroyed America.

[Valmy]

Man, I thought Obama destroyed America.

Obama had turned us into a racist socialist dictatorship which then evaporated six seconds after their guy was sworn in. He didn't even have to pass any new laws.