And here’s a realible source of data, recent research on human diseases and their prevention, which CDC was better known for relia…[Read more]

The narrator was clearly an AI or Bot from how it mispronounced words. Also, the video had an appearance of being a grainy old-timey film when digital video doesn’t naturally have that appearance.

Given what was going on in Minneapolis, the story could have been credible, though the devil is always in the details and always needs…[Read more]

I verified via Google Gemini,…[Read more]

Also, using AI to recognize it.
10-1/2 minutes, plus a one-minute self-promotion at the end:

I start this youtube video several minutes in, leaving 7-minute out take:

(I still hate the hyperbolic headlines, but they’re successfully grabbing lots of clicks. These guys are headed toward a million subscribers.)

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini.

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Google, which has a longstanding partnership with The Associated Press, is but one of man…

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In any case, I avoid watching news more these days, and rely more on either short…[Read more]

6:19 long, Fox news breakup after Murdoch senior dies?

Evidence suggests Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine — a war crime

[Established in 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the oldest fellowship program for journalists in the world. More than 1,300 journalists of accomplishment from 88 countries have received…[Read more]

I jump 13-1/2 minutes into the following yt vid, starting at the meat of her interview. Other timestamps:

26:24…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I apologize if there may be one or two duplicates of sources already mentioned.

Awesome, thanks! No apology needed, at all. Dupes in a topic like this are just reinforcements.

The following goes for everyone:
Feel free to add links to any topic or post that exists elsewhere on AZ… just paste link(s) into any topic here, or create…[Read more]

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The Seymour Hersh Substack
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/
Hersh is a highly-respected independent investigative journalist. Unless you want to subscribe to his substack, his views are…[Read more]

Here they discuss big tech company (e.g. Amazon) evolution in our economy. Leo Laporte highlights an article written by one of my favorite authors, Cory Doctorow.

This video skips some minutes, leaving…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
He could expat to Hungary. (Crossing my fingers.)

I know what you’re talking about, but on the other hand he is one of the few (maybe the only) stridently antiwar voices on the mainstream media.

I, too, am antiwar. I think being in NATO is a mistake. The Europeans don’t need us to counter Russia. Two of them are even nuclear…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
BUT, we haven’t heard the last of TC and we won’t have to wait long to see how this is resolved.

He could expat to Hungary. (Crossing my fingers.)

BUT, we haven’t heard the last of TC and we won’t have to wait long to see how this is resolved.

Fox News has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned.

1 minute read, about Fox “exclusiveness” contract with Tucker
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/12/fox-letter-tucker-carlson-twitter

For example, how much religion would you feel comfortable allowing in schools?…[Read more]

Did you watch the PBS video? It’s actually quite informative.

I know one channel has been put in Youtube jail for a week more than once for inflammatory videos that simply contradict the CDC, WHO, or WEF (or even for simply quoting them!).

Free speech has come to mean…[Read more]

(Yikes, is everyone else getting the YouTube this is age-restricted message? This is getting ridiculous! Now I must explain, the following video is about people and media mending the divides between left and right. This is a fairly typical, innocuous PBS piece, for fuck’s sake. BTW, when I pasted the link into Google’s chat app…[Read more]

Your recommendations are welcome. I hope to eventually categorize recommendations and list them in an easy-to-find format for readers.

POLITICS, often with differing POVs
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The Lost Debate
Hosts Ravi Gupta and Rikki Schlott
(often left vs…[Read more]

You can see that in the Institute for Nonprofit News’ most recent INN Index, which serves as an industry census of sorts. The total number of nonprofit news outlets increased nearly 70% between 2017 and 2021 — but the number of local nonprofits more than doubled. Five years ago, about 20% of nonprofits covered local news; now it’s 42% and rising…

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Well I’ll be damned, M’Lady! They got Him! As in Capital HIM!

Deputies arrest man calling himself God after nearly four-hour standoff
Published 4:55 pm Thursday,

Deputies arrest man calling himself God after nearly four-hour standoff

We Atheists have got a serious rethink to do and…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’ve removed MSNBC from my YouTube feed, but not from Twitter. This tweet is nice and short, and is worth discussing. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Elon could contribute to the Single Party Takeover?

Even without that, one of the benefits of social media was the extent to which it empowered more grassroots movements to get a voi…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’m also thinking that Twitter’s life is probably extended now with the buyout, since its ad model wasn’t life-sustaining, and it looks like consumer fees will drive content, at least in part. And Elon may find ways to promote certain tweeters over others, but I can’t guess how or how soon. The outcome may become “free speech”,…

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“You could secretly ban one party’s candidate…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us mi…

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Autumn wrote:
News or provocation? We live in the era of infinite anger.

Yes, both; sometimes twisted and often conflated. I was on Twitter within weeks of it starting up, handle “acme” for years until I left and neglected it for years and lost the handle to a commercial org. Only recently have I realized/admitted the importance of Twitter as a…[Read more]

Elon’s buying twitter. Small sample of tweets from conservatives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG

Stop the Democrat’s war on women & children.

Keep biological males out of girls/women’s private spaces & sports.

Ban all pediatric gender clinics, puberty blockers, & gender reassignment surgeries on minors.

End sex…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Here is an article about Jordan Peterson from a Vancouver interview about JP on religion.

Some of that makes sense to me straight away, but some of it I don’t understand at first sight.

 And yes (don’t hate me, woke people) I was on the Jordan Peterson Facebook frontline savaging his opponents.

Germane to the thread, for a time he represented the brokenness of the internet and contemporary media. Peterson has things to account for. For a man who was ‘silenced’ (the claim of some of his fans) his voice became the single loudest vo…[Read more]

We evolved to have face-to-face relationships, limited to only dozens or scores of other humans. What seems natural now, really isn’t “natural”.

For me the heyday of the internet was in the early 2000s. Back then, the internet afforded you a way to find communities you may have other wise been cut off from allowing the non-normals to find their…[Read more]