Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t by Tom Phillips, 2019
As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the hilarious story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
Israel has broad powers to rescue any hostage according to international law.
"The Convention thus accords a discretion to States in choosing how to respond to #hostage-taking, conceivably extending from negotiation at one end of the spectrum to forcible measures of rescue at the other."
The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.
Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.
Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".
Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."
Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
What's demoralizing is that almost no other top editors in the business are willing to say this so plainly -- to make clear that their organizations will refuse to give any ink, much less equal ink, to the relentless liars who are poisoning our public discourse.
"The north star here is #truth. We tell the truth, even when it offends some of the people who pay us for information.
The truth is that Donald #Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an #insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our #history has done worse.
US Senate Majority Leader Schumer says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is a "major obstacle to peace" who has "all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists."
Unitary management:
"A good decision is no longer a decision legally well-supported, but a decision made within a reasonable time, which will not be appealed and whose application will incur fewer costs."
If you have friends who are unglued about the Supreme Court decision and are simplifying the conclusions, you can send them to the piece I just posted.
Warn them that it is long, and that I will be taking apart some of their favorite legal pundits.
There was a time when I removed names before I critizied people.
"As a result of our current information disruption, people who inhabit certain #media ecosystems are being sprayed with a firehose of speculations, conjecture & hype. They get confused. They don’t know what the #truth is...
Sometimes when people are continually confused, they conclude that the entire system is hopelessly broken & they give up on it. This is what Russian #propaganda does deliberately."
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
"We must confess that our adversaries have a marked advantage over us in the discussion. In very few words they can announce a half-truth; and in order to demonstrate that it is incomplete, we are obliged to have recourse to long and dry dissertations."
— Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, First Series (1845)
Australian Eurovision performer posts in support of Palestine 🍉 ( aussie.zone )
source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6sUpWuIf3y/