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The Federal Communications Commission announced Wednesday that it will finally be voting on whether to restore net neutrality protections that were repealed under the Trump administration.� The ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Evaluating Misinformation An objective system for assessing and weighing news What we need to discuss is HOW to get it done. This paper is intended to be the beginning of a discussion of HOW to help people evaluate news and information, not just in the...
by The Tell with Christine Axsmith
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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How do you, I, and people in general know anything? Of course we all “know” what we perceive through our five senses. Assuming that our brains are working right—so we accurately perceive and remember what our senses tell us—we know at least that. We...
by dratler
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 07:40 PM PST
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The Washington Post highlights that Alexa is telling lies about the 2020 election. If you ask it about election fraud, it will lie to you and tell you that the election was stolen and that there was unprecedented fraud. It does this because it uses for...
by angryea
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The good news is that it appears that a majority of adults are beginning to understand that Trump committed serious crimes. However, even though the republicans have yet to produce any evidence or witnesses to prove that Hunter Biden committed any...
by Dem
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 06:14 PM PDT
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Referencing a particularly vile form of cheese, this assertion is also quite fitting for Artificial Intelligence. It is “The triumph of technology over conscience.” Ultimately, I think AI will drive the rigorously curious among us back to Libraries....
by AnotherOklahoman
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on Sat May 06, 2023 at 08:54 AM PDT
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The last two weeks have brought back the reminder that mass shootings in the United States continue unabated. In their wake, the Secret Service published a 60-page report on Wednesday that details the data they have about mass attacks. The study,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 10:46 AM PST
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Information comes from various sources, books 📕, radio/ TV, encyclopedia, magazine articles and more. Encyclopedia provides information of important events. Bible and Quran provide information of prophets and messengers. Archeologists and...
by Rajwantee
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on Tue Jan 24, 2023 at 11:12 AM PST
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 · 9:07:18 PM +00:00 · boblite I am using the latest release of Adobe Reader 2022.003.20282 64 bit. It will not allow me to search or excerpt from this particular State of New Jersey government document. I have been able...
by boblite
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on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 11:47 AM PST
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Public libraries are among the most pure democratic institutions in the country. The goal of the public library is to provide free information to the public. Whether you have a home or not, you are welcome at the public library, no matter your...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 05:30 PM PST
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Even if Trump doesn’t read transcripts, the feds are looking at Twitter. A federal agent and two police officers showed up to a North Texas woman’s house on Thursday morning warning her to stop threatening the government on Twitter after she posted in...
by annieli
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on Fri Jul 01, 2022 at 10:05 PM PDT
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On March 9, the Kingsland Branch Library in Llano County, Texas, lost a librarian. Suzette Baker told KXAN that she was fired for not complying with top-down directives to remove books from the library’s shelves. The termination letter sited Baker “for...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 05:09 PM PDT
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Imagine pining for a war against Ukraine for years as wealthy, state propagandists in Russia. You have spent years lying, deceiving and getting rich by shaping public opinion to favor Putin and his aims. Only to find that when that war happens, that...
by Kappyhour
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on Sun Mar 06, 2022 at 07:05 PM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Feb 27, 2022 at 06:51 PM PST
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I thought it might be interesting to present the views of someone outside of the USA — about as far outside as it’s possible to get. I’ll be doing my best to cast a critical eye over the stories here and others in the news regarding American politics...
by Trollheart
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on Fri Dec 17, 2021 at 01:42 PM PST
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“The wheels of justice (for Trump) turn slowly. But at the end of the day, they... turn full circle” Indictments for previous guy and his enablers are going to happen, even as Steve Bannon says we need to stay focused on signal rather than noise. We only know a signal’s message/meaning because of the noise differentials. There have been two...
by annieli
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on Tue Nov 23, 2021 at 09:05 PM PST
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Twitter is mocking Senator Blumenthal because the kids might have ‘fake’ Instagram accounts to keep their ‘private’ digital thoughts away from parents yet share that private information with their ‘friends’. Why was it so hard for the Facebook rep to...
by annieli
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on Thu Sep 30, 2021 at 01:48 PM PDT
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Hi’. Despite the past 4-5 years and a current “vaccine-hesitancy” movement in the midst of a pandemic, people still seem to cling on the illusion that the voter will take one look at the ills and crims done and wake up. I am a foreigner, I am young and...
by Vuld Edone
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on Thu Sep 02, 2021 at 12:17 PM PDT
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One of the many great things inside of the American Rescue Plan passed into law by Democrats and Joe Biden this past week is billions of dollars in funds for infrastructure investments for state, local, and tribal governments that include...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 12:59 PM PDT
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RheingoldLearningRevolution 20 minute summary about the pedagogy and use of social media Howard Rheingold developed over 10 years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley https://youtu.be/DgbQiDeQ12I Howard Rheingold wrote The Virtual Community back in 1993...
by gmoke
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on Fri Feb 26, 2021 at 07:38 PM PST
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- With righteous outrage and humor, Rep. Jared Moskowitz calls out MTG as Putin's envoy to US CongressBack in 1954, when Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign was at its peak, the Wisconsin senator picked a fight with the U.S. Army, claiming there was lax security at a top-secret army facility. The U.S. Army hired Boston lawyer...51 comments 198 Recs
- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...71 comments 225 Recs
- This is the best news of the day. As Dark Brandon might say, trashing an over-the-horizon radar is a big fucking deal. Is that the silhouette of Ammo Dump Jesus in the ball of flame blessing the bavovna? Run away! Run away! Russians try an assault with...60 comments 258 Recs
- Dickie Betts has passed, now jamming with Duane. The Allman Bros were a major part of my life’s soundtrack. Not because I was into them but my little brother was. Donnie had them cranked all the time, Southern Rock was his genre. Donnie also recently...127 comments 327 Recs
- Today should be an interesting day in Judge Merchan’s court room.� Donald Trump reposted an attack by Fox’s Jesse Watters on the jury members selected for Trump’s current trial in NYC on ...233 comments 448 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...18 comments 131 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...374 comments 342 Recs
- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...149 comments 303 Recs
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- One of the many things I’ve learned here on DK is that there is a rule (of thumb)�about asking a question with your title.� Basically the rule says you already know the answer to the question.� ...270 comments 169 Recs
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...193 comments 498 Recs
- I am no fan of religion but will acknowledge there are some benefits to churchlife. My Mom loved church music and looked forward to choir practice and Sunday mornings I was always taken to Sunday school. Dad prefered the Church of the 18 holes when...191 comments 125 Recs
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- ABC news and Reuters report that Israel has struck a site in Isfahan, Iran near an airport. Currently, information is still coming in and we do not know if there are casualties or serious damage. Read here: abcnews.go.com/… www.reuters.com/...11 comments 10 Recs
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- Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...19 comments 5 Recs
- I decided to celebrate my�birthday Monday by returning to Bolinas. It may have been�two years since I� drove over Mount Tamalpais to visit my old�home. A friend accompanied me for the afternoon. We ...74 comments 25 Recs
- The horse race isn’t really relevant right now. For one thing it can change, for another swing states are what matter, but there’s a lot more to polling that is of interest. Last week Kerry Eleveld, a DK staffer here made a post showing how polling...13 comments 15 Recs
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- Zog Marano: a modern Yiddish poet's Passover questions to Marranos centuries before. Welcome to A Song of Zion , our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an ...5 comments 8 Recs
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- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...71 comments 225 Recs
- Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed. Nick Kristof: “One of the most heartbreaking stories from Gaza was of 6-year-old Hind who was sole survivor when her vehicle was hit. Her...18 comments 36 Recs
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