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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 9 months

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I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

#mine #pbs #npr #libraries #public libraries #wikipedia #librivox #libby #hoopla #open library #internet archive #resources

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unicorrrrrn · 11 months

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A QUEEN

#it's time to rise up #npr #i love this lady

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lasttarrasque · 5 months

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mostlysignssomeportents · 7 months

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A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

Media explainers are a cheap way to become an instant expert on everything from billionaire submarine excursions to hellaciously complex geopolitical conflicts, but On The Media's "Breaking News Consumers' Handbooks" are explainers that help you understand other explainers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media

The latest handbook is an Israel-Gaza edition. It doesn't aim to parse fine distinctions over the definition of "occupation" or identify the source of shell fragments. Rather, it offers seven bullet points' worth of advice on weighing all the other news you hear about the war:

https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2023/Oct/27/BNCH_ISRAEL_GAZA_EDITION_1.pdf

I. "Headlines are obscured by the fog of war"

Headline writers have a hard job under the best of circumstances – trying to snag your interest in a few words. Headlines can't encompass all the nuance of a story, and they are often written by editors, not the writers who produced the story. Between the imperatives for speed and brevity and the broken telephone between editors and writers, it's easy for headlines to go wrong, even when no one is attempting to mislead you. Even reliable outlets will screw up headlines sometimes – and that likelihood goes way up in times like these. You gotta read the story, not just the headline.

II. Know red flags for bullshit

The factually untrue information that spreads furthest tends to originate with a handful of superspreader accounts. Whether these people are Just Wrong or malicious disinfo peddlers, they share a few characteristics that should trip your BS meter and prompt extra scrutiny:

High-frequency posting

Emotionally charged framing

Posts that purport to be summaries or excerpts from news outlets, but do not include links to the original

The phrase "breaking news" (no one has that many scoops)

III. Don't trust screenshots

Screenshots of news stories, tweets, and other social media should come with links to the original. It's just too damned easy to fake a screenshot.

IV. "Know your platform"

It used to be that Twitter got a lot of first-person accounts from people in the thick of crises, while Facebook and Reddit contained commentary and reposts. Today, Twitter is just another aggregator. This time around, there's lots of first-person, real-time reporting coming off Telegram (it runs well on old phones and doesn't chew up batteries). Instagram is widely used in both Israel and the West Bank.

V. "Crisis actors" aren't a thing

People who attribute war images to "crisis actors" are either deluded or lying. There's plenty of ways to distort war news, but paying people to pretend to be grieving family members is essentially unheard of. Any explanation that involves crisis actors is a solid reason to permanently block that source.

VI. There's plenty of ways to verify stuff that smells fishy

TinEye, Yandex and Google Image Search are all good tools for checking "breaking" images and seeing if they're old copypasta ganked from earlier conflicts (or, you know, video-games). The fact that an image doesn't show up in one of these searches doesn't guarantee its authenticity, of course.

VII. Think before you post

Israel-Gaza is the most polluted media pool yet. Don't make it worse.

There's plenty more detail on this (especially on the use of verification tools) in Brooke Gladstone's radio segment:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-gaza-edition

The media environment sucks, and warrants skepticism and caution. But we also need to be skeptical of skepticism itself! As danah boyd started saying all the way back in 2018, weaponized media literacy leads to conspiratorialism:

https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html

Remember, the biggest peddlers of "fake news" are also the most prolific users of the term. For a lot of these information warriors, the point isn't to get you to believe them – they'll settle for you believing nothing. "Flood the zone with bullshit" is Steve Bannon's go-to tactic, and it's one that his acolytes have picked up and multiplied.

It's important to be a critical thinker, but there's plenty of people who've figured out how to weaponize a critical viewpoint and turn it into nihilism. Remember, the guy who wrote How To Lie With Statistics was a tobacco industry shill who made his living obfuscating the link between smoking and cancer. It's absolutely possible to lie with statistics, but it's also possible to use statistics to know the truth, as Tim Harford explains in his 2021 must-read book The Data Detective:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

There's a world of difference between being misled and being brainwashed. A lot of today's worry about "disinformation" and "misinformation" has the whiff of a moral panic:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/are-we-having-a-moral-panic-over-misinformation.html

It's possible to have a nuanced view of this subject – to take steps to enure you're not being tricked without equating crude tricks like sticking a fake BBC chyron on a 10-year-old image with unstoppable mind-control:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news

#pluralistic #media literacy #fake news #disinformation #misinformation #israel gaza #gaza #israel #palestine #conspiratorialism #hoaxes #infowar #on the media #breaking news #npr #flood the zone

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humanoidhistory · 29 days

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Ralph McQuarrie poster art the 1983 NPR radio version of The Empire Strikes Back.

#the empire strikes back #yoda #ralph mcquarrie #npr #star wars #star wars day #may the 4th be with you #may the 4th #film

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music-orthemisery · 6 months

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FAKE OUT RANKED AS ONE OF NPR’S TOP SONGS OF 2023

#HI BBY!!!!#fob tiny desk WHEN #andy hurley #joe trohman #pete wentz #fob #patrick stump #fall out boy #npr

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gamer2002 · 2 months

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Journalists demonstrate that they are unbiased by suspending the editor who has said that they are biased

#npr #npr news #journalism #press #journalistic ethics #ethics #media #journalistic integrity

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70sscifiart · 8 months

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The NPR show "Here & Now" just aired a segment about the 1976 Wrinkle in Time cover artist, using my interview with them from the longer episode I posted a while back. Pretty cool!

#NPR #Wrinkle in Time

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ralfmaximus · 1 year

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NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media," the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.

Elon Musk personally fucked over NPR so they walked.

#april 12 2023 #twitter hellsite(derogatory)#twitter #npr

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muppet-facts · 24 days

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Muppet Fact #1081

According to archivist Karen Falk, Kermit's birthday is not May 9. This date is actually Lisa Henson's birthday.

The first mention of Kermit's birth date was from a 2005 NPR article posted on May 9 that said "Hard to believe that he still looks so good, but Kermit the Frog turns 50 today, 50 years of being green."

Sources:

Gordemer, Barry. “Happy 50th Birthday, Kermit!” NPR, May 9, 2005. https://www.npr.org/2005/05/09/4635468/happy-50th-birthday-kermit.

The Jim Henson Company (@/hensoncompany). "Henson History..." Instagram. May 8, 2024. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6uPZqDSppM/.

The Jim Henson Company (@/hensoncompany). "Happy birthday, Lisa Henson! ..." Instagram. May 9, 2024. https://www.instagram.com/hensoncompany/p/C6wVLSEMnq0/?img_index=2.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #kermit the frog #karen falk #the jim Henson company #Instagram #npr #kermit #lisa henson

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dduane · 1 year

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Meanwhile, in the Badly Behaved Billionaires dep’t…

#NPR #Elon Musk #ffs

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lupucs · 9 months

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Who is he waiting for? 🌒

Music: Splunk by ADnova

Been experimenting with NPR 3D lately so I tried to recreate a more or less cel-shaded 2D comic book look with my character Pen in Blender. I usually don't show off these characters as much since they're for a long term personal project, but I haven't featured him here in a while so it was about time to bring him back!

Here are some old renders and drawings of this funky lil guy:

#animation #3d #loop #blender #npr #oc #my art #pen

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whatbigotspost · 1 year

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Oh hey here’s a resource that says what we all already know: Christian nationalism is a rising threat in the US. It also covers how the 10% of Americans who are Christian Nationalists are pretty damn comfortable with fascist leadership.

I give this to you not because YOU need this proof, dear follower. But because your centrist cousin Beth or coworker Greg take NPR more seriously as a source than tumblr discourse…

So it’s here to source as needed, as you help them PAY ATTENTION TO THIS SHIT. Because we all really need to PAY ATTENTION TO THIS SHIT.

You’re PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS SHIT, right?

#Christian nationalism #christofascism #npr

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phoenixyfriend · 3 months

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I would advise listening to this podcast all the way through:

There is a section where they talk about how, while pro-ceasefire progressives are loud, they are low in number. The two statistics given are an opinion poll in Pennsylvania about how a pro-Israel stance has actually benefited one of the Senators, and the New Hampshire democratic primary.

In the NH primary, Biden was not on the ballot, for complicated Democratic infighting reasons about which state gets to host the first primary. He nonetheless won the state with about 64%, because people wrote in with his name.

There was also a campaign, a loud one, to get people to write in "ceasefire." It got under 1,500 votes.

Biden got over 77,000. As a write-in candidate.

"But the primary didn't matter!"

Sure, in terms of actual impact on delegates, but look. People are using it as evidence that the people begging for a ceasefire are louder than they are numerous. Shouting, but only a handful.

Abstaining does nothing, even in the primaries.

Hopefully, Michigan will change that, but we cannot rely on one blue-wall state to make a case for all of us.

Do not just shout online. Even in-person protests won't do much when it's a small handful of people each time, because What If It's The Same Five People. That's only five votes, right?

But what if you vote, and tell them you disapprove?

What if you call in, tell your Senator and House Rep that you may not vote for them if this continues, and they match your name and address to a database and find that yes, you DO have a vote you can withhold?

I know I'm a broken record, but PLEASE call your reps.

I'll even help you figure out what to say.

#Spotify #current events #npr #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #Palestine #united states #Phoenix politics

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not-this-crude-matter · 1 year

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Just heard on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me that Michelle Rodriguez had to be reminded not to use her regular Jersey accent for her character in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which means the producers had the chance to canonize human barbarians as having Jersey accents and then they DIDN'T, the COWARDS

#dnd #dnd honor among thieves #dungeons & dragons #d&d #d&d movie #dnd movie #barbarian #michelle rodriguez #wait wait don't tell me #npr

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drsonnet · 23 days

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BREAKING: The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin to grant new rights to the state of Palestine and called on the Security Council to revive its membership bid.

How #UNGA members voted on #Palestine :

UN votes symbolically in favor of Palestinian membership

The United Nations general assembly approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. The United States voted against the resolution, along with Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea.

9 against:

US, Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea

قائمة الدول تشمل التسعة الرهط المفسدين الذين صوتوا ضد منح السلطة الفلسطينية #فلسطين عضوية كاملة في الأمم المتحدة..ربنا ينتقم منكم و معكم 25 امتنعوا أيضا.

update:

Here are some of the changes in status that Palestine will have a right to later this year:

To be seated among Member States in alphabetical order

Make statements on behalf of a group

Submit proposals and amendments and introduce them

Co-sponsor proposals and amendments, including on behalf of a group

Propose items to be included in the provisional agenda of the regular or special sessions and the right to request the inclusion of supplementary or additional items in the agenda of regular or special sessions

The right of members of the delegation of the State of Palestine to be elected as officers in the plenary and the Main Committees of the General Assembly

Full and effective participation in UN conferences and international conferences and meetings convened under the auspices of the General Assembly or, as appropriate, of other UN organs.

UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership | UN News

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