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The information war is real, and we’re losing it

“Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ” she says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.”

Starbird says she’s concluded, provocatively, that we may be headed toward “the menace of unreality — which is that nobody believes anything anymore.” Alex Jones, she says, is “a kind of prophet. There really is an information war for your mind. And we’re losing it.”

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Starbird sighed. “I used to be a techno-utopian. Now I can’t believe that I’m sitting here talking to you about all this.”

Boobla Con

Perfect

N__B says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:30 pm

In Florida did Boobla Con a pleasure dome erect…

wjts says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:44 pm

His mouth, like a leaky faucet, ran,
With falsehoods unmeasurable by man
Not a one of them correct.

sibusisodan says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:56 pm

Some damsels with a drink or more
In a video tape I saw:
And they were all Russian maids,
And on–

Sorry, gotta go, person from Porlock at the door. I’ll remember it all for when I return, it’s ok.

Duck!

Looked out the window, saw a duck flying through our trees. Saw another duck. They landed. In a tree! Ducks, in a tree.

I was incredulous!

Grabbed the binoculars. Everyone who lives near trees should have binoculars.

Yes indeed, ducks.

They were pretty far away. But I could see them. The male had crazy markings on his head! Stripes. Bright, twisty colors. Like hot 1980s graphics!

They are "wood ducks"! Descriptive names are the best names.


Somebody else's picture!

They have webbed feet with claws. They can perch. And they can swim.

They're actually pretty common. But it was my first time.

We The People

Want to know what our representatives look at on the internet.

Republicans in Congress just voted to allow Americans’ browser history to be bought and sold. A genius crowdfunding campaign wants to use that against them.

The website searchinternethistory.com is attempting to raise $1 million in order to put in bids to purchase the internet history of leading Republicans and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members. The first histories the site aims to buy are those of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.