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recent bookmarks from jm5G is the new antivax/chemtrails conspiracy theory2019-05-22T10:40:13+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-health-russia.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fwilliam-j.-broad
jm5g conspiracies loons crazy russia propaganda disinformation wireless youtubehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3bf36513699d/People Think This Whole QAnon Conspiracy Theory Is A Prank On Trump Supporters2018-08-09T13:29:52+00:00
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a
jm"Let us take for granted, for a while, that QAnon started as a prank in order to trigger right-wing weirdos and have a laugh at them. There's no doubt it has long become something very different. At a certain level it still sounds like a prank. But who's pulling it on whom?" they [Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, and Federico Guglielmi] said.
]]>q conspiracy politics trump qanon luther-blissett discordianism wu-ming funny crazyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:284b3d44e6ef/Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign | News | The Times2018-07-16T09:17:04+00:00
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-jeremy-corbyn-during-election-campaign-grlx75c27
jmCampaign chiefs at Labour HQ hoodwinked their own leader because they disapproved of some of Corbyn’s left-wing messages. They convinced him they were following his campaign plans by spending just £5,000 on adverts solely designed to be seen by Corbyn, his aides and their favourite journalists, while pouring far more money into adverts with a different message for ordinary voters.
]]>advertising politics crazy facebook jeremy-corbyn microtargeting ads uk labour-partyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:96a93c5bc91a/Crank magnetism2018-05-16T14:49:08+00:00
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism
jmCrank magnetism also denotes the tendency — even for otherwise "lone issue" cranks — to accumulate more crank beliefs over time. You know that old saying about not being so open-minded that your brain falls out? People with crank magnetism didn't pay attention to that. Crank magnetism is an important stepping stone on the path towards being wrong all of the time. Its opposite is the stopped clock (which is when otherwise overly credulous people actually find some crankery that they won't believe in, and may even actively denounce it).
]]>cranks psychoceramics crazy crank-magnetism antivaxxers climate-change-denialhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f65d8a3f4adb/YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times2018-03-11T21:53:22+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
jmIt seems as if you are never “hard core” enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. It promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes. Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.
]]>youtube culture politics radicalization crazy machine-learning google zeynep-tufekcihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bc466ddc73da/Anthony Levandowski has founded an AI religion2017-09-28T09:27:56+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/
jm In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer at the heart of the patent and trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.”
this article is full of bananas.]]>google crazy uber waymo self-driving-cars cars religion way-of-the-future ai godhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c60d7f009414/Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories | Co.Exist | ideas + impact2016-05-12T13:04:57+00:00
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059742/social-network-algorithms-are-distorting-reality-by-boosting-conspiracy-theories
jmIn his 1962 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, former Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin describes a world where our ability to technologically shape reality is so sophisticated, it overcomes reality itself. "We risk being the first people in history," he writes, "to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them."
]]>algorithms facebook ethics filtering newsfeed conspiracy-theories twitter viral crazyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51b1f7baf155/insane ESB health and safety policy2014-04-15T15:25:14+00:00
http://www.esbelectricmail.com/_archives/em_archive/archives/apr2010_em/healthhabitat/hh6.htm
jmWhere it is not possible to avoid reversing, it is ESB policy that staff driving on behalf of the company or anybody on company premises should reverse into car spaces/bays, allowing them to drive out subsequently.
BUT WHYYYYYYYYYY]]>esb health-n-safety policies crazy funny driving reversing lol safetyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c8e00e8c5094/A patent on 'Birth of a Child By Centrifugal Force'2014-02-09T23:00:31+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jul/25/research.highereducation1
jmOn November 9 1965, the Blonskys were granted US Patent 3,216,423, for an Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force. The drawings, as well as the text, are a revelation. The Patent Office has them online at http://tinyurl.com/jd4ra and I urge you - if you have any shred of curiosity in your body - to look them up.
For conceiving what appears to be the greatest labour-saving device ever invented, George and Charlotte Blonsky won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of Managed Health Care.
This is utterly bananas. (via christ)]]>via:christ crazy patents 1960s centrifuge birth medicine ignobelshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b822498cf07d/'No basis in law' : Gardai probe Ballyphehane group after raid2013-11-21T17:04:53+00:00
http://corkindependent.com/20131121/news/no-basis-in-law-gardai-probe-ballyphehane-group-after-raid-S75995.html
jmThe house of one member of the group was raided by gardaí last week, but it is not thought that any arrests were made, according to an eyewitness. Gardaí broke down the front door of the house.
The group, which appears to be part of the Freemen of the Land movement, which does not recognise the State, has attempted to hold 'trials' in Ballyphehane Community Centre. It attempted to summon HSE staff, gardaí, social workers, solicitors and others to appear to be tried by a self-selected jury earlier this month.
The group handed out documents purporting to be a summons to HSE staff and garda stations, demanding that named people attend a trial by 'éire court' on Tuesday 5 November at 9am “to stand trial for their acts of terrorism against mothers, their offspring and others in our community”, according to the group's literature.
This week the group has begun posting about UCC, saying the college is “a private for profit corporation, and a business partner of and partly owned by Pfizers and Bank of Ireland”. The group suggest that UCC bases its “authority” on Maritime Law. UCC has yet to respond to the group's allegations.
]]>freemen crazy cork politics ireland hse gardai ucc lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a7baeac0372/How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts | Ars Technica2013-10-03T10:36:16+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took-down-the-dread-pirate-roberts/
jmsilk-road drugs crazy ross-william-ulbricht fbi libertarian murder torhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:47f849eb8e98/The worst week for the worst Taoiseach in the State's history2011-01-24T09:52:34+00:00
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-worst-week-for-the-worst-taoiseach-in-the-states-history-2507517.html
jmgubu funny inept ireland brian-cowen fianna-fail dail crazy politicshttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3b9b075f2bdc/