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  • After blowing up the aid trucks.

    We did not blow up an aid truck. We blew up terrorists.

    After evidence comes out that, yes, it was an aid truck.

    Well, they did not properly identify themselves as an aid truck.

    Video evidence comes out that they identified themselves on the truck, with their uniforms, and during direct conversation with the soldiers who then killed them anyway.

    One of the aid workers was totally a terrorist. He was hiding a bomb in his underpants, we swear!

    Everyone knows this is an obvious lie.

    And what are you going go do about it? Tweet at us?





  • I think our skill to process information has natural limits, which were overwhelmed decades ago by the social media firehose and a breakdown of information-filtering infrastructure.

    an average edition of a newspaper the size of The Times already contains more information about the world than a person in the 17th Century was likely to come across in a lifetime. (Wurman, Information Anxiety)

    That was back in 1989. We’re now 30 years later with an internet supercharged by predatory algorithms.

    And we can’t filter all of it without either completely withdrawing from the world entirely or spending months learning why and how to filter it ourselves.

    We have had information overload in some form or another since the 1500s. What is changing now is the filters we use for the most of the 1500 period are breaking, and designing new filters doesn’t mean simply updating the old filters. They have broken for structural reasons, not for service reasons. (Shirky, It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure)



  • In an analysis of human exposure to climate change extremes — such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, cyclones and crop failures — researchers found that children born in 2020 are two to seven times more likely to face one-in-10,000 year events than those who were born in 1960.

    Why pick (great) grandparents as the reference point?

    Wouldn’t it be more practical to compare them with their parents?

    Edit: the actual study does show comparative data for other cohorts (i.e. every decade since 1960). Unless the average LiveScience reader is in their 60s, they just picked a weirdly unrelatable way to describe the study.






  • creamlike504@jlai.luOPtoManga@ani.social[RT!] Tower Dungeon
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    10 days ago

    I’m only eleven chapters in, but so far I haven’t seen gratuitous sexual violence.

    I have seen a lot of regular violence, but it’s not played up the way it is in violence porn.

    Evisceration of a Gatekeeper

    Bisected bodies on a staircase

    That’s pretty much as gory as it gets for the first 100 pages, and pretty representative of my experience so far.