MediaTakeOut: “DIZAYYYYYYYUMMMMM!!! David Miscavige Spotted LEAVING THE CLUB…With L RON HUBBARDS GHOST” #ScientologyAdvertorials
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More than a dozen Obama campaign staffers complain to BuzzFeed about Inaugural snub: http://t.co/JlOmrOqi
More than a dozen Obama campaign staffers complain to BuzzFeed about Inaugural snub: http://t.co/JlOmrOqi
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Apple Cuts iPhone Part Orders
Apple has cut its orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, at a time when the U.S. company faces greater competition from rival Samsung.
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Newspaper’s gun-permit map used by burglars to target home?
Newspaper’s gun-permit map used by burglars to target home?
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I Was Deluded to Believe Lance
Buzz Bissinger says he relied on a manipulative liar who insisted he didn’t win his cycling championships through doping. A Pulitzer Prize winner’s mea culpa.
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Swatch to Acquire Harry Winston Watches and Jewelry
The Swiss watchmaker will pay $750 million for the luxury watch and jewelry brand and assume up to $250 million in debt, the companies said.
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Comments Are Important?
Online comments hurt science understanding, study finds
Science, New Media, and the Public, from Online science news needs careful study.
The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck
The researchers were trying to find out what effect exposure to such rudeness had on public perceptions of nanotech risks. They found that it wasn’t a good one. Rather, it polarized the audience: Those who already thought nanorisks were low tended to become more sure of themselves when exposed to name-calling, while those who thought nanorisks are high were more likely to move in their own favored direction. In other words, it appeared that pushing people’s emotional buttons, through derogatory comments, made them double down on their preexisting beliefs.
The study, which was in pre-publishing form, appears to have been taken offline.
Don’t Panic: Challenges Regarding Science, News and Comments Online
I don’t want anyone to forget these questions, so I’m asking them again. Please think about them, and weigh in here. What do you make of these?
•What can be done to get around the Google bottleneck – that self-reinforcing search-engine feedback loop mentioned above?
•What can we do to consistently draw attention to good science reporting?
•Do the benefits of online commenting outweigh the costs?
John Stuart Mill, Internet Trolls, And The Principle Of Charity, Part I
As Mill highlighted a person “is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion to show that experience is to be interpreted… Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning.” For Mill this allowed us to step ever closer to the truth of a situation or gain ever more clarity on ideas. This was the most important goal of all rational debate and, for Mill, thoughtful discussion one of the most powerful ways to acquire it.
Reading charitably does not even mean reading realistically or knowing the reader’s “true” intention, since that is largely impossible especially on a platform like the Internet. It means reading a comment, an idea, or a question in the best possible light, warranted only by two properties: (1) we are fallible and cannot know everything, no matter how certain we or our group might be; (2) many people are bad at communicating and sometimes have never encountered the ideas being presented, thus their asking questions should be viewed as if from a Martian rather than a murderer.
Charity, Accuracy, And Being ‘Nice’ In Online Debates
Xark: Why I Shut Down Comments
Climate Trolls: An Illustrated Bestiary
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How we will beat the NRA
Bloomberg: One month has passed since 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. No words could do justice to the horror we felt. No pictures could convey the anguish and grief of the survivors and their families.
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Mayor Bloomberg Thinks He Can Break Up the NRA and the GOP
Last month in an appearance on Meet the Press, New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Mayor Bloomberg might be “counterproductive” as a spokesman for gun control because the movement needs to win over “rural and red America.” As Frank Rich put it: “Translation: He’s an East Coast Jew.” Bloomberg shot back at Brooks in a Sunday interview with the Washington Post, saying, “Incidentally, just define David Brooks … As I remember, he’s got to be in the 1 percent — the amount of money he makes as a columnist. I don’t know where that came from.†He also provided more fodder for Brooks, saying of gun rights advocates who think the government is out to get them, “the general public that thinks this is meshugana.†But supposedly, Bloomberg is fine with others taking the lead on his pet issue. “And so we’re not going to be the star,†Bloomberg said. “My interest is in having this done. I don’t need to get credit for it.â€
Of course, Bloomberg still wants to play a large role in the push for stricter gun laws, but he’s content to let his super-PAC do the talking. In the last election Bloomberg donated $10 million to five candidates who oppose the NRA and four won. “It seemed effective, and I’m certainly going to take a good, hard look at next time,” says Bloomberg. “You can organize people, I can write checks.â€
That’s not to say that Bloomberg is following anyone else’s lead on the issue. While many fellow gun control advocates think they’ll need to vote out Republicans to get reforms passed, the mayor believes that if the GOP can have a change of heart on immigration, they can do the same on guns. “Somebody got them the way they are now,†he says. “Why can’t you change them?†It did take the loss of a presidential election for some Republicans to change their tune on immigration — and the shift has yet to result in any new legislation — but if anyone has the time and money to devote to a longshot effort like breaking up the GOP and the NRA, it’s Mayor Bloomberg.
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In a 1792 letter, G. Washington sought help getting rid of Pierre L’Enfant – who’d been fired but wouldn’t leave DC. http://t.co/Rg9iayuO
In a 1792 letter, G. Washington sought help getting rid of Pierre L’Enfant – who’d been fired but wouldn’t leave DC. http://t.co/Rg9iayuO
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