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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When you learned something was false after believing it, what actually changed your mind: a fact, a feeling, or a person?”
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The Cost of Letting main stream media and social media Do Our Thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking about how both the political left and right are pushing narratives through social media, and a lot of what’s being shared is made up of half-truths or no truth at all.... What Is The Third Side?
The Third Side exists to slow the internet down long enough for facts to breathe. We examine public claims through timelines, evidence, source comparison, and narrative analysis.... - dave...
Someone gave me a tip during the Global Financial Crisis that I've since used to help with meaning-making for big, global, potentially ideologically charged news.... - FrankieBoy...
My process is quite simple. I subscribe to a number of sources such as Axios, Politico, NY Times, Snopes. When I see similar claims or information across multiple platforms, I tend to accept them as facts.... The Open Question April 1: How do you decide what to trust?
Right now, today, when you see a claim online or hear something from a friend or read a headline: What's your actual process? Do you have one? Do you mostly just feel it? Something else? When was the last time you changed your mind about a source you used to trust?... Possible Is Not Proven
One of the internet’s biggest mistakes is treating “possible” like it already became “proven.” A claim can be plausible and still unsupported. A suspicion can be reasonable and still incomplete. A confident speaker can still be wrong.... - renee...
IDK much about either one either. I love what you do! Stayin’ in your range of influence. I figure as long as I vote, I don’t need to tune into all the stuff in between. I know enough to vote. My mom plays Fox in the afternoon for hours.... - [deleted]...
That’s actually kind of what my post was about. When we start calling whole groups “low IQ,” make blanket claims, and say one side is pure good and the other is pure evil, we stop thinking critically and start reacting emotionally. My point wasn’t left vs right.... - laymanpascal...
From a developmental perspective onr of the most interesting questions is how early and how safely can children be taught to not believe content. Without losing sincere engagement, we also need to acknowledge that images, videos,.voices, identities of people sending messages,... I spend my time researching real‑world events, writing clear editorials, and digging for truth in places most people overlook. I enjoy examining claims, exposing misinformation, and cutting through noise to get to what’s real.... - Sassiebrat67...
I agree completely. But me being me, wonders, WHY the information is so abundant and what are the keepers hoping to achieve? Is the information given, not to help us with gaining knowledge, not to make us wiser, but rather, to keep us so busy trying to assimilate it all, while... - Sassiebrat67...
I read the article. still hung up on discerning the truth. The article maybe implies that the only way to discern the truth with finality is legal judgement but I don’t believe that’s what you meant. I research quite a bit.... - lightseeker...
The interesting part is that this is both true and potentially misleading. Yes, human attention is manipulable. Novelty, fear, repetition, authority, social proof, framing, and selective exposure can profoundly shape what we notice and eventually believe.... Could this Noah's Ark excavation change our understanding of biblical history?
Partly true as a news event, not as a discovery. Researchers really have started core drilling at a boat-shaped landform near Mount Ararat, and they really used ground-penetrating radar....