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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together

Oct 11

“When you decide which news source to trust, what makes you believe someone is telling you the truth instead of just telling you who to be angry at?”

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  • ↳onGreat charts on polarization and echo-chambers in the USAby
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    Republic-of-Cascadia·...

    "Shouting echo chamber" = a claim made when one side offers any criticism of the other; i.e., that any disagreement means you're in an ideological 'echo chamber.'

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  • ↳onHow do I measure whether an epistemic intervention improved anything without the metric quietly collapsing back into engagement?by
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    An “Epistemic intervention”.  What is that?  Like a grieving the things we can’t change?  “The metric quietly collapsing into engagement”… also mysterious and unclear to me.  It evokes quantum entanglement.  Or something....
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  • ↳onWHY do we continue to look for a "savior"?±±±±bySSassiebrat67
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    I think we’re all looking out for a perfect process with maximum effort/ reward yield. The sphere we’re looking to build in is a directed desire ( by research ) for a specific person or candidate ; then, for them to bring our intentions to bureaucracy....
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    Blank Journalism Meets Social Studies

    A muddled suggestion. I’m being introspective-ish. From a personal snapshot for personal perspective. I don’t know if practical writing and  insight has self-reflective properties. Are we the audience of our own personas/ or even an experienced group culture?...
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  • ↳onWorth mentioningbySSassiebrat67
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    WOW! As I read so many opinions on today's political goings-on, I am embarrassed, as a National Merit teacher, by how little today's Americans know about American history, world history, American government, and political science....
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  • ↳onThe Open Question July 1: What does the USA stand for?by
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    I agree, the narratives we feed ourselves via the media, including social media, overrepresent the negative and under-represent all the wonderfulness....
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  • ↳onInquiring mindsby
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    MendoRosie707·...
    The transformation of marginalized people—specifically LGBTQ+ individuals, feminists, and racial minorities—from human communities into abstract "political ideologies" and "cultural issues" was a deliberate, highly orchestrated strategy....
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    🎧 If the towers fell in real time on live television, why is a generation now being taught a softer script than the one the hijackers wrote themselves?...
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