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  1. How [They] Found A New Home Online At Mastodon, After Giving Up On Twitter
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    newscientist.com/article/mg258 <-- shared article
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    “More like a village than a city, Mastodon has less cruelty and bad-faith debates than Twitter, in my experience Could it be a social media platform to trust?
    IT HAS been nearly six months since Twitter’s transformation from iconic social media platform into the eccentric personal project of tech billionaire Elon Musk. [The author] abandoned [their] account last November, save for work announcements – [they] didn’t want to stick around and watch the place fall apart. Still, [they] craved a digital hangout where [they] could connect with friends and colleagues, test out [their] half-baked ideas and look at cute pictures of capybaras…”
    #socialmedia #Twitter #change #Mastodon #difference #home #community #badfaith #trust #monitoring #comparasion #anecdotal

  2. #Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

    The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

    #RationalWiki #falsememory
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabul

  3. #Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

    The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

    #RationalWiki #falsememory
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabul

  4. #Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

    The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

    #RationalWiki #falsememory
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabul

  5. #Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

    The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

    #RationalWiki #falsememory
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabul

  6. Rejuvenating properties of light, controlling #MitochondrialDysfunction. Note to myself really, but I’m going to be extending my mornings’ #FarRed #LED eye bath as much as I can. If you’ve read this far you might be interested to know my eyes’ prescription improved significantly, after 6m of 5-15mins morning sessions, through closed eyelids, of ~25W 670nm point source (LED cob) @ 20cm distance. #Anecdotal #neuroscience #RetinalHealth nature.com/articles/s43587-022