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Getty has a harder paywall now so you cannot use some of their search tools and are limited in how many pages you can sift through so I was unable to search directly for press photos from August 2021. However, I did find some hits from Alamy that show that at least in part of August, Weidel did not have this dark hair...she was a bottle blonde.

So it's likely either from before August 2021 or the photo has been manipulated. The strongest lighting in the photo is coming from above, which would not leave a shadow coming from the audience's direction like that.

In any case, it's not like I disagree with depicting Weidel as like a Nazi. She is. But if we admire photojournalists, we should be crediting them. If we care about sources, we should be citing them. If we care about facts, we need to be checking them and also making it easier to keep that provenance there.

#Attribution #Photography #Photojournalism #Germany #CognitiveBias

Getty has a harder paywall now so you cannot use some of their search tools and are limited in how many pages you can sift through so I was unable to search directly for press photos from August 2021. However, I did find some hits from Alamy that show that at least in part of August, Weidel did not have this dark hair...she was a bottle blonde.

So it's likely either from before August 2021 or the photo has been manipulated. The strongest lighting in the photo is coming from above, which would not leave a shadow coming from the audience's direction like that.

In any case, it's not like I disagree with depicting Weidel as like a Nazi. She is. But if we admire photojournalists, we should be crediting them. If we care about sources, we should be citing them. If we care about facts, we need to be checking them and also making it easier to keep that provenance there.

#Attribution #Photography #Photojournalism #Germany #CognitiveBias

Getty has a harder paywall now so you cannot use some of their search tools and are limited in how many pages you can sift through so I was unable to search directly for press photos from August 2021. However, I did find some hits from Alamy that show that at least in part of August, Weidel did not have this dark hair...she was a bottle blonde.

So it's likely either from before August 2021 or the photo has been manipulated. The strongest lighting in the photo is coming from above, which would not leave a shadow coming from the audience's direction like that.

In any case, it's not like I disagree with depicting Weidel as like a Nazi. She is. But if we admire photojournalists, we should be crediting them. If we care about sources, we should be citing them. If we care about facts, we need to be checking them and also making it easier to keep that provenance there.

#Attribution #Photography #Photojournalism #Germany #CognitiveBias

Getty has a harder paywall now so you cannot use some of their search tools and are limited in how many pages you can sift through so I was unable to search directly for press photos from August 2021. However, I did find some hits from Alamy that show that at least in part of August, Weidel did not have this dark hair...she was a bottle blonde.

So it's likely either from before August 2021 or the photo has been manipulated. The strongest lighting in the photo is coming from above, which would not leave a shadow coming from the audience's direction like that.

In any case, it's not like I disagree with depicting Weidel as like a Nazi. She is. But if we admire photojournalists, we should be crediting them. If we care about sources, we should be citing them. If we care about facts, we need to be checking them and also making it easier to keep that provenance there.

#Attribution #Photography #Photojournalism #Germany #CognitiveBias

Getty has a harder paywall now so you cannot use some of their search tools and are limited in how many pages you can sift through so I was unable to search directly for press photos from August 2021. However, I did find some hits from Alamy that show that at least in part of August, Weidel did not have this dark hair...she was a bottle blonde.

So it's likely either from before August 2021 or the photo has been manipulated. The strongest lighting in the photo is coming from above, which would not leave a shadow coming from the audience's direction like that.

In any case, it's not like I disagree with depicting Weidel as like a Nazi. She is. But if we admire photojournalists, we should be crediting them. If we care about sources, we should be citing them. If we care about facts, we need to be checking them and also making it easier to keep that provenance there.

#Attribution #Photography #Photojournalism #Germany #CognitiveBias

"Quantifiable risk belongs to the casino, the mortality table, and the actuarial ledger. It describes a world where the outcome of an event is unknown, but historical data exists to support a probability estimate. Because the boundaries of the system are fixed, we can use historical data to calculate numerical odds.

Knightian uncertainty, by contrast, considers the unprecedented. It arises when a situation, like climate change, is so novel or complex that history offers no guide. We are pushing the biosphere far outside its Holocene baseline, entering an environment where the variables themselves are changing, and the models used to project future outcomes break down."

Why We're Blind to Civilizational Collapse
by Sarah Connor
July 8th, 2026

https://collapse2050.substack.com/p/why-were-blind-to-civilizational

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #CollapseAware #polycrisis #DisasterPreparedness #CognitiveBias #LogicalFallacy #SelectiveUpdating #Sociology #HumanPsychology

Confirmation Bias: Why We Believe What We Want to Believe
#ConfirmationBias
#CognitiveBias
#Psychology
#HumanBehavior
#CriticalThinking
#TruthVsBelief
#ThinkingErrors
#Mindset
#SelfAwareness
#RationalThinking
#Bias
#BrainScience
#LifeLessons
#ViralShorts
#Philosophy
#Epistemology
#QuestionYourBeliefs
#ThinkDifferent

Belief is Uncertainty - How Holding onto Belief Distorts Reality and Fuels Cognitive Bias
https://youtu.be/9Fs-qkn2-RI
#Belief #Uncertainty #CognitiveBias #DistortedReality #HowBeliefsAffectPerception #SuspendingBelief #CriticalThinking #MentalFilters #TruthVsBelief #SelfAwareness #QuestioningBeliefs #RealityCheck #PsychologicalBias #BeliefVsKnowledge #SelfReflection #ChallengingBeliefs #Truth #MindsetShift #BreakingBias #MentalClarity #Philosophy #PsychologicalIllusions