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  1. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41683/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #conviction #convincing #experience #fact #falsehood #fiction #follower #reality #subject #totalitarianism #truth #unreality #delusion

  2. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41683/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #conviction #convincing #experience #fact #falsehood #fiction #follower #reality #subject #totalitarianism #truth #unreality #delusion

  3. …For example, the Book of Genesis likely had four [groups of] authors -- the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly source -- writing between 900-500 BCE, and none of those is likely to have included Moses or Aaron, who are estimated to have lived around the 1200s BCE, if they existed at all.

    #judaism #genesis #bookofgenesis #author #authorship #attribution #identity #moses #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith

  4. …For example, the Book of Genesis likely had four [groups of] authors -- the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly source -- writing between 900-500 BCE, and none of those is likely to have included Moses or Aaron, who are estimated to have lived around the 1200s BCE, if they existed at all.

    #judaism #genesis #bookofgenesis #author #authorship #attribution #identity #moses #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith

  5. From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.

    #science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief

  6. From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.

    #science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief

  7. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo repentance and pseudo bliss.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8397…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #dishonesty #fabrication #facade #fakery #faking #falsehood #forgiveness #insincerity #pretense #pretension #repentance #sinner #spirituality

  8. A quotation from Montaigne

    Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?
     
    [C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #baseness #contempt #cowardice #defiance #dishonesty #falsehood #fear #lying #truth #untruth #vice

  9. A quotation from Montaigne

    Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?
     
    [C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #baseness #contempt #cowardice #defiance #dishonesty #falsehood #fear #lying #truth #untruth #vice

  10. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
     
    [ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #attack #authenticity #candor #dagger #deception #duplicity #falsehood #honesty #insincerity #knife #lying #pretense #stiletto #straightforwardness #threat

  11. Рассеиваем... и даже немного преломляем... заблуждения

    #github #programming #awesome #falsehood #программирование #заблуждение #habr

    Заблуждения программистов об именах — с примерами
    habr.com/ru/articles/431866/

    Заблуждения программистов об авиации
    habr.com/ru/articles/920894/

    Заблуждения программистов о картах
    habr.com/ru/articles/685928/

    Заблуждения большинства программистов относительно «времени»
    habr.com/ru/articles/313274/

    Заблуждения программистов о времени
    habr.com/ru/articles/703360/

  12. Список заблуждений в программировании.

    #github #programming #awesome #falsehood #программирование #заблуждение

    Примеры из классики:
    В email может быть только один @ — а вот и нет, спецификация разрешает больше;
    UTC решает все проблемы времени — спойлер: нет, есть ещё исторические таймзоны и високосные секунды;
    У всех людей имя и фамилия — попробуйте завести пользователя по имени Null;
    Номер телефона всегда состоит из цифр — и это тоже заблуждение.

    Расширяем кругозор:
    github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-f

  13. Список заблуждений в программировании.

    #github #awesome #falsehood

    Примеры из классики:
    В email может быть только один @ — а вот и нет, спецификация разрешает больше;
    UTC решает все проблемы времени — спойлер: нет, есть ещё исторические таймзоны и високосные секунды;
    У всех людей имя и фамилия — попробуйте завести пользователя по имени Null;
    Номер телефона всегда состоит из цифр — и это тоже заблуждение.

    Расширяем кругозор:
    github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-f

  14. A quotation from Daniel J. Boorstin

    The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) American historian, professor, attorney, writer
    Speech (1992-08-31), “Realms of Discovery, Old and New,” World Space Congress, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/boorstin-daniel-j/88…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #danieljboorstin #assumptions #discovery #error #falsehood #ignorance #illusion #misinformation #progress #science

  15. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    Our children know we lie to them, but not — thank God — how much.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #childrearing #children #dishonesty #equivocation #falsehood #lying #parenting

  16. @HannahRuschemeier
    and then add to that all the #falsehood #lies, that have been added by the #GOP, #republicans, #conservatives and #foxNews
    and
    What part are you going to play?

    Why is anyone surprised by this mess.

    The questions that should be asked are;
    How do we fix it?
    When can we start?
    How much is it going to cost to fix?
    How do we bill the folks that caused the problem?

    #democracy is more than voting!

  17. @HannahRuschemeier
    and then add to that all the #falsehood #lies, that have been added by the #GOP, #republicans, #conservatives and #foxNews
    and
    What part are you going to play?

    Why is anyone surprised by this mess.

    The questions that should be asked are;
    How do we fix it?
    When can we start?
    How much is it going to cost to fix?
    How do we bill the folks that caused the problem?

    #democracy is more than voting!

  18. @grimalkina little story time.
    When I was young, I thought meritocracy was real.

    I was from a (very, very) poor family from a tiny village in the middle of French Alps, away from civilization (my dad, who was born in the village itself, didn't even had running water as a young child and electricity came when he was young adult). Still, I was among the best suited for school, and later successfully passed selective exams to French Grandes Ecoles.

    What an amazing proof of meritocracy it was.

    But of course it's not.

    For one thing, I just love studying, and i loved school since teenage years, so the merit of doing what you like is meh, at best.

    And also, as a young adult, I read a paper about how socio-demographic class are often preserved from grand parents to grand children even if parents have a vastly different class, especially when grand parents where of an upper class.
    I didn't find the paper back, but it was rather simple: even if the parent was poor, he benefited during his childhood from the social security and well being that upper class parents bring : better education, better health care, better relationships, etc.
    This security pass to their children. It's amplified if the grand children / grandparents keep relationships.

    That was exactly my case. My grandfather went to the best French Grande Ecole in 1942. He was then director of several chemical factories and when I met him as my grandfather, he was still learning computers for fun, and most of my cousins where from upper class. My mother, the youngest of 6, prefered to move far away for the love of mountains and my kind father as a young adult, even if it means an hard and simple life.

    So, surprise surprise, I was absolutely not the best fruit of meritocracy, just a child from an upper class family who happened to have poor parents, but still took the most of the security and privilèges of that environment.
    And moreover, my parents where extremely sane and loving and caring. Really, that was unfair advantage, and I still thought it was my doing for a couple decade or so.

    The paper is right: it's so easy to believe it's your doing. Externalities are always harder to account for, especially if they are not in your favor.

    #meritocracy #privilege #falsehood

  19. @grimalkina little story time.
    When I was young, I thought meritocracy was real.

    I was from a (very, very) poor family from a tiny village in the middle of French Alps, away from civilization (my dad, who was born in the village itself, didn't even had running water as a young child and electricity came when he was young adult). Still, I was among the best suited for school, and later successfully passed selective exams to French Grandes Ecoles.

    What an amazing proof of meritocracy it was.

    But of course it's not.

    For one thing, I just love studying, and i loved school since teenage years, so the merit of doing what you like is meh, at best.

    And also, as a young adult, I read a paper about how socio-demographic class are often preserved from grand parents to grand children even if parents have a vastly different class, especially when grand parents where of an upper class.
    I didn't find the paper back, but it was rather simple: even if the parent was poor, he benefited during his childhood from the social security and well being that upper class parents bring : better education, better health care, better relationships, etc.
    This security pass to their children. It's amplified if the grand children / grandparents keep relationships.

    That was exactly my case. My grandfather went to the best French Grande Ecole in 1942. He was then director of several chemical factories and when I met him as my grandfather, he was still learning computers for fun, and most of my cousins where from upper class. My mother, the youngest of 6, prefered to move far away for the love of mountains and my kind father as a young adult, even if it means an hard and simple life.

    So, surprise surprise, I was absolutely not the best fruit of meritocracy, just a child from an upper class family who happened to have poor parents, but still took the most of the security and privilèges of that environment.
    And moreover, my parents where extremely sane and loving and caring. Really, that was unfair advantage, and I still thought it was my doing for a couple decade or so.

    The paper is right: it's so easy to believe it's your doing. Externalities are always harder to account for, especially if they are not in your favor.

    #meritocracy #privilege #falsehood

  20. A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

    «
    The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die, and get flown away with by the Devil, which latter is only the second-worst result for us. Truth, fact, is the life of all things; falsity, “fiction” or whatever it may call itself, is certain to be death, and …
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/carlyle-thomas/729/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #art #belief #lying #falsehood #finearts #truth #fiction

  21. All the world’s a stage: everything is fake 👇 📝 (an interesting reading about all that incremental falsehood as the today's fashion, just as I was reflecting on it a few days ago..)

    activistpost.com/2024/10/all-t

    #readings #interestingreadings #fakerism #falsehood

  22. 👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.

    Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.

  23. 👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.

    Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.

  24. Vance repeats a bogus Trump claim on ‘factories’ debunked years ago

    "If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.”
— Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Aug. 25

    
Vance, in defending former president Donald Trump’s proposal for across-the-board tariffs, argued that Trump managed to bring back manufacturing jobs from overseas when he was president. He then cited as evidence a statistic that immediately gave us PTSD.

🔥“12,000 factories”
    — we’d fact-checked this #falsehood during the Trump administration.

    Trump said it 15 times during his presidency, according to our database of false and misleading claims, including in the 2020 State of the Union address.

    
The Facts:
“Factories” conjures up images of smokestacks and production lines, but the dataset cited by Trump
    — and now Vance
    — is not really about factories.

    Trump is citing a Bureau of Labor Statistics database set known as the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which counts the number of “establishments in private manufacturing.”

    But more than 80 percent of these “manufacturing establishments” employ five or fewer people.

    If those sound like pretty small factories, that’s because many are not “factories.”

    The BLS considers any establishment “engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”

    So that also means establishments “that transform materials or substances into new products by hand or in the worker’s home and those engaged in selling to the general public products made on the same premises from which they are sold, such as bakeries, candy stores, and custom tailors.”

    
It’s also #strange that Vance would rely on an outdated Trump statistic.

    As we mentioned, Trump included this in the 2020 State of the Union address, and it represented the period from the first quarter of 2017 to the third quarter of 2019.
    
For all of #Trump’s presidency, the figure would be #nearly 18,000 additional “manufacturing establishments.”

    But here’s the rub:
    Through the first quarter of this year, President Joe #Biden could claim a gain of #nearly 💥39,000 during his tenure.❗️
    
A Vance spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.


    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  25. Vance repeats a bogus Trump claim on ‘factories’ debunked years ago

    "If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.”
— Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Aug. 25

    
Vance, in defending former president Donald Trump’s proposal for across-the-board tariffs, argued that Trump managed to bring back manufacturing jobs from overseas when he was president. He then cited as evidence a statistic that immediately gave us PTSD.

🔥“12,000 factories”
    — we’d fact-checked this #falsehood during the Trump administration.

    Trump said it 15 times during his presidency, according to our database of false and misleading claims, including in the 2020 State of the Union address.

    
The Facts:
“Factories” conjures up images of smokestacks and production lines, but the dataset cited by Trump
    — and now Vance
    — is not really about factories.

    Trump is citing a Bureau of Labor Statistics database set known as the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which counts the number of “establishments in private manufacturing.”

    But more than 80 percent of these “manufacturing establishments” employ five or fewer people.

    If those sound like pretty small factories, that’s because many are not “factories.”

    The BLS considers any establishment “engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”

    So that also means establishments “that transform materials or substances into new products by hand or in the worker’s home and those engaged in selling to the general public products made on the same premises from which they are sold, such as bakeries, candy stores, and custom tailors.”

    
It’s also #strange that Vance would rely on an outdated Trump statistic.

    As we mentioned, Trump included this in the 2020 State of the Union address, and it represented the period from the first quarter of 2017 to the third quarter of 2019.
    
For all of #Trump’s presidency, the figure would be #nearly 18,000 additional “manufacturing establishments.”

    But here’s the rub:
    Through the first quarter of this year, President Joe #Biden could claim a gain of #nearly 💥39,000 during his tenure.❗️
    
A Vance spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.


    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  26. "Egyptian official says US offering ‘promises, not guarantees’ on ceasefire"

    #Gaza #Israel #ceasefire #USA #Biden #Blinken #falsehood

  27. "It’s astonishing that #NBC ’s top brass failed to see why #McDaniel was not just some random conservative contributor or to anticipate the revolt her hiring would inspire.

    Yes, viewers and readers should be offered a variety of views...

    But no #news outlet should seek to “balance” #truth with #falsehood or to hire, in the name of ideological diversity, anyone complicit in undermining the democratic project itself."
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    #Journalism #Press #Media #Jan6 #Politics #USA

  28. "It’s astonishing that #NBC ’s top brass failed to see why #McDaniel was not just some random conservative contributor or to anticipate the revolt her hiring would inspire.

    Yes, viewers and readers should be offered a variety of views...

    But no #news outlet should seek to “balance” #truth with #falsehood or to hire, in the name of ideological diversity, anyone complicit in undermining the democratic project itself."
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    #Journalism #Press #Media #Jan6 #Politics #USA

  29. Last week's #SOTU #response by #Katie #Britt contained a major #falsehood

    And big name news outlets got beat to it by #Johnathan #Katz, a guy with a newsletter and a TikTok account

    ♦️Why didn’t the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, or any other news organization have this story?
    ♦️Would any of them have eventually fact-checked that portion of her speech?
    ♦️Would they have all just let it slide?

    It is a lot like what happened in 2022 as the story of then-Rep.-Elect #George #Santos began to unravel.
    The Times reported on it, but missed it until after the election was over 💥and proceeded to get really irritated at the implication that the New York Times should do in-depth pre-election reporting on New York congressional races💥

    #readTPA. And follow @parkermolloy

    PS Here is Katz's exposé on #TikTok
    tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/

  30. Last week's #SOTU #response by #Katie #Britt contained a major #falsehood

    And big name news outlets got beat to it by #Johnathan #Katz, a guy with a newsletter and a TikTok account

    ♦️Why didn’t the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, or any other news organization have this story?
    ♦️Would any of them have eventually fact-checked that portion of her speech?
    ♦️Would they have all just let it slide?

    It is a lot like what happened in 2022 as the story of then-Rep.-Elect #George #Santos began to unravel.
    The Times reported on it, but missed it until after the election was over 💥and proceeded to get really irritated at the implication that the New York Times should do in-depth pre-election reporting on New York congressional races💥

    #readTPA. And follow @parkermolloy

    PS Here is Katz's exposé on #TikTok
    tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/

  31. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch

    Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #disinformation
    #truth
    #falsehood

  32. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch

    Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #disinformation
    #truth
    #falsehood