#gullibility — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated -
"Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….
Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
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"The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
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"Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...
The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
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"The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
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Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
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I suspect #Betteridge’ Law covers this. Anyone who buys meme coins is too stupid to realise they have been ripped off. Meantime the Trump family (the First Crime Family) are reported to have benefited to the tune of $1 Bn. Never have so. Many people been ripped off by a single man and coming back asking for more
#Crypto #Trump #Maga #RipOff #Gullibility #FoolsAndTheirMoney #Finance #UsPol
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#AI cheatsheet.
#artificial #intellience #gullibility
#GratefulForYou @emilymbender and Alex Hannah for your inspiring and revealing book.more on https://humble.opticmystic.io
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What do #JWST’s “red #Monster” #Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium
#Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc
Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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What do #JWST’s “red #Monster” #Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium
#Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc
Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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What do #JWST’s “red #Monster” #Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium
#Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc
Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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What do #JWST’s “red #Monster” #Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium
#Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc
Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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What do #JWST’s “red #Monster” #Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium
#Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc
Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself
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We are a good natured bunch of saps in this country. […] When a bank fails, we let the guy go start another one.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1930-06-30), “Daily Telegram: Mr. Rogers Virtually Agrees with Barnum’s Famous View,” No. 1226Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76564/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #bank #bankruptcy #business #failure #finance #freshstart #gullibility #sap #secondchance
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Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet -
"LLMs believe anything you tell them. Any systems that attempts to make meaningful decisions on your behalf will run into the same roadblock"
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A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/#quote #quotes #quotation #conman #fool #fraud #gullibility #meme #naivete #scam #sophistication #swindler #victim
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A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/#quote #quotes #quotation #conman #fool #fraud #gullibility #meme #naivete #scam #sophistication #swindler #victim
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A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/#quote #quotes #quotation #conman #fool #fraud #gullibility #meme #naivete #scam #sophistication #swindler #victim
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A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/#quote #quotes #quotation #conman #fool #fraud #gullibility #meme #naivete #scam #sophistication #swindler #victim
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A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/#quote #quotes #quotation #conman #fool #fraud #gullibility #meme #naivete #scam #sophistication #swindler #victim
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
Day 17
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From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
#Salon #FraudCases #RichConservatives #Gullibility #Manipulation #GOPDonors #Politics #News
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From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
#Salon #FraudCases #RichConservatives #Gullibility #Manipulation #GOPDonors #Politics #News
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From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
#Salon #FraudCases #RichConservatives #Gullibility #Manipulation #GOPDonors #Politics #News
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From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
#Salon #FraudCases #RichConservatives #Gullibility #Manipulation #GOPDonors #Politics #News
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From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
#Salon #FraudCases #RichConservatives #Gullibility #Manipulation #GOPDonors #Politics #News
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#Bitcoin is not a store of value.
#CryptoCurrency is a store of #greed and #gullibility
To learn more see: https://youtu.be/tspGVbmMmVA
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@mmitchell_ai "My computer is speaking in tongues." When AI evangelism is no longer a metaphor. PRAISE THE BARD! #gullibility
