#skepticism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #skepticism, aggregated by home.social.
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Ah, another utopian tech dream built on the delusion that #decentralization will solve all of humanity's woes. 😴 Let's all pretend that a "scalable architecture" of acronym soup will somehow outsmart the evil corporations and governments. 🥱 Spoiler alert: it won't.
https://nostr.org/ #utopiantech #skepticism #scalablearchitecture #techdreams #corporatepower #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently I get to dissect a brain. Well... virtually. 🧠 Today was the first day of my ASU neuroscience class, "Peering into the Human Brain." I find it fascinating how the brain tricks people, including myself.
When was the last time your brain assumed something was real and only later you realized it wasn't?
#Skepticism #CriticalThinking #Paranormal #Neuroscience #ParanormalInvestigation #GhostHunting #ScienceCommunication #Skeptic #BrainScience #Perception
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The online debate about halal and kosher meat uses animal welfare as a political weapon
Social media debates that use concerns over halal and kosher practices as a proxy for prejudice do nothing to further the cause of animal welfare.
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It hasn't been an easy year for me. If last year was one of the best of my life, this year so far has probably been one of the worst. Through loss, being stranded for a week, and newly discovered mental health struggles, I haven't been able really to do what I envisioned with JMHQ. That ends now.
First video release: Friday, August 28th. YouTube. Be there.
Link to the channel 👉 https://zurl.co/25YNA
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #Skepticism #Paranormal #CriticalThinking
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Patrick Ryseiw has revised his SEP-entry on Epistemic Contextualism,
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contextualism-epistemology/
#epistemology #tietoteoria #tieto #knowledge #contextualism #filosofia #philosophy #sep #epistemic #metaEpistemology #skepticism #relativism #EC
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The Ockham Awards 2026: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience
Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
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It is wild that from our perspective, the Moon and the Sun are exactly the same shape and size… for no reason whatsoever. Just a coincidence.
And people keep coming up with all sorts of conspiracy theories because they refuse to believe that sometimes coincidences just happen.
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Dr. Fauci's Catch-22
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Amusing AI discussion
I’ve posted here many times about my AI concerns and have suggested guardrails.
I was in Carmel, CA, last week and got into a pleasant discussion with a Silicon Valley tech HR individual and we got onto the AI topic.
I said I’m skeptical of AI, productivity gains, and the potential loss of human derived creativity and intuition.
He showed me an example of a presentation diagram that he said would have taken 20 minutes to create by Powerpoint that an AI engine did in a few minutes.
So I responded that you spent time entering the criteria then ran the AI query maybe a couple of times. Then spent several minutes verifying that the AI output was correct.
So, the time spent was roughly the same and not your creation.
His AI concerns and mine are similar it turned out.
The difference is that he’s optimistic on AI and I’m concerned about the consequences of AI.
So here we are.
#AI #technology #business #AI_slop #SiliconValley #productivity #Skepticism
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Is it all just vapourware?
https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235859
#HackerNews #vapourware #technology #skepticism #innovation #future
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💡 Wow, a brave soul has ventured into the treacherous world of #USB-C #cables, armed with a 15-meter ruler and a healthy dose of #skepticism. 🚀 This riveting saga has us all on the edge of our seats, questioning the #integrity of #cable #labels with bated breath. 😂 Clearly, the #USB-C label cabal will be quaking in their boots! ⏳🔌
https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/ #Tech #Adventure #HackerNews #ngated -
Trump Judge Calls Nearly All-Christian Religious Liberty Commission “Diverse”
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Christian Preachers Are Turning Airplanes Into Unwanted Worship Services
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Ah, yes, because what we really needed in this AI-driven world was yet another ✨shiny✨ visualization language. Flint promises to revolutionize data viz, as if #AI wizards were just sitting around waiting for more colorful charts. 🚀 Spoiler: it's still just rectangles and circles pretending to be groundbreaking. 🙄
https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ #DataViz #Revolution #ShinyCharts #TechHumor #Skepticism #HackerNews #ngated -
I Hate the AI Robo Teacher
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No, Bryan Johnson Didn't Clone Himself
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Pete Hegseth Learns the Hard Way that Vaccines Work
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Alleged Murderer Blames Vaccines
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Certainty #Skepticism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
