#truthiness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #truthiness, aggregated by home.social.
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#Truthiness: “the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.” Stephen Colbert gave us the word in 2005, on The Colbert Report. Does anyone know if he’s written about how the word came to him? Does anyone know how I can ask Stephen about it? I’m guessing his cbs.com email won’t work.
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Hey, can I get some legal experts in here to tell me I’m wrong about what I think this ruling means? Also, how does international case precedence work?
A #German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its #AI #search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.
That’s freaking massive. Google’s AI responses are wrong almost 10% of the time, make up sources, and infer facts not in evidence, and cause real harm. Germany says publisher immunity does not convey when the company product, the ai, is stating things as fact.
Losing publisher #immunity is a really, really big deal. Especially if we can get a similar ruling in the US, and if this ruling flows into EU precedent.(I don’t know how any of that works)
In any case, go German law writers.
#infosec #truthiness #llm https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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CW: uspol, truthiness, violence, SA
_loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup [3]
"And *you* all know *people* and *friends of yours* that...that happened and so *you* can be any...anything *you* want but *you* want to have safety in the _streets_. *You'll* want to be able to leave _your apartment_ or _your house_ _where *you* live_... and feel safe and go into a _store_ to buy a newspaper or buy something... and *you* don't have that _now_." -- DT
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CW: uspol, truthiness, mnemonics, ableism
more _loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup
"The _capital city_ has been overtaken by violent *gangs* and bloodthirsty *criminals*, roving *mobs* of wild *youth*, drugged out *maniacs* and *homeless people*, and *we're* not gonna let it happen anymore -- *we're* not gonna take it. Under the authorities invested in *me* as the *President* of the _United States_ [...]"
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Please help me find examples of truthiness lacking _loci_ or *identity* mnemonics.
As an example of truthiness, consider this response a question about a certain election:
"I think that *Donald Trump and I* have both raised a number of issues with the _2020 election_, but *we're* focused on the _future_. *I* think there's an obsession _here_ with focusing on 2020 — *I'm* much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide open _border_" - JD V -
Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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Vox, that's not how any of this works. #truthiness
I'll keep saying it. We act based on our understanding of reality. But good people can cause great harm acting on bad info. Nobody should want that. Therefore it really matters that we try our best to have people well informed.
I'm struck by how we now seem to have people being more angry when their side gets lied about, but much less concerned re whether they themselves are spreading bs re people they dislike.
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' “The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the
president’s interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment,”
Boardman said. “In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the
president’s interpretation." ' #news #truthiness -
truthiness - news - corroboration
Use other country's news sites to corroborate the truthiness of news. #truthiness #news #resist
Low hanging fruit:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.cbc.ca/news.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.abc.net.au/news.
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Wikipedia has has a serious antisemitism problem that's gotten significantly worse over the last year. The Wikipedians I know are either "anti-Israel" or "neutral and don't want to get into it" types.
As the politicization of everything continues, we as a society will need to let go of the idea of liberalism that my generation grew up believing in is dying, in favor of mob rule mentality.
On a micro-sale, I think the only real solution will be to fork and then self-host the Jewish Wikipedia and self-curate its contents, offering the material back to Wikipedia.
For the macro-scale, I have no solution.
Is a fork something people want? I have complex feels there but I'd be happy to help.#Wikipedia #Truth #Truthiness #Liberalism #Facts #Jews #Mazeldon
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Checking for an empty list in Python - Python Morsels (@treyhunner)
Various methods to check if a list is empty in Python:
➡️ checking the list's length,
➡️ evaluating the list's truthiness
➡️ comparing the list to another empty list#Python #Truthiness #PEP8 #DuckTyping #Programming #PythonProgramming
https://www.pythonmorsels.com/checking-for-an-empty-list-in-python/
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Lots of #Truth / #truthiness here
Sir #TrumpVirus of the #GQP #cult - shines here in a departure from the usual hateful/delusional #WordSalad. And his "Robbin' hood rings true too.
Tnx, Joyce D.
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The New York Times should change it's name to The New York Sunny Globe Enquiring of Mirrors and switch to a tabloid format. #news #nyt #journalism #truthiness https://boingboing.net/2024/07/26/the-new-york-times-pro-trump-democrat-voter-turns-out-to-the-famed-fraudster-who-put-a-severed-finger-in-her-chili.html
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"How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned. So history is rewritten to suit the present."
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014), act 3, section: "Another Russia".
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@aarbrk Colbert was even more relevant than we thought, and we thought it was really relevant — #truthiness
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@camwilson @Heliograph yes well for 50% of the population, answers from AI means “Average Intelligence” and, depending how you interpret that statement, this is a benefit to the segment the real estate agent is in
And then we talk about the #truthiness in their industry, where facts matter less than believability
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The “AI” con is directly based on Stephen Colbert’s #truthiness. LLMs' output is #truthy because companies stole and modeled enough text for them to #bullshit at great length, but not in fact true, because they don't learn or reason. Calling one an “AI” is a ruse to convince you against the facts that the #model is #intelligent. It is not. You are intelligent.
As always, Emily Bender is on point: https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/opening-remarks-on-ai-in-the-workplace-new-crisis-or-longstanding-challenge-eb81d1bee9f
#marketing #capitalism #ai #llm #llms #con #scam #word #words
