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I\u2019m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is<\/a> (gift link) and realize now that there is a brain eating fungus out there that has manifested itself in key spore producers like MTG and Loomer et al. At lunch, I read another article about San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team getting the finger from Utah, Whyoming and somewhere else about a “purported transgender player” and the completely fabricated stink going on there. Combine that with Warzel’s summary of the enormous tracts of bullshit being pumped out now that the southeast coast has been hammered twice, it HAS to be a fungus – nothing else explains how these loonies can, wait, did I say fungus? Sorry, I flipped out there for a second.<\/p>\n Warzel writes:<\/p>\n But as Michael Caulfield, an information researcher at the University of Washington, has argued, \u201cThe primary use of \u2018misinformation\u2019 is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.\u201d This distinction is important, in part because it assigns agency to those who consume and share obviously fake information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Warzel concludes:<\/p>\n In one sense, these attacks\u2014and their increased desperation\u2014make sense. The world feels dark; for many people, it\u2019s tempting to meet that with a retreat into the delusion that they\u2019ve got everything figured out, that the powers that be have conspired against them directly. But in turning away, they exacerbate a crisis that has characterized the Trump era, one that will reverberate to Election Day and beyond. Americans are divided not just by political beliefs but by whether they believe in a shared reality\u2014or desire one at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just finished reading I\u2019m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is What\u2019s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis. (gift link) and realize now that there is a brain eating fungus out there that has manifested itself in key spore producers like MTG and Loomer et al. At … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3061,6,11,13,14,15,16,3279,19,1],"tags":[4990,4989,2266,4985,1101,4986,3615,1743],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-sergneri","post-5446","format-standard","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-it-failures","category-politics","category-racism","category-science","category-sea-stories","category-the-anthropocene","category-trump","category-uncategorized","post_tag-delusion","post_tag-hurricane-milton","post_tag-hurricanes","post_tag-loomer","post_tag-misinformation","post_tag-mtg","post_tag-transgender","post_tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat\u2019s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n