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Journalism, Fake News, and “Clickbait Defamation”

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Sometimes when my social media contacts are complaining about “the media,” they are really responding to headlines, which they cite…

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting

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Thoughtful essay from Julio Vincent Gambuto. Get ready, my friends. What is about to be unleashed on American society will…

The Enemy (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 7) — LaForge and a Romulan Cooperate to Survive

6 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. LaForge is stranded on a hostile planet with a nervous, injured Romulan. The "mutual…

Fake Graph: The Actual “Dunning-Kruger Effect” Is NOTHING Like I Thought It Was

6 years ago

For years, I've been teaching a fake graph. In pretty much every course I teach, on some day when students…

Booby Trap (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Three Episode 6) When LaForge gets absurd with a hologram nerd, he’s a-creeper

6 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. To escape a thousand-year-old booby trap, LaForge interacts with a holodeck simulation of the designer…