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Post by Verbivore on Jun 13, 2023 22:23:06 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 15, 2023 9:10:47 GMT
In an AU courtroom, when referring to a person’s “speaking in tongues”, a witness described it as “speaking different lingo … it was just mumble jumble”.
I rather like that new version of mumbo jumbo.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2023 2:09:08 GMT
Fake news of the 1840sA book, Aurafodina, or Adventures in the Gold Regions, was an 1840s release by Cantell A Bigly. A careful reading of the nom-de-plume reveals the truth of the tale: Cantell A Bigly, "Can tell a big lie". (I wonder if a certain recent past president of the USA got the term bigly from that.) As reported here.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Jun 18, 2023 14:17:24 GMT
"Fake news" is an interesting topic in many contexts. It is becoming more important to think about it as a result of the onset of artificial intelligence. I am not sure that I would want to include Aurafodina, or Adventures in the Gold Regions as fake news. To do so would mean that Gulliver's Travels would also have to be included. I think "fake news" should at least involve the intention to deceive rather than merely being erroneous statements or items promoting demonstrably stupid personal opinions, dangerous as those my be.
There seems to me to be some kind of continuum from the gentle selection of items to report in the more careful news bulletins to the downright lies in some of the output from social media. Along the way, we have the propaganda of Russian and Ukrainian government sources. Whether particular items of fake news or "good" or "bad" surely depends on the intention and on one's own prejudices and bias.
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 19, 2023 20:28:34 GMT
"Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages." Samuel Johnson, 1758.
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