"The record-setting Canadian #wildfires in 2023 were caused mainly by #lightning igniting forests that were unusually hot and dry, in part due to #ClimateChange.
But the recent conviction of a Quebec man led to false claims on social media that the majority of the fires were the result of arson.
[In fact] fires with a criminal origin accounted for less than 0.02% of the fires in that province."
@CelloMomOnCars its just a plain #memetics law
When people want to make sense of a complex world, they choose simplistic explanations. In times of #fascism on the rise they scream them while holding their hands high
👉 Exciting new book: Hate Speech in Social Media. Linguistic Approaches.
Drawing on the outputs of a three-year research project involving scholars from five European countries as well as on external contributions, this collection offers insight into the linguistic construction of prejudice and discrimination in social media.
Fernandes & Won: The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on #Twitter
in @polcommjournal
"Our findings show that users amplify the radical right’s original message via weak ties and cascade effects in making negative quoted tweets. Ultimately, denouncing the radical right backfires and helps nascent illiberal parties to reach out to more users in the network and gain more users."
NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔
I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme.
This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has always been a culture war issue.
@Sheril@Ruth_Mottram In the #bubble of #politicians the world looks different. Same as the bubble of #ceo or other "leaders".
The selection processes and internal dynamics tied to their role makes them more easily extremists. #memetics
Returning to the immeasurable pages of the Monster-book TOO COOL 4D :abmb: :verified:
TOO COOL the transmedia project is the fruit of an International Aliance between Pataphysicians, Neoists, Discordians, Subgenius, Chaos Magicians, scientists, clowns. etc etc
And the collaborative collective Work of the different tentacles; coordinated, created and edited by Pata-NO UNLTD
@PhilosophicalPsychology@philosophy
Also the article on bad beliefs is fascinating. Humans take social cues into account on what they believe. We are social animals in a clan / bubble sense but also in what we believe and these are intertwined. #memetics alert I would say. @cdutilhnovaes gives commentary.
You have one great issue there
local hunger games construction almost complete