one reason people don’t back down after being fact-checked on a post is that if they RT’d after having an emotional reaction, then those emotions are still activated, irrespective of facts. we can’t un-feel feelings! it takes a VERY HIGH level of emotional literacy to self-examine after new data
VP debate takeaway: Walz consistently promoted Minnesota as a representation of good government that makes peoples lives better and, by extension, demonstrated what he’s delivered for his constituents. Vance barely talked about Ohio and didn’t communicate what he’s done for his constituents.
Had a browser tab reload ESPN's website. I briefly saw a headline about Pete Rose dying before it was pushed offscreen by a full page video promoting the ESPN betting app.
Some thoughts on my website about visiting the Greenwood Rising Museum in Tulsa this summer and a note on the lack of racial diversity/inclusion in museum education staffing. pastexplore.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/r...
The Greenwood Rising Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photo by me. One memorable experience from the summer of 2024 was the opportunity to do some contract work for the National Council for History Educa…
Applicable to the world of blogging. Some years ago a guy got angry that I banned him from commenting on my website. My response was basically that it’s my platform and I am under no obligation to make it your platform.
It was a pleasure to write a chapter about slavery in video games, specifically the game Freedom!, for this new volume for LSU Press. Freedom! was released in 1992 to teach students about the Underground Railroad, but was quickly pulled following lawsuits. lsupress.org/978080718259...
Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. Wit...
“The practical risks of AI are not that they become super capable thinking machines. It is building complex systems around machines we falsely assume are capable of greater discernment and logic than they possess.”
This is a fabulous read on the mythology surrounding Generative AI. Well worth your time today! www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
St. Louis had numerous episodes of mob violence perpetuated by nativists against Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s as well. dynamic.stlouis-mo.gov/history/even...
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Saw that! What impeccable timing. 😎