#Conspiracists

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Dunning-Kruger asymmetry. The less confident, more doubtful must always work to understand the ones more sure of themselves. Just like people living in cities often pay extra taxes.https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/132557873222093209

Lincoln's Bible

LincolnsBible

OK. Time to share another knee-buckling piece of info. Those of us who track the intersection btwn Nazis/White Suprems & Trump admin caught something months ago, but held back b/c

Alex Heffron

AlexHeffron20

Thread about cultic dynamics in the intersection between first gen farmers and permaculture/regen ag.Framing: this is not about those from a farming b/g that have got into regen ag because

The Q Origins Project

QOrigins

Off topic: I’m working my way through Michael Barkun’s “A Culture of Conspiracy” (STRONGLY recommended), and its account of the origins and spread of the “Majestic-12” conspiracy theory is awfully

Stabby Jesus (((officially Bisexual)))

StabbyJesus_

Why I joined @UKLabour party, a thread1. Political apathy. I spent most of my life till my mid 30's being cast around by the warp and weft of political weaving,

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: DEBUNKING 79°41'54" E]1/19For years, Hindutva experts have peddled to gullible suckers a myth. Read about it in this @timesofindia piece from 2016 here. This thread intends to scratch

IAmSciComm - Hosted this week by Matt Carter

iamscicomm

It's Thursday so that means I'll be talking about the challenges of misinformation to #scicomm! I'll share some articles I've found interesting (and one I wrote) on the theme and

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

There's something really beautiful to me about high-profile magicians who immerse themselves so deeply in the history of their art that they wind up making choices that only really make

PeoPLesHiSToRiAN

lunadyana

THREAD 1/ Niko House, along with other guests like Jack Posobiec, will be attending MythInformed’s Better Discourse conference next week. Here’s the ad for the conference 2/ Here are some

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

It’s tempting to view QAnon’s rise as a threat to democracy – especially with a believer poised to win a seat in the House of Representatives.But history suggests that conspiracy-based

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

There are plenty of things wrong with #5G.It's incredibly insecure:https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/china_isnt_the_.html1/ And easy for law-enforcement to spy on:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/5g-protocol-may-still-be-vulnera

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

You've probably heard Zuboff's excellent coinage "Surveillance Capitalism" and perhaps you've read the paper it was introduced in, or the book that it led to. Today, I've published a response

Roland Smith

rolandmcs

The emerging problem with this argument is with those making it e.g. Brendan O'Neill, James Delingpole, Paul Embery, Hitchins....I see a pattern.https://twitter.com/rolandmcs/status/1241603205773082624 Godfrey Bloom, Tim Martin.... Trump.....http

Renee DiResta

noUpside

I’ve alluded a bit to how Mikovits was boosted for weeks as part of a book promotion effort before her breakout "success” in the Plandemic clip. The NYT's @daveyalba breaks

Tom Winter

WinterForMT

Collapse of government authority, factionalism within regulatory agencies, breakdown of community trust, refusal of one branch of government to recognize another, armed vigilantes, mass infection, and resulting brain drain -

Sulaymān, King of Coochie

GoodKingSolomon

It's #notthesabbathsunday aka March 77th so I'm just going to muse on a subject, no planned thread, just gonna jot thoughts here throughout the day. if you care to muse