US energy department cracks down on workers’ use of climate crisis language
#USA #FUBAR #PostTruth #Fascism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/energy-department-climate-change-crisis-language
The new political climate
US journalist and professor Jeff Jarvis "describes a dangerous authoritarian shift: freedom of the press, education, and the courts are under attack, critical voices like Jimmy Kimmel are being silenced, and many media outlets are adapting out of fear—or are being taken over outright." (podcast)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkz16BTSQY
Read Hanna Arendt,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://cheirif.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hannah-arendt-the-origins-of-totalitarianism-meridian-1962.pdf
#journalism #democracy #FarRight #race #racialisation #SettlerSociety #equity #media #PostTruth #MSM #law #courts #totalitarianism #despotism #tyranny #dictatorship #book
As the US government sabotages its own climate web site (along with many other science-based or truth-based sites), a new site is the phoenix borne of its ashes. May it thrive. Please consider donating or otherwise supporting their efforts (e.g., by sharing notice of the site).
#climate #ClimateDenial #resist #science #truth #media #journalism #ClimateData #ClimateReporting #propaganda #hope #politics #USPolitics #fascism #PostTruth
Here's another URL that might be worth sharing:
Great segment from Vlad Vexler about how Trump answering: ”Yup” to a question and exiting for his helicopter can’t be sanewashed to mean: ”Donald Trump is ready to increase sanctions on Russia.”
A defensive interaction with the public was converted into the major headlines for more than a day. This is not truthful reporting on a post-truth politician.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2U515nUiBHE
#trump #russia #sanctions #posttruth #nafo
Tomorrow (Thursday, 21 August) I’ll join a panel at the Tallinna Kunstihoone for the catalogue launch of the Tallinna Graafikatriennaal / Tallinn Print Trienniali in Tallin (Estonia) together with Marika Agu , Tõnis Jürgens and Brigita Reinert. Indeed, in the catalogue there are among the others two texts of mines: Trükitud versus elektrooniline (Print vs. Electrons) and Lõputu kirjastamise paradigma: ruum, aeg ja mälu (The Endless Publishing Paradigm: Space, Time, and Memory) for the very first time translated into Estonian, which is of course a huge honour!
Are you interested in the study of discourse? Our online seminar on #truth and #critique is open for graduate students and early-career researchers who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of #discourse and to develop their discourse research projects.
In this new cycle of our discussion, which started in fall 2024, we will focus on the question of #power, truth and critique. The core group consists of Irene Ktori, Michael Schmidlehner, Thiago Augusto Pereira, Adel Tayebi, Johannes Angermuller. Members of the group work on ideas such as the discursive construction of technology (Adel), family policies (Irene) truth and #postTruth discourse (Johannes), environment and psychoanalysis (Michael), right-wing book publishers (Thiago).
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/discourse-seminar-power-truth-critique?language #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis
8/16 On truth: Arfi cites Hannah Arendt and “factual truth.”
Facts build a common grammar for society to debate.
Without it, we fall into “post-truth,” where everything is just opinion.
Something I wrote almost exactly a year ago, on the need of systematic verification protocols for authenticity and even personhood.
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2024/08/24/we-are-already-making-the-same-mistakes-with-ai-as-we-did-with-social-media/
#ai #deepfakes #posttruth #verification
@MMRnmd
According to some:
"... there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is, ..."
https://david.boxall.id.au/201611/default.html#alternativerealities
@palestine
#AusPol
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#PostTruth
A new study by Reijo Savolainen 
analysed over 1,000 public @Quora posts discussing propaganda in the context of the #RussoUkrainianWar:
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515251353174
Nearly 80% of evaluations were critical. While Russian state sources and pro-Russian commentators faced deep distrust, outlets like @BBCNews, @CNN and @guardian still earned relatively high trust. Even in a #posttruth era, critical thinking isn’t dead.
State of #USpol 2025-Jul-20: MT Greene warns of “Mark of the Beast" | Dir. Nat. Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard cries “Deep State Coup”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/20/greene-warns-of-mark-of-the-beast-gabbard-cries-deep-state-coup
#posttruth
#Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide #Trumpism
#TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
#capitalism #inequality
Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist
#DemocraticSocialism #socialism #ecosocialism #unionize #solidarity #environmentalism #justice
I love when admins use #AI to obtain configuration settings for a system type A and happily deploy it even if the documentation says differently and the AI results could easily be verified as fitting a system type B. #posttruth
#ki ist wie #donaldtrump. Nur weil er ab und zu was richtiges sagt, sollte man kein Wort für bare Münze nehmen. Von seinen Anhängern wird aber nichts anderes erwartet. KI passt hervorragend in das #postTruth Schema dieser Zeit. Wahrheit spielt praktisch keine Rolle mehr, man hat sich daran zu gewöhnen.
@anubiarts 
well is it like facts are now political opinions? Ah yeah, wait... #posttruth #trumpera
well. welcome to a #posttruth world. from here on nothing will make any sense anymore, whatsoever. some saw it coming by a long shot, they told you to vote for #harris.
@newsthump Pls label AI generated images as such, you may think its obviously fake or inconsequential but they are destroying public trust and truth. If you want people to be better at spotting fakes, label the fakes you create. #misinformation #AI #posttruth
Newspapers let the fox in and now they dead... Canada too. Even after FB banned news orgs on their platform here in Canada those news orgs STILL used it slavishly.
Like some weird media-version of Stockholm Syndrome.
#canpoli #journalism #media #canada #truth #posttruth #democracy
https://games.ngo/@crecente/114696097895857405
On Friday, June 6 at 19:00 I’ll be the guest of “Generation Postdigital" together with the legendary @GIFmodel at the @stadtbibliothekstuttgart am Mailänder Platz to talk about “Tactical Publishing - How to publish in the 21st Century?”
https://lnkd.in/g3znXUa4. Thank you very much to Olia for the invitation.
"Conventional educational strategies in combatting post-truth seem to emphasize merits of truth, evidence, and reason. Such focus misses key elements of the post-truth era. It ignores the political dynamics that engulf science as well as the antiscience campaign that is deliberately carried out and amplified in the public domain. Post-truth demands a cultural shift in science education to ensure that sociological and political contexts of science are explicitly taught and understood."
Easier and more plausible with delivery of some remedial education in relevant #SocialScience-- for the educators themselves.
#PostTruth
#Misinformation
#ScienceEducation
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adx5458?af=R
Ambiyelp 
