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by astroid 2y ago
Lol you clearly have no idea what a 'neo-conservative' is or their history. Neo-Conservatives were a branch of Democrat wark-hawks who wanted to police the world, that were upset about the pacifist attitude of the Democrats at the
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by astroid 2y ago
Now if you got this far and are still thinking "yeah but I trust the Atlantic, they are the pinnacle of news and they don't need to show their work!" I would urge you to read the full 'Controversies' section @ http
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by astroid 2y ago
"Jeffrey Goldberg was named editor in chief of The Atlantic in October 2016 and held the position as of November 2020. Prior to being elevated to the top editorial spot, Goldberg had been a correspondent for the magazine since 2007 and
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by astroid 2y ago
The Atlantic: https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/the-atlantic/ "The Atlantic is a left-of-center literary, political, and ideas magazine that publishes ten issues per year. It was founded as The Atlant
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by astroid 2y ago
The last time this topic came up, I manually and then with AI analyzed 13 articles talking about 'read/write' access - and all of it was 2nd or 3rd party info from anonymous sources. Reading this article it appears on the sur
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by astroid 2y ago
I have a TBI which resulted in a number of chronic symptoms including decades of memory loss, although thankfully I retained my functional intelligence at least so I can keep working (although I still have many ongoing issues including atyp
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by astroid 2y ago
I'm not sure if you replied to me by mistake or not, but this thread was about the out of context quote that even Snopes did not agree with the presentation of, that was from Trump about drugs rather than 'race-mixing' as was
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by astroid 2y ago
This is true across the board - your 'local news' isn't local at all, and you'll notice that highlighted outlets include CBS, NBC, Fox, etc. I'm well aware of that clip, and it disgusted me when it first began circu
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by astroid 2y ago
My bad there - I have seen Hasan Piker going on unhinged rants about it and I really am not a fan, so I think I saw Hasan and just starting skimming past to the meat of the story. That was a legitimate oversight on my part and unfortunate s
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by astroid 2y ago
Sorry glossing the story I misstated Hasan Piker -- my brain filled in the blanks bcause I saw him going on an unhinged rant about it on mulitple occassions and I try to avoid him as much as possible, so I think I mentally saw 'Hasan&#
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by astroid 2y ago
Nitters up: https://nitter.net/search?f=users&q=elonmusk They just closed a single API which was also abused by botfarms. Closing the API immediately improved the site from a spam perspective and was welcome by most ac
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by astroid 2y ago
Since OP didn't find it appropriate to include the context, I'll do it for them: https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/04/trump-poison-blood-qu... -- not even Snopes agrees with this take, and it
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by astroid 2y ago
Well in this case CoPilot confirmed my own inferences, it wasn't just working on my behalf and 'doing a thing for me'. I was asking it to check the sources because I found every article was doing exactly what was described, a
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by astroid 2y ago
Scott Bessent OR David Lebryk could very easily confirm this story if it was true, and yet neither have. They have absolutely nothing to lose at this point, so that should be another giant red flag that everyone is banking on the word getti
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by astroid 2y ago
Honestly the wired one should have gotten flagged too - it's as unsourced as the other 12: "Wired: Reports that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible f
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by astroid 2y ago
Blue geriatrics are the ones doing the damage... this is all made up, using circular references to anonymous third party sources. This is an active propaganda campaign with no basis in reality, and you are eating it up because you want it
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by astroid 2y ago
I also decided to ask CoPilot for a probability this is true, and to explain it's reasoning. I think it's being generous... but it's a lot less than a coinflip: " given everything you have ingested on this topic assist
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by astroid 2y ago
It's probably because absolutely no one is using real sources in these articles. I won't muddy the comments repeating myself - but I have been fascinated by how quickly people latched on to this, have been absolutely incapable of
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by astroid 2y ago
So altogether that is 13 sources -- and NONE of them have actually used any first party sources. AI (CoPilot) had to infer a first party source, who has NOT made this claim. You are all getting spun up over what is almost certainly fake n
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by astroid 2y ago
And in reference to: https://www.rawstory.com/musk-treasury-doge/ Sure, let's break down the key witnesses and their claims: David Lebryk: Former acting Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He resigned after resistin
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by astroid 2y ago
The below is in reference to this article (also posted in HN) https://newrepublic.com/post/191117/elon-musk-25-year-old-ai... I did the same manual analysis I did on the OP one, and could not find a first party so
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by astroid 2y ago
Okay this is the third article I have seen posted on HN about this - and once again, it is just a circular mish-mash of anonymous second hand sources. These articles are all so circular I have resorted to asking CoPilot to analyze them and
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by astroid 2y ago
Fair enough - I am going to wait until someone is willing to go on the record and preferably more than one source. For what it's worth, I read the talkingpointsmemo article on this because of your statement as I take you for an actua
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by astroid 2y ago
I did the same manual analysis I did on the OP one, and could not find a first party source or non-anonymous claim. I asked CoPilot to analyze the sources and identify the individual claims, and their proximity to a 'first party source
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by astroid 2y ago
This isn't a discussion about shutting down an agency that was created by executive order. It's a discussion about a bunch of anonymous sources and 'someone close to said' making extraordinary claims. These claims need e
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by astroid 2y ago
Oh btw the "David Lebryk" is not even mentioned in the article, CoPilot added that as context. So the articles quite literally has 0 first party witnesses. Yet they are super-duper-certain that this person has 'read-write&#
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by astroid 2y ago
I quite literally don't believe this. I fully believe he has 'read' access, but extraordinary claims require some evidence. I just read the article and they go to great pains to make it -seem- like they have first party conf
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by astroid 2y ago
I'm showing my age here, but I remember when the tech community actually advocated for free and open speech without all the qualifiers like 'freedom of speech, not REACH' being pushed by the very groups who -used- to advocate
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by astroid 2y ago
I only use olive oil or algal oil, and noticed a significant improvement after the switch. I deliberately tried my best to isolate that variable, but obviously some other changes are downstream from that decision. I don't think I could
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by astroid 2y ago
This can't be right, I have been told over and over again that America does not have any culture. Now it's being used to push imperialism through captchas of all things?! I feel like all the non-US or non-Western or however you wa

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