51F and damp, with grey skies. Better than raining or cold.<\/p>\n
Wife mentioned visiting the Eiffel tower yesterday, and I countered with “Paris is still burning, and right there on the Champs de Elysee.” She replied “Oh, the Facebook says that is no big deal and it isn’t really.” <\/p>\n
Which is interesting in light of this– https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-09\/graphic-photographers-hand-blown-police-grenade-during-yellow-vest-mayhem<\/a> <\/p>\n ‘cuz that sure looks like a lot of dangerous rioting to me, and you can clearly see the Arc in the background of many shots….<\/p>\n So if my wife, who does read other sources, including DailyMail, can gloss right over that, what do the other mostly NPC-types think? Or is the alt-media being manipulated? My personal vote is the FB is the one most slanting coverage, because the alt-media is reporting tweet pics, and photos from “ordinary people”, but how do we KNOW? The tweets can be by manipulators too.<\/p>\n This is the central problem in ‘mediated’ experiences, whether it’s a future experienced through AI and augmented reality, or simply distant events experienced through the lens of competing propaganda machines– who do you trust?<\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n –see also https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-09\/reporters-diary-venezuela-insolent-american-bastards-should-be-hanged-first-tree<\/a> <\/p>\n [which doesn’t even SOUND genuine, but when I see pix of Venezuelans in the streets, they are still FAT. Starving people aren’t FAT.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 51F and damp, with grey skies. Better than raining or cold.<\/p>\n Wife mentioned visiting the Eiffel tower yesterday, and I countered with “Paris is still burning, and right there on the Champs de Elysee.” She replied “Oh, the Facebook says that is no big deal and it isn’t really.” <\/p>\n Which is interesting in light of this– https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-09\/graphic-photographers-hand-blown-police-grenade-during-yellow-vest-mayhem<\/a> <\/p>\n ‘cuz that sure looks like a lot of dangerous rioting to me,<\/p>\n