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babe wake up, new unprecedented times

Elon Musk boosting two regular fake news posters who have historically posted debunked videos neither are on the ground or verify. both have shared AI-generated videos in the past as real. they just share any garbage they come across to rack up views.

@NewsLitProject doesn't have a Taylor Swift reporter, but they do let me pretend to be one.

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

If you’ve binged on TED talks or devoured Malcolm Gladwell’s insights, you should know there’s a major crisis on the underlying social science research - called the replication crisis, sometimes it’s just torturing the data until it spits out what you want to see, or in this case, it’s just made up / fraudulent data. Among the concepts that are being challenged: - **Priming:** Subtle cues influencing behavior without awareness. - **Ego Depletion:** Self-control as a finite resource. - **Social Priming:** Social cues affecting behavior unconsciously. - **Power Posing:** Dominant postures affecting hormones and decision-making. - **Grit:** Passion and perseverance as key predictors of success. - **Growth Mindset:** Abilities developed through dedication and hard work. - **Facial Feedback Hypothesis:** Facial expressions influencing emotional experience. - **Stereotype Threat:** Awareness of stereotypes affecting individuals' performance. This New Yorker article throws a spotlight on research from Dan Ariely, a big name in dissecting dishonesty, now caught in a storm over a recent paper. Def worth the read- newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

@holden We really don’t talk enough about appropriate use of ethos, logos, and pathos. A technique can be appropriate or fallacious, it depends on the situation.

On the one hand, we have a criminally corrupt unstable gibbering authoritarian rabid baboon who will plunge America, and the world, into chaos and instability. On the other, we have an older guy. I'm so torn about who to vote for.

Huge thanks to @EamonTewell and colleagues at Columbia for sharing their Ask A Librarian internship materials with us.

W&M Libraries is offering a paid, remote/hybrid internship for LIS students and recent graduates this fall! Please share widely; applications due 7/31. libraries.wm.edu/about/employme…

For those of you new to this media environment. The main sources of info are an army that lies about everything; a warlord who owns an infamous troll factory and lied about it for years; and the Kremlin. And Russia destroyed the media, so there aren't any good independent sources

Core competencies for library instructors: consider foundational knowledge, applied knowledge, attitudes and values, logistics. #TILC2023

Is information “seeking” really the dominant method now? Or is information presented to you? #TILC2023

Have students pick the source they think most relevant, and then pair-share. Helps students learn “relevance” is very personal and iterative. #TILC2023

Learning to make relevance judgments is a key component of information literacy development. #TILC2023

What is “relevance”? Who gets to decide? Experts, or users? #TILC2023

Branding workshops as “Extra skills to pay the bills.” #TILC2023

Making it work: pivoting to an online keynote by Brittani Sterling. #TILC2023

@violetbfox Thanks, I hate it.