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Jason Colavito

@JasonColavito

Author, researcher. Pop culture, science, & history. Bylines @esquire, @NewRepublic, @CNN, @Slate, etc. My new book, "Jimmy," about James Dean out now!

Delmar, New York Katılım Şubat 2011
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Jason Colavito
Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@debbie_nacl Sure. Natalis Comes (Mythologiae 6.8) misread the word δολόμηδες in the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes at 3.26 as a proper name, and it was then misprinted in a later edition of Comes as "Diomedes," and scholars repeated that Jason's "real" name was "Diomedes" for 500 years.
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
To be fair, while AI has made the problem so much worse, scholars copying references from one another without checking the original has been an ongoing problem. In one case, I found an incorrect reference to a Greek scholion had been repeated among scholars for 500 years!
nyxgeek@nyxgeek

I cannot believe the number of "academics" I've seen bitching about the 1-year ban on arXiv for publishing hallucinated references. Are you shitting me? You're mad that your research papers are expected to be factual? You couldn't be bothered to check your references?

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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@Jen62843947Lisa Her chaotic tenure has led to the lowest ratings in the history of CBS News and the exit of major stars. In TV, ratings are more important than ideology.
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Markus Wolf@Jen62843947Lisa·
@JasonColavito Sure. How dare a network move ever so slightly towards the middle…apostasy!
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
Puck reports that Bari Weiss's destruction of CBS News went too far even for Paramount's Trumpist C-suite, and they are now looking to curtail her power and bring in an experienced TV hand to remove Weiss's iceberg from the network's Titanic. puck.news/cbs-news-restr…
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@JasonColavito have you read Joan Smith's "Unfortunately She Was a Nymphomaniac"? it's a masterclass in going back to the original source & revealing what got lost in the lazy citations for 2000 years
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@CoreyinSeattle Well, Jacques Vallee suggested that they purposely crash them for us to find, either as a teaching aid or as some inscrutable cosmic prank.
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CoreyinSeattle
CoreyinSeattle@CoreyinSeattle·
@JasonColavito How do they explain how a culture which can either cross interstellar space or between dimensions would have "dozens" of crashes? Sure they may not be designed for earth conditions, but after a few shouldn't they have the capacity to fix on failure?
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@BroLockediN @TimothyAlberino Perhaps he has mellowed over the years, but when I first encountered him, he promoted Biblical literalism and rather extreme fundamentalist readings of Biblical injunctions alongside Steve Quayle. If he is no longer doing so, good for him, but I doubt he changed his beliefs.
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LockediN Christians
LockediN Christians@BroLockediN·
I think you’re being a bit reductive in your slam dunk-style questions when clearly what you’ve written was more than just calling someone a Christian. If someone labeled you a conspiratorial Buddhist author… did they call you a Buddhist? Sure…but that’s not how you’ll be remembered is it?
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
I reviewed the embarrassing debacle that was Piers Morgan's "debate" between Zahi Hawass and three fringe pseudo-archaeologists, in which Hawass proved his opponents lacked any serious knowledge of Egypt beyond old Graham Hancock books. jasoncolavito.com/blog/piers-mor…
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LockediN Christians@BroLockediN·
@JasonColavito @TimothyAlberino Name calling to dismiss someone’s argument is the new wave of gatekeeping energy that makes you wonder if Jason gets a check from Egypt. If you dislike the man just say that.
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
I have very distinct memories of my mother making blackberry Royal gelatin, which somehow was supposed to be "better" than "normal" gelatin flavors, and it's strange to realize that there was a time blackberry gelatin was the hot new flavor and promoted as classy.
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@un1versalist I think Trump posting an AI image of himself walking with a handcuffed alien about says it all.
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Universalist
Universalist@un1versalist·
@JasonColavito So you don't think there's going to be interest moving forward as more comes out, people are just gonna look at the files that one time then that's it? I don't think that take is going to age well
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
Ufologists are infighting as they scramble for attention in a declining UFO media market. Apparently, there isn't enough room on the flying saucer gravy train for everyone anymore.
Red Panda Koala@RedPandaKoala

Ross Coulthart says Lue Elizondo should come clean about his true role in the UAP Legacy Program to clear up some of the bad blood in the UAP community for the good of disclosure “There is a bigger story here and I think it has a lot to do with Lue Elizondo's true role as a counter intelligence official in the Defense Department. That's as far as I'm prepared to go. At some stage, Lue is going to have to give a clearer accounting of what his precise role was, both in the alleged AATIP program and possibly also in his knowledge of and involvement with the legacy program. I do think that for the UAP commentary community, this is very unhealthy. I think it's time the air was cleared. I think as disclosure rolls out hopefully in the next few months, I do think it's going to become clearer about what the prescribed roles were of certain individuals and whether the um UAP community has been given the full story about people's roles. At some stage there is going to have to be a clearer accounting because it's clear there is bad blood between James Lacatski and Lue Elizondo, and there is towards Lue from other people in the social media UAP commentary community, people who have served within government who obviously feel I think some resentment that things are not being properly represented. I can kind of sympathize with Lue to some degree. I know exactly what Lue's role was and I know he hasn't been allowed to talk about it because for him to talk about it would be a breach of his national security oath.”

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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@un1versalist And they made how much money? The market isn't about interest but about how many opportunities there are to monetize that interest.
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Universalist@un1versalist·
@JasonColavito Declining market??? Over a billion people viewed the first UFO files We're only getting started buddy
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@JosephAPWilson1 @ElonsWaifu You're not getting anything out of a machine doing the reading since, in theory, it is the thinking and contemplating that is the whole value of tarot!
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Joseph A P Wilson
Joseph A P Wilson@JosephAPWilson1·
@ElonsWaifu @JasonColavito I got no beef with people reading tarot for fun or whatever reason -- I chalk it up to personal spirituality. If a reader outsources the actual thinking part of it to AI, what exactly is the point? I would say the same thing if a church started using chatbots for confessionals.
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
Professional tarot readers are turning to AI to avoid the hard work of interpreting the cards. This raises an important question about what purpose a professional tarot card reader even serves in that case, other than collecting money from the gullible. theconversation.com/how-tarot-read…
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
@19k0011 How many new UFO TV shows are there compared to 15 years ago? How many new UFO books are published now vs. 15 years ago? There is still heavy *interest* in UFOs but fewer ways to make significant money from it.
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Parasocially Smug
Parasocially Smug@19k0011·
@JasonColavito > 500 million people jamming into the DOW UFO portal on day of release > calls it a “declining UFO market”
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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito·
Several brides who participated in the fake marriages on "Married at First Sight UK" say their on-screen husbands raped them, but Britain's Channel 4 aired the episodes anyway. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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