Social: I logged into Twitter after being off since April *
The ratio of idiocy to intelligent thought on Twitter seems awfully high, too high to spend time there.
Climate: “Boiling seas part of the ClimateCrisis”
A competent reporter would ask why one buoy (but not the adjoining buoys) registered high sea temperatures, which then dropped by 9 degrees within hours, and by 17 degrees within 2 days. But “competent” and “reporter” rarely belong in the same sentence. Sigh.
Media: “61% of Americans” live paycheck to paycheck
Every few months, the media tell us that – horrors! – 61% (or whatever) of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Left out of the breathless reporting is that this is pretty much where it always is, except during recessions when it goes up higher.
Censorship: Facebook removed Covid posts at the direction of the Biden Administration
Per internal Facebook documents, the Biden Administration pressured Facebook to censor Covid related posts the Administration did not like.
Media advocacy: Upcoming climate conference
Why the excessive (and warped) “climate” reporting in the summer of 2023? It’s battle space preparation in advance of an upcoming international climate conference. This occurs every year prior to these conferences.