Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies

https://studyfinds.org/is-ai-making-us-stupider-maybe-according-to-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-ai-companies/

KEWL🌀NEWS

#AI #CHATBOTS #COGNITION #IGNORANCE #PRESS

DWP Bollox

Unpaid carer Andrea Tucker has won a legal victory against the Department for Work and Pensions, overturning its demand she repay £4,600 for alleged breaches in benefit rules.

Having observed a friend struggling with the DWP (amongst other delaying tactics, phone numbers that are confirmed over the phone but don’t exist when rung) I heartily approve.

Luckily she has had friends who all chip in while she is badly ill.

#DWP #Ignorance #Deliberate #Disgrace

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/unpaid-carer-wins-overpayment-penalty-case-against-dwp

Welsh language scapegoated

Recently newspapers (including the Gruaniad and The Times) have been reporting that the power station in Wales was halted ‘because of the Welsh language’ - that is bollox. There is an excellent rebuttal in a letter to The Times (attached). I don’t expect any of the newspapers to pay any attention.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/07/planners-recommended-against-nuclear-plant-in-2019-over-welsh-language-and-cultural-concerns-hitachi

The Times was no better.

#WelshLanguage #Scapegoating #Ignorance #Wales #Bollocks

Impact of QAnon in 2024 U.S. Election
https://www.prri.org/spotlight/the-rise-and-impact-of-q-the-2024-election-from-the-view-of-qanon-believers

* election filled w. conspiracy theories
* led by QAnon conspiracy theory movement
* influential force in Am. politics
* widely discredited, movement has devoted following ext. into mainstream politics
* influenced voters/candidates/political discourse

#polls #PRRI
#ChristianRight #MikeFlynn #psyops #extremism
#QAnon #GOP #MAGA #Trumpism #Trump2 #fascism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #ignorance
#Christofascism #transgenocide

The Guardian just can’t help itself. Nary a mention of the taxes paid by Scotland to the treasury and the fraction that comes back to our country.

‘To Sarwar’s frustration, the SNP government used a very beneficial Treasury settlement in the latest budget to reintroduce a universal winter fuel payment and to pledge that in 2026 it will reverse the two child cap, largely funded by UK taxpayers.’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/dec/18/pmqs-starmer-badenoch-labour-tories-waspi-women

#Economics #Ignorance #UnionistPress #ScottishIndependence

So, that's Polio✅ Meningitis ✅, Mumps ✅ and Rubella ✅, sorted what else can we fuck up?

RFK 'hold my beer'

Bird flu will really set the mog amongst the pigeons...

Ignorance and populism, the gifts that just keep on giving

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/dec/14/raw-milk-us-battle-unpasteurised-safety

#Vaccinations #Immunity #PublicHealth #Deathwish #USPol #Ignorance

Reform’s conspiracy is about more than butter

Row over cow feed additive is a reminder that populism rests on persuading voters their will is being secretly subverted

A good article looking beyond the raw conspiracy theories being peddled by Reform in the UK.

http://archive.today/2024.12.10-174018/https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/reform-conspiracy-butter-populism-health-slmf25d9t

Whether you approve of dairy products or not the established and published science demonstrate that Bovaer is safe.

#Reform #Conspiracy #Finkelstein #Populism #Ignorance #Subversion #Science

House Republicans support bathroom ban access for 1st transgender member
https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-ed5a6d74963f58dcd92fbd65274264e3

* U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson supports effort
* ban: trans Democrat Sarah McBride

Comment: GOP party in full force at last UFC/MSG event
#UFC #DanaWhite #KidRock #Christofascism #JonJones
#MikeJohnson #TulsiGabbard #ElonMusk #JoeRogan #MichaelChandler

#Trump2 #GOP #NancyMace #fascism #transphobia #SarahMcBride

VIDEO: transphobe Nancy Mace (R-SC) in her own words #ignorance #hatred #populism

A visitor from England was in the car yesterday, and going on about flying to France, coming back by boat and getting refugee “benefits”. I piped up with…..”you mean like drowning?” Silence. #ignorance #selfishness

« Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good. »

― W. H. Auden

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/768062286789246976/good-can-imagine-evil-but-evil-cannot-imagine

#quotes #WHAuden #morality #good #evil #imagination #ignorance

#AOC is exactly right. One of the points of anti-#trans laws is for any self-appointed busybody to demand #women and #girls expose their genitals to some "authority" to "prove" their "biology"

Those who speak out in #hate and #ignorance against #womensrights and #queerrights empower #sexualabuse. It's a power play that only benefits transgressive sadistic bullies and creepy sleaze who desire to humiliate and assault and control

« With Closed Eyes » by Odilon Redon

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767156587157716992/with-closed-eyes-by-odilon-redon

#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #OdilonRedon #eyes #ClosedEyes #ignorance

« It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. »

― Augustine of Hippo

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767156675033563136/it-is-no-advantage-to-be-near-the-light-if-the

#quotes #AugustineOfHippo #StAugustine #light #ignorance

So sad...

https://x.com/drmikenyc/status/1854758190535119293

#TrumpVirus #GQP #cult #truth #disinformation #media #election #doublespeak #propaganda #ignorance #psychopathology #brainwashing

" #election2024 night was a bad night for the people who voted for #KamalaHarris AND it was a bad night for the people who voted for #maga2024 , they just don't know it yet "
Jimmy Kimmel

#USAelection

#Ignorance is king in America

RFK Jr in a second Trump term

Whats is it about the US? Ditching enlightenment and science in the search for a return to an ignorant, unwell, fundamentalist future?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-health-food-safety

We have people like Badenoch and Starmer - self interested maybe but by no means stupid no matter how much you disagree with them. Even Farage is cunningly self interested. Having said that it would not be beyond him to enoble Russell Brand and appoint him to the cabinet if in power.

#USPol #RFK #Ignorance