The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking – The Marginalian #longread In a chapter titled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible — from psychics to religious zealotry to paid product endorsements by scientists,

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” --W. Bagehot

...let the Russian soldiers and the Russian people know that this is an unjust war that is not provoked. --A.Schwarzenegger

Life is unfair and then... you die --Someone on the internet

It requires the surveillance business model<...> --M.Whittaker about AI

‘A treasure for scientific analysis’: Nasa holds Bennu asteroid sample press conference – as it happened | Nasa | The Guardian #science #space #engineering Scientists say that they expect to have a “pretty good idea of what the nature of the collection is” by 14 October. They added that one of the key

<...> students need more textbooks. Physical books are important for student learning. --L.Edholm

Electrospaces.net: On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations #history #privacy #longread Between June 2013 and May 2019, the Snowden revelations resulted in over 200 press reports and more than 1200 classified documents published in full or in part. Additionally, The Intercept published 2148 editions of the NSA'

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