Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Monday, January 29, 2024
X is an opportunity for individuals to provide a public service.#
  • Since @ElonMusk bought @X/@Twitter, it became more useful as some individual posters sorted through noise to aggregate #news, #opinion, & insight. Community Notes are useful, but it is not X’s duty to validate or invalidate everything. #
  • Like Price Discovery in Economics, information is better as it gets weighed by others. People previously paid commercial media to perform that function, but journalism at the national level has been unreliable.#
  • Misdirection by media, schools, higher education, and politics warps discussion. Although they have views, independent aggregators can gain trust as they offer pointers to useful information, organize it, and expose bogus arguments.#
  • The goal is not to assert truth, because that is beyond what one can know, but, as philosopher Karl Popper said, we can prune away what is demonstrably false.#
  • Readers have to be the last line of their own defense. As a retired owner/editor of a family-owned daily newspaper, I put together one regular aggregator of tweets: https://theviewfromafar.com/sbwaters@rnymedia.com/ #
Tweets#
  • They have a vision for America that leaves them in permanent control of you.#
    • Our Open #Borders Policy Is Not an Accident https://t.co/jqJttI0JhD [Link]#
    • To Win, #Republicans Have To Be Smarter And Tougher Than @SenatorLankford https://t.co/HZhBLPGRSK [Link]#
    • Recognize the contest between communist collectivism and the rights of the individual. — The “Mary McCarthy” Rule for Discussing the #PRC’s Economy and Economic Data��� and the @WEF https://t.co/oJxvRVLGjQ [Link]#
  • The untrustworthy International Court of Justice twisted the evidence before ruling.#
    • The latest form of Holocaust denial, by @MelanieLatest https://t.co/jILrsDjPEJ [Link]#
  • The Biden administration makes Texas pay the price of opposing centralized uniparty rule.#
    • While disrespectful of @JoeBiden , the author makes the point that the pause will not reach its claimed goal and will hurt Americans. — The “Pause” on #LNG Permitting: Another Manifestation of “Elite” Hatred of Humanity, and a Monument to Stupidity https://t.co/mq7gIYRStH [Link]#
  • Canada’s checks and balances aginst authoritarian takeover seem no better than those of America.#
    • As @Instapundit notes, “They really are awful people.��—JUSTIN “FIDELITO” #TRUDEAU and the rise of the liberal dictator. Remember the #FreedomConvoy ? This https://t.co/pX74wwXFKE [Link]#
  • AI keeps its prejudices under cover.#
    • Artificial Detelligence: When you accept as correct the output of computerized “Garbage in:Garbage out.” — Artificial Alarmism https://t.co/WdZMcYVWiB via @wattsupwiththat [Link]#
Retweets#
  • Mark Cuban broke the law. He pushed DEI without understanding that it is illegal.#
    • RT @America1stLegal: ‼️ This is the beauty of @X --here you have @mcuban openly admitting to violating black-letter employment law, and get… [Link]#
  • Reason to find trustworthy aggregators to widen your sources of information by which to measure so-called news.#
    • RT @elonmusk: Legacy media controlling what subjects they write about is by far their biggest lie, as they can ignore important matters and… [Link]#
  • Not much about this in the national news is there. Why not?#
    • RT @EvaVlaar: There are massive farmers’ protests going on all over Europe today that the MSM is hiding from you: ... ... 🇫🇷 French Farmers are c… [Link]#
  • An expert deflation of UN subversion. Twelve bad apples were actually 1200. See if this is covered by the MSM.#
    • RT @iowahawkblog: It���s always that fringe 90% who give a bad name to everybody else [Link]#
  • No reason to trust a thing Biden/Harris say. They don’t respect you.#
    • RT @Not_the_Bee: Happy 5-year anniversary to this spectacular tweet from our vice president... https://t.co/sFkzfcLM5i... https://t.co/sFkzfcLM5i [Link]#
    • RT @MZHemingway: Five Years Ago Today, Joe Biden Spread The Jussie Smollett Hate Crime Hoax https://t.co/c3VonbK5SH [Link]#
  • When you actually get to look at evidence yourself, its clear the messengers are creating the chaos.#
    • RT @ScottAdamsSays: If you think Trump is a risk to the world because of all his "chaos," you have been brainwashed by professionals.... ... Chao… [Link]#
  • Democrat globalists need Trump out of the way.#
    • RT @shipwreckedcrew: The nature of the case as it was handled gives the public every right to be skeptical of the outcome, whether in a cou… [Link]#
  • When justices stray from the law, they need to be brought back to it.#
    • RT @julie_kelly2: MUST READ: In a sentencing memo today, Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee who cannot get out of his chair without h… [Link]#
  • What else does Obama have a hand in?#
    • RT @DrJBhattacharya: In January 2017, just as he was leaving the white house, President Obama lifted the pause on gain of function research… [Link]#
  • Top-down rule as opposed to bottom-up governance America has followed for more than 200 years.#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: Marxists believe the state owns your children. [Link]#
  • While the war may need funding, ��Fund the war” is full of kickbacks.#
    • RT @GenFlynn: From the beginning, this war has been all about filling the pockets of corrupt U.S. CONGRESSMAN and U.S. SENATORS (and others… [Link]#
  • Globalism returns control to the select few and serfdom to the many.#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: What‘s "global citizenship" education about? Teaching kids "multicultural" tools to disrupt their countries. In. Their… [Link]#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: "Global citizenship," a huge UN scam, is at the heart of your children‘s education already, and it‘s gaining prominenc… [Link]#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: Remember, when they say "democracy," they mean Communism. [Link]#
  • Built in AI prejudices undermine trust. Garbage in = garbage out.#
    • RT @ClownWorld_: Chat GPT makes jokes about Jesus Christ but not Muhammad [Link]#
X is an opportunity for individuals to provide a public service.#
  • Since @ElonMusk bought @X/@Twitter, through some posters, it became a useful platform for sorting through noise to find individuals who aggregate #news, #opinion, & insight. Community Notes are useful, but it is not X’s duty to validate or invalidate everything. #
  • Like Price Discovery in Economics, information is best weighed before being used. People previously paid commercial media to perform that function, but reliability at the national level has been poor.#
  • Misdirection by media, schools, higher education, and politics warps discussion. Over time, independent aggregators can gain trust if they offer pointers to useful information, organize it, and expose bogus arguments.#
  • The goal is not to convey truth, because that is beyond what one can know, but, as philosopher Karl Popper said, we can prune away what is demonstrably false.#
  • Readers have to be the last line of their own defense. As a retired owner/editor of a family-owned daily newspaper, I put together one regular aggregator of tweets: https://theviewfromafar.com/sbwaters@rnymedia.com/ #

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