Train wreck president After the election I said I’d at least give the man a chance (whether warranted or no). Based on my granting a clean slate, apropos of no-one else and no-thing else, President-Elect Trump is currently showing a dangerous willingness to lie or knowingly promulgate falsehoods. The attached tweet is factually false. Entirely, provably, knowably false. It doesn’t even make common sense! Think about it, as you open Facebook in a browser, your browser has to ASK Facebook for the content, Facebook has to know to whom the content should be routed. Do you suppose that there’s no possible record of that conversation such that you have to be “caught in the act.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/opinion/putin-is-waging-information-warfare-heres-how-to-fight-back.html Peter Ryan’s illustration is delightful. The content is horrifying though.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/08/fact-checking-plandemic-documentary-full-false-con/ As we approach an election season where disinformation campaigns will be part of the strategy of actors foreign or domestic, “Plandemic” is a chance to get our bullshit detectors calibrated: its SARS telling us to get our hospitals and playbooks in order for a day when something worse will come along (COVID, say). Also: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/technology/plandemic-judy-mikovitz-coronavirus-disinformation.html?referringSource=articleShare

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/ Conspiracy Thinking Likely to Shape the Election