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People rely on their existing political beliefs to identify election misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review Rather than assuming that people are motivated to fact-check, we investigated the process that people go through when and if they encounter political misinformation. Using a digital diary method, we a...

Another study finds that people judge political misinformation based on their own political beliefs. Since very few people actually fact-check, politicians can make unverified claims because most voters won’t check them or hold them accountable.
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Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital Transport Minister ‘not writing anything off’ in bid to ease problem in urban areas

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women #irishhistory #skystorians #history www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

A notebook with a written account of a breakfast eaten along with a sample of the beef eaten.

Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!

We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians

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“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

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Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March 📜 the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined 🌦️🌛🌍

Please send your abstracts to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com !
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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Cervical cancer rates higher in states with low HPV vaccination rates

RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine.

New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress"

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Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

In this week's edition of "would you consider just trying to write it?"
Unbelievable

I mean they might have just stolen the bodies from a morgue or something. Though tiling the ceiling is a bit sus.

Someone has loved that house. But also dissected bodies there. ('Dad, the realtor's coming over. You might want to check there are no hands in the freezer.')

Can't stop laughing at a story my friend told me yesterday about going to meet a work contact at the gates of Trinity. He went up to another waiting man and said "Are you Michael?" "Yes" "Will we go for a coffee?" "Sure." Over a coffee he realises it's not the Michael he's meant to be meeting.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If you're in Midleton some Thursday pop by Peach Vintage where you'll get 15% off with a student/ academic staff card!

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

Twin Peaks opening title generator
#speirgorm

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What OpenAI just agreed to is positively horrifying, on an unimaginable scale actually

More from this incredible manuscript.

Have seen all the jokes re "Operation epic fury" but they are murdering children. Murdering. Children.

24 school children reported killed in Israeli strike on southern Iran

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Israel / USA start bombing Tehran

Trump: America's most unpopular president seeks another distraction from the Epstein files.
Game of Kings / Dictators: foreign wars distract from domestic disaster, carnage and oppression. #Netanyahu
#Iran #Israel #US

A field of daffodils by the sea in #EastCork

Dinneen has 'trudaire', a stammerer?

Words Describing Types of Persons as Used in Aghavas, Cloone, Leitrim · Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh · The Schools' Collection This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

Some very vivid Leitrim ways of describing people here. Lots of 'Pleidhces' and 'spreasáns' around these days. www.duchas.ie/ga/cbes/5237...