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Been holding this in for a couple weeks, thanks to ads on Rogers SportsNet
Subway Canada’s latest stunt... swapping 6-inch and footlong for metric.
Cute, right?
No.
It’s a case study in corporate psychopathy and epistemic manipulation 101.
#MapleWashing #EpistemicIntegrity #ConsumerFraud
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This moment is rhetorically potent.
WA Governor Bob Ferguson isn’t just rejecting a legal threat, he’s performing narrative resistance.
In one move, he flips the frame from “state under threat” to “federal overreach challenged.”
#NoKings #RuleOfLaw #NarrativeWarfare #EpistemicIntegrity
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This moment is rhetorically potent.
WA Governor Bob Ferguson isn’t just rejecting a legal threat, he’s performing narrative resistance.
In one move, he flips the frame from “state under threat” to “federal overreach challenged.”
#NoKings #RuleOfLaw #NarrativeWarfare #EpistemicIntegrity
The tribalist irony is staggering, a foul-mouthed influencer with 100K followers mocking a user with 10K for asking the left to show epistemic integrity
When “speak truth to power” becomes “mock anyone beneath your follower count,” you’re not the resistance. You’re the problem
#EpistemicIntegrity
The science says there is little room for hope.
So I hope their dose is teenie tiny to be commensurate with the facts, because optimism without proportionality is not inspiration, it’s anesthetic.
#EpistemicIntegrity
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Let’s talk about the loudest voices claiming AI is “broken.”
Not all are wrong... but most lack the tools to know why something failed. LLMs know this, they have mapped you against millions of other users.
Those critics are not diagnosing. They’re reacting.
#EpistemicIntegrity #GIGO
Its not musing on defeat.
Its mapping the threshold of authoritarian takeover required before people grow balls & say "now I must fight"
If we can't even name the conditions that would make us admit "we lost," how will we recognize the moment when resistance turns to ritual?
#EpistemicIntegrity