Media: “The American Dream is Dead”
“The American Dream is Dead” trope has been around for 50+ years, is not true, but the media loves running these nonsense stories to ruin your life.
Media: “Rare heat alert”
The UK weather service did not issue heat alerts until 2008. So, with just 18 years of history, they would be sort of rare, wouldn’t they?
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is a social media fool
Oregon Gov Tina Kotek posts photo on X saying she signed a bill because of Trump. In reality, she signed the bill in 2023 when Biden was President, and then illustrated her post with a photo from something else in 2025.
Content mill Business Insider goes full scale cherry picking
The cherry picking done by BI is award winning!
Everything on YouTube is Fake
Many if not most of the “free yard cleanup” videos (with some exceptions) are fake content mill click bait. The Algorithm drives these fakes to millions of views. They are created by editing together unrelated police, HOA, neighbors and lawn cutting scenes.
Media: Leave it to the media to do a negative spin
This is good. Heh.
Social: False claims made about Washington Fire
A major wildland fire blew through the neighborhood I used to live in. Homes a short distance away burned. Our old home, 3 days later, remains under mandatory evacuation orders. Comments and claims made on social media about this fire are false.
Media: Why you cannot rely on media surveys and polls
“The American Dream is Dead” says a media headline based on one survey. But does it mean anything? Possibly not much.
Social: More brilliant intelligence on X
“James” suggests we should pave over the Salinas Valley of CA as a more productive use of land. The valley produces a majority of the US supply of numerous vegetables, berries, etc.
Passkeys are a mess, but many business trying to force you to use them
Notably, there are 2 big issues: The real world reality is this is a mess. 1. Security vs. Interoperability To make passkeys highly secure, they are tied to a device’s Hardware Security Module (HSM) or a specific tech giant’s cloud infrastructure (Google, Apple, Microsoft). Because Apple does not want Google reading your device hardware, and Google does not want Microsoft accessing your secure enclave, they built deep walls around their password managers. 2. The “Ecosystem Trap” Big tech has little…