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Category Archives: News
Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Covid
News about the Covid 19 virus has become a ubiquitous backdrop in our lives, and the media’s frenzy in our lives has become more ubiquitous than the trappings of the disease itself. More than masks and people side-eying while they … Continue reading
Hatred of Muslims and the Latest Red Scare
I had the pleasure of growing up in North America when the reigning hatred was of communists, although most people didn’t know what a communist was and—because of weak historical understanding—only vaguely associated them with the Soviet Union. Because I … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Culture, Education, History, Media, News, Politics, Religion, Social Media
Tagged 1984, communism, George Bush, islam, islamophobia, muslim, Osama bin Laden, propaganda, Reagan, war
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Beware of the Fog in Winnipeg
I have heard the warnings associated with fog in Winnipeg nearly every year that I have lived in the city. Over that more than twenty year period, the normal weather is usually reported fairly accurately. The weather here in the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education, News, Winnipeg
Tagged climate change denial, forecasting, weather, Winnipeg
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Maybe the Algorithms are Working Against Us
Most news, internet search, and social media platforms have optimized their offerings to suit what their viewers most frequently choose to see. That makes sense in terms of ad dollars, for they want to have a targetable demographic, but as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Internet, Media, News, Politics, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged Corporate responsibility, echo chamber, Education, Facebook, H. G. Wells, mass shootings, media, Religion, right-wing politics, school shootings, Social Media, twitter, white supremacy, World Brain
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The Contamination of Ideas: Truth and Lies in the Internet Age
A recent encounter reminds me that notions of knowledge and how it is gained can be subjective. I was told by a young person that a documentary watched by their mother—they didn’t even see the documentary themselves—argued that there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, News, News of the World, Social Media
Tagged a New World Order, auras, birthers, Competent Receiver, contrails behind jets, Facebook bubble, fact checkers, flat earth, Fox News, H. G. Wells, holocaust denial, homeopathy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim-majority countries, Muslims, post-fact world, power of prayer, prayer, refrigerator lights, santa, sunspots and climate change, the flood in Genesis, the use of fluoride, the world trade centre bombing, Trump, UFOs, vaccines, weather control, white supremacy, World Brain
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CBC’s “This is That” and the Reality of Our News Broadcasts
I thought my reaction to the popular CBC parody show, This is That was unlike that of others, so I never mentioned it until this summer when I was talking to my friend in Montreal. It turned out, others have … Continue reading
Waking to News about Maniacs
Since I need to be awake by nearly the same time every weekday, I have taken to setting my clock radio for nine in the morning and then listening to the morning news before I actually turn off the clock … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, News, News of the World
Tagged Edmonton terrorism, Jeffrey C. Hall, Kenya, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, Rebecca Lolosoli, Shooting in Las Vegas, TedTalk, Umoja, Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar – Astrophysicist
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Throw Your Vote Away: The Simpsons on Electioneering
One of the most poignant statements about our political system in the west was the election speeches of Kang and Kodos as Bob Dole and Bill Clinton running for president in a Simpsons episode from twenty years ago. When Homer … Continue reading
Go Pokémon Go
The Pokemon Go craze is relatively recent in Canada. In fact, the game is not really available in the country and those who are stumbling around on the city streets chasing ephemeral characters from a game have fudged their country … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, News, Singularity, Social Media
Tagged Oculus Rift, Pokemon Go
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Donald Trump and the Conspiracy of Nonsense
The internet is so effective at the promulgation of conspiracy theories we almost think it might have been made for that purpose. Marshall McLuhan suggests that each of our technologies simply extend our own abilities, just as a spear extends … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, News of the World, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, Birther, democrat, Donald Trump, George Bush, global climate change denier, Hillary Clinton, Justin Raimondo, nomination, presidency, republican, white house
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