Month: April 2024

Screenshot of tweet, Joe Friday @justthefacts85 1:49 AM · Jun 24, 2022 These are just a few recent ones as I didn’t go back that far. I’m sure most posts, if not all, are lifted from others. (Last row reversed, sorry.) I don’t know if this is some kind of bot or what. Image attached to tweet are a series of screenshots showing Sammy4723 tweets verbatim copied from the original tweets as follows, TalkerTeacher don’t know who needs to hear this right now but it is perfectly normal to want to avoid catching a potentially debilitating disease during a world- altering pandemic anyone telling you different has an agenda that does not have your health and well-being in mind 8:55 AM 6/19/22 LaurentForan: In the future, students will read in their history book the chapter on the 2020s with shock and anger. “How can a ruling class consciously let a virus kill millions?” When they’ll learn that it was the logic of the profit system, they’ll understand the subsequent revolution. 6:20 PM 6/19/22, and AmySpiro: Israel confirmed more than 10,000 new COVID cases yesterday for the first time since early April. The positivity rate of all those tested yesterday is close to 40%. 2:11 AM 6/20/22

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Sammy4723, anonymous pandemic influencer sock puppet account.

2024-04-04

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. A tent lit in pink and another lit in red under a tree line silhouette under a starry sky showing a portion of the Milky Way seen in a night sky at Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. July 1, 2019.

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It’s Dark Sky Week & there’s a light pollution debacle in Scranton Pennsylvania.

2024-04-02

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Imagine if your doctor withheld cancer treatment because your employer needs you on the job for the next few months. Your employer doesn’t care if you live 20 more years because if you die 6 months from now they can replace you by then, but they want you on the job now, so you are refused life-saving treatment, or maybe your doctor doesn’t even bother to tell you there’s treatment. All to cater to the business. This appears to be CDC’s plan with infectious disease, and beyond. Chloe Humbert, The CDC, Media & PR: a public health disinformation campaign. https://tinyurl.com/public-health-disinfo

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Imagine if your doctor withheld cancer treatment because your employer needs you on the job for the next few months.

2024-04-02

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Covid denial, the musical

2024-04-01

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