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Category: Important Public Statement
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The Choice to Think is Human Until It is Not
A colleague of mine posted about an investigation for code programming designed for the machine to produce original research questions. It is mind-bogglingly that the question “Why” is not understood more strongly in society, particularly among policy decision-makers. Why “models can go a step further and autonomously generate novel research ideas”? …
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The Language of Human “Snakes”: Why Some Humans are Intense Liars and Why the Uneducated Believe Them?
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken by J.D. Vance] When the CNN host, Dana…
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Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, “I apologise as Public Service Commissioner to those affected by the Scheme and to the Australian public for the part played…
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, “Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’.” Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was ‘click bait’, and for what was a worthy article to read; nevertheless, the headline assertion was…
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The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology called, “Globalization and scientific labour: patterns in a life-history study of intellectual workers in the periphery.” The theme of my article is a critical question of…
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“What usefulness or validity does the model still have?” ‘Pragmatic Thinkers’ are Not as Smart as They Think
“But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?” I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about abstraction on their meaning and what each thinks is being expressed, what they…
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This is WHY we need paid professional community education: To Destroy the Lies Before they Grow
Dear friends To Destroy the Lies Before the Grow: Community Education, paid because it cannot survive if it is not funded. It is a Call for true Public Education in Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Queensland. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world/europe/grenfell-tower-fire-inquiry-report-uk.html?smid=url-share — Findings from the Final Report of Grenfell Tower Fire A…
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Choosing Levels of Accountability: A Call for Higher Accountability for All Political Activities
An unusual story appeared about an incidence for the American navy (InQueensland). A commander of a US navy destroyer that is helping protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with…
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“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.” “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this…
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Do we really know what is happening in the A.I. Sales?
Dear Political Decision Maker, Do you really think you understand what is going on the A.I. sales? Also attached copy of the article. This is serious. https://www.chronicle.com/article/ai-scientists-have-a-problem-ai-bots-are-reviewing-their-work?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_10857404_nl_Daily-Briefing_date_20240826&sra=true 240826.highres.outofthebox. Purchased. Receipt #1104-4867 AI Scientists Have a Problem_ AI Bots Are Reviewing Their Work