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in a conversation about navigating the expanded universe of medical insurance i wound up saying 'sometimes in order to be smart, you have to sound stupid' and i had to stop a minute because i had had no intent to say something so controversial and yet so brave. about life generally

#that said #one shouldn't have to be so controversial and yet so brave #to wrest the bare minimum of adequate care from our corporate overlords' hands

remember when vegans were the obscure ones? i haven't heard from the vegetarian fandom in years, what happened to them

#vegans in my neck of the woods are now cool #even bordering on mainstream #somehow vegetarians were never cool and never will be #like.....imagine a vegetarian influencer. you can't #i follow tons of vegan food blogs because that's where the creativity is rn #but damn if i wouldn't love to see some innovative uses of egg up in there too #(i am a devout omnivore but i often love to cook with scant or no meat)#(was always mistaken for a vegetarian in highschool simply by virtue of: enjoying vegetables in Quantity)

libraford

I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

libraford

I'm thinking about the argument I got caught in yesterday- the subject of it doesn't matter.

Often, pseudoscience and misinformation comes packaged with a lot of very important sounding words, and the jargon gets to the point where it seems like a lot of work to fact check it. Which makes the 'I encourage you to do your own research' statements real obnoxious. If it's phrased in a way that's impossible to navigate, good luck.

It sucks, but you gotta.

If you don't want to fact check individual words, that's fine. That's a lot to ask of someone that's just trying to figure out whether something is true.

This is where we get into something called 'lateral research.' Instead of trying to draw a map to a sentence, you check the credibility of their source material.

This is your Snopes, your Fact Check/Media Bias, your Follow The Money.

Knowing more context about what someone is saying will save you a lot of time and energy.

If you're not sure about something, question it.

zetabrarian

I feel like I've been throwing this around a LOT lately, but:

Practice SIFT! SIFT is based on lateral research and can be very helpful for these situations.

DON'T just share information without doing your due diligence.

elizeshiro

whyyy the fuck does this not have more notes please rb this more often qwq

libraford

Well, I mean... probably because I posted it like an hour ago.

weaselle

STOP

i have found this post and infographic and i want to share it

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE

zetabrarian's blog says they are a socially progressive librarian monsterfucker, which a quick scroll through their blog seems to support. This makes them pretty cool but not necessarily the perfect source -- anyone can say they are a librarian, and surely not every librarian is correct about processing information

FIND BETTER COVERAGE

if i go to a search engine (in this case google via firefox) i see that several universities, libraries from large municipalities (like Los Angeles) as well as the BBC all agree that this is a real method experts in information fields recommend. I wouldn't necessarily take any single one of these sources as 100% credible, but they are individually reasonably reliable, and taken together indicate a high probability of factual information

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT

A brief search reveals that the SIFT method was created by Mike Caulfield, who is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online rumors and misinformation. This is an extremely good source of information for how to process information on the internet. As the creator of the SIFT method, he has taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops.

I could not find a post or page about SIFT written by Mike Caulfield himself, so i went to the University of Washington's website for this page about it, since that is the university that employs him.

It corroborates the above information, though there are a few notable differences. For example, under the "trace to original context" section in the Washington U. source (again, as close to the original as i could find) this step contains advice to check the date. This seems very good to include, as in the fast moving world of internet information, things become outdated or get updated very quickly, and yet first takes and outdated articles hang around and get shared for a long time.

EXTRA CREDIT

I personally find that it is important to outright search for the opposite information. For example, I put in a few searches like "Mike Caulfield discredited" "Mike Caulfield wrong" "SIFT method bad" etc. I found nothing showing me any indications this method has any problems. Interestingly, somehow this did turn up an article about news literacy on Medium, which was actually written by Mike Caulfield in April of 2017

#i go on about this often but #misinformation #disinformation #fact checking #resources

it said, it had been waiting for us. it said it liked a little light.

- they placed the idol over the headboard and the monster somewhere else (under the bed, the closet door)

for me it always reached through the cracks of the dresser, vertigo trapped small. the thing that waits to pull your ankle when you swim too deep.

in the morning, it clung to my clothes.

you do have cancer monsters are real they will drop the bomb

they can always tell when you smell like under-toe. fear told us the truth when no one else did, the idol said 'be good' until we had to hide. we took the bad thing under the covers, wrote it in secret with a little light.

i liked a girl and i want to kill her i did it on purpose i gave it the knife the air hissed from our lungs like a stab wound as we let it in

once upon a time i starved myself once upon a time the train-tracks once upon a time we died we broke the vertigo from the drawer, pulled out the eel and fed it our eyes.

no one else will want your stories no one else will want your lives

#poetry #original poetry #queers and monsters

the world sits lightly on your shoulders. the world takes a bath in your shoe.

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#poems to fall asleep to