https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-had-a-negative-122-operating-margin-in-q1-2026-and-chatgpt-growth-has-stalled/

5/22/2026 11:54:55 AM

Is anyone watching The Audacity with Zach Galafianakis? Kinda relevant to this thread.

5/22/2026 12:21:25 PM

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"The news has always been propaganda. The way to influence and direct in a democracy is through the press. That's how you drive action when you can't beat people into submission. Fox News just dropped all the pretense of it being a serious thing and sold it with pageant hair and mini-skirts. Tom Brokaw selling the Iraq war is the same thing, it just wears different clothes. Just because your college educated sensibilities cause you to cringe when Megan Kelly, a Stanford grad, mispronounces something (and fuck I do too), doesn't mean Fox is somehow more noble than what we had in the pre Fox era."

Do you think all propaganda is created equally? I mean, do you think one piece of propaganda has the same impact on society as any other piece of propaganda? Or that delivering one piece of propaganda is as responsible/irresponsible as delivering any other piece of propaganda? Because it definitely sounds like that is what you are saying....

5/22/2026 4:51:38 PM

Of course not which is why I use the Iraq war 1 as an example. Putting a 15-year-old girl up to talk about babies in an incubator being put on a floor until they die to justify killing 1 million people is pretty much the worst thing you could do. There are countless examples of horrific propaganda that predate Fox.

The only way to stop a bad propaganda with a microphone is a good propaganda with a microphone.

My favorite:

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"The U.S. opioid epidemic killed roughly 806,000 Americans from opioid overdose between 1999 and 2023 — orders of magnitude more than the post-9/11 risks (terrorism, Ebola, plane crashes, school shootings) that received saturation coverage — yet documented content analyses, journalism criticism, and the public reflections of the very reporters who broke the story show that corporate/mainstream U.S. media systematically under-covered and misframed the crisis for roughly its first 15 years (c. 1996–2011), and continued to misallocate attention long after. • The undercoverage was not random. It was driven by (a) successful Purdue Pharma/Sackler PR operations that planted an “anti-story” and intimidated outlets like the Orlando Sentinel; (b) the racialized framing inherited from the crack era, which made a largely white, rural/suburban drug death wave initially illegible as a “national emergency”; (c) editorial preferences for novel, dramatic risks (terrorism, Ebola, plane crashes) over a slow-moving, stigmatized public-health catastrophe; and (d) the structural displacement of drug coverage by terrorism after 9/11 — Pew documented a 66% drop in network coverage of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco in 2002–2005 versus 1997–2000. • The story was finally broken not by the national networks or front pages but by a small-paper reporter (Eric Eyre at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, 2016 Pulitzer), a handful of dogged book authors (Barry Meier, Sam Quinones, Beth Macy, Patrick Radden Keefe), academic content analysts (McGinty/Barry at Johns Hopkins; Netherland/Hansen), and the Washington Post/60 Minutes 2016 DEA exposé — by which point hundreds of thousands of Americans were already dead."

[Edited on May 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM. Reason : A]

5/22/2026 5:13:04 PM