"Nobody can control the weather."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@serendip1959 That's an excerpt from Jill Filipovic. Sorry if that wasn't clear. It's not my statement, though I think it's a good one.

[tooden@aus.social]

@wdlindsy She reminds me of Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin. Something very loose in the caboose.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"[Meterologist Matthew] Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: 'Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.'"

~ Lorena O'Neil

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"'I’ve been doing this for 46 years and it’s never been like this,' says Alabama meteorologist James Spann. He says he’s been 'inundated' with misinformation and threatening messages like 'Stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else.'”

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
/16

[nazani@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy I would say that the outlandish ideas like HAARP & chemtrails have been around, with disturbingly large following, since at least the early 2000s. What's new is algorithms shoving them in our faces even if we don't visit sketchy sites.

[rattlersix@ieji.de]

@wdlindsy That's crazy. Spann is a legend and hugely respected in Alabama. He knows the state like the back of his hand. If there's a tornado in the area he's known to warn specific neighborhoods off the top of his head without looking at a map. Absolute insanity.

(edit: I'm a weather nerd, not from AL, but that's the impression I get of him)

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
It seems to me that the extreme "fundamental" groups of Christianity, Judaism & Islam are all cultish and full of bizarre & ugly lies. I don't know enough about other religions to know if the same is true. It's just demoralizing that there are people stupid enough, or mean enough, to believe and spread them.

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy

non-paywalled link to article

"Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop"

by Jason Koebler
Oct 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM

archive.ph

(archive.ph)

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Weak tea is an interesting accompaniment to milquetoast.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Yeah... I have a dear friend in N.C. who specifically called to blame me for the flooding, home damage, mud and pestilence.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Wonderful to learn we have such powers, isn't it? Why has it taken me so long to realize I can command the winds and rains!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Indeed. They go together!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@johnlogic Thanks for that link. For some reason, it wasn't paywalled for me. Glad to know that link will allow others to read it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I agree. And globally, it's right-wing (and usually male-dominated) versions of religions all over the planet that are driving resistance to women's rights.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@rattlersix Crazy, indeed. And so sick and self-destructive for the very people who need good weather reporting.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nazani I think also new is a kind of mass delusion being deliberately massaged by most of the Republican party.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tooden For sure.

[debr@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy They are desperate.

[tammygentzel@awscommunity.social]

@wdlindsy If God is indeed standing there waiting for them, they are going to get one heck of a surprise.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@wdlindsy MAGA = death

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