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Toot

Written by Ian Brown :verified: on 2025-01-26 at 13:41

Traditional media has adopted the term "flooding the zone" to describe many of the actions taken by the executive branch in the last week.

Trump and his enablers understand and take advantage of Brandolini’s Law:

"The bullshit asimmetry[sic]: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

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Written by Ian Brown :verified: on 2025-01-26 at 13:47

Alberto Brandolini shared his now-famous (and perhaps, in hindsight, obvious) insight into how information and misinformation operate on the internet in, ironically, a Tweet:

https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521

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Written by Eric Likness on 2025-01-26 at 14:57

@igb Andy Grove (infamously) fixated on 10x effects in Intel's rise to market dominance.

But in fact the 10x of bullshit asymmetry,... that's what we all need to be paranoid about.

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Written by Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻 on 2025-01-26 at 14:22

@igb Most of it doesn't need to be refuted though. Reality will do that for us. Everyone needs to stop overreacting emotionally to everything he says and focus on what actually happens.

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