It boggles the mind.

Good reminder- media can be used for political manipulation even without malicious foreign actors.

Like the Bystander Effect, which was fabricated and sensationalized by the media.

We are all capable of spreading misinformation when it suits us.

“People entrusting their feelings to chatbots” - is a good line. Do you mind if I steal it? :)

Thanks for listening to the talk. And hooray for conversations with strangers on planes! I used to do that before planes started offering wifi.

Did she tell you why she was embarrassed to work for the -was it AI Companions company? Was it due to ethical issues?

Can “market dynamics” explain any of it? Media just “follows the money”.

and talking of “stolen land”… do you perchance reside in the US or Canada or Australia?

No doubt your ginger Jewish grandfather inherited hue fair eye genes from Europeans who rape your Jewish ancestresses. Lucky for you, Judaism honors matrilineal heritage, so you, a spawn of SA is still Jewish.

So many rules!

What do you mean “disappointing “? The Dodgers won!

There are similar processes operating at individual level too, right?

Reminds me of a Russian proverb “In an enemy’s eye he sees a splinter. In his own eye he won’t see a log.”

Add to this witches brew of female subordination the anti-BCP movement I read about in NYT. They are inviting women to feel what their bodies are when not on a pill. I can tell them - pregnant!

from it, pin a safety pin in their clothes. If you don’t have one, you can make a “dulya” (discretely) while the evil eye person is talking to cast off the curse. Dulya is usually an obscene finger gesture - similar to the middle finger.

Cultures are strange and interesting

It has less to do with Jews than Eastern Europe. I grew up in the FSU, in Russian/Ukrainian culture, steeped in superstitions (cultural OCD?). I am a walking encyclopedia of superstitions - AMA, I am sure there is a superstition for that.

Evil eye -“black eye” - is a common one. To protect a baby …

Trump should just stop talking about Ukraine. This always happens