Larry Barber
@lbarb355.bsky.social
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“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”
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Very thoughtful read.
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
Yes. We obviously have a massive struggle against tyranny to contend with.
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
But there's a more subtle and insidious threat that we can't ignore:
The struggle for our very mental autonomy.
Please read & share my latest post in Re-Founding America:
The Oligarchic Capture of the American Mind
There is a great struggle ahead of us: a fight for freedom from manipulation. For sovereignty over our own attention.
substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Very thoughtful read.
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
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My brother wisely asks:
Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
My brother wisely asks:
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In honor of fucking grokpedia launching 🙄 I've made a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia and if you have the ability and care about free and accurate information, you should too.
I used to make yearly donations to Wikimedia Foundation, but after talking to several friends in the nonprofit space, I've switched to recurring monthly donations instead. The predictable income stream helps them plan for the future. Throwing it out there for ppl looking for the best way to support
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
In honor of fucking grokpedia launching 🙄 I've made a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia and if you have the ability and care about free and accurate information, you should too.
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"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison.
But he will serve 0 jail time
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But he will serve 0 jail time
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October 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison.
But he will serve 0 jail time
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But he will serve 0 jail time
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You know that scene in Gravity were some debris destroys the Hubble Space Telescope and severely damages the ISS? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃
If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃
October 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You know that scene in Gravity were some debris destroys the Hubble Space Telescope and severely damages the ISS? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃
If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃
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It’s getting to the point where it is not moral or ethical to keep supporting the NYT with a subscription. I recommend the Guardian.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It’s getting to the point where it is not moral or ethical to keep supporting the NYT with a subscription. I recommend the Guardian.
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The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity
From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.
www.qasimrashid.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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The big guy in Los Lobos, David Hidalgo, turns 71 today. He plays guitar, accordion, violin, banjo, cello and drums and writes songs that make the angels dance.
youtu.be/8tHCsUsCfCY?...
youtu.be/8tHCsUsCfCY?...
Los Lobos 'Angel Dance' 1991
YouTube video by Steve M
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October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The big guy in Los Lobos, David Hidalgo, turns 71 today. He plays guitar, accordion, violin, banjo, cello and drums and writes songs that make the angels dance.
youtu.be/8tHCsUsCfCY?...
youtu.be/8tHCsUsCfCY?...
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I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State
A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley.
truthout.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...
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Word.
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Word.
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand
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September 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#MorningVibe
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#MorningVibe
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
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Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...
Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines
YouTube video by MinuteEarth
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September 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...
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Heads up to any and all writers who are in my Bsky community!
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Heads up to any and all writers who are in my Bsky community!
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Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
Aug. 2, 1924: James Baldwin Born
James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.
www.zinnedproject.org
August 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...