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A recent study suggests these classes could be increasingly important. Researchers at Princeton and New York universities found that Facebook users 65 and over posted seven times as many articles from fake news websites, compared with adults under 29. Fellow … Continue reading →

I wrote this three years ago. Facebook recommends you of past posts and this is what came up today. I continue to hold this position and may be even more concerned that others see the country and world in a … Continue reading →

So much regarding the future of this country seems to come down to who it is we are willing to trust. The execution of many government functions depends on employees who work across different administrations and are there to do … Continue reading →

When you spend two months away from what you describe as your home base, it is a little different than taking what most would describe as a trip. You have decided to live somewhere else for a while. You do … Continue reading →

Once in a while, I decide to repost something I wrote previously. Some content does not seem to become dated and this is a way of brining this material to what may be a new audience. This one is from … Continue reading →

So much of what I read lately concerns trying to understand the spread of disinformation and possibly what educators can do about it. I thought a recent Wired article on the topic could be helpful to members of the general … Continue reading →

I heard that the Trump approval ratings had been improving. I thought this might just be a Fox News thing, but I trust Gallup and these survey folks say this is the case. The findings that led to the impeachment, … Continue reading →

If we are going to worry about politically emotional labels, we should be more worried about the movement of our government toward a dictatorship than socialism. This story from USA Today got me thinking about the labels applied to politicians … Continue reading →

It is the third party cookies that irritate me. When I use a free online service I feel some responsibility to trade information I generate when using that site for access. What I don’t think I owe that company is … Continue reading →

Bots have a bad reputation and sometimes they do bad things. The bot activity that has been in the news allowed a few individuals from a foreign government to relay content through multiple bots so that it might appear that … Continue reading →