“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell - ThreadSky

slack2thefuture.bsky.social • 86 days ago

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Reposted from Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News

Soon-Shiong saying "the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story" is among the scariest and stupidest things I've ever heard. There'd be an alternative version of each story written by AI in Trumpese??? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...

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kokojo66.bsky.social•86 days ago

Freakin nuts

mothmanshadow.bsky.social•86 days ago

Jesus Christ….there isn’t two ‘sides’ to a story. There’s what happened…and that’s it. You can make of it how you will, but only one thing actually happened.

nyccittamia.bsky.social•86 days ago

We will see more and more of these quotes come to life.

mypapermoon.bsky.social•86 days ago

Project 2025

truxmintinbox.bsky.social•84 days ago

It’s going to be really interesting when the Trump cult finally wanes how much these people are going to have to backpedal to try to repair their reputations. They can’t at this point but don’t think they won’t try.

jay-rios.bsky.social•86 days ago

Why limit to just one button? Why not a panel of buttons from which you can pick your preferred ideological or conspiratorial position? Limiting a story to just "both sides" seems incredibly lazy and a lost opportunity for covering all bases.

sandrakn64.bsky.social•86 days ago

Oh what a brave new world ...😩

joekalicki.bsky.social•86 days ago

Perhaps they should just report the truth

bellatv55.bsky.social•83 days ago

yep

theroblabelle.bsky.social•86 days ago

So fucked up…

schmehvongestern.bsky.social•86 days ago

It has just dawned on me that every "generative" AI does exactly this while generating exactly nothing.

moondogrick.bsky.social•86 days ago

The Trump Ministry of Truth

paul.ofthenorth.ca•86 days ago

"Both sides of the facts", will be the worst newspaper slogan

ksummerwine.bsky.social•86 days ago

Both? The facts & the “alternatives”

mamajkmcc.bsky.social•84 days ago

That's why journalist are leaving

cptheidi.bsky.social•86 days ago

Well this is terrifying

drmac.bsky.social•85 days ago

The Party members are Oligharchs

timodee.bsky.social•86 days ago

Newspapers lose money, so rich whack-jobs buy them to trade 💰 losses for influence.

k8herself.bsky.social•86 days ago

I loved reading dystopian future stories; I don't love living one.

andres-lbc.bsky.social•86 days ago

Oh shit. I didn’t know I had to cancel my LA Times subscription…

bonnielt.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hopefully readers will continue to leave en masse. AI does not replace real journalists. And it can clearly be programmed to present whatever the owner wants.

ashleighparsons.bsky.social•83 days ago

Sadly, the dearth of critical thinking isn't a new thing. Many of our elected leaders are straight up fucking airheads.

billnemacheck.bsky.social•86 days ago

melastorm.bsky.social•86 days ago

Terrifying.

supadurl.bsky.social•86 days ago

No shit

barbaryan.bsky.social•86 days ago

I just threw up

agentfrodo.bsky.social•86 days ago

So if he were publishing a paper in Germany in 1932, he would want both social democrats and Nazi sympathizers on his editorial board. This is the precise implication he makes.

agentfrodo.bsky.social•86 days ago

Reality is subjective, but journalism that is free to ignore established facts and history and tries to appease everyone is not journalism. Like history, journalism does not exist to comfort us. It exists to chart a course through perspectives to arrive at a lucid perspective grounded in facts.

dstamos-jetdriver.bsky.social•86 days ago

Will they apply this to the archives? Can't wait to push the button on the LA times website and get Nazi propaganda or stories staying about how wonderful the bombing of Pearl harbor was and how we should have let the Soviets put missiles in Cuba. What a great tool. The possibilities are endless!

blueplasma.bsky.social•86 days ago

Both sides are not always equal. Just because there is an opposing view does not mean there is an equivalence in validity.
Some are pro mass murder with random bombings, most are not. Discuss.
See? Not equally valid.

thebarnothing.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's happening right before our eyes.

itsfullofstars.bsky.social•86 days ago

I can't comprehend how far the LA Times has fallen.

howcanwedance.bsky.social•86 days ago

Glad I canceled 3 years ago.

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