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Sydney Sweeney and Her Fiction

Please note that (in case you wish to comment or reply to this post / article) my pronoun is “Boss“.

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney story in the news a while back — see “On the Internet …” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/08/01/on-the-internet ].

Yesterday one of my colleagues shared this article with me:

(Roughly) Daily

“It is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.”*…

https://roughlydaily.com/2025/09/27/it-is-even-more-urgent-that-we-learn-to-look-passionately-and-technically-at-stories-if-only-to-protect-ourselves-from-the-false-and-manipulative-ones-being-circulated-among-us

While I enjoy the imagery used, I find that there is too little criticism of fake and false narratives used to sell crap to suckers. (See also my own writings about “suckers” and “sucker” mentality, etc.)

They do it with their friends

As a drunk waitress, you’re one of us — you’re a human, and humans, there’s are a lot of people that have opinions or ideas on things, they’re just not good at articulating it (or they never learned how to articulate it). But everyone does what we do (or everybody can do what we do) — they do it with their friends, they talk with their friends, they bullshit about stuff … and, you know, it’s just a process of putting it out there.

JRE 2270 Bridget Phetasy [ 1:58:12 – 1:58:39 ]

For more about publicacy, see “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?” [ https://socio.business.blog/2024/04/29/what-is-publicacy-why-does-it-matter ]

For more about mainstream milieus, see “Mainstream Milieus” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/02/01/mainstream-milieus ]

For more about reliable sources of information concerning thought, ideas, opinions, etc. see “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ]

Fortunately writing doesn’t require an audience

Keywords: miscellaneous

There is a little bit of narcissism required to be a writer, to believe that people actually give a shit about what you think. And after the publishing of my book, with the podcasts and the interviews and the speeches I’ve given, I’ve come to realize that people read my words and still don’t understand me. Perhaps because they project their own experiences into the writing, perhaps because so much time has passed that I am no longer the person who wrote that book/those words, or perhaps because I am such a shit writer that I can’t express myself well enough to be understood. It feels like a mixture of all three of those possibilities. By the time you read these words, I’ll already not be the person who wrote them. I’ll have hopefully grown, and I’ll have moved on. And there is acceptance in knowing that the words I write are ephemeral to me. Too bad the people who read my words are seemingly locked into the space and time in which they are written.

https://bambooandbananas.org/on-writing

If one of them, without mentioning any names, wanted to have a short orgy with three girls in the bathroom, then I didn’t see it

Keywords: Beatlemania , Beatles , culture , history , music , politics , pop , rock , Rolling Stones , She Love You , stones

Since these comparisons proved useful to everyone, both the bands and the journalists collab­orated on the charade. In the early 1960s, Keith Richards re­marked, “nobody took the music seriously. It was the image that counted, how to manipulate the press and dream up a few headlines.”

https://roughlydaily.com/2024/09/16/the-beatles-were-thugs-who-were-put-across-as-nice-blokes-and-the-rolling-stones-were-gentlemen-who-were-made-into-thugs-by-andrew-loog-oldham-their-manager

Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to use the internet as your input source?

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A Google spokesperson tells CBS News for health queries, we’ve always had strong quality and safety guardrails in place including disclaimers that remind people that it’s important to seek out expert advice, but not all of it. CBS News confirmed that some health misinformation persists on the tool queries about introducing solid foods to infants under six months old, still returned tips in late June when we tested it searches on the health benefits of dubious wellness trends like detoxes or drinking raw milk included debunked claims.

Adam Curry, “No Agenda” #1680 [ https://www.noagendashow.net/listen/1680 ], Chapter “AI health” 2:06:02 – 2:06:08 (2:06:08 – 2:06:50 CBS News quote)

See also: “Quantity vs. Quality (Upside-Down Version)” [ https://socio.business.blog/2024/07/28/quantity-vs-quality-upside-down-version ]