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.)

Even persons I looked up to completely lost their shit

Keywords: Bondi Beach, Corona Virus, COVID-19, Embrace Quietness, False News, Fiji, Fiji Islands, Lockdown, Pandemic, Self Isolation, Social Media, World Health Organisation

World leaders who I thought would come through in times of crisis lost all sense of direction. And no I’m not writing this from a place of all calm and zen; it just hasn’t hit me yet.

https://shyamni.com/2020/03/30/practice-quietness-in-other-words-stfu