Pop-* Rekt
Pop-culture refers to the poplar version of anything, pophistory, popscience, etc. It's usually a very unjudged, low quality version of whatever it mocks. Many of these media items are subjected to be means of Propaganda.
"The Propaganda Model is universally applicable"
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A popsci website the concentrate on communication theory, talking about The Propaganda Model, says that it's universally applicable, although it is known that the propaganda model doesn't apply to communists states where the main interest is not driven by money.
DONE Are conservative women more beautiful
CLOCK: [2023-07-25 Tue 22:46]–[2023-07-25 Tue 23:21] => 0:35
Facial beauty prediction is still a relatively nascent domain; most of the time the results are not credible, + the public dataset they used in the study(Rasmussen 2023) is pretty inexhaustive (5500 for 60 raters) with only frontal faces. The dailymail statement is just too far from what is actually proposed in the original paper. I should write soon about how this relates to the propaganda model.
al-Mutanabbi Rekt
This video here https://youtu.be/LXZpZUeYA6E about al-Mutanabbi is perhaps the greatest collection of inaccurate information about him.
Obviously, Chess grandmasters don't burn 6000 calories per day
From: https://x.com/strandbergbio/status/1938820668977750190
I recently looked into the claim that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories a day during tournaments and found that the number was made up by Robert Sapolsky, a popular author and professor
References
- Rasmussen, Stig Hebbelstrup Rye and Ludeke, Steven G and Klemmensen, Robert (2023). Using deep learning to predict ideology from facial photographs: expressions, beauty, and extra-facial information. Nature Publishing Group UK London.