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Search integrated AI like Google’s AI Overview search the live web and synthesizes top pages to answer questions from users but it can't verify objective facts. However, that doesn't stop it from answering questions from users that call for objective facts.

It will confidently act like they know the answer to your question when they're really just stitching together internet text without having any clue what is actually true.

Because major search engines prioritize forum discussions, a lot of incorrect information is being purposely posted all over social media and Google AI is reporting it as objective fact at the top of its search results. We already know from Talia Lavin's work that bigoted bad faith actors and extremist networks coordinate brigades or mass upvoting false and bigoted claims claim while downvoting factual rebuttals until they are automatically collapsed.

AI scrapers regularly pull the uncollapsed, upvoted narrative and present it to everyday users as verified fact.

Misinformation, disinformation and racist conspiracy theories about population replacement played a big part in that gunman who drove hundreds of miles to Buffalo, New York, and murdered black people in a supermarket.

As millions of people increasingly turn to AI search summaries for quick answers instead of primary sources, can anything be done to fix this, or is this all inevitable

There's a scene in the original version of the movie Carrie and where the coach open hand slaps a student in the face for disrespect and the rest of the class doesn't even flinch, nor did the gym teacher get n any trouble. How realistic was that?

Several of my black friends and I were once anonymously accused of racism after somebody heard us agreeing that watching "Get Out" with a crowd of black people is the best way to watch it. Like we had to have a meeting with the Dean of Students because of that shit and I thought it was the most bad faith, petty thing to do. So did the Dean who had to talk with us just because of protocol

The complaint said it was because "if a white person had said they only like to see movies with white people they would be called racist, "which isn't at all the same thing but I've noticed more and more bad faith attempts to call black people and especially black women racist for the silliest things as I get older, especially on social media

Sometimes people see a conscious rapper or "message" rappers and just assume they are deep that they got bars just because they got a kufi or a carhartt denim jacket and glasses on or because they rap about society, politics, or spirituality over a boom bap beat.

Have you ever listened to one and been like "this dude is ass wtf" Please list them if you have.

I want to see if a rapper can get away with being wack by playing the conscious role.

Gospel and Contemporary Christian music(CCM) have no discernable traits that aren't already found in other genres. Which is ok because the Bible doesn't mandate a specific musical style but it does say music meant for worship should focus on the truth and character and glory of God. But if you look at many of the biggest hits by mainstream gospel and CCM artists a large portion of the songs completely run afoul of this.

Popular gospel artists usually don't glorify God because they glorify man by focusing heavily on human emotion or self help or Prosperity Gospel themes like material rewards and overcoming satan so you don't have to struggle.

This is why I believe gospel music is not a real genre but rather a marketing ploy for artists whose selling point is: listen to us and we won't offend the sensibilities of the average modern churchgoer, regardless of if those sensibilities are cultural instead of biblical.

This is proven by looking at the exact opposite phenomenon where numerous mainstream secular rock and pop and rap songs are explicitly all about glorifying God or crying out for salvation or written directly from the perspective of Jesus. We see this in tracks like The Cave by Mumford and Sons, You Found Me by The Fray, Shine by Collective Soul, Everything by Lifehouse, Beautiful Day by U2, Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz, Holding on to You by Twenty One Pilots, Jesus Walks by Kanye West, Blessings by Chance the Rapper, and I Never Seen a Man Cry by Scarface. Despite these songs containing profound biblical imagery and praise, many Christians completely denounce them or refuse to listen to them because the artist is 'secular' or because they're scared they might hear a single word that contemporary culture but not necessarily the Bible considers a curse word.

But if you slap the word gospel on it and remove a few words, its A OK, In fact many so called secular artists know this and will release a gospel or CCM album and do just this. That's why I say it's not a real genre, just a marketing ploy letting Christians know you won't hear swearing and you will hear the word God mentioned sometimes.

Apologies for the wordy title, I just don't know any other way to ask the question.

I've traveled the Southern and East Coasts of the US a lot. since the 90s. One thing I have noticed is how older East Coast cities like NY, Philly, and Jersey I've noticed how Black, Latino, and Caribbean residents (especially second and higher generation immigrant residents) have a heavily fused urban culture. You can see this cross racial and cultural syncretism in their shared slang, everyday neighborhood networks, fashion and subcultures where multiracial street crews, gangs, and movements (like early hip hop culture and even modern, drill rap culture ) have formed in the same physical spaces.

In major Southern metros like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and San Antonio, Black Latino and other immigrant populations often live in close proximity and are friendly but their cultural expressions and social circles mostly run parallel rather than merging. For instance, Mexican American car and music traditions like lowriders and Chicano rap exist side by side with Black car and music traditions like slabs, chopped and screwed music, and trap music, yet they have always been separate distinct institutions, groups sounds, and spaces.

I'm just curious what a sociologist would say best explains why these minority cultures fused heavily in the East Coast urban environment while remaining largely distinct and parallel in the South?

When economic discussions come up, the argument resets to the idea that conservatives stand for free enterprise and liberty while liberals want government meddling, but that entire premise is false. Conservative politicians don't oppose government interference at all and never have. They cloak corporate welfare, state interventionism, ,trade barriers and state backed monopolies in the language off free trade and free markets, but its all just redistribution of wealth upward.

Even trade deals most leftist call free like NAFTA and USMCA aren't about open competition at all. They are both thousands of pages of corporate protections and handouts that lock in profits and create special courts and rules for wealthy execs. There's nothing free trade or meritocratic at all about any of that. But whenever right wingers get on TV they claim to be free marketeers while calling us meddlers and it usually goes unchallenged.

Should we be wasting our breath debating conservatives on whether government should stay out of the market, when it's clear they don't stay out of the market themselves.

Instead of debating free market capitalism and its so called legendary track record. maybe we should always point out how its only legendary in the way Bigfoot or Lochness Monster is legendary, because it doesn't exist

Looking for modern (past ten years) action films (from any country) that follow the Die Hard on a Blank template. I'd prefer films like Cliffhanger or Con Air or Under Siege where each henchman has a distinct personality, separate interactions with the heroes, and a highly specific, satisfying death scene if possible. Thanks

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