[ExI] Just say no to Google

Sat Nov 22 20:58:16 UTC 2025

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 22 November, 2025 6:42 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Just say no to Google

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

>> … if you're interested in finding the truth then you can't expect to find it if you remain inside a bubble that operates in the way that Musk runs TwitterX. 

> TwitterX isn’t the truth.  It contains the truth.

>…But it doesn't contain the truth about the world's richest man….

Ja!  I have found Blue Sky as more valuable to find information on that topic.  There is PLEEEEENTY of Musk hatred there, all you ever wanted and more.  

> TwitterX is huge, so you have plenty of references to other sources, more than can be found on either Truth Social or Blue Sky, being 100 times bigger than either of them.

>…Bigger is not necessarily better….

But diversity is our strength.

> figure out which posters know and which are fools.  Filter the goofballs,

>…Easier said than done. There is simply too much information out there to filter all that information all by yourself, you're going to need help from someone or someplace that you trust….

Agree.  But I trust nothing!  No one!  I don’t even trust myself, and I am the most trustworthy self I am and have ever been.

There are ways to deal with the filtration problem.  We all have people we know of who we either trust or just want to hear what they have to say.  Start with filtering everything.  Then add those kinds of people.

>… Although to a much lesser degree I also trust the editors of the Washington Post….

I trust the WaPo a lot more now than I did three months ago.

>… New York Times….

The NYTimes has a lingering credibility problem for its handling of the Russia collusion story, and subsequently receiving the Pulitzer prize in 2018 for a story it later had to partially retract.

>…and the BBC….

Ja I like the Beeb.  It is good to get an outsider’s perspective.

>…To a lesser degree to them I trust the news (not the opinions) of the Wall Street Journal and CNN. To a much lesser degree to them I trust Fox. I don't trust Newsmax or One America News or Breitbart or TwitterX at all because their reputation for telling the truth stinks to high heaven.  

John K Clark

John that list contains several professional news agencies and one social medium where anyone can post anything (except criticism of the guy who owns it (pretty understandable he would have software filter away that material (you and I would do likewise.)))

TwitterX is not a news agency and does not tell, any more than paper tells.  It is only a medium.  They don’t tell or sell stories, but they allow others to place content there.  I do not need or want anyone’s help in determining what is real, and what is an illusion.  I am old enough to filter that.

Of value in the reams of junky information on the internet and TwitterX is a good indicator of the thought-center of the world.  From this can be extracted a reliable thought-center of the USA, which is inherently valuable for political betting.  It is the reason why I win at that game more than I lose.  ExI is nowhere near the thought-center of the USA or of the world.

spike

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