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4 days ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

Back in 2015, Jon Ronson published a book called So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, which explored the relatively recent phenomenon of people using social media to, well, publicly shame people. The term “cancel culture” would gain prominence a few years later, but the ideas are related: social media suddenly became a great leveler, where it seemed that anyone could use it to call out behavior they didn’t like and get others on board to condemn it.

1 week ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!Transcript:When I was 18, I was finishing up my freshman year of college and was hoping to stay in Boston by getting an apartment, which would require a roommate. A girl who worked in the cosmetics store next door to my magic shop said she needed a place, so we went out to lunch to see if we clicked.

1 week ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!Transcript:About 15 years ago, the dumbest politician to take the national stage up until that point was Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and, at that time, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. In 2009, she took to Facebook to bash the Obama Administration’s feeble attempts to provide healthcare to all Americans through the Affordable Care Act.

2 weeks ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!Transcript:There’s so much bad news surrounding “AI” right now that I’ve had a real hard time narrowing down what I want to talk about. By “AI” of course, I’m talking about generative AI, large language models, garbage like ChatGPT.

2 weeks ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

Wow, yet another wealthy and famous lover of free speech is using a libel lawsuit to try to silence his critics! This video is going to be a bit all over the place so I’m breaking it up into sections: first I’ll deliver the new news (since that will probably be in the title and so I want to get straight to it), then I’ll explain why I’m talking about for those who are new to my channel, and then I’ll give some updates on the previous libel cases I’ve talked about.