No one in Texas is surprised that the world epicenter of weird little brother energy is leading the charge on attacking academic wrongthink. Look at what they consider normal!

More local comments here. These people are fully cooked by misinformation and conspiracy

Did this lead to county officials rejecting life-saving federal funds?

Weaponized misinformation has real consequences. Journalists must continue to dig and investigate what local officials did and did not do.

Holy crap. Listen to these comments from Kerr County residents demanding leaders send back ARPA funds that could have been used for flood warning upgrades.

Did politics and division contribute to this death toll?

Is there any hope of deprogramming these people?

Are we cooked?

I love this. An entire research paper on the effects of LLMs on cognitive and learning performance was booby-trapped to make sure people (and news sites) who used LLMs to summarize the paper got completely opposing conclusions.

Incredible 4D chess move by the (supposedly human) authors