7 vital browser plugins for newsgathering and verification UPDATE – This article was originally published on Jan 6 2016, but has been updated with the first two tools. Know of any others we may have missed? Let us know on Twitter. When breaking news can travel the world in seconds, it is important for journalists to have the tools at their disposal to get to work fast. Most browsers have a catalogue of programs and software to make your browsing experience more powerful, like a smartphone app store. Here are five of the most useful browser extensions for finding and checking newsworthy material online. Frame by Frame for YouTube Verifying video often means examining individual frames to figure out exactly what is happening. Here’s where the Frame by Frame plugin comes in, providing an extra set of tools on top of those provided by YouTube itself. Remember the video of a “weather girl” hit by a fish on a stormy beach in Wales at the start of this year? Video Vault The VideoVault plugin will let you know when the video has been archived RevEye
Divination Divination is the art or practice of foretelling the future using different methods that the diviner may decide. The art of Divination has been practiced by all countries, cultures and religions around the world for thousands of years. It was studies over two thousand years ago in China by the study of cracked eggs for Divination. How accurate the divination will depend upon the reader. Augur During the time of ancient Rome there were priests that were called, Augur. Chronomancy This type of divination involves the determination of what will be a lucky day or an unlucky day. Pyromancy One of the very earliest forms of divination that involves the divination of fire. Abacomancy is an early form of divination by scrying the patterns of dust. Aeromancy is the divination of atmospheric conditions. Agalmatomancy is the divination of ancient statues and was popular during the time of ancient Greece. Alomancy is the divination from the patterns formed by salt thrown into the air. Join Us Free
List of wikis This page contains a list of notable websites that use a wiki model. These websites will sometimes use different software in order to provide the best content management system for their users' needs, but they all share the same basic editing and viewing website model. §Table[edit] §See also[edit] §References[edit] §External links[edit] 13 online tools that help to verify the authenticity of a photo The web-site Mediasapiens.ua tells about several online tools, using which you can verify the authenticity of photos, extract as much data from them as possible, and to find more information about a person. Findexif.com – a free tool where you could upload a photo or provide a reference to it and Findexif will identify EXIF-data (when and with what device a photo was made, image characteristics, sometimes a place, where a photo was made, could also be identified). Foto Forensics – a web-site that can run error level analysis (ELA), that is to find parts of a picture that were added to it after editing. After processing a photo the program produces the image with edited parts standing out. Besides, the program will also provide EXIF-data of a photo. Google Search by Image – reverse image search. TinEye – one more tool for reverse image search. JPEGSnoop– a program that has to be installed (only for Windows). Image checking algorithm 1. 2. 3. The source: Mediasapiens.ua.
Creepy, Crusty, Crumbling: Illegal Tour of Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans ... Hurricane Katrina killed this clown. According to the photographer, “An abandoned Six Flags amusement park, someone spray painted ‘Six Flags 2012 coming soon’ on the wall above the downed head. But they were clownin.’ Six Flags will never rebuild here.” That’s sad, but much of New Orleans has not been restored to her former glory. This defunct amusement park on the city’s eastern edge must surely serve as a constant reminder that Katrina tried to wash them off the map. Welcome to Zombie Land kids! Chained dreams of fun at Six Flags New Orleans, abandoned Jazzland – that’s what Six Flags opened as “Jazzland” in 2000. Some photographers can see past the lifeless amusement park’s decay and desolation, showing us that there is still a chance the place could be cheery and not cheerless. Like a Bad Dream. Just in case you don’t know the scoop on what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans and Six Flags, this photo is of New Orleans, LA, on Sept. 14, 2005. No lines for dead rides.
Writing #alternativefacts Propaganda (noun): Information that is often exaggerated or false and spread for the purpose of benefiting or promoting a specific individual or cause. Fake news is, quite simply, news (“material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast”) that is fake (“false, counterfeit”) - #alternativefacts Spin Journalism (noun): News and information that is manipulated or slanted to affect its interpretation and influence public opinion. Opinion (noun): A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. Media Bias/Lean: A political bias in journalistic reporting, in programming selection, or otherwise in mass communications media. Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Confirmation Bias: the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories. Merriam-Webster
Freemasonry @ Aleister Crowley Texts An Excerpt on the Reconstituted O.T.O. from his Confessions What follows is Crowley's own account of his motivations and methods in reconstructing the O.T.O. and its rituals. It is excerpted from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, pp. 700-n-704. "WHAT IS FREEMASONRY?" The question then arose, "What truths should be communicated and by what means promulgated?" Another essential point was to reduce the unwieldly mass of material to a compact and coherent system. The eighteenth-century Rosicrucians, so-called in Austria, had already endeavoured to unite the various branches of Continental freemasonry and its superstructures; in the nineteenth century, principally owing to the energy and ability of a wealthy iron master named Karl Kellner, a reconstruction and consolidation of traditional truth had been attempted. The O.H.O. put the rituals of this Order at my disposal. The main objects of the instruction were two. It chooses to enter into relations with the solar system. {...}
The Course Pack for Fall 2017 | Stony Brook Center for News Literacy The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, organizes the material into 8 concepts that are spread amongst our 14 week course that take students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into your program. Below, find a summary of each of those lessons, and a link to the most updated version of the teaching materials for each from our professors at Stony Brook University. Each of the following Course Packs include PowerPoint presentations, associated media, lecture notes, and recitation materials. You will notice as the semester progresses, the name of some of our lessons change, along with the sequence of the lessons. Updated Course Syllabus for Fall 2018 Lesson 1: What is News Literacy? News Literacy Lesson 1 Course Pack - Updated FALL 2018 Lesson 2: The Power of Information News Literacy Lesson 2 Course Pack - Updated FALL 2018
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The Definitive List of 176 Fake News Sites on Facebook Fake news is unavoidable. While the idea of “fake news” was born out of the very real instances of fake news stories helping sway the election in favor of now-President Donald Trump, it has since been co-opted by Trump’s administration to be used as a weapon to sow doubt in legitimate media stories that they find unappealing. But real fake news—not the kind Trump likes to point out on Twitter virtually every day—is pervasive. Facebook, a primary driver of traffic to publications, came under fire late last year for allowing the promotion of fake news sites that deal in conspiracy theories rather than facts. Both Facebook and Google have responded by cutting these sites out of their advertising networks and otherwise making their stories harder to find. But fake news sites are still out there, and someone on your Facebook friend’s list is probably sharing one of their stories right now. 1. 70news.wordpress.com 3. 4. Screenshot via Americannews.com (Fair Use) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
The Libri of Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (Oct. 12, 1875–Dec. 1, 1947) – however one judges him – was a fascinating man who lived an amazing life. He is best known as being an infamous occultist and the scribe of The Book of the Law, which introduced Thelema to the world. Crowley was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis. He was a prolific writer and poet, a world traveler, mountaineer, chess master, artist, yogi, social provocateur, drug addict and sexual libertine. The press loved to demonize him and dubbed Crowley “The wickedest man in the world.” — From “Aleister Crowley” on Thelemapedia See also: Θέλημα – Thelema There are so many documents on the site related to the Thelema of Aleister Crowley that it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start, so here are a few first steps Centres of Pestilence Commentaries on Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, by various authors Aleister Crowley Books Aleister Crowley books at Amazon