Month: June 2020

This ted talk was really nice and it tought me a lot of stuff. The first time I heard about fake news was when my friends told me, it was by/from Donald Trump. At that time i knew what fake news meant. Because just put the fake in front of news easy. That was the first time I heard about fake news.

Then again now we saw it again. wow. Fake news of Obama and other stuff. AT first i thought they sent fake news to get more followers. But actually they get less. So it can’t be that. The rest i Don’t know sad. I think this is too short is it.

Have you ever met or had a friend that daydreams and thinks their someone that their not. Come on, everyone does. You might be wondering no I have not seen anyone who’s daydreaming, or no I have never daydreamed before. However, it turned out that nearly everyone, daydreams on a regular basis, studies also indicate that as many as 96% of adults daydreams every day. But have you ever wondered why do I daydream or why don’t I know that I’m thinking daydreaming? It turned out that types of daydreams also affects how much you forget. according to Delaney and colleagues’ research. “When people working on a task were asked to daydream about their childhood home, the older subjects forgot more of the interrupted task than the younger subjects did.” Therefore this also showed that daydreams also depended on age and what you “dream” about. There are two reasons why that have happened.

Though some people may think of daydreaming as something they do unintentionally, research shows that people sometimes zone out on purpose. Research also showed that the people that have unintentionally daydream, have a different dream than someone that zone out “on purpose”.(according to findings published in March 2016 in the journal Psychological Science.) Researchers said they think that people intentionally let their minds wander during easy tasks, however, it only happens when the person knows that is an easy task or when then already know they will get a good outcome.

Moreover, people can still just wander off just because of constantly blinking and looking in one spot. They also have found that people that are doing a problem or just thanking during the moments when their minds wandered blinks more compared with the moments in which they were more focused on the task. Also ff you are stuck on a problem, letting your mind wander for a bit may help you get unstuck. this is what I call resetting the brain, it is a way of having a break from constantly thinking. It is also a way for your brain to refresh it’s thinking and review what it was doing.

In the end, daydreaming are not always bad and sometimes you need some od your own “brain space” to work things out.

Some people wonder, “What do people mean what Facebook should do?” Don’t worry, I will explain what it means. There was a video of Sinan Aral saying that Facebook and the other social media websites “should lock everything down and make sure everything is secure.” They did that because fake news is being trusted too much. But they then said that if they wanted to change how much people are believing fake news, “They should open the kimono and show us the inner working of how Facebook is working. And if we want to know social media’s affect on society, we need scientists, researchers, and others to have access to this kind of information. So what should Facebook do?

Well, Facebook and the other social media websites probably doesn’t know which one to choose, after all, it is a pretty hard choice. One choice can lead to disaster or might not lead to disaster and the other won’t lead to disaster right away but soon will because people are making tech better and better. “Some people might be scratching your head wondering what does tech have to do with anything?” Well, some people are making new tech that can make fake news, fake images, and fake videos more believable and more realistic or making real news more crazy.

So Facebook and the other social media websites should only let the scientists they want to look at the data and information look at the data and information. They should do that because then, no one else will see the information. “Yes, you might say hackers may get into it.” But hackers can also get into it even if you don’t let anyone look at it and lock it so it’s better to solve it then let it get worse. That is what Facebook and the other social media websites should do.

I’m going to be writing about the article in the New Yorker about Ealter Mitty. So Walter Mitty is a person who daydreams at the worst possible times. Like at first he was daydreaming about being on a ship and sailing on a crew while he was driving, and then, while he was daydreaming he was speeding on the highway. And then after he drops off his wife at the hair thing to get her hair done, he starts daydreaming again! Now he dreams about being the doctor at a place and doing surgery and being popular and stuff. And then he wakes up and almost runs into another car and dies. After that, he starts thinking about what he forgot to buy at the grocery store. Then he starts daydreaming once again, about killing somebody with a gun. And then, he talks to himself about puppy biscuits and gets humiliated by a women who was passing by. After he gets humiliated, he sits in a chair at the hotel and starts daydreaming once again. This time he dreams about flying something in war or something like that. After his wife wakes him up, he walks with his wife out of the hotel. His wife forgot something at the hotel, and then he starts smoking by the drug store and starts daydreaming again. This time about getting executed by a bunch of people. Now, why was he daydreaming? Because his life is boring and his wife sucks. All she does his boss him around and he doesn’t do anything in his life.

A few months ago, when the virus first surfaced, nobody expected it to become so bad, forcing the entire world into lock down. During the pandemic, the U.S has faced a surge in mental health issues among people. But who is most affected? And how can we help them?

In the article, it states that out of 2,032 adults who were interviewed about how many times they had negative feelings over the past month, 28% were likely to screen positive for mental illnesses. That’s almost 8 times as much as 2018’s 3.4%. This shows that the pandemic has caused a very large increase in mental health problems.

As for who is most affected, younger adults and parents have taken the force of most of these issues. This may come as a surprise to some people, as seniors are more prone to the coronavirus, yet they are not facing as many problems. A possible reason why they are not as affected is because they are more protected from the economic troubles during the pandemic. They most likely are retired and safe from money woes. Young adults however, are more likely to lose their jobs at stores and restaurants as they are closing, and may have been in a bad financial space to begin with. Also, young adults already may have problems with their mental health.

Parents are affected because of what you might think. With schools closed, most parents must juggle work with watching and teaching their kids. Also, most of the kids recreational activities have also been closed, leaving kids unoccupied with nothing to do and being bored out of their minds. In 2018, adults with kids were less likely to have mental health issues than those without, but now, parents are more likely to be in distress than the others.

Another example of mental health problems increasing is that calls to mental health hotlines have increased. How we can help does not mean we can open up the country to improve the economy, as that would mean even more cases and deaths, causing even more problems and worries among people going to work about their health and safety. Instead, people should be prepared for a surge of Americans in need of help, so they won’t be overwhelmed if it happens.

In conclusion, lots of people are struggling during the pandemic, and if you are feeling down, know that you are not alone and that there are probably other people out their with way worse problems than you.

Today’s Ted Talk was about how false information on the internet can cause major disruptions in our society. For instance, when some Syrian hackers hacked into verified press and fabricated an extremely surprising story about a bomb hurting the president. This fake news was instantly retweeted about 4,000 times in about 5 minutes. Many major companies were fooled by this tweet and ran their company according to a world in were the president was hurt, which therefore made the stock market crash by almost 139 billion dollars in just a single day.

Because our technology is so advanced, adroit, and enhanced compared to olden days, it is much easier to create photos, videos, tweets, articles, etc that look and sound very authentic. There are many AI automatons and apps who are battling other AI apps who are trying to find the make out if the photo or article is real, or is a concoction of made-up stories. To add on, lots of people are avid social media users, who check social media many times a day. In which spreads the false news and information even faster.

This has been very damaging to the society as from the president example, we can see that the stock market has lost a big fortune. In a foreign country, spreading false information will cause you to become a felon and spent 6 years in prison. Many people do this because they want to cause harm to something or someone, often spreading false stories of them doing horrific things. The other reason is to gain attention and for people to notice them.

In this video, the speaker talked about many ways to stop us from being cajoled into believing the false news. One of the easiest ways is to be vigilant. Another way is to look at other articles about the same situation and see if it is telling the same thing. The last one is to use common sense. There could be small nuances that could just not make sense, or the whole thing could just seem as if the writer is a rudimentary in writing. Whichever way you chose, always be careful about rumors and things on the internet since you never know what’s real or what’s fake.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” tells the story of Walter Mitty on a trip to town with his wife, Mrs. Mitty. In his fantasy world, Walter often is heroic and adventurous, but in real life he only runs errands every so often and doesn’t do anything exciting unlike his daydreams. In the beginning of the short story, Mitty pretends to be driving through a hurricane and on an iceberg. Then, when Mrs. Mitty starts yelling at him, he finally snaps back to reality, where she scolds him for driving too fast. After Mrs. Mitty left, Walter goes back to daydreaming, where he is a nurse and helps heal a millionaire banker who is a friend of Roosevelt.

I think this short story’s theme is that success and failure is examined through Mitty’s inability to live a fulfilling life, which causes him to retreat to an internal life full of images of conquest. Walter Mitty is neither exciting nor successful in his everyday life, whilst in his fantasy world, he is prosperous and is considered as hero and adventurer.

He likes to be the leader, but he instead’s a dreamer

He wants to be mighty , but he actually is tiny

He thinks he’s so great, in reality he’s a grape

But he thought he could kill with his lefty?

But that was all a dream

He tried to fend the Germans, alone with a plane

He defeated the German soldiers, and was deemed a real hero

But that was all a dream

He was a innocent, a man, a hero

But fate was cruel to him, so he got blamed for murder

The firing squad was upon him

But that was just a dream

So here is Walter who is much of a dreamer,

But in the end he’s still…

A good man

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” tells the story of Walter Mitty on a trip into town with his wife, Mrs. Mitty. Walter is clumsy at many things; he can’t handle simple tasks, and he forgets things easily. Although, Walter has a huge imagination.

While Walter goes through a day of tasks and errands, he escapes into a series of daydream fantasies, each based on by some part of reality. As he drives his car, he imagines he is commanding a hydroplane through a terrible storm, but this is merely his wife telling him to slow down while driving. When he rides past a hospital, he imagines he is a world-famous surgeon saving a VIP’s life. When he hears a newsboy shouting, he imagines he is being interrogated in the courtroom. As he waits for his wife to finish at the hairdresser’s, Walter sees pictures of German plane and imagines he is a British pilot willing to sacrifice his life for Britain. Lastly, as Mitty waits outside against a wall for his wife to buy something in a medicine shop, he daydreams that he is brave man about to be shot by a firing squad. The story ends with the inscrutable Walter Mitty awaiting this “gunny” death.

Walter is a daydreamer, and that is a bad thing. He can’t really focus on things, since he gets distracted by his daydreams.