2026 - The Misinformation Misadventures of Cicada 3301
2026 - The Misinformation Misadventures of Cicada 3301.
Summary
Overview: Hello. Uh welcome everybody to the misinformation misadventures of Cicada 3301. Now this talk Oh, thank you. Uh this talk will also be discussing disinformation. I just couldn't really make the alliteration work in the title. Uh now just a quick little uh housekeeping. Misinformation information that is shared intention uh mis uh excuse me not intentionally um that is wrong. Right. A student asked me the other day, "Mr. Bird, where does air come from?" If I had said the clouds, but I really did
Key Topics: believe that it came from the clouds. Well, I didn't mean to mislead that student, but I did. If [snorts] instead uh uh I told a student that horses can run faster uphill because I enjoy the ponderous
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