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Spencer Watson

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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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The Reality Movement - Truth Unrestricted
The biggest question about disinformation is, "What do we do about this problem?" Sure, lots of debunking is in the future. But what else could be done to prevent disinformation and bring politics bac...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The biggest question about disinformation is, "What do we do about this problem?" Sure, lots of debunking to be done. But what else could be done to prevent disinformation and bring politics back in line with reality? I say we start a movement! Ep 159 of Truth Unrestricted.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Ironic Righteousness - Truth Unrestricted
Have you ever had someone become righteously indignant about a thing and expect you to support them about it when they were objectively in the wrong? If you have, you have experienced what I'm now cal...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Have you ever had someone become righteously indignant about a thing and expect you to support them about it when they were objectively in the wrong? If you have, you have experienced what I'm now calling Ironic Righteousness, the topic of ep 158 of Truth Unrestricted.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Is this the way the kids are levelling up these days?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Right. I’m not advocating for a replacement of any specialists or even to expand the ranks of the skeptics. Just a plain, old-fashioned social movement to encourage ordinary folk to advocate for reality.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It should have a set of guidelines for how this should be done with an acknowledgement that these are only guidelines and that no one should be pilloried or ostracized for occasionally acting outside them. And anyone who does stray should merely be reminded of what is a more respectable path.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My thinking has evolved on this issue. I think we will need something that could be called a reality movement. Something that communicates generally (and probably with less strict rules than skeptics use) that ordinary people should respect reality in the same way we should respect the environment.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If a nation’s military is being run like a business, does that make it a mercenary nation? Asking for a friend…
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
No one got into science because they just needed a gig. Every scientist that made it past a bachelor’s degree did so because their curiosity outweighed the need for money and personal time. Not sure you’re ever going to find one that would say “No.”
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Opportunists are very often attributed with a level of foresight they don’t deserve.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You do not get to pick your own nickname. The group will try several in the first week. The one you complain about most will be the nickname.
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Mando: This Is The Way
ALT: Mando: This Is The Way
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The media fails when they call this a war. It implies that the military personnel involved have the constitutional authority to be there. This authority has not been granted by Congress. This needs to be mentioned more often. Presidents cannot simply declare war.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It’s still one of my spinning plates, though. My Twitter account was hacked sometime in March and I’ve had trouble with it ever since I got it back. Still can’t DM anyone over there. It’s slowing me down a bit from getting info I need.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For me, it’s like this. I don’t need to know the exact name of the bacteria that’s in my fridge. I just need to know that when it smells funny I should clean it. Idk what exactly this group is up to but I don’t really need to. I just need to create distance from them so I can live in peace.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It is true that I’m spinning a lot of plates but I haven’t actually dropped this one yet. It has been moved down in priority but is still on the docket.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Ethnonationalism - Truth Unrestricted
Ethnonationalism is the belief that a nation should have only one ethnicity. Like a garden that only grows one type of flower. What other ideas spring forth once a person takes on this seemingly innoc...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ethnonationalism is the belief that a nation should have only one ethnicity. Like a garden that only grows one type of flower. What other ideas spring forth once a person takes on this seemingly innocent idea? This question is explored in ep 157 of Truth Unrestricted.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The podcast page: www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/epis... And the youtube link: youtu.be/-JybcG7NzNM
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Unreality On Film - The Prisoner - It's Your Funeral - Truth Unrestricted
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, It's Your Funeral, the complicated world of psy ops and fake counternarratives is intertwined with the i...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, It's Your Funeral, the complicated world of psy ops and fake counternarratives is intertwined with the idea that a person's future could be accurately predicted by a computer.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Persistent False Conclusion - Truth Unrestricted
The ways in which we get the wrong answers are mostly known. It's time to have a look at some of the ways we resist moving to the right answers. Ep 155 of Truth Unrestricted is about the tendency to i...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The ways in which we get the wrong answers are mostly known. It's time to have a look at some of the ways we resist moving to the right answers. Ep 155 of Truth Unrestricted is about the tendency to insist that something is correct even after evidence for it has been removed.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Using the word “portray” softens Biden’s words. It changes them from a measure of the actual political reality into merely an opinion that Biden holds. It attempts to make objective reality into just a matter of subjective perspective. Shameless media.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sea turtles? I thought we were discussing Hemsworths. But I would argue that the physical structure of a turtle is so incredibly unwieldy in an ocean environment that it probably *has* to be lucky in order to live long enough to breed. Hemsworths don’t seem to have that situation.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Question: if the selection pressure on Hemsworth eggs and hatchlings is essentially bad luck, does that mean the ones that make it have and pass on the genetic trait of “lucky” by the mechanisms of natural selection?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Excellent! This might even get its own episode! Thank you!
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is examined in ep 154 of Truth Unrestricted. The podcast page: buzzsprout.com/1947369/episod… And the youtube link: youtu.be/gD40kAyQNCk
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The Election Truth Alliance, despite their explicit claims to the contrary, works to provide conspiracy narratives that encourage election denial. They use confusing statistical analyses and a mystification of technology to create fear and distrust about election results.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Promising a wall the size of the border and instead getting a fence around the reflecting pool is *very* on brand.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It is def weird. Who gaf who owned the vehicle that was damaged? Did the Waymo have anything to do with the incident?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Who wrote that?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The demand for all progress to happen immediately and to an absolute extent becomes its own poison pill that sufficiently hampers any efforts at progress. It is impossible to coordinate when all parties must meet an inexhaustible list of requirements.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The demand for all progress to happen immediately and to an absolute extent becomes its own poison pill that sufficiently hampers any efforts at progress. It is impossible to coordinate when all parties must meet an inexhaustible list of requirements.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Truth Unrestricted. The podcast page: www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/epis... And the youtube link: youtu.be/UBwnwWXXBn0
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UoF - The Prisoner - Checkmate - Truth Unrestricted
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Checkmate, is an exploration of the inner workings of a conspiracy. How do the participants find a way t...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Checkmate, is an exploration of the inner workings of a conspiracy. How do the participants find a way to work together? How does the psychology of risk and trust intertwine? Find out in ep 153 of...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
\We shouldn't mock those who have become victims of the coercive control of others. But neither should we allow them to have power and influence in our lives and in our governments. You don't have to hate Gabbard to understand that she can't be trusted.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
No line item for the development of a cult of personality? Nothing about a pronounced paranoia with respect to the power of the ruling party?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I mean, definitely also repost my reply to your followers in a manner in which I can’t respond. That’s definitely a sign of good faith discussion.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
How do we get organize a system of driver’s licences and road rules? Legislation. You can’t just use the scary word and say the Nazis did it too. Legislation is only as good or as bad as what it allows anyone to do. It cannot be bad merely because it exists.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Criticize his legislation. I’m all for it. I’m no fan of Carney. I’m a fan of reality. How we interpret our world matters. Allowing ourselves to create conspiracy narratives distracts us from real solutions. Reality is my charge, not Carney’s agenda.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
One single person is being scapegoated in your checklist? Just the one? Do this same analysis on what Britain looked like in the summer of 1939. Does it also check every box? That fascism in a nation causes competing nations to do some of the same things is well known.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Trusting Unreality - Truth Unrestricted
Is it okay to lie in service of a noble cause? Is it okay to support someone else's lie if that lie benefits you? Where do those lies lead? Should we give in to unreality in order to create a better w...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Is it okay to lie in service of a noble cause? Is it okay to support someone else's lie if that lie benefits you? Where do those lies lead? Should we give in to unreality in order to create a better world for ourselves? These questions are asked in ep 152 of Truth Unrestricted.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’m interested to hear about the factual errors. Do you have time to explain any of them?
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Any AI. Some people believe that consciousness and other human-like experiences will happen spontaneously as these machines become faster. That isn’t necessarily true.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The podcast page: www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/epis... And the youtube link: youtu.be/pKpjH-jVPZw
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Unreality On Film - The Prisoner - Premise - Truth Unrestricted
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. The surreality created by its esthetic has allowed much speculation about its meaning even now 6 decades later. I examine this fr...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. The surreality created by its esthetic has allowed much speculation about its meaning even now 6 decades later. I examine this from the perspective of the conspiratorial mind in ep 150 of Truth Unrestricted.
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The podcast page: www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/epis... And the youtube link: youtu.be/THPKuIpQ85c
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Existence Bias - Truth Unrestricted
Existence Bias is a philosophical concept that explains some of the fundamental behaviour of all known conscious beings. How does that relate to AI and do we think AI will prefer to exist? This questi...
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Spencer Watson @spencerwatson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Existence Bias is a philosophical concept that explains some of the fundamental behaviour of all known conscious beings. How does that relate to AI and do we think AI will prefer to exist? This question is discussed in ep 149 of Truth Unrestricted.
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