2026-07-18 17:35 UTC
@benroyce@mastodon.social The sci-fi fan in me went "that has to be The Doctor and Unit soldiers" without knowing any context of the picture. I didn't think it was fake, I thought it was from TV show scene / fan film, and thus not an actual news picture but people in costumes filming a scene. The next picture looked like it was from an actual news story.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 17:44
@phantomkitty@mastodon.social that's the thing: you're 100% right. it looks too cinematic to be real. my take is: it doesn't matter if it's real or not, what matters is if we use this yardstick "too cinematic" as our guide to judgment, that means the occasional bizarre real life true event: we reject it. so in our effort to avoid being tricked by fakery, we can wind up rejecting truth